Days 13-18 - Sunday to Friday, July 7 to July 12 - BUSY

 A lot of stuff going on so I  have not been putting up regular posts. 

David and Kathy (his Kathy) left for out west Monday AM. They left us their Polaris Ranger and one of their cars so that we have lots of vehicles. The Ranger has been a lot of fun. They are having a great time.

Kelsey, Lydia & Nolan came Monday PM (I think) and are enjoying the pond. They went to Kathy's sisters home for one night. They spent part of the day at the lake in Hamilton, IN. 

Mom's old dog was with us down at the pond one day but did not come home that night. We looked at looked but could not find her. Two days later we found her dead. She was in bad shape so its kind of a blessing. 

Mom has been a challenge. Physically she is in pretty good health. She can walk the 200 yards to the pond, and back, without much problem. Mentally she is a mess. After my grandmother died,  30 years ago, Mom moved back to the old home place, where they lived when she was born 95 years ago. Her mind can't grasp the her Mother is dead, nor that my Dad has been dead for 15 years (they were divorced for many years but were friends for at least 5 years before my Dad died). We can tell her and she accepts that they are dead but less than 5 minutes later she starts asking if we think it would be a good idea for her to move back here and live with her Mother. Her brain is locked on the fact that she rents a place, which she did for many years, and regularly comes to visit grandma, which she did. She talks non-stop, just repeating the same things.

We had a day and night with rain from the hurricane. Tuesday night the power went off at the coach and I thought a fuse at blown at the pavilion electrical box. It was raining hard. There is only one circuit that comes from the barn down to the pavilion. It splits into several circuits in an old fuse box. The fuses were good. I unplugged the coach and got out my multimeter. I was reading 250v where it should have only read 120v. I walked up to the barn to check the old fuse panel in the barn. The meter was reading 250v there also. I woke Mom up and told her I was going down to the basement, you enter from outside, to check the electrical panel. I didn't want her to hear me in the basement and get scared. When I grabbed the door of the panel I got buzzed, scared me. I popped it open with a piece of wood and used the wood to turn off the 100 amp main. Then I went outside to look at the service entrance. This is what I found.

I took this flash picture in the rain, at night. The box you see is the meter box pulled off the wall.

I called Consumers Energy trying to notify the of downed lines. What a joke to go through a punch the number system to report down lines. I ended up calling 911 and asking them to call Consumers.

The next morning I took these

The limb that came out of the tree to the left was at least 20" in diameter.

Looking down Mom's driveway.

My brother's grandson lives down the road. He came down and helped clean up. Numerous loads of branches hauled out back and a full load of wood on his pickup.

Fun at the pond. Lydia on a raft.

Nolan learning how to row.

Lunch at the pond

When we were ready to leave Thorntown one of the levelling jacks would not retract. I used a lever and got it retracted. Yesterday I went to Camping World in Coldwater and had them look at it. The told me they were not equipped to work on the levelling system. This afternoon I am at Stoops in Fremont, IN having them look at it.

The waiting lounge.

I am enjoying the quiet, the cool and good free WiFi. I told them not to hurry.

God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours. He had blessed me.