Our Adventures Continue...

It takes a long time to sturdy and straighten the house in this condition. But now it is straight and true and we can begin to set the trusses for the roof and sheet the outside walls. This house is going to be sided with Hardiboard so that will be a new experience for Tony & I. Stay tuned....

A little 3 bedroom, 1,000 square feet house on the corner. We marked the walls and layed out the 2 x 4s then called it a day. We will build the walls on Wednesday. Everything is looking good so far.

We have been working on the MLK Blvd. house for Ms Lillian Quinn. Tomorrow we go on to a new slab on Amherst Street and start framing. One things for sure about working with Mary & Dave here in Brunswick, there is no end to work. But today 4 of us went onto Jekyll Island and biked 10 miles for exercise and fun.

I remember this build well.  I was the chop saw person for the vinyl siding for this entire house for a Mary V Project and we have hardly any mis-measures or shortness of siding in Brunswick, Georgia. May I say it was really cold that year in the south.

We Care-A-Vanners and affiliate are so blest to be able to work with these volunteer students from the University Of Wisconsin-Madison. What a great time we had and all the work we got done (double click the image for larger view) . Thanks To: Top row Zack, Emily and Matt Second row is Matt and Liz Third row is Maggie and Sarah Fourth row is Nick and Lizzie Fifth row is Andy and Brooke We couldent have dun it wit oucha! Love you guys, safe journey home Send us your email addresses to soupysmom@yahoo.com .

Thanks to Darlene for her suggestion, we looked up in the cupboard once more and discovered that the tooth picks could have fallen down the back and then dispensed from there...BUT it was quite errie having one or two tooth picks at a time and some time 10 just appear in our sink. All during the time we were parked they would also appear every few days. So we are not convinced that this is the answer but for now...NO MORE TOOTHPICS for the time being. Thanks Darlene for directing our attention one more time to the cabinet above.

Well, here goes. Like I said in part of the previous post, I thought that we had gotten to the end of the mysterious appearance of the toothpicks in the drain in the kitchen sink. But I was wrong. Today I found 15 toothpicks, at different times and places in and around the kitchen drain from no apparent cause. Tony and I are completely baffled. First he thought I sleep walked and planted them, but hid them and taped the box shut. Then we thought it was a critter but can't find any showing of that, no knawing or turds or spottings. If anyone out there thinks they have the answer or possible answer to this riddle PLEASE let us know. And if you are reading my blog and are following it at all please sign up as a follower so I know who you are. Or at least make a comment on a day so I know your watching. And for pete sake if you can solve this let me know. Here is a picture of our hike today...

Tonight we are camping at an 'Escapees' Park (that is our RV Club's name, no jailbirds), in Knoxville Tennessee. Our first night south was in Cincinnati Ohio camping at the FMCA Headquarters, our usual first stop. We had dinner with our very good friends Jean and John Pike at our favorite restaurant and then hit the pillow for a 5 hour drive here. We hiked the Avoca Rail Trail for 40 minutes this morning so that we could start the year off with exercise. we hope to keep it up. Our saga with the tooth pics continues. Oh, I forgot you don't know about our saga. Well here goes. About 2 months ago I noticed that there was a tooth pick in the trap in the kitchen sink and thinking it was Tony's just thru it out. Well that went on for about a week and I didn't think much of it. I began to find not just one but several, 3 or 4 in the trap and on the sink. About 10 days ago I finally told Tony and he took the box of toothpicks out of the cupboard and duck taped them and ...

We had a grand time toasting Carl and Karen and hoping we get together soon. Buddies is the special place we like to go to be with friends of Focus: HOPE. Can't wait to see you at Carl and Karen at the 40th Anniversary. Hugs

This is a neat story about how we are all connected to one another. Sometimes we don't know how close we have come to an old friend we would love to see but no longer would recognize or an old sweatheart from high school and he might be passing us in the next car.... Anyway, I lived in Detroit for 30 years and for the last 5 years we had such great new neighbors (Gail and Kevin Bushbaker). A young couple and we knew they wouldn't be there long just enough time to upgrade the 4,000 square foot 3 car garaged house next door, enjoy it and then move on. Luckily for us they moved on to Las Vegas and as you know WE TRAVEL so Las Vegas we went in 08 and dropped in on them and their week old new son Jackson. Wow what a treat and we stay close. Gail, Kevin and Jackson Bushbaker live in Las Vegas ...and the rest of the story is this. It just so happens that Gail's mom who we have met and lives here in Washington Michigan not far from our 'storage' unit was having dinner with...