ALMOST BACK IN ITHACA

it has been a good winter we have done lots and seen even more..met lots of nice people...spent time in texas visiting with relatives and helped them move then on to canyon lake to met up with roy and carol for a few days before before all of us moved on the lousiana for a habitat build...that done after 2 weeks--habitat was remolding some homes they got back due to several reasons...so we painted-cleaned-did odds and ends--worked with 4 different college groups that this is what they do on their spring break..

spend easter with the barrier family in new Iberia, la...even finally got to meet luca --aaron and sarah 1st  and of course roy and carol 1st grandson...

after the build we split as r & c were going back to san anotnio and we were kinda starting to go east


spent time in Hattiesburg, ms--found a good bike trail or I really should say we biked the trail in a different direction than when we did it before...met up with some from enfield had  great day with them in south Carolina....on the north Carolina for a week before heading to Virginia and now we are in pennsylvina and today we get to meet our new great granddaughter and of course three of the grandkids...

life is good and soon we will be back 
 then we can say to each other do you remember what we did in the winter of 2016
of calso added to our national stamp and badges and of course patchs.

FIRST WEEK OF WORK

we have been busy this past week..we have been working with 2 college groups one from iowa and the other from boston both a good group of students they give up their spring break to volunteer for habitat and other places..

on st partick's day the care-a-vanners decided to enjoy a corned beef and cabbage dinner so we all  gather what we had for veggies and bought some corned beef..it was cooked in a coups of different crock pots during the day then all put together and it was mmmm..

today was our last day with this group of students so it was a good-bye to them..we even worked  a short day as there were several t/storms warning and it was felt that to be on the dave side we ought to come back to our rigs..back we came and so far no storms here but where we were working the rains came down in buckets etc..

it has been a good week and 1 more week to go then time to move on..

BEEN BUSY

it sure has been awhile since I've blogged but I must say again it has been due to Wi-Fi and we have been busy..

we are now in canyon lake, tx and have met up with friends back home roy and carol...we all will be here for a couple of days then move on to lousiana for a 2 week habitat build...

spent some time near west ,tx and went into west to get some of texas best kolach (yep they were mmmm good) ...then across the street to visit the local museum most interesting..do yu remember a fertilizer plant explosion a coupe of years ago??? this is the town that it happened in...leveled 2 school..a nursing home..several houses..killed 12 firemen-first responders...west is rebuilding..

also visited George w bush presidential   museum in dallas...then one of our new national parks in Waco, tx...the mammonth dig site...

on to Georgetown, tx to help nephew matt and Lindsey along with layne to move into a new house...the move went well...spent 4 days helping out moved lots of boxes then emptied more boxes...so now they are all moved in and we think they  will be happy in the new house,,,more in the country and nice new house to fill up...

IT HAS BEEN AWHILE

yep it has been awhile since I last posted not because I didn't want to but the Wi-Fi we had wouldn't let me...oh well so much for Wi-Fi..

since I last posted we have spent a month in summerdale , Alabama which is just around the corner from foley...we were surprised one afternoon when we got an e-mail from some old habitat friends who were there for a few days..we had a fun time with them they are big bikers (not mororcycles but bikes)..so most days we were biking somewhere...and of course eating out...

we also volunteered at the restore and got some of their shelves  in good order (bet they aren't like that today)...habitat had wanted to start a house in january but due to funding they had to wait till last weekend..so on sat we spent the day at the house along with 60 others volunteers..there were several high school groups and they are always fun to work with...we spent most of our time clearing brush around the property...lar was in his glory entertaining the girls ahahahah and of course singing..

we left Alabama on Monday and we are now in lousiana and waiting out a storm...drove in some horrible rain and thought of pulling over but lar just took his time and we finally drove out of it after a couple of hrs...we are now in breaux bridge where we have camped before  because we are kinda by tyler barrier and wanted to have dinner with I'm last night..he is working for the wildlife and fisheries at a wildlife refuge....of course they both wanted crawfish so that is what they had...good seeing him and catching up with what has been going on with him..

today we are staying put as the news is advising not to travel due to some severs storms coming in...so we are staying put...lar needs to work on the taxes and I've got little things to do like blog ahahha

so life is good and all's well here in Cajun country...

 mardi gras parade in the campground

 frame day in alabama

 coffee break

crawfish fest

BEEN AWHILE

 it has been awhile since i've been able to blog..not because i've not wanted to but we have had no so good wi-fi..

we have been busy..spent christmas with lisa and andy the n also new year's day had a good time with them..had lots of good food..of course also went for a swim...then they came over to visit us and we had to show them where we had built houses and to met some of our friends,,also another trip to plant city for you got it strawberry shortcake...had to force lar to go get another one ahhahaha

then we moved on to zephryhills for 3 weeks..met up with lots of good friends and family...visited with habitat friends also friends fro

m back home in falconer...went out to dinner several times good times..even had a renuion with several couples some of the group are thosse we first did a care-a-van build with 10 years ago so it was a renuion..fun

also volunteered at the restore in z/hills..found it most interesting and learnt  alot about the restores..most days lar walked off with items we bought..more treasures for his collection at home...we could have stayed longer in z/hills but we had other plans and reservations..

then we moved on to old town, fl because we know of a wonderful bike trail...biked several days and what good about florida bike trails is for the most part they are flat and we aren't riding on the roads...

now we find ourselves in holt, florida for a few days and plan on doing some more biking but we have to wait for the temps to warm up as this morning when we got up it was 30 out...not like home...we also have to pick up our mail at our forwarding service..

god bless

DECEMBER 2015

here  we are in florida and the weather has been just beautiful...arrived in Lakeland on dec 20th and set up the rig then we found our way to winter haven and took lisa out to dinner...good seeing her and she seems to be happy about the move..work is going well they both got good bonus's and gift cards...

spent Christmas day with them and YES we did go swimming and it felt good...I did have some pictures to prove it but guess what somehow I deleted them...oh well..

on dec 23rd we moved on to where we are going to be for the next three weeks in Zephyrhills...have toured around the area also have gone on a couple of bike rides doing 10-12each time...knees seem to be working a-ok..i do have a problem getting off the bike so lad has to come to the rescue but not a problem..i just need to work on that..

have volunteered at the RESTORE which is kinda like a salvation army store that sells stuff...furniture-clothes-house hold goods-books you get the picture...kinda dusty work but it is different and we are meeting some really great people..

the campground that we are staying in also has a pool and the best thing after working all day is to come back to the rig change into our swum suits and hit the pool..nice and refreshing and really makes a person feel so much better...

as you know tonight is new's years eve and don't want to be on the roads down here..they are bad enough during the day...the campground has a party with music starting at 8 and we plan on attending best thing is we can walk...all we have to do is bring a snack to share and BYOB...not a problem

so life is good where we are and god bless...sure hope 2016 will be filled with good things..

THANKSGIVING 2015

our thanksgiving this year was spent in watertown, ny serving dinner at the salvation army...our grand daughter shasta is the head cook at the salvation army and like last year we decided what better way to spend the holiday with family than to go where they...this year they did things a tad different last year they had lots and lots of volunteered so this year when they got a call about volunteering they assigned them a time in 2 hour block.  we happen to get 10--noon as we had told shasta that we needed to be on the road back to ithaca no later than 3 as we had company arriving on friday..

they served over 600 meals not all at the salvation  army but they also deliver meals around the county..of course they did not ask us to do that as we don't know our way around...

of course we had no left overs and why does  anyone cook a turkey why it is for the left overs like turkey sandwiches...i had a turkeythe freezer so we decided to cook it in the garbage can cause we hadn't done that in several years and it was kinda a nice day---no snow---so we did and it turned out just fine...

so now we are still eating sandwiches and other favorite ways to fix the left overs..

hope everyone reading this had a wonderful thanksgiving..