BACK ON THE RIVER

Well as you can see we are back on the river and so thankful to the Lord for taking care of our motor home while we were gone. We had a good trip back in spite of Gramma being sick. We saw 3 deer with black tails in KY and 10 wild turkeys in a corn field in KY. It was hard to leave the motor home here as we have never done this. Gramma doesn't travel well in a car. Can't get up and move around and go to the bathroom enough. We arrived on Sat about 4:00 paid our rent and started unpacking. We are so sick of packing and unpacking, seems like that is all we have done since October. We still left some things undone back at Pleasant Hill.

We wanted to send you some pictures of our prize possessions. It was wonderful to see all the kids big and little. That's why we needed to go home for Christmas. You probably wonder why we are doing this and maybe it is selfish on our part but we don't love them any less. Praise the Lord for pictures and email, we can really keep in touch with all of them. We know when we return in the spring thaw that AJ will be walking and Morgan will be crawling every where. But we sure enjoy them when we are with them. They treated us so royally. The grandkids invited us for meals, took us out to eat and of course the kids did too.
It was wonderful to be with them and now we have to go thru withdrawal again.

The river is busy as usual and really high, we have never seen it this high. The temperature is great no jackets needed.

Well we must start planning our new home we will leave here on the 28th. Time flies when you don't have a lot to do.

Take care and will send more pictures if I can.

Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Remember our job is to Glorify the Lord in everything we do and say.

back on the river

Work on the river

Lowell and I were so excited we finally were able to see a barge being loaded. We were told they were loading soybeans on the barge from the Bunge elevator next to our park. I kept telling Lowell that's where they made bunge cords, but he didn't believe me. The end of the barge was clear out of the water. They loaded one section at a time.
Across the river at the same time they were using a big crane with a shovel and unloading a barge with limestone on it. We could see the dust rolling from both barges. The limestone was going in rail cars.
This was quite an experience for us as we had been wanting to see something like this done. We even went out in the rain to watch this.
Now we have to pack up to go home. I think this is all I have done since October is pack and unpack. We are leaving our motor home here and driving home in the car. Two reasons one the price of fuel and the other because of the terrible weather in OH. We are leaving it in the Lord's hands to watch over it.

We arrived home safely and glad to see everyone. We have a bed, stove, refrigerator 2 card tables, 8 chairs and one recliner. Tony didn' t take it yet. A small skillet and a small pan, lots of paperware and plastic forks and spoons. This way everybody feels sorry for us and invites us out to eat.

We pray that any of you that reads are blog will celebrate Christ's birth because that's what this wonderful season is all about.
Have a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year and we will see you back in LA.

Paddlewheel

We took a trip today along the river hunting for the locks. We found the lock but we also learned there are two Mississippi Rivers. There are several stations called Old river controls. They keep the Mississippi running where they want it to. Even the poor old Mississippi can't flow where it wants to. They also have a hydroelectric station producing electricity. The man from the corp of engineers showed us around and explained things. It was very interesting too. You can't get close to anything without an escort. Such a shame. We went on down the road and found the locks. There was a tug there so we got a close up of her. On the way down the river we saw this RV Camp so we decided to check it out on the way home.

Well we stopped and it was not for us we are always hunting cheap camp sites. That's when we found out it is on the old river as they call it. There were some permanent homes there and they were on stilts. Now we know what that means. Lowell figured the mosquitos would carry us off too. We didn't even check the price it was very obvious we couldn't get our satelite to work. Can't stay here. But we were so happy we went back there. There was an old paddlewheel just rotting away on the bank. Guess it just washed up there and there it died. What a shame . But we sent a picture back to Mark and Ersta figured they would want to refurbish it. After all they did such a good job on theirs. But we haven't heard from them.

I did get AJ and Morgans Christmas stockings done.