Friday, March 10, 2017
Sorry to leave you hanging, but this was a very busy week. After dentist visits Monday, Anne left at 4:30 Tuesday morning for Atlanta to be with her brother Jim and sister-in-law Marguerite who was having a procedure on her kidneys. Traffic was horrible! Max stayed in Alabama to take his Aunt Helen for some skin cancer surgery. Wednesday morning Anne drove home and took Juno to have some GI testing done. Thursday we drove to Tuscaloosa to see Anne’s Mom and back to Trussville to see Aunt Jean. That brings us to today. Whew!
Today we awoke early to a beautiful spring day. We enjoyed looking out at the trees and bushes putting on blossoms and new leaves. We got everything (we hope) loaded into FRED by about 10:00, stopped by Helen’s to check her surgery site (looks great). While there we picked a few of this spring’s last jonquils to take with us.
Then we headed to Cedartown, GA about 10:45. We stopped in Allgood to top off on fuel since we don’t like to park FRED for 3 weeks with less than ½ tank of diesel. Cedartown is only about a 90 mile drive. The storms from last night were gone and it was a beautiful day to drive the state highways. It was a bit windy at times. Our team leader had asked those that could to arrive on Friday rather than Saturday to help clean up the campground. When we arrived almost everyone was here. It was so great to see Jim and Mary Jo our team leaders, Janet and Harry, and Joyce and Ken. We also met Richard briefly. Sheila and Frank should arrive tomorrow. This should be such a fun project because we already know and love everyone. It’s also going to be a good deal of demolition which is also fun. After getting FRED set up, we started visiting and getting caught up with everyone. Good times.! The campground is right beside the Silver Comet Trail and we will probably be riding on it tomorrow. We look out our front windshield and can see people riding by on the trail. Between the campground and the trail is a pasture for cows – and deer and turkey. Well today the cows preferred being with us rather than in their pasture so we had a round up to get them back in their pastures. Of course, when the young ones can step back into the pasture thru the barbed wire fence rather than going thru the gate we suspect that keeping then away from the campsites may be a lost cause. The owners did return later in the afternoon to work on the fence so maybe we won’t wake up to lots of surprises left for us to step in in the morning. For supper we had a fire and grilled some sliders, and had beans, black beans and rice, chips, salsa, brownies, ice cream, s’mores (made with peeps), and probably other things we are too stuffed to remember. Anyway, it’s wonderful to be back at the Cedartown’s Murphy Harpst Children’s Center and we look forward to accomplishing a lot for them.