Indiana, Anderson - Friday, July 18, 2014 - Timberline Valley RV Resort

We were looking forward to a bike ride to Danville for a visit with my mom, brother and sister-in-law today.  It was a beautiful day for a ride, but it wasn’t meant to be.  We got all ready to go and the bike wouldn’t start, battery was dead.  When we came home yesterday one of the neighbors came up and was talking to us as soon as we pulled in and Greg hit the kill switch but forgot to turn off the ignition.  Earlier in the week we decided that we wouldn’t keep the battery charger with us any longer so we put it in storage.  We hadn’t needed it and thought we could get by with the trickle charger in the future.  We managed to borrow a battery charger from the campground and got the bike running later in the afternoon, but it was too late to head to Danville which is a couple of hours away.  We’ll get there this next week.

Since we ended up staying home, I was able to finish cleaning up the ceramic candleholders and made a couple of salads to take to the July birthday celebration tomorrow.  Granddaughter Mackenzie is our July birthday girl.  Hard to believe she will be in high school this year.

I think we have decided where we will be spending the winter and workamping – Mesa, Arizona.  We have received an e-mail confirming they are sending us a contract to review.  The resort is the Village at Val Vista, just over 800 sites, lots of amenities.  We would be working in food service for 24 hours a week as a couple or 12 hours for each of us.  We would get our site and utilities in exchange for our work.  This resort is part of the Cal-Am group.  If you are interested in seeing more about this resort, you can go to www.cal-am.com.

Indiana, Anderson - Sunday, June 29, 2014 - Timberline Valley RV Park

On Thursday we had to leave the Caboose Lake Campground in Remington to head north to Shipshewana.  Once again we were having some issues with the refrigerator!  The freezer was working just fine but the control panel for the lower part was showing some codes that indicated there was a problem.  Greg spoke to Leon at National RV Refrigeration who walked him through some diagnosing of the problem.  We finally decided that since we were already in northern Indiana we would feel better if Leon looked at the fridge in person.  Since he was already booked up for the next couple of weeks we took a chance on going up and sitting in his parking lot to see if he could work us in.  I don’t think we will ever let anyone else look at this fridge again, Leon is so knowledgeable and his prices are extremely reasonable.

 

As it turns out we got lucky, he was able to get to us on Friday afternoon and found that one of the defrost fans wasn’t working properly.  This caused water to go into someplace it wasn’t supposed to go and that affected something else – reminded me of that “knee bone’s connected to the….”song.  Something very minor just snowballed into a bigger issue.  Leon was able to fix the problem and we were on our way back home on Saturday morning.

While we were in Shipshewana the weather was mild in the evening so we slept with the windows open.  There was no traffic noise except an occasional horse and carriage.  Since we didn’t have electricity there in the parking lot and we didn’t want to run the generator all night, there was absolutely nothing running in the coach, no little red, green or blue lights indicating electrical appliances are plugged in.  Outside there were no street lights or porch lights.  It was so quiet and dark, I had trouble falling asleep.  You don’t realize how much background noise is in your life until it all goes away – scary.

This was the view across the road.

 

 

We got back to Timberline Valley RV Resort Saturday afternoon.  Today we helped daughter Desira at the gun club most of the day.  The weather stayed nice until after the trap shooters got done so it was a good day.

Indiana, Anderson, Wednesday, May 14, 2014 - Timberline Valley RV Park

I was kidding in my post Saturday when I said I was going to have to sleep all this week in order to catch up since I had been getting up earlier than usual.  We finished up helping with the central Indiana zone trap shoot on Sunday.  I had started to get a scratchy throat late in the afternoon.  I went home and went to bed, woke up for a little while on Monday – long enough to take some medicine and find out I was running about 4 degrees of temperature.  I went back to bed and slept until 10:30 Tuesday morning.  I napped the rest of Tuesday.  Today I am back to almost normal, still have a little cough but feeling much better.  That’s the last time I joke about needing more sleep!

The school year is winding down, got videos of the Kansas grandkids, Wyatt and Cheyanne, participating in end of year play day and kindergarten graduation.  This evening we went to granddaughter Mackenzie’s choir program – so proud of all of them.

I got lots of wonderful mother’s day wishes, but I’m amazed that this one got to me at daughter Desira’s house!  Got to admit it did give me a good laugh.