7 Weeks at home!

It is now June 9, 2013 and we are back out on the road since June 4!  We have several destinations this 2.5 months.  The first is to Gillette, WY for the International FMCA convention.  Charles will play with the Frustrated Maestros.  More on this trip in a few weeks.

 

We arrived home on April 9 from FL via Gaffney, SC and east TN.  We go to Gaffney each spring for service at Freightliner.  And…we stop in East TN to visit Marston relatives.
 

It was our pleasure to have Flower and Glen MacMillen stop in our driveway a night on their way from FL to MO for the summer.  This was their second stop with us.
 

 

 

  While in Franklin 7 weeks we did the usual spring things.  The medical community is thriving from our prescheduled visits.  We have learned that our “healthy” life style of eating and exercising continues to give us benefits.

We enjoyed visits from our son, wife and boys and Charles found a little trombone playing time with grandson, Michael.  We have another definitely GRANDdog!

We had a dog chocolate consumption scare.  Roxie had taken some brownies out of the freezer.  PeeDee, our wonderful cat, served them.  This did not take long for a dog to take the package to the bed and consume it.  When Roxie returned Heidi was standing on the bed in the middle of chocolate crumbs…of course, on a late Saturday afternoon.  We were headed out the drive with her to the Emergency Clinc and Charles felt we should take Daisy, also.  It turned out that Daisy had consumed them and produced them at the vet.  This caused her heart to race.  Of course, getting rid of them and meds brought her back to normal.  They were a bit rum-dumb the rest of the evening. Lessons learned…chocolate is highly toxic to dogs!!!

    Keep on going down!!

 

 

In late May the mosquitos arrived with a vengeance causing us to retreat under head mosquito coverings and wearing long sleeves and legs while sweating.  They effectively cut down on yard work.  Our pet family also did their health checkups…checking out the same as us.  Lucky, Beagle, was slightly anemic and is on HiVite iron supplement.  She is pumping iron and just does not act her 16-18 years of age.  What a puppy.  She is completing one year in her muzzle which keeps her from consumming anythng and getting very sick.

Our greyhounds, Heidi and Daisy, took us to 10 prescheduled Pet Therapy Visits in April and May.  We love this “work.”  The girls love the many pats.

Lulu, our lucky resident neighbor’s cat, continues to live in her /Charles’s shop.  She has AC, radio, lights, food, and a kitty window. She loves doing push-ups with Charles each morning.

 

While in Franklin we enjoyed the yard trying to get it ready for summer.  Weeds be gone did not totally retreat because I ran out of time before the mosquitos arrived.  Seven weeks at home raced by as there is the constant “refill” of traveling items like meds, refills, organizing for a neighbor to send mail along the way…and the list goes on. On June 23, after leaving Gillette, WY and the Frustrated Maestro event at FMCA we will go to Sundance, WY and revisit Devil’s Tower. We have seen it once. We’ll go back across SD and a stop at an outfitter store in Mitchell, SD.  July will find us in IA.  The first week we will be at the Seven Amana Colonies followed by two stops at Corp of Engineer parks.  Here we will meet Maestro friends.  The last week of July Charles will be directing at the Midwest area FMCA rally in Manchester, IA.      Following this we will drop south to Red Bay, AL and our MH factory for some “fixes!”   Driveway company comes in mid-August.  We love this company.  They bring their breakfast!