Yesterday we split some more wood and cut up some small trees and branches that were already down and laying in one of the many trash piles around the place. Just more clean up work. For someone who has not been here, you could not tell what we did yesterday. We did cut/split enough wood to fill the bucket on the skid steer twice. I need to learn how to adjust the carb on the splitter, and do a better job with my Rube Goldberg choke linkage.
Today is the nicest day we have had while in Missouri. Last night the weather reporter noted that we had a string of 27 days with highs 90 or above, then we missed one day when the high was in the high 80's, and then 20 more days with highs 90 or above. The high many of those days was over 100. Last night's low was 64 and now, at 1 PM, it is only 75. Also, there is a nice breeze.
This morning we loaded stuff back into the motor home in preparation for heading out tonight. The plan is to leave here for Tennessee no later than 5 PM, after Andy gets home from work. We think we have everything we need loaded, except for our prescription meds and my laptop. It will be our first "family trip" in the motor home. It will be interesting to see how Lydia, our 2 month old great-granddaughter handles vacationing, along with Kelsey and Andy, her Mom & Dad.
Our trip to Tennessee will be almost 600 miles. If we only stop once for fuel ,and maybe once or twice more just to stretch our legs, we should arrive around 5 tomorrow morning. Doug and Anthony are leaving Indianapolis around 10 or 11 tonight. They are taking their 30' travel trailer with them. They will probably have around a 7 hour drive.
Les and Connie Rocke are arriving at Tom & Mary Lou's this evening, from the Tampa, Florida area. It has been a couple of years since we have seen them and it will be great to get to spend a little time with them.
In the continuing saga of refrigerator repairs - Our new Whirlpool refrigerator, which we purchased from Sears back in late June, still won't make ice. The repair man came out once, diagnosed the problem, came back a week later with parts and installed the parts. The ice maker still doesn't work. Sears is supposed to replace this one with another new one after we get back from our trip.
Time to get off here, finish packing, grab a shower and maybe a short nap.
Have a GREAT day and may God bless you and yours.
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