Oct 14th - Back Home Again

We left Friday morning and headed east. Over 1,300 miles in 3 days and we arrived back home yesterday evening. Lydia went along with us. She is a really good traveler.

We stayed overnight with Doug & Anthony on Friday and Saturday. Saturday we drove to Ohio, had lunch with family members at Ed & Cindy's and then attended Mallory's (Nancy's granddaughter) wedding and reception.

Doing some exploring at Aunt Cindy's. Now where did that pesky cat get to?

Found it with Aunt Cindy's help.

Stretching legs and doing a little mountain climbing after having lunch on our way back home.

I managed to pull a really stupid stunt early last week. I was going to cut some more wood but when I started my chain saw it only ran a few seconds and then quit. I thought I flooded it and after pulling the spark plug and drying it out I still couldn't start the saw, even though the plug did have spark. Finally after a couple of more days of occasionally trying to start it I took it over to the local hardware start (where I bought my magnum weed eater). The called me about an hour later and told me that the saw doesn't run well with chain oil in the gas tank and gas in the chain oiler. How embarrassing! I really like the guys at the hardware store, and there prices are very reasonable. I had them sharpen two chains when the saw was there and they installed new spark plug. Total cost was $44.

The weather here has been great, but dry. It is now harvest time and I suspect farmers would rather not have any rain for the next month, but we sure could use some. It isn't nearly as dry as it was last year, so that is a blessing.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. May God bless you and yours.

PS. I hope the government stays "shut down" until We the People get a federal budget passed by both Houses Congress and signed by the President. The President and Congress have MISERABLY FAILED  to provide us with a budget for years. Probably they afraid that we might have a better understanding of how badly we are being screwed by the massive increases in federal spending. Sequestration did NOT cut overall federal spending, it only cut the growth of overall federal spending. If per capita spending was the same as it was when Clinton was spending we would have a budget surplus this year.