Time is winding down at Tompkins Campground!!

 Tuesday 10 August 2021 weekly update

    I'll try to catch everyone up a bit.  We are back to normal weather for the most part warm and humid days with lows in the mid sixties. We just missed some severe storms that dumped over 6 inches of rain on the small town of Westfield causing road closures and flooding.  Strange how a place 5 miles away is so badly flooded and it barely rained here.  And of course the internet here is hit or miss.  I try to do the blog and no internet.  An hour later Diane is browsing FB at high speed so I jump on the blog and poof it dies again.  Sometimes I swear it sees me coming.

   Diane has been getting some use out the kayak I think she went out at least 4 times this week.  Along with camp hosting she has been quite busy. I'm not sure if she enjoys kayaking so much as the time away from me.  She does almost all the hosting chores herself while I do mowing and site maintenance.

A few pictures from the Diane's kayak trips!!

  

 I did take several days off after having two broken teeth pulled  and a piece of tooth from previous extraction.  Diane enjoyed looking after me and especially cooking for me.  I had a tooth on each side pulled so soft food that I could chew with my front teeth.  She didn't even mind me laying around moaning about how my jaw hurt and can you bring me something to drink, eat, pills etc.  

   We (Diane) bought a bunch of stuff at an on line auction.  Three lots of stuff(mostly Pfaltzgraff) but you know how it works you have to take everything including the shelving.  So Sunday while she camp hosted I drove an hour each way to pick our treasures.  It took over a hour to pack the stuff in boxes then carry it out to the truck that is parked 100 feet away along the highway.  Just to get even I stopped for a coffee on the way back.  I got home we unloaded the truck, unpacked the boxes and started to sort through the merchandize.  You  do remember we live in the RV so in order to sit down and eat we have to repack a few boxes.  By evening we had the truck loaded with donate items.  5 boxes of stuff to keep(Take to storage) and three boxes of stuff she sold.  Tuesday the 10th she took most of the remaining items, about half of what we bought, to donate to the Children's home Thrift Store.

A few pictures of just some of the treasures we snagged.

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    Now a update on the status of the boat I bought in mid July.  I call the guy and he agreed to help pay for a motor that runs.  So the last two and half weeks I spent endless hours searching for motors and learning what will and won't work on our boat.  Besides horse power and make, you have shaft length short, regular and sail master(extra long).  I would find one call or facebook the owner.  Some owners didn't even know what I was talking about, some never called back, some were sold and in the end I have no motor.  I've have called the seller many times he was looking also to no avail.  Maybe just maybe I have one in State College waiting for a call back.  The next place the boat goes maybe the junk yard.

    It  is hard to believe we are counting down our last month of the summer.  When we parked 15th of May it seemed like a long time until 10 of September now it is just 4 weeks away.  We have so many things out of the basement storage it will take weeks to get the Moho back into traveling mode.  The next big event will be a few days in Williamsport for service on the 14th of September.  Don't know when we will head south.  Dillsburg campground has gotten just terribly full of permanent people and just kind of run down.