Our Adventures Continue...

Well here we are in Washington DC to 'Restore Sanity' to this country. The trip was awesome, the leaves are multi colors of golden, greens and browns. What a nice ride down from Michigan. Tomorrow we go to the Mall and have coffe with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert and just soak it all in. I'll keep you posted.

  What a wonderful friendship. Great kids, great life in Indianapolis, and Jackson is a treasure...

Well, we have had quite an adventure so far this year. Too much to say here but I will try to catch up. We just spent 2 weeks building in Salem, Ohio, biked the ToePath near Erie and babysat the grandkids for a couple of days, and that is just the last things we did. I'll try to catch you up.

Liam 8 Rhys 5 We visited the grandkids in Twinsburg, OH. They sure are growing. I will try to do a collage to show how they are growing. Thanks Bill and Molly for sharing your life with us. Hugs...

There he is, what do you think Rhys is thinking?

We have some friends David V and Dan from our old neighborhood in Detroit who are restoring their home on Berkeley Street and are vying to win....please go to the link below and vote for their kitchen, I have seen it and it is really something very special. http://www.rejuvenation.com/advice_ideas/contest/entrant.html?rid=66 Please Vote!

And Liam, what do you think he is thinking. Boy is he ever growing tall.

What can a mom say when her son calls to tell her he has just stepped out of a plane other then OMG and I never swear....but he landed safely. I'll have to pick on Sophia for encouraging him in this endeavor...wait till I get my hands on her....

I'm just messing around with a video for my friends Gail & Kevin Bushbaker. I am going to try to put up this video for them to see about our old neighborhood and houses. we are still in Georgia dodging the tornados. Leaving here in a week heading for a 'shuttle launce' and then home by way of Twinsburg, OH

We are in Americus, Georgia at Habitat for Humanity Headquarters, working on getting the 'on-line registration' program up and running. We will leave here in a week and travel to Florida to see a shuttle launch, one of the last. Then pick up some RV batteries and start for home.

Met Mike and Sophia on Hilton Head Island. What a beautiful island, what a great time we had. Thanks Sophia. April 4th , 2010.

Now that Sir Tim may be watching I'd better get you folks up to date. Tony & I are in Alice, Texas on a Habitat build for another week. It has been so good, what a community of fine folks supporting Habitat for Humanity's main directive good affordable housing for those in need.  This is the house we finished and these are the homeowners at the dedication party. We travel on to Americus for a month of bonding with Habitat folks, a couple days on Hilton Head with son Mike and Sophia, then a quick visit to family in Florida, watching one of the last Canaveral Launches and home to Michigan for the summer. Since I have this new volunteer job I have no time to do pictures and videos and all that but I love you and want you to know I will try to do better in the future. Stay tuned, pictures are coming...

I am posting this from my 'Habitat' computer so I don't have any pictures to show you, but check the date. It is Christmas Eve and we are in Mobile, Alabama sitting in the RV at Chicasabogue Park and its raining and 55 degrees and our RV is all decorated for Christmas thanks to my wonderful husband and I am missing my son Mike. For the past 35 years we have opened our presents on Christmas morning, the three of us. And for the past 40 years we have sung in the Choir for midnight mass at our church. This year we decided to come south before our pipes froze. Our wonderful kid lives in Chicago and has someone and a family to be with at Christmas so we thought it would be okay if we headed south early. Well it is sort of okay, warmer....but I miss my kid...Only at this season do I miss my house all decorated, big tree, big kitchen, big parties. Come January 1st I'll come to my senses and be loving being on the road, but for today, for right now, I miss Mike. The Gan...

The Brunswick Build was great, a wonderful team and a great Team Leading, but now we are onto our next adventure in Mobile...

  These are some of the folks at Global Village that we worked with. What a great job they are doing.

    We have decided that we want to continue this lifestyle so we are opting for a new engine. In the Smokeys we were having some 'over the hills' problems until the 'STOP ENGINE' light came on, then we knew we were in trouble. We were towed to Knoxville where we spent a week and $17,000 to get Bessie up and running again.

  I love these folks, Bill DeSalvio our Materials Show Coordinator, Judy Haywood, Show coordinator par excellance and Darlene Reiss the BOSS of this outfit. We will be friends for a lifetime.

  Look at them they are so proud they just finished a half Marathon raising money for PAWS in Chicago.

View Larger Map Bessie is all propaned up, new tires and raring to go. We are heading for our 2010 adventure, Americus, Mobile and Alice Texas with lots of stops on the way and after the builds. We RV Care-a-vanners have to hit the road and head south, that's what is called 'winterizing'.

  We had a great bunch of RV Care-a-vanners here in Marquette, Michigan.