We we survived our cold stay in PA. We arrived in Dillsburg in early November, and from there Brad went up to the Ochenrider Camp and did a week of archery hunting (no luck). Then back to Dillsburg, a Lasagna dinner with the O'Donnell clan, and hanging out for Thanksgiving (Great dinner at Debs). Then back to the Ochenrider Camp for the first day of rifle season. Tony and Glen were there Monday and Tuesday and Brad and I stayed until Thursday. Brad managed to get a doe....me I missed. We were back up for the last weekend, but again, no luck. Oh well, the Brown family just didn't get as much venison as they had hoped.
In the mean time Brad worked a couple of days at the tree farm, always an enjoyable time, and me, I finished the Christmas Shopping, Cookie Baking and the dreaded wrapping. Things got shipped to the kids in Florida, packed by the FedEx store, and the only time we had things break in transit (lesson learned, pack them myself). Christmas and dinner with Shane, Alysha and the Brown Family one day, then the Angeli Family Dinner the next day, lots of cooking and good food and time spent with family and friends. (a Special 'Thank You' to the Shirk's for allowing us to use their house for entertaining the O'donnell's and the having Christmas with Shane and the Browns)
We had a very nice New Years Eve with the Shirk's and the traditional pork and sauerkraut dinner at Christine and Thom's on New Years Day, all very good and another enjoyable time with family and friends. We managed to get a few other visits in before we left and I had a couple of teary good-byes.
We finally got on the road Thursday morning about 10:30. Not a good start, things are frozen, very little water in the holding tank and the hoses were to frozen to fill, but we left and made it to NC. We parked Brad hooked up utilities and stepped in that reddish clay mud. I cleaned that up and then noticed that we had no electric in half of the receptacles. Brad worked for a hour before dinner and a hour after dinner, first it was the receptacle, then breaker, then with receptacles hanging out of the wall and the panel box half tore apart when Brad figured out it was the plug on the power pole. Never was anything wrong with our camper. Anyway we are in Roanoke Rapids for two nights then headed south to ?????, (we haven't decided yet). I'll try to keep posting and get some pictures for the blog, it is good to be back. Diane
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