I’m back, for a few days!

Hello Everyone! We had a great time camping this week with Curt and Barb. Look at that blue sky. We had a thunderstorm Wednesday night and early morning with gentle, rolling thunder and light rain on the roof. I love that when we're camping. No more severe weather here all week, which has been a relief for those working at cleanup from the tornadoes. No fatalities here in the Omaha/Elkhorn area although there were some serious injuries. Minden Iowa is about 45 miles from here and the same tornado destroyed completely over half of the town. It's all so sad.

Back to camping. I made a big crockpot of chili one night that we shared with Curt and Barb. One night they had a baked potato bar with lots of toppings and fresh strawberries too. We heated up the leftover chili for whoever wanted that on their potato too. It's fun to share meals throughout the days. It gives great new ideas for ourselves when we're camping alone.

This was our view from the trailer. Isn't it pretty? Everything was very muddy when we arrived but by the next afternoon was dried out quite a bit. 

There were these two geese around the lake all week. One sat on a nest most of the time and then one day we saw them swimming the other direction with five little goslings between them. This was them coming back WITHOUT the babies! I wonder where they left them?

This is Curt & Barb's little A-frame camper. They just got it when we moved here. They've always tent camped, but have decided it's time to get off of the ground. They have a little kitchen, a table and a bed. It has heat and running water which is nice, but no bathroom. They're planning a trip to the Grand Canyon later this month. We were supposed to be going with them but they got the last camping spot in the campground. Next week we're heading to north-central Iowa by Webster City. I think it's a newer campground. We'll be with Curt & Barb again and also our minister Jeff and his wife, Angie. That's sure to be a good time since the guys all have the same sense of humor.

As you can see, Zoey loves it all. We went to the storage lot this morning to take the clean towels, etc. to the camper. We took Zoey along and she ran right over to the door, up the steps and jumped up on the sofa. She was ready to go camping again. :-)

A closer up view of under our awning. This is where we hung out a lot of the week. It was shady and gave "some" protection from ticks falling from trees. I had to take one out of Dennis's head the last night we were there. It had obviously just attached because it didn't have any blood and was still small. I picked two off of me, on my neck and arm. I am NOT used to ticks anymore. We rarely dealt with them in Spokane. But here, I remember always having them as a kid when we were camping. Yuck!
Our camper was the gathering place for the week, which was nice.

I bought some museum putty and put it under a few things on the counter and put rubber shelf liner under the Keurig so I wouldn't have to pack them up every time. They stayed put on the drive home so I think it's going to work! Fingers crossed. :-)

I finished this blanket while we were camping. Just a baby blanket in the "Whichway Crochet" blanket pattern. It looks grey but it is really baby blue using Bernat Softee Baby. About a skein and a half.

I finished this shawl last week but forgot to take a photo of it. I think it will be donated to Mom's place.

Mandy texted today and asked if I could come sit with Piper. She's been throwing up and running a fever so no school for her. Mandy has to work and this way I can take care of Piper for her. Apparently it's been going around school. It's always something when you have kids. Brad's parents 50th Anniversary party is tomorrow night. Mandy and their other daughter-in-law have been planning it for months. Now this. Dennis and I will probably stay home from the party with Piper as there is no way she should be going with the fever she has today. Right now it's 102.9 so she's still not well at all.

I hope you're all well. This morning I made some reservations for our camping trip to Spokane in June. We're stopping several places along the way there and then going to the Oregon Coast for four nights before heading back home. I have no reservations for coming home as we're just going to play it by ear and stop when we find a place and feel like it. By then it will be mid-late July and I'm sure it will be pretty hot otherwise we would head south and go to the Grand Canyon on the way home. We'll probaby stay fairly far north instead.

I hope you're all well and I'll be trying to catch up on blogs now that I'm home for a few days.

Blessings and hugs,
Betsy