Wednesday August 28th 2014

 

Well we made it to Litchfield, IL this afternoon.  Finally have good internet so I can post a blog.  Haven’t even written one so I missed a lot..

Went to Rockford last week to see my sister.  Can’t even remember what day it was!!

My sister is sitting.  She had a cracked knee cap and is trying to get it to heal.  Sister Lois Anne is behind her.  Amazing to see them dressed casual, we are so used to seeing them in their habits.

She is a couple years older than me even though she looks younger.  Kind of amazing that looking at me I look a lot like my dad!  We really had a good visit.  We were really glad we went up there to see them.

We got together with Ed and Joan from Darlington Wisconsin and Don and Cheryl from Gerald Missouri.  We met in Galena and we also had a really good time…

This is where we stopped for lunch.  The Golden Hen.  Food was pretty good.

 

You can tell Don is having a good time, I think he is waiting for ice cream…

This is Joe Spaulding, I worked with two of his brothers at the mill….

Looks like Joe is waiting for ice cream also!!!

Going to try to post this now.  Lots I didn’t put in here but that’s the way it goes….By Y’all…

Saturday August 9th 2014

 

This makes it hard when I don’t have wifi to post my blog, well, we can’t do much of anything because we don’t have very good phone service either.

Don and Cheryl came and stayed a night and we had a pretty good time.  We drove them around and showed them some of the high lights.  Went to Angelo’s for lunch…

We also got to Dixon, couldn’t see Ronald Reagans home but saw some other things…

Dixon is my home town but I have never see this stuff before. Haven’t been here for awhile and when we are it is usually just passing through.

Went to see Don and Sheryl (different Don and Sheryl) and got to visit with them for awhile.

We are shirt tail relatives.  She is my uncle’s wife’s cousin.  Not sure what that is but shirt tail!  Had a good visit.  Will go to see the old fire house museum here in Rock Falls today I think.  Should be interesting.

We will go to Frank and Maggie’s place this afternoon for a visit.  I know I definitely missed a lot but my brain doesn’t retain a lot. 

Got another nice picture of a sunrise…

This one I didn’t use the telephoto on, it was just a  great sunrise.  Sparky and I have been up for most of them and they are usually superb!

Got to go now…Bye y’all….

Saturday August 2nd 2014

 

Haven’t written in the blog for a couple of days.  We don’t have internet here and the phone service is almost nil!  Oh well, it is a very nice campground, I even have a picture of our camper!

We got here on Monday and got set up.  Had a problem with our slide out in the bedroom.  The gear broke and I have to push it in and out by hand.  I slides very easy but it is still broken.

We went to see Marilyn and I know I got a picture of her somewhere… OK, I knew I took a picture of her but I used my phone and I’m not going to download them.

Our friend, Mary, from Kewanee was running a 5k race the other night and she had a stroke, or aneurism right after the beginning of the race.  We went to Peoria yesterday to see her.  They had to do a craniotomy (glad this has spell check!), right after we left.  Supposed to have taken about four or five hours but only took a couple.  She came out of surgery fine, pretty will fixed I guess, that is a “Praise the Lord” answer!

We are going to go to Franklin Grove this afternoon.  We will stop to see Marian and go to the doings that the city is putting on.

Glad we are taking a month here because there are a lot of things we want to do.

I know I missed a lot of things and I forget a lot of things waiting so many days between posts.  There is no internet here so this will be posted later.

We have had some beautiful sunrises here.  Almost every morning I take pictures like this. The spots are a dirty lens I think.  I will have to clean it and see if it will make a difference.

Time to go now, the computer is anxious to make updates….Bye Y’all…..