Thursday, June 4, 2020

COVID-19 Curtailed Our Travels

Hi Folks,
It has been almost 4 months since I penned a blog.  We did give the talk on CARE and had a good response.  We were both shocked that everyone seemed to pay attention and enjoyed the information we presented.  The Virus curtailed all of our travel as everything we had planned was cancelled.   We had planned on being on our way to Escapade now, but National Headquarters, wisely cancelled the event to protect our members.  We were going to go to HamVention in Dayton, but that  was also cancelled, so we stayed at Sumter Oaks until 19 May on our ERPU lot.  Thank goodness we had that so we did not have to search for a place to stay during this strenuous time.  We had made some medical appointments in the Jacksonville ares in April, but had to postpone them, so we finally moved the house from Sumter Oaks in Bushnell, FL to Clay Fair RV Park at the Clay County Fairgrounds in Green Cove Springs, FL. on 19 May and will be here until 18 June when we will head back to Sumter Oaks RV Park in Bushnell, FL.  We were able to reschedule our medical appointments except our dental as they could not get us in while we were to be here.
All that being said, it is obvious that we have not done much except visit with the kids and get our medical appointments completed.  I am including a couple of photos of the fairgrounds RV park.






We have LOTS of rain since we have been here.  So much so that one of our jacks, even with a pad, keeps sinking in the grass.  The new antenna needs the grounds redone, but there is a ditch behind the coach, so, even though we got a new ladder, I'm not going to try to use it in the ditch.  It is very wet here, so I'm not going to lay under the coach to work on the lower section of the grounds, so I guess I'll have to wait until we get back to Sumter Oaks.
Anyway, as I said before, not much to blog about, so I'll let you all go.  Travel safe and I'll write more later.

Saturday, February 29, 2020

A New Year Starts

Good Day!  It has been 2 months since I updated y'all so here is what has been happening!
We stayed to Sumter Oaks RV Park, and Escapees Park on our ERPU lot and have had a really good time.  We have enjoyed Sunday Ice Cream at the Activities Center and other fun activities since we have been here.
We did go to HamCation earlier this month.  I volunteered to administer tests and Debby spent Thursday through Sunday working in the kitchens.  She went in with me on Thursday to pick up my volunteer shirt and found out that some folks had not shown up and they were short handed, so she did what she normally does, and volunteered.  I know they were really happy she did.  We won our usual door prizes, nothing.
we were able to park in the usual spot we try to get with 50 amp service.
Our site at Sumter Oaks.
Our site at HamCation

Once we got back from HamCation, we got to visit with Dave and Janie Nichols, Janie whom I graduated high school with.  They were on their first long trip in their Diesel Pusher.  They stayed at Breezy Oaks, a rv park near us.  We went out to eat and had a really nice visit.
Dave and Janie in their rig.

We did go to The Resort, an Escapees Co-Op in Wachula, FL, and visited Lou and Sandy Pauly and Skip and Jan Pratt, but I forgot to take my phone, so we did not get any photos.  We had a good visit and really enjoyed seeing them all.

We were suppose to give a talk on C.A.R.E. tomorrow at Ice Cream but they have a party scheduled, so we will do that next week.
That's all from here for now.  I'm sure we did other things, but nothing of importance, so if I remember something that is note worthy, I'll include it in our next blog.

Y'all travel safe and I'll type more later.