I made it back to TN yesterday. I arrived at our property around 7 PM. I left our place in MO at 8:40 AM. It is a 580 mile drive. I made 3 stops for gas (and pit stops). I picked up a Subway sandwich at one of the gas stops and ate it on the road. I also stopped at the Kroger store in Crossville to pick up a few grocery items. I could make it with only one gas stop but that would mean buying gas in Illinois, which I refuse to do. The gas in Illinois is always 20-30 cents a gallon more than in MO, KY or TN.
It rained until I was midway through Illinois. Going through St. Louis it rained HARD. Kathy said we got another 1.5" Monday night and yesterday. Our pond was overflowing again before I left Tuesday morning. I drove my pickup. I averaged 16.6 mpg. Not great but not all that bad, especially since it was windy, raining and I drove 5 mph over the speed limit most of the time.
Everything here was fine. Tom had already turned on the water for me so all I had to do was hook it back up to the motorhome. I had unhooked it when we left before because I knew the temperatures would be below freezing, at times, before we returned.
Doug left to go back to Indianapolis Monday afternoon. We certainly enjoyed his coming for a visit. He and Anthony are supposed to come out again in June, for Lydia's 1st birthday.
Kathy stayed in MO to babysit Lydia. It is hard to understand why she would want to stay in MO to babysit our wonderful great-granddaughter rather than spend 20 hours riding in my pickup <GRIN>.
This morning I took what I think is the first shower in our building here. The shower/bathroom has been fully function since last August but no one had ever used the shower. The shower is our motor home is quite adequate so the bother to go somewhere else to take a shower isn't worth it unless the other shower is very close and the temperature/weather is good.
After my shower I had biscuits and sausage gravy for breakfast, it was great. Kathy sent me a refrigerator full of leftovers that she had frozen in preparation for my trip.
My tentative plan is to return to MO on Sunday the 28th. I want to be back when the metal roof is put on our home. I hope that by going back on a weekend the westbound traffic backups won't be as bad. Traffic was OK coming here but west of Nashville there were numerous LONG backups at areas of construction. By travelling on the weekend hopefully there won't be long backups since the construction crews won't be working.
Time to get out and about.
I hope all of you have/had a great day. May God bless you and yours.
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