Home Again

This has been my home for the last 4 weeks. I certainly was glad to get home and use all the hot water I wanted while being able to turn around in the shower and to sleep in a bed that my head and feet didn't touch opposing walls.

I don't know what my Care-a-Vanner future will be. The side of my camper developed some bulges sometime during the last few days. I took it to a local body shop, who in turn called an RV repair. They think the siding separated from the undersurface. Consensus is that any fix would be temporary and very expensive. So, we'll see. Pray that someone can fix the old girl.

Thank you to all my friends and family who prayed for safe travel and took care of my house, my mail and my dog.

The Last Supper

If you are wondering about the water on the floor in the previous picture we'll ask Dwight. He and his wife Marilyn have been on 4 of the same builds that I have. Great folks and fellow Kansans.

You can see Al reheasing his backup singers with OOM-PAH-PAH and Deedle-Deedle. (George, Pat, and Darrel) He entertained the group with a magic act. I have video, but it is too large to upload. The audience was reduced to tears (of laughter)

Groups usually try to get together at the end of each build. Chillicothe care-a-vanners make it an event. Poor Tony usually gets roasted. This year we all wore badges that said "Friend of Tony" because he always says he doesn't have any friends, just relatives when it comes to helping him with the build. The team leaders, Don & Melanie, Tony and Jim received t-shirts with team pictures and signatures on them.

Last Work Day in "Chilli"

We didn't get as far on this house as everyone hoped. The weather and individual schedules just didn't cooperate. The house has the siding started all the way around. Soffit and facia are nearly complete. Most of the sheet rock is hung. This is George, from Minnesota, in the sheet rocked room. He is a master at roto-zipping around boxes under the rock. You will also see him later as an Oom-pah man in the video.

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Melanie, team leader tries to get a point across to Jim using sign language. Her hubby, Don, standing by to assist in translation.

More pretty trees at Grand Oaks Camp. What a lovely time of year to stay there!

Pizza Steps in the mud

We were saving pizza boxes, cans, and plastic to recycle. Here is another way you might not think of to recycle.

My Pal, Ellen

Ellen received flowers delivered to the work site for Mothers Day from one of her daughters. She and her husband, Darrel, were my neighbors at the campground. Ellen I went to garage sales and the Amish community on the weekend. She and I worked on our muscles by cutting and moving 16' sheets of 5/8 sheet rock around the house.

They live part time in a small house they are rennovating in Iowa to be near their parents, in a cabin in northern Minnesota and in their motorhome.