Indiana, Markleville - Saturday, July 11, 2015 - Home in Indiana

We rolled into Elkhart on Tuesday evening and stayed at the Elkhart campgrounds.  We needed to empty tanks, finish emptying the fridge and get our things together so we could stay at daughter Desira’s apartment until our coach is finished, we anticipate that will be about three weeks.

Wednesday morning we arrived at Charger Enterprises and waited our turn to get our repair orders filled out – they are really busy!  Gerald walked around with Greg to get a feel for what needed to be repaired.  Daughter Amanda drove over three hours to come and pick up me and our baggage.  Greg rode the motorcycle home, about halfway there he ran into this L.  Since the temperatures never got out of the 50’s (that’s about the 30’s when you are on the bike), it took him all evening to thaw out.

On Thursday I helped daughter Desira with her t-shirt booth at the Indiana State Trap Shooting Competition.  She is the EMT on call for this event so she has to have a backup for the booth in case she gets called out.  We got into our parking spot but we weren’t sure we would get out – a lot of people didn’t.

The rain continued for most of the morning and the winds really blew for a while but she has a nice set up so we stayed pretty dry.  We didn’t have many customers until the weather cleared off in the afternoon.

One of the shooters stopped by the booth with a beautiful surprise for Desira, a stained glass piece he made.  She has organized a “Shoot for the Cure” trap shooting competition every year for the past several years.  Money that is raised goes to support national and local cancer research and prevention programs.  I don’t know the exact amount that has been raised but it is in the thousands of dollars – so proud of her.  She and her husband Dan put a lot of work into this effort each year and rely on contributions from individuals and corporations to make the weekend of competition a success.  The next “Shoot for the Cure” is coming up September 12 and 13 at the Fall Creek Valley Conservation Club in Ovid, Indiana.  We’ll be in Indiana to volunteer to help and then we will be headed back west again.

Friday we spent with daughter Amanda while she had an outpatient procedure done at St. John’s hospital in Anderson.  While we were there we ran into our friend Linda who was waiting on her husband Frank to get through surgery on a broken ankle.  Linda and I had a good time catching up and planning for some future get togethers.

Saturday we enjoyed watching granddaughter Mackenzie at a swim meet.