Monday - We just hung around the campground and relaxed.
Tuesday - Kathy had tried several times to call one of our neighbors from Lebanon, but Phyllis did not return her calls. Tuesday morning she went to Phyllis's home and found no one home. She went next door, to our old house, and ask the people about Phyllis. They told her Phyllis was in a nursing home. Kathy went there only to learn that she had moved to a different nursing home. Kathy finally tracked her down and had a nice visit with her. In the afternoon we went to Costco in Indy and then met Doug and Anthony for pizza and salads at Puccini's in Indy. It is one of our favorite pizza places. We went there the first time in 1992. On our way home the car just seemed to veer into a Dairy Queen near Thorntown.
Wednesday - Travel day, 185 miles. We left the campground around 11AM. We stopped at a rest area near Auburn, IN and had lunch. After lunch we decided talked about being sleepy so we took naps before heading on to Mom's. It's so nice to travel in a motorhome. We arrived at Mom's around 5PM. David, my brother, and Kathy, his wife, came down and, along with Mom, we sat by the pond and visited until almost 9PM.
My Mom's physical heal remains good but her mental health is not so good. She thinks she still lives in Ashley, IN, where she lived prior to my grandmother's death, and that she just comes here for visits. She thinks my grandmother must be working or in town. My grandmother died about 30 years ago. Soon after that my Mom retired and moved here. During the evening she must have asked if we knew why my grandmother was not here over a dozen times. Each time we told her that our grandmother had died 30 years ago and that she (Mom) had moved here soon after. She is surprised each time we tell her. She doesn't argue, she seems to accept what we tell her as the truth but she just can't lock it into her memory. When I walked her up to the house she wanted me to check to see if grandma's car was in the garage.
Weather here is a little warm and sticky. At 10PM the temperature is 77 and the humidity is 68%. There is a single electrical circuit that runs from the barn to the pavilion. It provides electricity to for the pavilion lights and a refrigerator. There isn't much excess capacity for us to use. It keeps our "house batteries" charged, which allows us to use our 2000 watt inverter to power one electrical appliance at a time. If we want to run the AC we must run our 8KW generator. It will be interesting to see how many hours we put on the generator during the next 3 weeks.
God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours. He had blessed me.
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