WE sure are enjoying or fifth wheel. When we move there is very little packing. just a bit of padding around the dishes, make sure inside doors are clipped open and all cupboards and drawers and frig doors are properly shut. I love driving this outfit so steady and heavy enough, it does not bounce around. I feel very relaxed driving along the highways . The highways in most part are okay. A few roads were very bumpy in S Dakota it was bad.

We are in summer clothes and enjoying the winter sun that feels like summer. No more heavy blankets on our bed.
I have done a lot of reading on this trip. Reading my Bible and praying, what God leads me, always for our family and friends and Rosewood church.
We have managed to read all signs and not get lost. Sometimes one has to read them pretty fast to follow the correct directions. Our GPS does not always tell the truth.

We have to ignore it sometimes. AS long as we have a detailed address it is good.

 

We arrive home safely from Rosebud Alberta. We had a good time the week went quickly.Mary's Wedding was the play we saw at the Rosebud theater, It was a very intense and sad play.I enjoyed it. I am glad we stayed an extra day to view it.

Hello , We are at John and Susan's place in Rosebud Alberta. It has snowed about 1 and 1/2 inches of snow, but now it is melting. the temperature has gone up above zero and no wind ,making it feel a bit warmer. I guess for October 13 it still is not too bad.
We plan to leave for south Texas 26 of Oct. I have to go for an ultra sound my upper arms are very painful. It is hard for me to iron sew, lift anything or vacuum. The doctor has discovered swollen glands in upper arms.
Oct 21 is my appointment I should have my results right after that. I do hope we can still go south?
I have given it to God to heal me if he so desires.
Mac and Morgan just got back from dear hunting with a bow. No luck they did see 16 deer. They were too far away.

Josey smelling flowers.

This is josey at the water fountain with bubbles at Aunt Peggy's

I have been very busy this past few weeks. Sewing , sewing and sewing.Sewing plastic canvas strips and long canvas weave belts, sewing velcro on about 400 pieces, for Dallas Valley camp. These are for a round games they play out here with the kids. I do not know how the game is played. Plus 11 dresses for wee girls. and one top . I experienced success in smocking a top and 2 dresses. They turned out so well. The first one was a sample and was not my best project. Mac mad a temperary deck for us , cost us all of about 46.00 from chip board and he put up one wall of our screened porch it is really nice wee porch for us to set in. Come over for tea and a visit sometime. see ya

This week I am sewing dresses for Abby and Josey I have 4 nearly completed just have to add button holes and buttons.
I am also wanting to sew for a friend, for her wee gal, I have 2 cut out for her. I want to make about three more one for each gal. It is surprizing what one can do with a wee bit of Material.I have some extra peaces of material around that I am making dresses from, left over quilts etc. Did you know that material from Wal Mart is a cheaper grade of material, and may fade and not last as long. If you buy from exquesive markets like high priced quilting stores, thier cottons it will not fade and last longer. So I am running an experiment, making dresses from WalMart stores and from a Quilt store. Did you know that at the material manifacturer the first hundred or so yards are printed out and when the pattern is finaly printing straight. they put it on better graded cottons and that is then sent to higher priced stores, the sample stuff goes to Walmart etc. So the stuff from Walmart may not be printed straight and be on cheaper cotton. Now I do not know about Fabricland it seems to be a bit better then Wal Mart, especially thier cotton material for quilts. That I use for dresses for litle girls, or aprons, adult ladies shirts etc. I do not use the cheaper cottons at Fabric land for quilts as it does not seem like good cotton. I like to use the better cottons for qults so they will last longer. I only found this out this past season, from a lady who worked in the fabric factories.
I have bought cottons from Walmart for quilts and did notice where the material is folded on the roll it is faded. From now on it is the better cottons for me for quilting as you want a quilt to last and not fade through the many washes it will go through. With Childrens clothes it may be ok as they grow out of it so fast. Only problem it can't be recycled to a younger child because of fading etc.

see ya later

Good Morning

I am busy sewing a few aprons, 6 for the Dallas Valley Ranch and two for myself.
I will then get busy sewing more wee dresses for my great grand daughters. I have two nearly completed, and two more to go as well and maybe a couple of tops for them. I want to make a few pair of seamless pillow cases as well.
I love this desk in my new RV. I use it for setting my sewing machine on and also for my computer.
This leaves my table free for eating or pilling all my finished projects on, tee hee.
I love my new fifth wheel so much bigger more like a real house, doesn't seem to get so messy looking.

I have glaucoma, with drops I am seeing better I can now see to thread my sewing machine needle with ease, not possible before. I am saying get your eyes checked regularly, ask your optomist to refer you to a specialist, be on guard keep your eyesight for as long as possible. Glaucoma sneaks up on you you don't even realize your eyes sight is getting dimmer it happens so so gradually.

WARNING ---If you see a cloudy spot in front of your eyes get to optomistrist immediately one can go blind very quickly with AMD.Age-Related Macular Degeneration. What is wet-related Macular Degeneration. It affects your Macula, the area of your retina that allows you to see details in the center of your vision. It's the part of your eye that gives you the ability to read,drive,tell time, recognize faces and accomplish many other "straight-ahead" visual tasks.
Wet AMD reduces your eyesight by causing new, abnormal, and weak blood vessels to spontaneously grow and leak thier contents under the retina at the back of your eye, Making it harder for you to see.
Mac has this with treatment it can be stopped or improve vision. he goes in tues to have Lucentis inserted into the whites of his eye via a needle. His eye will be frozen before . Pray for him that this method will work without infection.

We are moved out at Dallas Valley Camp. I am staying at Wanda's as I have an Eye appointment early Wednesday morning so decided it is shorter to drive to appointment in town, then from the valley.
I will look after Jen's girls on Friday. She will be going to Mel Peters funeral in Swift Current.
I'll look after them for a whole 8 hours I hope it will be sunny so we can go for a walk and play out side. I am sure looking forward to it.

I am very excited about a new to us, fifth wheel that we traded in our old fifth wheel.. It is in excellent condition, 2003 the owners kept it in top notch condition. When I walked into it today it smelled very clean and looked sparkling clean.

Today we moved all our things from our old one to the new one. I had prepacked and precleaned everything. With our friends help it took only 30 minutes to move everything over.

We were hoping to get our new home today , but we had to take our old one to SGI in the morning to get an appraisel done on a dent we aquired on our old unit , in order to have our insurance pay for it. We will then be able to pick up our new home sometime tommorrow. I have a big job ahead of me now to unpack and find room for everything. I do have a lot more storage and closet space . Just one concern I do not seem to have too much lower cupboard space for pots and pans . I do have a pantry so that frees up space for pots and pans in the upper cupboards.

The problem is now that we cannot get out to camp to park. We will have to wait till the ground is dry, right now we would sink out of sight in muck if we tried.

I will busy myself sewing here at Wanda's . I sure appreciate her opeing us into her home. I felt very comfortable here and so relaxing.

Tomorrow we will pick up our unit annd park it at wal mat and start the unpacking to get tings in order.

My prayer for the next few days is God please dry up the mud at camp so we can soon move out to my own home.
see you

This was taken at our RV,park in Texas the park had a 50 Anniversary party for all who had a 50 anniversary this past year, there were about 16 couples who did. Just shortly after this party one of the couples who celebrated with us the wife died. This is what happens when you get to our age. we learn to live one day at a time and still enjoy each others company .

My sister Peggy took charge of this celabration and played the marriage game , We where asked question about different thing about our mate. Surprising most of us could not remember our mates favorite things, like meals etc. When you get to this age who cares just as long as you have still love each other through all our dislikes and favorite things and your still in good health. and your growing together in Jesus.

Hello Abby Do you like your quilt? It took me a while. I had a great teacher here in the park to help me to get this quilt nice and square.
It is a thin quilt but will keep you nice and warm when you want to crawl up on the couch when you are not feeling well. When your need a wee cuddle from Grannie just curl up in your quilt. When you go for a long car drive in winter, take along your quilt. When you need some private time crawl up on your bed in this quilt. You can wash this quilt in warm soapy water and hang your quilt up to dry, Your quilt will get lots of wrinkles when you wash you it . Don't worry lots of quilts do this, You know Abby as people grow old, they get wrinkles , at the same time they get cosy and more loving. Your quilt will get more softer, and cozier. and it wil feel it is hugging you. So my dear Abby I will be bringing this quilt home to you at Easter time.
Love you Abby
Grannie

 

It is a wonderful 85 degrees at this moment, in Mission Texas. I washed clothes this morning and hung them on the lines that are available at the laundry mat.
I am going up to take them off the line in a few minutes.

I am working on new photos of all the people in the park cropping and putting them on card stock and labeling them. Mac is sanding and painting the picture board ready for the pictures to be mounted on it.
This photo board is an information item. It helps us to get to know the names of the people in the park and their lot number.

This is a lot of work. It took me 4 hours to complete about 12 pictures last evening. The card stock has already been cut to size ahead.

I hope to have this done before I leave April 3.
I am almost completed an quilt for Abby my great granddaughter. It is not as large as I planned it would be. but thats ok it will fit her bed in with but a bit short.
I will make her a pillow case to match.

I am learning different crafts. This is one of them, This button Jewellery has no metal. Great for those allergic to metal jewellery. These necklaces are very simple to make but one can use ones imagination and really make some niffty ones.
I am learning how to do swedish weaving

Another picture of us a great celebration tea. We played the Newly Wed Game. About 12 different couples had or will have thier 50 or 60 Anniversary joined us. Peggy my sister and her group did a wonderful job on all the decorations.

This was taken today Feb 14. The park put on a 50th anniversary party for all those who have or will celebrate our 50- and 60 Anniversary, We played The newly wed game , very funny had a good laugh.

 

How are you in the deep freeze of the north.It is 87 F today. We were just setting out with our back yard neighbours who happen to be Dorothy and Alfred Arendt. It is sure nice to have them. On Saturday afternoon we were so very surprised to have Marg and Marvin Fuller drop in on us. I was so blessed they cared enough to come out of their way to see us, they flew into Huston to visit with her sister and husband, and decided to drive down to the Rio Grand Valley to look around. Marg works with Mac and Jackie out at camp in the kitchen. I was truly blessed.

We are not in the office as much as in the past few months, we are out playing with the people and getting to know them. I went to a flee market this morning with my sister and husband I bought 3 shirts for myself for a total of $11.00. many of the seniors buy all their cloths from places called Ropas. They are large non insulated building maybe as large as coso or Super value buildings with piles of cloths just dumped on the floor . People go through them by climbimg up on top of them and start sorting etc. like a five or 10 feet high mounds of clothes,some are used good clothes some are rejects from stores.Large dump trucks just back into the store and dump them. some are sorted into one size bundles wrapped with plastic wrapped and sold by the pound. you take what you get . It could be 50-100 pounds of clothes you take it home and sort through it etc. all the clothes are sold by the pound. So the Mexican people buy like this,and have a spot at th flee market and hang up the clothed and sell them.I like buying them this way. already sorted and hung. ibring them home and wash them before wearing them. the ones I got today looked like no one wore them.

This is my adventure for today . I thought I'd share with you