Heading Home

We packed everything up and headed home to Illinois for a couple weeks.  We were excited to see friends we have missed.  In fact we surprised several friends by just popping in for a potluck .. campfire.  Our friend Wanda was the only one who knew we were heading home to see everyone.
  
In fact we had several gtg potlucks and campfires and it was great enjoying such a wonderful time


It was a wonderful afternoon and evening and our gtg was wonderful.  It felt so good to be back home among good Christian friends who are like family.  Of course we called the kids to let them know we were home.  They were surprised as well and we will be seeing them soon.

Life has bumps and roller coasters

Well I'm still alive and kicking if any of you are wondering.  Life is just full of bumps and roller coasters for my life right now.  I can’t get into what i am experiencing right now, but someday i will.
I ask that you pray for me that God will continue to guide my life and take me down the path he has chosen for me.  I do not know what is ahead but I know that my faith in my savior will get me through each day.

I miss being able to post but right now i just need privacy.  I will say i was thrilled to see the cooler temps finally arrive.  We’ve had rain the past 2 days with wind.  The wind has blown the rain in through our refrigerator vent and now i have a wet slide out carpet in the kitchen.  Not sure what hubby will do to fix that but until the rain stops not much he can right now.

Hope your all doing great and until next time ….

A Loss of a dear friend

RV MAPS has lost a precious gift. Tish Huffman has went home to be with the Lord. Her days of suffering are over. Elmer said she was a witness for the Lord up until her last days. What a blessing she was to those of us who knew her received.

Anyone who would like to make a donation in her memorial please contact me privately and I will give you the information.

Please pray Elmer and the family that God gives them strength to get through this time.

Where am I?

I know several are probably wondering where i have been?  Let me just say that life has been very trying for me lately and no time for anything! 

Just know that i am okay God is with me and all things will work out for his glory.  I may not be posting anytime soon. 


Miss you all!

We finally got Rain

I was awaken yesterday and again this morning to a aching back and the sound of rain.  We’ve had several thunder storms.  Yesterday storms were not as much thunder, but lots of needed rain.  Today was another story.  We had thunder for at least 2 hours or more.  From 1am to almost 10 am we had round of thunder storms.  Yesterday afternoon temps were back in the 90’s and today even higher reaching 97 degrees!  The rain was nice and we did get a bit of cool down but since the rains the humidity is even worse.  They are predicting 102 again tomorrow.

I got my laundry done yesterday, ughhh i had 5 loads!  Although it’s not put away but it’s in the baskets :))
Today after the rain left we decided to take the day and do something regardless of the heat.  We went to Bass Pro and looked at the new exhibits they were working on when we were here almost 2 years ago.  Sorry, i forgot my camera. 

After several hours of walking, i was exhausted, the heat is still getting the best of me.  We went and got diesel at Wal-mart.  Some Wal-marts have an added 10 cents off with their card.  We actually got diesel for $3.60 a gal and all other places were $3.73, that is 13 cents a gallon saving.  Since we were getting pretty low the saving almost paid for one of our lunch/dinner.  We stopped by Long John Silver and got something to eat. 

We got home to a rather warm home.  For some reason the breaker for our AC units had blown and the poor dogs were warming up.  We were glad we hadn’t made it an all day long outing (we normally don’t unless we have someone to check on the dogs when it’s this hot).  They were happy to see us.  The bedroom was still kinda cool and the dogs were all upstairs when we got home.  The down stairs was 88 degrees! 

I took a nap after we got cooled back down.  We had a great day spending time together. 

battery episode

Since I really don’t have anything else to post these days as we are just trying to survive the heat.  I did promise to post about this and so here it is.

One morning I was awaken by a horrible smell, it smelt like rotten eggs.  Of course our first thought was the black tank needed dumped and we had been having some hot temps.  So hubby got up and emptied the tanks and the smell seem to disappear. 

Later that night before we went to bed we smelt a little bit of the smell again.  We knew the tanks had been emptied.  It seem to go away and we went to bed.  Around 2 am i was awakened by a beeping noise our carbon dioxide detector going off in the kitchen. The smell of rotten eggs.

I got hubby awake and we instantly opened up the doors, vents and turned on all the exhaust fans, the smell was overwhelming.  Our grand daughter Hailey was on the couch and so I woke her up to make sure she was okay. 
We spent over 2 hours checking everything we could that would cause a smell, finally we shut off the refrigerator, freezer and any electrical appliance we had.  The smell continued to get worse and finally hubby went outside to check the battery.  Boom there it was bubbling out fumes like crazy. 

Hubby had to get out his leather gloves, unhook and remove the battery away from the camper.  Once he did that the smell began to leave.  Finally around 4 am we were able to go back to bed.  We had to replace our battery the next day.
 
I have to say that I am so glad that we had good batteries in our detectors so that they worked.  I would hate think what could of happened had they not.

Wow Hot isn’t the word

I guess this is what i get for complaining about high 90’s.  Yesterday my weather bug said 108 and heat index was 118!  Today it’s not much better.  I am so ready for a cool down but as you can see it’s not coming in the next few days. Missouri is way too hot. 

Sure am wishing we’d of went ahead and went out west.  July usually isn’t the hottest month of year.  August is and with July being so hot and the beginning of August, I wonder if August is going to be a month of record breaking temps?



I did change the bed sheets today as tomorrow is laundry day.  I have been taking my laundry out because of the heat and i don't want to heat the camper up anymore then i have to.  Other then this I don’t have anything more then i last posted.  Staying inside in the AC.  Trying to survive the heat.  My body doesn’t do good in the cold or the heat.  Our poor AC sure is getting a work out, just so thankful to have it.