Back at the Farm

Nice site in Dillsburg!!

Friday 15 April    We finally made it back to Dillsburg.  Another great day for traveling, sunny and 70 or so.  We should have had a easy day of travel but just as I was coming down the mountain at Caledonia State Park on route 30 the dash board display lights up.  Check engine,  service engine,  and check control display lights all came on.  I quick call to Diane before she is out of radio range and we start looking for a place to pull over.  We pulled into a empty lot added some engine oil and coolant and the lights went out and we were back on the road.   We parked and set everything by 3:30, and it was a good thing Diane called ahead for a site because the place was full.  I was not feeling well so dinner on the grill and a early night.

Saturday and Sunday     Two days of just crazy busy, truck inspection, lunch with Bev, dinner with Lynne and Rick, shopping for Pennsylvania food(sweet bologna, chips, scrapple), a quick visit with Mel and family and poof it was Monday morning.

Monday 18 April    A travel day to the farm.  I headed out around 10 for the trip north and Diane stayed to take Aunt Lida a card and chocolates for her birthday.  An uneventful ride for me, except for pulling into the driveway.  Just as I passed the mail box there were two trees lying across the drive.  So I parked and was just about done when the neighbor Don Gillman came over with a chain

Nice Welcome Home!!

saw to help.  It was cleaned up in no time and I parked around 1:30.  I plugged in the Moho and went  went to work turning on the water system, heat, and just opening up and airing out the place. Fortunately every came right on, there was a little problem lighting the water heater.....I had to read the instructions.  Diane had a much longer day visiting Aunt Lida, then stopping to shop several places for supplies we needed.   She arrived around 4:30 we set up the camper and crashed.

Tuesday and Wednesday   Another two days of crazy.  Into the post office in Westfield, the USDA Office in Wellsboro for soil test bags, one office has the paper work then drive to the other end of town for the kits.  The animals must of missed us they all came out to say hi,  three bears in the pond,  several different groups of deer including 5 buck walked around, a bunch of turkeys one of which Rudy thought he had to chase away and finally a porcupine.   Fired up the push mower....need a rider

A lot of yard at 22" a pass

sooooon.  A bit of cleaning, list making, organizing and trying to decide just what we need to move into the house.    And poof it was Thursday morning.

Thursday 21 April   We are off for a wine trail tasting event in Watkins Glenn with Lynne and Rick.  It was a short trip even for us 60 miles.  We arrived at our site and there was a big truck parked in it, a worker told us to move to the next site which we did.  I went to hook up the sewer a the sewage is almost coming out of their pipe.  So flag down another worker who gets the owner and they come back 20 minutes later and tell us some one forgot to turn on the sewage lift pumps.  A disaster avoided.  Lynne and Rick arrived around 7:00 pm  burgers on the grill, some good wine with good friends and the day was over.

A glass of wine as we
close the last Winery
of the day!!

Friday and Saturday    We were off each morning starting with breakfast and then off to the Finger Lakes Wine Trail.  Each winery was very different, some big, some small,  some very cordial some not so much, white wines and red wines.  Best of all though, was Lynne's excitement as we entered each winery and what new taste she may meet today.  Saturday night we had grilled chicken on salad for dinner and then sat by the fire and relaxed.

Sunday 24 April   It is all over and we are heading home.  The Shirks left first around 9:00 and we pulled out at noon.  We got back at 1:30.  And now the reality of just how much stuff  we have to do is setting in.

Monday 25 July    We are hard at it today.  We went to Westfield and of course first we had lunch then across the street and bought a mattress and bed frame, then up to Woodhull NY to look at a mower, a stop at the grocery store then off to home.  The house is still empty and we are surprised at how slowly we progress.  With so much to do, it's deciding what we do first that's the problem. 

A stressed out,
Brad, Diane and Rudy!!