First leg of journey home

Here we are stopped for the night in Indiana, a little campground called Caboose Lake. It is an early night for us.
Making a taco casserole/lasagna for supper tonight.
Will head out early next stop TexasT in Tennessee.
It was stop start stop start on Illinois toll way today, they are working on the off ramps this year. Jerry hit a orange barrel but no damage.
Until tomorrow.

Getting ready to head to Florida

Here we are Wednesday we have loaded car onto dolly. Jerry tying down car down and we will be off.
Our site here at Rainbows End looks so empty now. It's 8:50 and we are in the road. We are topping off gas tank in another 10 miles

Sascha won a Ribbon

Saturday was a great day for a miniature horse show. It was really windy but the little horses did well. Sascha won a ribbon while showing The little brown horse.

On the road northward bound

Left Starke KOA just a few minutes ago. It is raining, so it may make for a long day. Will keep you posted.

Repainting the wheel chair ramp

Jerry has been sick for the last few as days. He doesn't have the flue just a really bad head cold. He had planned on finishing the repainting of the wheel chair ramp for our place. But with being sick and the last few days of much needed rain it has been put off for now.
We are slowly getting our spring repair done. Jerry power washed both the decks then painted them before repairing the rail for the wheel chair ramp last week.
Then of course there is the never ending battle of raking the leaves. The oak trees here never loose their leaves in fall. They just continue to come down all year long.

Traveling mood

The KOA is getting empty as many of our friends have headed home. They are all traveling north for the summer some as far as Canada and Maine. With the warmer weather and blue skies the yearning to pack the RV and head down the road gets stronger for us.
But we still have over a month before we head to Rainbow for the summer.
Early prep for travel.
Our tomatoes are planted in pails.
Change to LED bulbs in RV kitchen by table.
Jerry needs to fix wiper as they are 180 degree out. But everything else is ready.
Now here at the house, Jerry has painted both the front and back deck.
We have a few cabbage planted and hopefully they will make through the hot summer with no one around to water every day.
On the breeze there a hint of smoke. Many miles away there is a forest fire that has been a blaze for about a week.
It is a lazy day. The pups are curled up on the couch sound a sleep. Jerry is playing on the laptop

Finished Landscaping for 2011

Finally got all our plants bought for this year.



We add some Texas Sage to the front flower bed. To the right of the front steps.












And at the left of the front steps our Knockout rose bush is still in bloom. They bloom year round. The flower are different shades of pink some of the flowers are light and some are dark.

 We moved our large arborvitae from by the house. Planting it out in the yard as it was hiding the windows.








 Of course it also hid the LP tank.

Now we will need to make a arbor or small fence for  that area. to hid the tank. We planted
 a small arborvitae to replace the large one we moved to the yard and then we added a few mums to balance the space.













Two more small shrub were placed by the wheel chair ramp.