by Nasoosie » Sun Sep 06, 2009 7:49 am
GOOD MORNING TO YOU ALL!!
It's 42 degrees, bright, cyrstal clear sky, and warm sun beginning to hit my deck! August and September have been as nice and sunny as May, June, and July were drab, cold, damp, and dowright pouring-rainy! Perhaps we need to change our calendars to make August, September, and October be our summer months, and May, June, and July be our wet, spring months. That leaves November, December, January, February, March, and April for our winter----and that's pretty much accurate!
I went down the road toward the main route 3 last night to my nearest neighbor's place in that direction----two miles---for a great campfire GTG. Their fire pit was literally a huge, deep sand pit, carved out against a sand hill to make a nice safe place to burn culled wood and branches. It was awesome! The crowd was a mixture of some oldies and some youngies, and was really a fun time! The crowd the night before was all oldies, very sedate, very what I would say, 'put-on' or ostentacious with their bragging about books they have read or movies they have seen or their dogs and all the training schools they take them to----thorough-bred, expensive dogs, of course----none as wonderful as my Molly slut from Detroit brought from the Carolinas! So I am really glad I went there----I drank some Keystone Ice beers (no recipe!) and brought some of those HUGE marshmallows flavored vanilla and strawberry for the kids to roast. That is my kind of group----down to earth!! Some of their relatives from PA brought up tons of fireworks, which was the only part of the shindig I didn't appreciate---I have always hated fireworks---but it was really a monstrous display which must have cost a fortune to buy.
As there is nobody on the road but deer between me and there, I safely drove back here and went to bed at about 2:00 am, I believe.
This morning my daughter, Mandy, will come and help me with the chimney and pipe and woodstove. It will be so nice to be able to have a safe wood fire again, as these mornings and evenings are beginning to get really cold.
I had nearly 300 pics in my digital game camera yesterday, none of anything I could see but sky, trees, grasses, and fields! I think that the wind blowing branches and grass in the foreground moving causes the shutter to trip. I need to read more about the settings and find another way to set it up! I put it closer to the house last night, and will check it soon to see if it caught the morning deer that always come to the apple tree in the yard. I wish that infra red tripped the shutter, and not movement. That way, I would get only living critters. Aiming it is also hard to do. Oh well, I will just keep trying until I learn how to make it work.
The yard looks so bare now without my screen room that I took down yesterday afternoon. I am gradually going into winter mode. Richard called last night, and he was at another bluegrass festival somewhere in Vermont, strumming his guitar under the beautiful, bright full moon. Sure do wish I could have been there. I've still not called the realtors back about that slide-in truck camper on a piece of property they are selling----I wanted them to contact the owners to see if they would be willing to sell the camper for a reasonable price....if it turns out it's one that my truck could handle.
Thanks for starting the coffee this morning, Carol, and here's hoping your maiden voyage in Jennie will be a great one! I will try to remember to check your blog if you can't get in here. It's hard for me to think of Jennie as being 'close quarters'!!! But, of course, compared to your other huge rig, I imagine it does seem close to you!
Ava, I hope you get that leak fixed before it does any damage, and you and your daughter get together on budgeting!
Cedar, the worst part of the camping trip is always the coming home and packing up! Hope you and Kathy have a safe trip back!
Life is about learning to dance in the rainHappy travels!
we are actually finally leaving for Vegas today. Only going 200 miles today to somewhere in Illinois. Want to see how everything goes and rides and squeaks etc. We do not have Internet on Jennie - have to wait until we get back. So hoping to find RV parks with or else I'll activate my Verizon Air Card - We're going across 70 untill about Denver then down to Moab and into Monument Valley then over to Vegas. Anyway thats what we say now. Anxious to see how we get along in Jennie - just not used to such close quarters. 
No mowing of grass here. My cat, Murphy, has a sweet tooth. She can be sound asleep in the next room but comes running if I take out a donut, sweet roll, cookie, or cake.
They sound wonderful! Thanks for sharing!