After a family-fabulous July, we are settled in at our August SOWER project at Heartland Conference Center in Marengo, OH. It’s about 45 minutes from the Marysville crew and about 45 minutes from Daughter (in the opposite direction, of course!), who are, of course, 45 minutes from each other!
It’s a family triangle!
We’re working alone again this month – but that will make it easy to carve out some good time to spend with the kids and grands!
And it might even give me a chance to share some of that Family-Fabulous July!!
Tag Archives: Catch Up
Just about caught up!
Wrap up our July SOWER project.
Review our wonderful “week between”.
Share some of the Hard Things about being full-time RVers.
Spend time remembering a sweet (though short) visit with family at the Cabin.
Yep – I think that just about brings us up to date! We’ve just finished our first week here at High Braes Refuge. And it’s been a good one. =)
Our main task is a bathroom renovation in one of their guest rooms.
They want to move the door to the other side, move the sink and put in a better modular shower. Sounds pretty direct – but when you’re working in a 100-year-old manor house, nothing is ever quite as simple as it sounds. I still need to organize my ‘work in progress’ picture, but let’s just say it’ll be a while before the room looks this tidy again!
But to summarize – it’s been a lovely week! Our location is beautiful and peaceful, our hosts are gracious and welcoming, the work is progressing nicely, and my boss is very understanding!
Have a good weekend, friends!
Backtracking
Since my life has been such a whirlwind lately – and my blogging has been less than regular – I feel like I need to do a bit of backtracking to get caught up. So let’s start out just before I made that first drive to Vermont back in late February.
Wrapping up our time at Lake Swan –
We ladies finished up our month with (you guessed it) painting! Only this time we were painting brown benches brown –
and the best part was we were doing it outside on a beautiful day!
Gary finished up his shop bathroom renovations-
not that the renovation was actually complete, but it was as far as he was going to be able to go with the supplies on hand.
We wrapped up our time with a lovely campfire before folks began to head off to their next destination.
It was a good month working with some lovely SOWERS!
Next up was that trip to Vermont – you can read about that HERE!
While I was in Vermont, Gary moved the rig to the FL SOWER Rally where he somehow managed just fine without me.
I know. Somethings just defy explanation!
Next was our March SOWER project at H.E.A.R.T. Institute in Lake Wales, FL.
This is a training center for missionaries heading into third world countries. Attendees live in very rustic cabins and learn about all types of gardening, animal husbandry and how life is sustained in those situations. Oh, and pit toilets. There wasn’t a session going on while we here, so it was pretty quiet. But we did enjoy the guinea hens and the goats and pigs and other critters that were being raised there. We were not quite so impressed with the roosters who did not seem to possess any sense of when would be an appropriate time for crowing. We ladies started out with some gardening.
(OK, it was more weeding than actually gardening.) But the second week we moved to one of the cabins with the directions to paint everything except the furniture and the floor.
Let me tell you what – there are a LOT of surfaces there! While Gary was working on another project over in the garden area, the other two guys joined us ladies with the painting project. Because, yes – some of those areas were just too high for us to reach.
And the color? Well, when a 5 gallon bucket of premium Glidden paint is on sale for $30.00, THAT’s the color you decide would be just perfect in that cabin!
Gary did need the fellows occasionally for some additional manpower –
and by the end of the project the new (as yet to be covered with vines) arbor/trellis was constructed.
Doesn’t look too impressive here, but I bet it will look great once the greenery happens!
What a good month! Lots of turquoise paint, crazy animal sounds all through the night, and wonderful SOWER friends who are now family!
And that brings us up to ….bedtime! Lots more to share, but it will have to wait until tomorrow!
See ya then,
It didn’t take long
…for some of those blogging habits (as in doing it more regularly) to fall by the wayside. And I’m running out of excuses for not keeping up with things better. The SOWER newsletter has been sent out and is off my plate for a couple of weeks. My sewing projects are right on target (pictures of those after they are actually gifted), and our SOWER work is going well. Maybe the best way to get myself back on track is to just chose an assortment of recent cellphone photos.
So let’s get started!
Gary joined me in the Health Office late last week as he replaced an under-counter hot water heater. It was a fun diversion as I continued organizing camper health forms. It’s always fun to work alongside my guy!
Gary took care of some RV chores. He really does get into some interesting situations! I love that man!
We enjoyed a lovely end of the week campfire with our co-servants. It was good to kick back and rehash the week. And the fact that we’d finally had some non-rainy days! (Still chilly, but blue skies!)
I spent a little too much time trying to figure out an email glitch. Grrrrrr…. I know, I know, it’s a total First World Problem, but it was super frustrating.
We also spent a sweet overnight at Toby’s house. Took in a little league game, had lots of sitting around the table time (which may or may not have included losing at cards), and had my heart filled with snuggles from this little one!
I took a couple pictures of us going through the car wash too, but that seemed a little TOO weird to include in this little potpourri of photos from last week.  You’re welcome. 🙂
Better wrap this up and head to bed – the alarm will be going off before I know it! As always, thanks for stopping by!
Real Time
Life is certainly getting away from me these days and I’ll have lots to share in the days ahead. But for now I just wanted to check in and let you know that we have (sadly) left the Cabin, traveled to Columbus and are currently enjoying time with our two Ohio families. Since everyone is either in school or working we’ve been hanging out at the RV, catching up with life (and bills and emails and cleaning!). But our afternoons are full with family and fun.
We’re parked at the Union County Fairgrounds, and even though we’re here all by our lonesome, we have a lovely view –
(My Dad was big into Harness Racing, so every time one passes by it stirs all kinds of Dad-memories!)
Once I get the SOWER Newsletter wrapped up, I’m going to work on getting this blog caught up. You can check out the “So where are we now?” page to get a feel for just how chaotic our next couple of weeks will be!
Thanks for stopping by (even when it gets a little quiet over here!)