Spa day for Izzy and a Local Tour for Me

My eye exam went well and I now have answers to my double vision problems. I have been diagnosed with Fuch's Dystrophy, which is a problem with the corneas, but can be remedied with simple surgery, if the condition worsens. However, for now they have given me a new glasses prescription, which I have ordered and should be done by Friday or at the latest Monday. I will be able to continue my trip after that.

Meanwhile here are some pictures of what I have been busy with. Miss Izzy had her spa bath in the kitchen sink. She is so good, just standing in there and letting me bathe her.

                                    

(the bow lasted about 2 minutes)

Of course Tuesday was a very memorable day; the nation's choice of our next president. I did not watch TV myself until late that evening. I just kept texting my daughters to find out when anything new happened  :)  Then after falling asleep, I woke about 2:30 am with the TV still on, and saw the result at that time.  I was glad to see it end and will be praying for wisdom and strength for our new president and for our nation as a whole.
On Wednesday I went into Paducah after a few things I needed and while there I visited the National Quilt Museum. The quilts were exquisite and very artistic. I was drawn to the ones that were nature scenes and western themes. Taking pictures inside the building was prohibited, however I took a few outside of the building and surrounding grounds. This was the back of the building where there was a small parking lot.

Beautiful stained glass windows in quilt design on the left side front of building

Front entrance and right side

Display celebrating  early pioneers

That's all for today. Next time will be photos of some of the older buildings near the train museum and the art wall that lines the river.

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Proverbs 31: 25 - 26 Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

Paducah Kentucky

Although I'm not actually in Paducah, but at a campground a few miles away, waiting on an eye exam on Monday and hopefully better glasses shortly thereafter!

Meanwhile I am camped at Cypress Lake campground which is more like a trailer park than what I am used to. But I am here getting things taken care of and meeting up with friends. It makes the time go a little faster and they have been more than gracious helping me with some things that needed taken care of on my new motorhome. Actually, the husband was a camp host at the very first place I camped in my first RV after my husband passed, and had shown me the ropes there.
So good to see them again!

The campgrounds here has nice shower rooms and laundry, a game room with pool table, and campsites with full hook-ups and fire rings. Firewood is available. There are some pull-throughs where I am parked in the back row, closer to the lake.

Here are some pictures of the little lake and of Sasha out on her training walks.

I made a quick trip into Paducah today as I had lost my seam ripper and I am adjusting the length of the curtains I bought to cover the kitchen area window. I also could not resist getting this yarn I just happened to wander past in Hobby Lobby on my way to Wal-Mart ;-)

On another note, this would have been my husband's and my 38th wedding anniversary. He has been gone 5 years now, and I still miss him very much...... just doing what I feel led to do until I see him again. 

Ps. 90:2  Before the mountains were formed or you gave birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

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I did the winter in PA! Yay!!

I am so thankful it was an easy winter this year! I kept my woodstove humming, had a neighbor that kept me plowed out with his ATV and a plow on front, even the path to the hen houses and rabbit pens. I knitted and painted all winter. Spring came and I planted peas mid-April, and am now enjoying the fresh produce. My Kale survived the winter and I ate alot of that. I also was able to stay on my half-dose of celebrex without too much arthritic discomfort.

Aparagus, Blueberry bed, and Raspberry bed off to a good start for the year,

along with fruit trees. A Bartlett Pear i put in last fall, a Winesap apple ans 2 Plum trees added this spring.

My herb bed cleaned and expanding,

Yummy fresh green peas,

Eggs of several colors from my chickens,

Aren't they pretty??

Ok so now anyway wondering about this coming winter and getting the itch to go on the road again. Problem being I don't trust Lady Blue to not break down on me and being a single, thinking I should have something safer. She would make a great "week-end" camper for someone with a mechanically inclined husband :) I have been looking for a unit a bit more suitable for me, and think I may have finally found it. More on that later....

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More repairs.....

I did find out what Lady Blue's brake problem is and it not a master cylinder as expected. It is the ABS system causing the braking to mal-function. So..... the mechanic called for a new part to repair it. Uh oh, Ford no longer makes these parts ( LB is 20 years old as of January, well, probably already)

Mechanic said they can get a used part. It will take a week to get it shipped in, and he says hopefully it will work. No guarantees.  Say what? Ok so if this $250 part doesn't work, we look for another one that also might not work?? Hmmmm.....

As this year is supposed to be a little warmer winter in my region, I thought about not leaving out till at least after November anyway and maybe even the middle of December. Although Miss Izzy is anxious to go traveling as well. she even got treated to a spa day lately!

Meanwhile, I have been doing lots of yard work and trying to get things taken care of so there is not so much to do in the spring. Garden beds are being cleared and topped with lots of rich organic matter (known as compost from kitchen/garden scraps, leaves, and chicken manure)

I have thought long and hard about selling this sticks and bricks place and going full-time. I could do it and be perfectly happy......except I dont want to give up my chickens. Now isn't that silly?

I view my home here as my "summer camp". It is really peaceful, and serene.... if I don't have to look at the road in front of my house, and all the neighbors houses, and only view the back acre. I do have really nice neighbors, but sometimes I feel so closed in by it all.

More next time..... Thanks for stopping by!

Delays ..... But Not all Bad

One week later....
Waiting on the right rheostat for the fuel feed to come in to be put in my RV. After two new rheostats that neither one fit, I decided to go ahead and have the used one put in as my son had assured me that they ever rarely go bad. Trying my best to be patient  <smile>. 

Then, on the other side of this, I am also looking at the possibility of full-timing for a while. I am feeling such urgency to get away. I guess with all the activity here at this home, making it a home, isn't very satisfying for me. I "re-created" here what mimicked the happiest times of my life, a home with animals and garden, just like Hubby and I had, and like we did when kids were growing up. A councilor once told me that sometimes we seek to go back to the happiest times of our life so that we can start from there and heal. But having no one to share the work and rewards with has left me feeling quite empty.
Tonight I took a ride in my truck just to get out of the house (area). As I drove around, I wondered what was keeping me from feeling peaceful, what was nagging at me. Finally it occurred to me that
I am not the same person that I was then.... why am I trying to be?

Isaiah 26:3