Moving On

On Tuesday, we drove through two hours of beautiful farmland and the city of Van Wert, OH with the most beautiful collection of Victorian homes with sweeping verandas, turrets and widow walks.  It was a beautiful day, but we arrived in Shipshawana about 11:05 and were told breakfast was no longer available after 11:00 so we had an early lunch.  Normally I would order a piece of their wonderful pie but stuck to my guns and declined.  Last time I looked I was .4 out of my range so back to the straight and narrow!  One quarter of a pound is easier to lose than a whole pound!  

We walked around the flea market buying two gifts (everybody loves fleas LOL) but the sun and heat were becoming uncomfortable.  We moved on to E&S grocery where you can find amazing things especially for baking but there was no strawberry glaze I wanted nor powdered peanut butter Ted wanted.  I bought one more gift and we headed for home.

We did not have to look for a cutting board or fly swatter since we found them at Dollar General.  The swatter has a blue flower attached.  Ted told the girl it was really nice because you can kill the fly and send flowers all in one swat.  😊

And as I predicted, I have located my cutting board in a drawer but not the fly swatter.  I am wondering if maybe some things made it to Goodwill that I should have held on to.

Wednesday we had a mobile repair tech coming to fix a part in one of our A/C units, it was actually something to do with the heat pump that threw an error code so luckily the A/C continued to run.  We have two units so we were never uncomfortable. In fact, we don’t know how long the error code was displayed.  Ted had them tighten a piece of molding and realign a cargo door that the previous owner had gotten off kilter with the electric cord reel.  Their bill for two men and the part was less than a service call in the big city!

In the late afternoon Ted went to meet Dan for a few rounds of skeet.  While he was gone a storm came up and the awnings were going nuts.  The large side awning put itself away due to its wind sensor and I pushed the button for the one over the door,  however, the ones over the windows on the opposite side were being pushed and pulled frantically.  Ted had told me you have to put these away by hand.  I ran out and saw you had to slip the strap out of its clip and let it roll up but I couldn’t reach it, then the man across from us came over and did it for me.  Whew!  So much still to learn.  We had one awning in the trailer and I knew which button to use!  Ted showed me where the rod was to use to let the awning roll up.  Lesson learned!

Today we move on to Mt, Gilead for the registered shooting competition this week end.  Dan and Sue are heading there early because Dan is shooting today.  Ted isn’t, so we will take our time and get set up at the campground.   It is only a two hour drive and you don’t want to arrive before checkout.  If your space is occupied you have nowhere to go to wait!

All our activities have been outdoors and social distanced restaurants.  Ted is getting frustrated having to ask for salt!  Paper menus and nothing on the tables remain the order of the day.  Our granddaughter Ally has been exposed at work.  Her first test was negative and we are awaiting results on the second one.  This may make seeing Cece a bit more difficult.  We are having trouble finding Campgrounds with space the first two weeks of August.  I think after 8/15 some schools will start back and things will open up.  We have two weeks to work on it.

Stay well.  Avoid crowds.  Wear a mask in stores and at church.  Wash your hands.  Since no one has definitively decided just how this spreads, that’s about all we can do besides staying home all the time.  And we have our home with us!