BACK FROM NEW YORK STATE!

Hi All...WHEW...we have only been gone from home in Florida one week today and have already checked in here at Lake Ridge RV Resort...made a trip and visit to Central New York State and returned!!!

We left early last Friday morning and made our way to Treadwell and Oneonta, NY...a 620 mile trip!  We made it in a little less than 12 hours.  We had three nice visits with Dennis' Mother...Saturday, Sunday and Monday...each day we arrived at the nursing home around 10:30 AM and stayed until about 1:30 PM.  Mother hates for them to take her to the dining room to be fed so Irma feeds her in her room when she is there.  Mother is confined to a "Gerry Chair".  She broke her leg over a year ago and can not bend her right leg so it has to remain in a reclined position.  We took the laptop with us and played a slide show of photos for Mother that showed her where we are working and current photos of Randy and Russ and their homes and family.   Here is a photo of us visiting with Mother.  Mother will be 96 this coming December!

We left NY yesterday (4/27/2010) around 7 AM and arrived back here at Lake Ridge in VA a little after 7 PM last evening.  Today has been filling out paperwork, laundry and shopping!  We do not know yet exactly the day and time that we will begin our work!  This is beautiful country...we will post photos as soon as we get some!

SAFE ARRIVAL AT LAKE RIDGE RV RESORT, HILLSVILLE, VA

Greetings everyone...we have arrived safely at Lake Ridge RV Resort at Hillsville, VA where we will be working for the summer of 2010.  Check out www.lakeridgerv.com and you will see where we are located.  It is beautiful here with the terrain being quite hilly!  Spring has arrived here and there are lots of flowering trees and bushes.  Most trees have their spring green leaves!  We will leave our travel trailer here and continue to travel early tomorrow morning to visit Dennis' Mother and sisters in NY State.  Will add updates and photos as soon as time allows.  Thanks for checking in with us!

GETTING CLOSE

We have completed a painting job that we have been wanting to do all winter on our home...the carport area as well as the front is completed and the remainder will have to wait until we return in the fall.  The travel trailer has been pulled out of storage and positioned right outside...it has been scrubbed inside and out and we are now in the process of loading the "stuff" we will need for our 4-5 month stay!

We are planning on taking off on Wednesday, April 21 and driving to SC...then the final 300 miles to Hillsville, VA on Thursday, April 22.  Phoebe is keeping real close watch of our every move...one day she sat in the trailer for a couple of hours waiting for us!