What a beautiful day it is here in Western New York. This is Memorial Day week end. Everyone is planning their plantings for the summer. The past few days it has been in the high 70 degrees with a nice breeze. Great weather right now.

This AM Cal and me were planning out our trip to Wisconsin. We have debated renting a car and hotels versus taking the motor home. I think the motor home is winning out. We have our bed, clothes, food, and necessary daily items right here on hand. I guess we are spoiled. The price of gas is going up every day. A little scary.

Gina called and invited us to a get to gether for Conrad before he leaves to go to Fort Lewis, WA in June. From Fort Lewis he will go to Fort Benning.

Yesterday played with my computer and had a lot of fun getting reconnected with it. Cathlene has been using it since last June when she was laid off from Merk and they took the computer back that she was using. I was glad she was able to use my computer to help her find a new job.
So many new things to learn. I am going to have Carrie help me learn some of the neat stuff that I do not know. Well, enough for today. Hopefully I will be able to get on line again tomorrow.

It is a beautiful day here, but quite windy and cool. The temperature went down to the low 30 degrees this AM. The sun warms up everything. Last night we went to Wegmans before heading back to Leisurewood. A nice submarine sandwich with Cathlene and Eric and then back to the motor home to watch Dancing with the Stars. Tonight will be the last night. I am going to try very hard to keep up on this blog. Time is going fast and soon it will be Memorial Day holiday. The month has flown by. Yesterday went and had my CPap card read. They will fax the findings back to my doctor in Leesburg. It looks like the sleep machine is working well.

Got to go now. Hope to be back tomorrow.

We are back in the Buffalo, NY area, after leaving Leesburg, FL, on May 2, 2009. Getting ready to go is the hardest part of packing up to leave home for about 5 months. We have to pack warm clothes for cool weather and summer. Weight is a problem in the motor home also. So we have to be careful how much we take, and to be sure we have enough clothing, food, and any supplies that we would need while traveling.

We made our first stop on I-75 rest stop where our group the ROAD RUNNERS RV CLUB agreed to meet for the first leg of the trip. Nine motor homes met there, and caravaned together to our next destination, a camp spot off of I-10 where we stayed the night.

The next day, May 3, we continued on to our destination. TOP SAIL PRESERVE in the GREGORY E. MOORE STATE PARK. This park is beautiful! Nice spacious spots with tall trees and shrubs surrounding each spot so you have privacy. A tram runs all day and makes designated stops at designated times to take you to the beach. The water is so pretty an aqua blue, the sand is white like sugar. Very fine and called sugar sand. This is right on the Gulf of Mexico near Santa Rosa Beach.

The Chapter had use of the wonderful fully equipped Club House. While we were there with the group we celebrated Marilyn Farr's birthday with birthday cake and ice cream, and I almost forgot, Champagne. We shared a pot luck night. Another night there was hot dogs and fixings for everyone. Usually we played games each night at the club house. I found a new game at Walmart called Farkel. Some call it Chicken and others Zonk. A fun game, played with 6 dice.

All went well until it was time to fold up the motor home and get ready to move on, but...........a little problem happened. The back leveler jack would not come up, which meant we could not move. We called Good Sam and two hours later someone was out to fix it. Wrong! It wound up he and Cal had to take the jack completely off. Now we would not be able to put our rooms out until that jack was repaired..

Nest stop was Perry, GA, to see brother Steve and Starr at Warner Robins, GA. We spent an evening and the next day with them. Starr made a wonderful dinner and we had a great visit with them.

Next stop was Stone Mountain, GA to brother Keith's home. Dorothy was not there as she had just left on a trip to Ireland with some of her sibling's. So the three of us batched it, until it was time to leave on Monday. Keith decided to travel with us, so we are now three. I gave up my navigation seat to him. He drove some of the time and that was great. A nice relief for Cal. We stayed at the Kentucky Horse Park, in Lexington that night. Keith says he loves this life, while sitting and drinking his Martini with Cal on a chair outside the motor home on a nice night in Kentucky. He also liked his 3:00 snack each day on the road. We enjoyed his company and had a great time with him. Brother's bonding together once again. I enjoyed watching them talk, work, and do things together.

Next stop after 538 miles of driving was Cathlene's home in Williamsville, NY. Normally we only drive 350 miles in a day, but with Cal and Keith taking turns driving, the weather was good and we made good time, but it is still a long ways to drive. We arrived a bout 8:00 PM.

It was so good to see Cathlene and Eric. We parked in Cathlene's driveway until Friday when we moved to Leisurewood, our campsite about 15 miles from her house. While parked in the driveway it was a constant flow of family. I love it. Children, grandchildren. Just wonderful. I am so very blessed to have such a wonderful family.

After hugs and kisses at Cathlene's we headed to Charlene and Earl's house. Charlene had fixed a delicious supper. Crab salad. So good and we were hungry. Earl was out of town for a food show and Ryan was working. We headed back to Cathlene's and bed. Keith slept in the house and we slept in the motor home with only the bedroom slide out. Cal was worried about it being out and no jack. The next day the guys found the part needed to fix it and repaired it and put it back on the motor home. So Leisurewood here we come.

Cleaned our spot of dead branches and winter dirt etc. and the motor home backed in pretty good. Keith helped get the big picnic table out of the shed, set up chairs and we are back in business. He was a great help. A nice cold beer and a few minutes of rest and back in the car to head over to Arthur and Gina's for dinner. To be continued.

What a wonderful day. It is great to have my family here visiting with us. Charlene and Earl, and Carrie and Johnny arrived on the 14th. What a valentine present. They will be leaving on Saturday to head back to Buffalo and their home. A beautiful day. Just finished a game with the kids down at the shuffleboard court. Fun time!!

Here we are addressing invitations in Buffalo for Carrie's wedding back in April of 2008. Shannon, Carrie and Char checked the addresses while I stamped all 175 envelopes! It was a project but was definitely fun!

This is a picture of my grandaughter Shannon at Capello's, a hair salon in Buffalo. We are waiting to get our hair done before Carrie's wedding! Shannon is next to get married on August 1st, 2009. We are looking forward to it!