Our Adventures Continue...

Here we are in beautiful downtown Brunswick, Georgia meeting up with some of our RV Care-a-vanner friends. Larry & Mem Halstead and Larry & Tracy Saulsgiver dropped by to share happy hour with us.

We are now settled down at the Fairgrounds here and I'm loving this high speed internet access. Working on the RV Desk every day. Tony is working on the build site, they are building 3 houses here. Mary & Dave Vandeveld are doing an outstanding job making it all happen here. We have had a great year and next year promises to be even better. I will be looking for a replacement to take over the RV Care-a-vanner desk in 2011 so I can get back to retirement, but in the meantime I am having a great life! We are praying for all of our friends and loved one to be healthy and happy and live 'in the moment'. Hugs to all...

Yes, we left yesterday for the warmer, friendlier states (we were hoping) but it was not to be. Got on the ramp from 26 mile road in Washington, Michigan and all of a sudden I noticed that the tow vehicle, our Safari Minivan was kissing the back end of the RV. Hmm I said, that shouldn't happen, "Tony what's going on". Well it seems that one side of the hitch broke clean off. So there I was in freezing weather directing folks to not get on the ramp, to go around and get on the I-94 some other way. That lasted for 30 minutes or so until Tony got the Safari engaged and off we went. He stopped for gas in the truck and I trundled on to Camping world where, I am sure there was a brand new hitch in our future. So, it is 6am on Thursday and me with a bad cold can't sleep. My nightly duties were to get up ever hour and run the water so the pipes don't freeze. We just have to get out of town earlier. Thanks for listening...

Again I apologize for not keeping up my blog. Maybe now with my new Laptop and moving out of the 'dead zone' I will be able to keep up. Of course you know I am still running the Habitat for Humanity RV Care-a-vanners desk so I have little time for anything else. I am looking for a replacement so I can get on with retirement. Anyone interested. Anyway, today we are going to church with Norbert, Tony's brother and breakfast then we will travel down to Rosedale Park in Detroit for the Music Festival. It will be our 35th. Next Tuesday we plan to leave for warmer climate in Georgia for now, then Mississippi. Hope you all are having a great holiday season.

Had a great dinner at Jackie's and the family was there. We live there with electric from the barn and Jackie and Mel are so good to us. Thanks.

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.