RVing With a Purpose

Saturday, August 25, 2018

Friday we were up early for a wonderful walk in 68 degree weather. Wow, much more enjoyable walk than some we have done lately. We then headed to Oneonta. We had estate business at the court house and while there visited with some EMA friends. We then visited with the aunts at the rehab/nursing home. They both seem content. Such a blessing for us. They are doing as well as we could hope at 92 and 95. We had a nice visit. After lunch we headed to Pine Mountain to check on the houses and pick up the mail. It was then an uneventful trip back to Tuscaloosa in time to show the house. However, the person we thought was coming to see the house didn’t show.

This morning we were up early for another nice walk and then raised the jacks and headed to Mississippi, finally, back to RVing with a purpose. We will be working the next three weeks at Camp Lake Stephens, a United Methodist Church camp just four miles from Oxford, Mississippi. Most of our team arrived today and we have already started getting to know each other. When we first arrived we had to level up one of the RV sites that looked like an RV might have gotten stuck in and left a trench while it was driving out.

We went downtown this afternoon for dinner at Boure, local restaurant recommended by the staff here. It was a very good meal with great service from a sweet young lady who attended camp at Camp Lake Stephens “when I was young.” Still just a kid by our geezer standards. After dinner we, of course, found an ice cream shop. Already really enjoying our time with our team. Great to be back with NOMADS. Really looking forward to these next three weeks.

After we returned from town we walked down to the lake and around the camp to familiarize ourselves with where we will be working.

Thursday, August 23, 2018

It has been another two very nice days here in Tuscaloosa. This morning was 70 degrees when we walked. Very nice. We walked a total of 8.1 miles today and 8.3 yesterday. That was divided between our morning and evening walks and parking away from the stores when we shopped. Two good exercise days. Today we had a beautiful sunrise as we walked.

Yesterday after our morning walk we tried out Mama Ruby’s ceramic skillet by making an omelet. It was a really good omelet and the skillet certainly was nonstick and cleaned up easily. We may have to consider ceramic for our next skillet.

Yesterday we met with the real estate agent about Mom’s house and another property. We have spent most of our time working on Juno’s estate, and Mama Ruby’s real estate in Tuscaloosa the past two days. There is just so much to do as those of you that have done this know. Just when we think we have something almost completed something else comes up. However, we know we are making progress. We are just ready for it to be done, finished, marked off the to do list.

Tomorrow we go back to Blount County to take care of some things for Helen and Jean. Praying for safe travel.

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Happy Anniversary to Barry and Donna and to us! Interesting that two of our best friends have the same anniversary as us. Today was 35 years for Barry and Donna and 36 years for us. All four of us are so blessed with wonderful mates. Life is definitely good.

Today we skipped our morning walk due to an early meeting with the estate attorney regarding the apartment closing. Still working on all the legal paperwork. After that appointment Anne had an appointment for a badly needed haircut and after that did a little shopping at Belk’s since it was senior day. Love those senior discounts. Max cooked 2 pounds of sausage patties and 2 pounds of bacon to freeze for future meals.

We celebrated by eating at Pyro’s Pizza, a new to us regional chain. We really enjoyed the thin crust pizza with lots of toppings of our choice. Will definitely eat there again when the pizza craving hits. We had planned to have the dessert pizza as well but drove past Freddie’s on the way and ice cream ultimately won out. We had the Signature Turtle Sundae and it was, as usual, wonderful. We then watched a movie. A nice afternoon together.

After eating all that wonderful food we didn’t dare miss our evening walk. Even though we skipped this morning we still got five miles today – so not too bad.

The celebration of a wonderful 36 years and looking forward to many more. It was a great day!

Monday, August 20, 2018

Today was a little cooler day and we had some good rain. No storms, just a good amount of rain and the grass is already looking greener. Of course, it also needs cutting.

The big event of today was the recovery of Anne’s wallet. Didn’t want to admit it. Didn’t want to publicize being dumb. But, it had been missing since last Monday. We had been checking each day and nothing had been charged on any of the credit cards. Nothing at all looked amiss on our finances. We knew the last place it was used was Bed Bath and Beyond. We called and they said it wasn’t there. After tearing FRED apart looking, and retracing every place we had been, went to BB&B and asked again and they still said no. After looking everywhere at the house Saturday and yesterday, we had pretty much given up and decided that we would start canceling everything this morning. We had been praying about someone finding the wallet all week. When we had done everything we knew to do and given up, God sent us an angel. Last night we got a phone call from Liz at BB&B. She had found the wallet in their safe. She doesn’t know when or how it got there. We knew our phone number was not in the wallet because we had given away our last business card. However, Liz did an internet search and found our phone number and gave us a call. Wow! Such a relief. Just kept saying, God is SO good!!! He takes care of us. Picked up the wallet first thing this morning but Liz wasn’t working until this afternoon. We went back so we could meet her and thank her personally. She was so sweet. She lost her wallet a few years ago and remembered what an ordeal it was and said “I just wanted to see if I could help someone not have to go through that.” We tried to give her some money which she absolutely refused. We even tried to just order pizza for the staff but that was declined too. She said taking anything but our thanks would spoil it for her. Wow again! Some days God sends some really precious people into our lives.

The rest of the day was pretty insignificant by comparison.