Countryside Campground, Mogadore, Ohio
That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. So Jacob was left alone . . . ~ Genesis 32:22-24a Jacob finds himself alone again, as he was at the beginning of this 20-year journey. Where do you turn when you find/feel yourself alone? Do you turn to bitterness and anger? Do you turn melancholic ‘Woe is me!’? Or do you remind yourself that you are never alone? God is with us. Emmanuel.
Well now that we’re back on the road, let’s see if I can remember how to do this blogging stuff!
Our six weeks at home sure went by quickly! We spent our days spending time with family and friends, and Blaine spent a LOT of time working on things ‘around the house’. He changed both the motor and transmission oil in the motorhome himself this time, swapping out six gallons of motor oil and five gallons of transmission oil. He also changed two fuel filters, the air brake cannisters, greased all the grease fittings, changed the generator oil (just one gallon), and washed and waxed the entire 40’ bus! Not counting the wash/wax, he saved us over $600 doing it himself! I’m certain he did other things as well, because I left him home alone a lot as I went about galivanting around the countryside.
Altogether, we put 2,300 miles on our Jeep! Mostly because our kids live about 40-45 minutes away from each other, and everyone else.
Since I didn’t take any notes, I’m just gonna put in some of the pictures we took, and say that we feel very grateful for the family and friends God has chosen to bless us with!
Technically a bed topper, but once it unrolled, it covered the king-sized bed with 3″ of foam!
Crazy! I wanna know how they did it!
We had both sets of grandkids over to spend weekends with us. No! Not all at the same time! Not when we live in a bus with a corridor!
Well, this is it. It turned out to be the gatekeeper’s cottage for a guy who never finished his home.
At least there were some great trails to walk on, and we had a fantastic day!
We found some great fungus!
but they still wore Gpa out! LOL!!
and they left us with a refrigerator full of artwork!
“One of the things we enjoyed was a visit to Great Wolf Lodge Water Park with #2 son Kyle and his family. Personally, we’re not much for water parks, but we had a great time with the grandkids!”
We went to dinner outside the Lodge, 
and came out to a full double rainbow!
Trick-or-treating around the lodge 
Only have pictures of Matthew though, and these thanks to Elise’s mom, Yvette. : (
Don’t know if the other kids got pictures, this is the only one we received.
I was asked to bring dessert to a gathering of friends.
I chose to bake an apple pie. I’m not a pie baker.
I think the temperature listed on the recipe was wrong.
It took me four hours. Over three of that was baking.
It turned out well. End of story. 🙂
They were waiting for us to show up and take them out. We were scheduled to stay and play with all three kids and have dinner, but Cooper was running a really high temperature, so we took the kids to Bob Evans (because every single fast-food dining room was closed!), and then to a playground.
Piggy pancakes were a hit!
You’d think I was the only one who held him. . . .
An overnight with the three oldest, where we went fungus hunting again, played a game that Cody created – all by himself!, did puzzles, learned how they’re teaching multiplication in school these days (INSANE!!) and fed them well!
It’s called ‘Lattice’.
The problem is 18 x 18.
And that’s all folks!!