We are ready for Christmas.

Wow has this year flown by. Seems just yesterday we were celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas is a wonderful time of the year at our house. The kids will be over tonight for Christmas eve dinner. They will be back early on Christmas morning for breakfast and opening of gifts. We also have the great honor of spending the holidays again this year with Betty's brother, Bill from Raleigh. We always look forward to him coming to spend the holidays at our house.

The tree is all decorated and the stockings are hung in preparation for a delightful Christmas.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Here is hoping everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving. We enjoy a wonderful day at our son and daughter-in-laws home with her family and ours. It is always great to get together and share laughter, fun and food with those we hold dear.

We are still trying to finish up this house renovations. we are to the slowest part now. That of getting everything put back in it place and getting rid of things we no longer use. We should be finished sometime next week.

More later.................

Great weekend camping with Bluff City Sams

We had a great weekend camping with the Bluff City Sams at Wall Doxey State Park near Holly Springs, MS. Their November camp out is always highlighted with the Saturday evening Thanksgiving dinner. The men fixed breakfast Saturday morning.

Today we are back home and the guys are here installing the new floor in the sun room. Of course, it is going slower than we had hoped. They have the furniture sitting on the patio. Hope they get all finished before the rain arrives tonight.

We plan to be home now through the Holidays. Then off to Ventura California for the director's meeting January 5-9, 2009. Then back home and probably off to Florida to spend some time with my family before the babies come. The Florida Winter Samboree is in question at this point. We are hoping to be able to attend before the babies come.

See you all soon!

Finally in the house!!!!

Wow! Finally! Whoopee! We will sleep in our house tonight! We are still trying to get STUFF back in its place. There are a few little odds and ends that need to be taken care of. But we are back in it. At least for a couple of nights.

Then we are off on Thursday morning to join the Bluff City Sams Chapter for their November camp out. We are looking forward to sharing a Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday night served by the park staff.

Wall Doxey State Park is a really nice Mississippi Park. They have a lodge and many buildings that were built back during the depression by the CCC's.

More later...................

My My! this past month has flown by!

These past few weeks have flown by. We got the floors installed in the house. We will be getting the cabinets and counter tops in on the 29th and 29th. A new refrigerator and dish washer will be delivered the 30th. The we begin the miscellaneous repairs. The sun room floor, the legs on furniture and putting the house back together.

We left on 10/12 and went to Jackson Tennessee to do the Tennessee Fall Samboree. We had a great time with about 150 rigs in attendance. We had 120 registered when we arrived and boy did the drive ups start coming.

After the Tennessee Samboree we caravaned to the Mississippi Fall Samboree in Columbia. Of course, we ate at the Round Table twice. We had a great time visiting with old friends.

Today we arrived back at the Agri-Center International Campground in Memphis. We will be here until the end of the week. After the new appliances are delivered, we will move home and put the motor home in storage for a few days. Out next trip out will be to Wall Doxey State Park with the Bluff City Sams for their Thanksgiving camp out.

more later..............

Back home to ground zero.

We are back from a wonderful time at the Georgia and Alabama Fall Samborees. They were both great with some fantastic entertainment, vendors and hospitality.

It was an expensive trip. We stopped in Pell City, AL on Wednesday evening 9.10. When we tried to put our driver side slide in on Thursday morning it would not go. We called ERS and a couple of hours later the service man arrived and got it back in manually ($140). We were on our way but much later than planned. We called Charles Newton, Georgia State Director to let him know we were running late. He suggested that we call Bleakley RV at Unidillia. They had the slide motor and luckily a mobile RV repairman was there. He picked up the motor and was at our rig in Perry about 7:50 AM Friday morning. He installed the new motor (gear box was bad)($754.xx for motor). The labor and service call was $150. The good thing is that the slide works better than it has in some time.

Monday afternoon we received a call from the neighbor that picks up our mail and watches the house. Water was running out the front door. We called our son, Chip and he and a buddy went over ans cut the water off and got ServPro out to begin the cleanup. They pulled up all carpet but the front bedroom, about half the laminated tile in the sun room and vacuumed up about 500 gallons of water. It took until Saturday to get the humidity levels down to 40 percent with a number of fans and 2 dehumidifier running. They came back on Monday this week to clean up the scraps of carpet and padding that was around in every room. We have water damage to the kitchen and master bath cabinets. Several base boards were removed to get moisture from the walls.

The insurance adjuster came yesterday (Monday 9.22) and did his thing. We expect to hear from that tomorrow.

We are also working to get everything ready for the Tennessee Fall Samboree 10.16-19.

We are not stressed over the house. It is only stuff and could have been much worse.

More later as we go to TN and MS Fall Samborees.

Fall Samboree Time.

Tomorrow, October 10th.,we will be off to our first three fall Samborees. We will be going to Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina. But first, Betty will do a doctor visit with Emily, our daughter in law. She is getting another sonogram and they may be able to tell her the gender of the twins. Yes, we are going to become grand parents for the first time. We are all excited!

More later from the road in Georgia.