We arrived home to Franklin, TN on April 27, 2014
from our winter away. Please see the
blog below this posting for our winter time activities.
This is the view from our backyard that welcomes us home.
This is the view from our backyard that welcomes us home.
There are always all of the first at home
things to do which includes unstacking and unpacking our flood proofed
house. Again…refer to the blog below
when we prepared for floods! No floods
this year!
We left on May 7, 2014 for a trip to our factory in
Red Bay, AL. There are no longer
appointments made so we were there a week before we could leave with our list
complete.
On the return from Red Bay, AL…we were anxious to
see where our son was moving for his next Methodist minister position in
Waynesboro, TN. This is just off the
Natchez Trace Parkway, a route we often take.
Unfortunately after we turned a town too soon we rounded a corner in
Collingwood a little short and dropped the right back tire into a
culvert. After grinding our teeth and
gunning our escape we learned we had cracked the right passenger
windshield. Said windshield will be replaced at the end of our next trip to Asheville, NC.
Our Methodist Minister son was moved this year from
Decherd (TN) United Methodist Church, 5 years, east to
Waynesboro, TN First
United Methodist.
Our part in their move was to keep his two dogs and
two cats for a week. We then loaded
Noah’s ark, two by two…and drove the grandpets to their new home. Grandsons were most eager to see them. We also had our two greyhounds and one cat
with us.
We enjoyed Rich and Freda Kale and marvelous cat
Rascal parked in our driveway in their motor home while we had our grandpets in
the house. While a brief visit we took
in some of the Civil War sites in our Franklin, TN home town.
July 7, 2014 we departed our Franklin, TN home for
a trip to Essex Junction, VT (Burlington, VT) for a Frustrated Maestro Rally. We
spent 4 nights with friends, Rea and Joy Edenfield, at Shelburne Campground in
Shelburne, VT. One evening we drove to
Lake Champlain for a nice float under that wonderfully full moon. We floated just before dusk and were safely
back home by dark.
Charles directed the Frustrated Maestros for this
NEAR event…North Eastern Area Rally. This event was July 14-21, 2014.
From Essex Junction, VT we headed to Freeport, ME
to LL Bean. Our campground was a short 5 miles to the paradise of shopping for
folks who love the outdoors.
But…our main goal was to purchase and have
installed a Hulluvator. This amazing
contraption hoists the kayak onto the roof of the Honda with very little effort
by Charles. We have waited many years
for this luxury.
We started our trek southwest stopping in Watkins
Glen, NY on one of the Finger Lakes…Seneca.
This is our third stop at Clute Park, on the lake, and we had wonderful
floats. A Maine Coon cat was returning to its boat after a walk on land. His brother was in the boat.
We have been home since August 7 and will leave on
September 9 for North Carolina. This
area Maestros sponsors a Music Camp to be this year in Marion, NC at Tom
Johnson RV, Sept 16-20, 2014. From here the group will
caravan about 40 miles into Asheville, NC for the GEAR rally Sept. 21-28, 2014. Maestros will
perform one of the evening entertainments.
Charles will be directing both of these.
From NY we spent one night in PA and landed at Gary
Freeman COE near Sutton, WV. Unknown
until we got there we had many short and curvy roads before the drop to the
campground. Here we found a lot of
campers all surviving with very little cell coverage. Need we say more!?!
The float was beautiful on a calm inlet.
Next we had a contrast with two nights at the Horse
Park in Lexington, KY. What a wonderful
place where the Horse Meca of the world is.
We enjoyed and biking to these events of the weekend.
Our final stop was at a COE (Corp of Engineers) at
Jamestown, KY…Cumberland Point. The park
was pretty, very difficult because of steep drop offs to the water and small.
Our
site was between two trees around a sharp corner. While backing Charles into our site I was
watching the front right mirror while standing in poison ivy..and suddenly
realized, just in time, we were backing into a tree!!
Our walking was limited
and the bikes never came off the car. We
did drive the boat down the long ramp to the water for one float. A first for us was leaving two days early…………………..to
home!
We will be back in Franklin, TN and our home by the
middle of Oct. This depends on the
length of time we have to spend in Red Bay, AL to have our windshield
replaced. In between, Oct. 3-5, 2014…we
will drive the 78 miles to our son’s and help him celebrate the big 50 year
birthday. Oh me…how did that occur so
fast?
Our Daughter/Law celebrates on Oct. 6.
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