Peculiar Park Place

We are safely parked at the above location. We have been very lucky in our travels in having great travel weather. We do plan for it on occasion I will admit. But yesterday we came through Kansas City in moderate to heavy rain. We made it without incident.  It makes for a more tense trip.
We made the short jaunt (2 miles) to Gary and Susan's place to help with the kiddoes since Nana Susan was in charge of them.
Elise wanted me to play with her and since I did not want to be thought of as a grumpy old lady I obliged. We played doctor visit, tic tac toe, and read several books. Then she wanted to get on the computer to "Check her email". I didn't know if she was allowed to be on Papa Gary's computer so I feigned ignorance about turning it on. She hollered at her Nana Susan to come turn on the computer because Grandma Barbara does not know how. So she did. We were doing a few things that really did not interest her much and then we looked at pictures. Every time she saw a picture of Gary she said, "There is Papa Gary who knows how to turn on his computer". She said this EVERY time. I do believe I was "zinged" by a 3 year old.

Baby Leo is growing fast and weighs 20 lbs at 6 months. He is such a cutie and so good natured. He is as mild and laid back as his older sister is wired and springy.

Spotty

Posts could be a bit spotty from now until we are in South Texas.

 Yesterday we were in northern Iowa for a visitation with friends and family of our friend Dale Cooklin. Dale and his wife Norma were very involved with many of the events we were a part of in Magnolia Park. One of our subgroup would go to the hall before each event to place our dinnerware so we could all sit together. So this was a hard loss to deal with and we will miss him at every turn.
Because of the close proximity, we were able to get a nice visit with sis Marlene and Bernard and their daughter-in-law Sara. Also very lucky to have Marlene's apple crisp served to us with a dollop of ice cream. Yum!
In the morning we will be headed for Missouri- Peculiar to be specific- and we will be spending the weekend with our Missouri kids. From there we will be going to Big Cabin OK for servicing of the motorhome and then on to Llano TX so Butch can play some more bad golf. To hear him tell he has not played well for a whole year. You cannot believe everything that man tells you. He just forgets the good ones and agonizes over the bad ones. And then we will be headed to the Rio Grande Valley for another winter of warm and wonderful..
The internet connections may not be sufficient until we get back in our winter spot. In the past we have had Verizon.  Even though it was not great at times it was okay enough to get posts done on the road. We no longer have that so now it is a crap shoot. There is Wifi at the Peculiar Park and at the Llano Park and it has been our experience in both places that it is spotty at best.
I have plans to write offline and then post when I can but the best laid plans can often go askew so stand by for further info...
 We have things here that need wrapped up so goodbye for now and we will see you on down the road.

Lost a friend

We are now in the motorhome and we think we are all moved in. We have till Friday morning to decide if we have forgotten some vital thingamajig. Sure hope it occurs to us in time whatever it might be.
It has been an unusual week. Our longtime friend Dale Cooklin passed away on Monday. We knew he had some health issues but had no idea he would be going so soon. One thing Dale managed to do for all his friends was create memories. If you were a friend of Dale you have a Dale story and most likely more than one. You could ask Butch about his day in Mexico with Dale. It is a long story with several chapters. When Dale was around something was going to happen of that you could be sure. He will be greatly missed by all that knew him.

Today's big adventure

We are loading up the RV with the necessaries for the next 5-6 months. We are doing this for the first time in 10 years. This is reason enough to be full timers!! We started this morning and we will be staying in the RV until we are on the road. This gives us plenty of time to think and discover items we may have overlooked. The plan was to duplicate as many items as possible. A complete duplication of everything is two fold- not practical and too costly. It could be easier if I did not have this vision in my mind of a week long blizzard where the electricity is off completely. That means we have to keep in mind the many items that might freeze and be a problem. Am I the only one who thinks of this? For instance- I said you will want to remember the icemaker on the fridge. Butch reminds me the heat will be on. I remind him there could be a blizzard and the electricity not on would freeze its little water supply pipe. He says "Oh". Sometimes Life feels very complicated.  Too many things to think about...and still I suspect we will forget something.