Guess what? We're still in Portsmouth!! We ended up waiting for parts for the microwave, and it finally got fixed last Friday. In the meantime, our computer "crashed" so we had to Fed Ex it to Fremont, CA for hospitalization. It was down for a couple of weeks, and we're just now playing catch-up on e-mails, the Blog, etc. ... sorry! We really haven't dropped off the face of the earth ... just a couple of system hiccups. We also are having some work done on our Saturn.
We are planning to leave here early next week and head over to Pennsylvania. To Pittsburgh for a Pirates/Yankees game, and the north into New York. David has a good friend in Toronto we're hoping to see, and may catch another baseball game there. Then down to see daughter-in-law, Kelly's, parents in Norwich, NY, and over to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
We were going to going down to Alabama from here to take our motor home back to the factory in Red Bay for some adjustments; however, we learned they will be closed the entire week of the fourth of July, and the idea of spending July in Alabama really didn't appeal to us -- we'll catch it on our way back down the highway this Fall!
We went to the 25th Anniversary of the Roy Rogers Festival here in Portsmouth June 4-6. It was nice to meet Roy's daughter, Dodie Rogers Patterson, and her husband, John. There are still a number of Roy's "fans" who come to the Festival every year. We probably won't attend again, but are glad we saw it for once -- and David enjoyed finding out more information about his second cousin (Roy Rogers).
Also during this time frame, we've spent more time with David's "New-Found" Peters family - and they are a great bunch! Last weekend we went to Cincinnati ... David got in a round of golf with Scotty and Craig, and Kathy had a manicure/pedicure/shopping spree with Cathy (Scott's wife) and Scott's Mom, June. Then a wonderful rib/chicken barbecue for the whole "Cincinnati Peters" family on Saturday night. We spent the night at Scott and Cathy's lovely home, and Kathy had her first experience at holding fireflies!
All is well on our end - we're looking forward to more travels, and seeing more of our beautiful USA. We'll duck tornado warnings whenever possible -- had a "good one" two weeks ago here in Portsmouth ... Kathy and Tiger didn't like it one bit. We're avid weather-watchers now!!
Reports on our Grandson, Logan, continue to be good. He was in the hospital last week for another round of his antibody treatment, and came through it just fine. It's wonderful to hear he's playing like a normal, healthy six year old! Our Grandson, Peyton, will be one year old next month (July 30th) -- wow, time flies! We stay in very close touch with our kids, grandkids, and Kathy's Mom ... but we're missing all of them A LOT!!
Until later ... thanks for reading about our excursions!
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
JUNE 3, 2008
One year and 3 days ago we left Sunnyvale, CA and what a trip it has been. Our visit to Ohio has been nothing but great. We have met 8 niece’s and nephew’s, my other half-brother Don, his wife, Sandy, and my Step-Mother, Dorothy (“Dot”) Peters. Dot continues to amaze us. We are currently in Portsmouth where we’ll be for at least 3 weeks while we visit family, go to the Roy Rogers Festival, and get our microwave fixed.
We arrived on May 23rd and on the 24th, Sunday, Dot was up before 6 AM preparing dinner for 16 people including a turkey, ham and chicken with Amish noodles. Everything was from scratch including home canned corn and beans, biscuits & gravy and a birthday cake for desert. That was around 1 in the afternoon. At around 5 she laid out another table with cold cuts, cheese, chips & dips and ice cream. Later in the week she mowed 5 acres of lawn. All of this at 88 years young! Scotty & Cathy and Lori, Scotty and Lori are 2 of Lynn’s children) drove over from Cincinnati for the day. Scotty and Cathy have two adorable lab puppies – Sally and Sam … they enjoyed swimming in Dot’s pond!
We had a surprise visit from Don & Sandy the day we pulled in. We had not met Sandy and it was great just to be able sit and talk. Don & Sandy do a great job of helping Dot. The day before they left for Myrtle Beach, Don was over helping with the lawn mowing and also planting the vegetable garden. We had dinner at Don’s with Dot and we also took Dot out to Bob Evans for dinner. Dot has given us more pictures of my Dad and his family. Cathy, Scotty’s wife , gave us a DVD with video’s of the family including shots of my Dad … it’s very special hearing my Dad’s voice.
Another day we played 18 holes of golf at the Shawnee State Park Golf Course – it was a lovely course – one hole even overlooked the Ohio River! Even though our golf scores weren’t great, we had fun. The Ohio countryside is beautiful – most homes have lush and large green lawns. Being a lawn mower salesperson here would be lucrative!
We are currently sitting here watching and listening to a large thunder storm pass through. Tiger is huddled somewhere in the bedroom and won’t come out until it is over. The Roy Rogers Festival starts tomorrow night and we will bring you highlights later.
We are currently sitting here watching and listening to a large thunder storm pass through. Tiger is huddled somewhere in the bedroom and won’t come out until it is over. The Roy Rogers Festival starts tomorrow night and we will bring you highlights later.
We will be heading for Red Bay, Alabama in about 10 days. That’s all for now!
May 20, 2008
We arrived today in Milan, OH (which is west of Cleveland) for a 4 night stay. We will be visiting our good friends Phil and Donna Ardire and going to a Cleveland Indians game. We plugged into the 50 amp service and proceeded to blow out our microwave/convection oven. Seems like the RV park has a hot reversed ground. The owner won’t be here until the day we leave and we hope they will help us with the repair.
When we called Phil we found out Donna has pneumonia and pleurisy and will be in bed for a couple of weeks. We’re real sorry we won’t see her on this trip and hope she’ll recover soon.
We met Phil at his office and were surprised to see an old friend, Mike Rigdon, who happened to be in town training on some products he will be selling for Western Datacomm. We had dinner with Phil & Mike that night and reminisced about old times. We had lunch again with Phil & Ray (Phil’s CFO at Western Datacomm) and went to Sandusky on Lake Erie for dinner one night.We managed to visit the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, drove to Canton, OH and toured the National Football Hall of Fame, and then on Friday night we went to see the Cleveland Indians. It was a very long game and we got to bed at 2 in the morning and were up at 8AM to meet with the manager of the RV park and then on to Portsmouth to visit relatives and attend the Roy Rogers Festival. Except for blowing out the microwave we had a great time in the Cleveland area.
We met Phil at his office and were surprised to see an old friend, Mike Rigdon, who happened to be in town training on some products he will be selling for Western Datacomm. We had dinner with Phil & Mike that night and reminisced about old times. We had lunch again with Phil & Ray (Phil’s CFO at Western Datacomm) and went to Sandusky on Lake Erie for dinner one night.We managed to visit the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, drove to Canton, OH and toured the National Football Hall of Fame, and then on Friday night we went to see the Cleveland Indians. It was a very long game and we got to bed at 2 in the morning and were up at 8AM to meet with the manager of the RV park and then on to Portsmouth to visit relatives and attend the Roy Rogers Festival. Except for blowing out the microwave we had a great time in the Cleveland area.
