Camping!?!

Are you ready for a post about camping? No, we haven’t gone camping, but lots of our friends have either gone or are getting prepared to go.

First of all though, let me show you the progress on the baby sampler. It’s not going quickly but it is coming along. I’m working on that blob of yellow in the corner right now. If you can’t guess, it is the sun. The empty square on the right will have a monkey in it. In the middle will be the baby’s name and birthdate. My fingers are itching, itching to feel some yarn running through them though and I have patterns running through my mind all of the time.

The baby should be arriving any day now. We are getting very excited to see pictures of her and find out her name. Great Grandma and I did a little shopping yesterday and we picked up three outfits. Little girl clothes are the sweetest. We will be taking them to London with us when we go next month.

You have all heard about our friends Paul and Lori in Spokane. Their puppy Izzy is the one that gave me puppy fever after our visit and led us to getting our Zoey. Paul and Izzy went on a motorcycle camping trip together last weekend in Washington. Here is a little Izzy with her helmet on in her motorcycle carrier. She looks like she’s all bundled up against the cold weather.

And they’re ready to go! Paul pulls a little trailer behind the motorcycle, that pops up into a nice size camping trailer. I had a picture of it, but in blogger it just shows up as a completely black photo. I’ll try to figure out what’s wrong with that and post it later. Apparently the trip went wonderfully. Izzy loved it! You can just see her little head there behind Paul‘s back.

Then yesterday, we went and picked up a trailer for Dennis’s cousin Curt and his wife Barb. If you’ll recall our ancient history, we went on our first date with Curt and Barb back when I was 15 years old! We have always been good friends and that relationship has been rekindled since we moved back to Omaha. They have bought a pick-up truck but won’t take delivery of it until Friday, so we went to the dealer with our truck and picked up their new camper. This is an A-frame camper. Two sides come up and it forms an “A”.  It has no canvas on it, just hard sides. They want to do more camping in the national forests, and a lot of places you can’t take pop-up tent trailers with canvas because of bear. Curt retired at the end of December. We’re hoping to be able to take a lot of camping trips with them in the future.  Wouldn’t you love to see that Montana fifth wheel behind the truck? They are like houses on wheels!

A little bit closer view so you can see the size. The trailer is 21 feet long.

And here we are with our truck hooked up and almost ready to go. Dennis sure loves driving his truck and pulling trailers! He jumped at the chance to go pick this up for them.

Here are the guys on the roof of our trailer. We took theirs to the same storage facility.  Dennis was explaining the solar power on our roof to Curt when they spotted a herd of deer and wild turkey. The storage facility is located in a very beautiful area. Pretty good looking guys aren’t they, for two men that are pushing 70!😏💜

On Sunday Dennis and I took Zoey for a long walk around the cemetery by our house. We love walking over there. This is one of the several war memorials around the cemetery. There are a lot of soldiers buried at Forest Lawn.










Dennis’s grandparents are buried very close to this particular memorial. Just two rows down.

Levi and Mary are his grandmother Alice’s parents and they are buried right next to Grandma and Grandpa Queen. There are four generations of his family that we know of that currently buried at Forest Lawn. Our headstone is already in place as it has been for the last 40 years!



Dennis’s Dad and little sister are buried below this hill. His other set of grandparents are just a few rows behind them.  My parents are across the road and up a hill and there are lots and lots of aunts and uncles and cousins in the same area. 

Family. We have a lot of family history here. Although we have family in Spokane, they are just not legally family. However, they are blood family. We are all covered by the blood of Jesus.

That’s about it. Our day-to-day lives are fairly quiet at this point. We’re in between seasons. Yesterday was 75° and today the high is only supposed to be 45°. Dennis will be retiring at the end of March and a whole new world will open up to us. More adjustments, more learning what retirement means to us. We are taking each day as it comes and spending a lot of time in prayer for the people of Ukraine. May God bless each one of you and watch over you and your families.

Blessings and hugs,

Betsy