Saturday 7 October 2023

 We are back in the world of technology!😁

Current location is the host site (45) at Ives Run, Tioga County Pa.  Yesterday Diane called about our hot spot (it needed rebooted) and we now have cell service and internet. We are so happy.

                                                                                                                          

I must dedicate this post to my niece and our number one follower.

JULIE ANN METZGER (McCurdy)
 6-14-1966    8-19-2023  

    Besides being my niece Julie and Dave were avid campers and race fans.  Julie enjoyed reading our stories of  adventure/misadventure.  We so enjoyed camping we them on and off over the past few years. She always had a smile on her face and a story to tell.  She will forever be missed!

Dave and Julie
at a winery we
visited!!

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      Diane is filling in as a camp host here at Ives Run and I'm helping with volunteer maintenance. It's fall and the leaves are turning with brilliant display of fall colors. It make you want to go outside and work. We should be here until the end of October when the park closes.

  I'll try to go over the high lights of the last few months:

July

     After coming back from out camping trip with Shari's family I went over to Ben's cabin to mow grass and as I pulled in I notice something was out of place.  OH CRAP.  A tree had fallen on the side of the cabin. Damage didn't look to awful bad considering.  I mowed the grass and return to the camper.  I went back the next day with chain saw in hand.  Remembering my safety training I tied a rope to myself and the other end to the saw, with two sections of my tree stand stacked firmly on some wet rocks I climbed up the tree and started limbing it up. All went well.  I came down had some lunch and went to start a fire. I was breaking twigs (that's right twigs) went a piece flew up and hit my eye. I got up went to look in a mirror and sure enough I had blood running out of my eye ball.  I call Diane, she calls Kate for a ride to the hospital.......Three hours later were are on the way home. I tore some meat lose but fortunately it missed the cornea.  Three trips to the optometrist over the weeks and I am back to   normal.

            The tree on the cabin,

              and Brad a little later.                                       

                             

Lynne and Rick came up camping for a weekend. A lot of fun as always.

We worked our normal schedules, several doctors appointments and dentist appointments. Just gotta love getting older.

August

 Finally got the moho inspected.  It is now licensed in our names and inspected. We are legal.😊

  We took a week off to go visit Ashley in Burlington Vt.  We had a great visit, went to lunch with Ash two days.  For a skinny little thing she can put away the food.  
   Just a note for Moho repairs it rained the whole drive up and we found the wipers only work on high speed.  Another item on the list.

   More work and more doctor appointments.

September 

  Tompkins campground closed on the 5th, and we headed to Maine for two weeks camping with Lynne and Rick.  I left with the Moho while Diane shopped her way up to meet Rudy and I in Owego NY.  It was only 75 miles, but we were underway.  Next morning we were off to Benington VT for a two night stop. We had been there before but had no problem visiting the area again.  After stocking up on cheese and wine we headed to Lebanon ME. Just overnight then off to Boothbay Harbor.
  And wouldn't you know it, our luck lobster was at an all-time high price. 😦 We sucked it up, paid the price and enjoyed our share of lobster, after all that is why you go to Maine.  The two weeks went by so fast.  Lynne and Rick each worked a few days the first week, but we still enjoyed a fire almost every night.
  Hurricane Lee came by at the end of the first week.  We watched the weather and the storm headed north and we decided to stay and ride it out.  To pass the day we went to rec hall, played cards enjoyed some light snacks.  The electric went out, but we had enough light to keep on playing.  Then my phone rings, it was the campground manager she said someone is blowing the horn in the Moho.  That is not possible I say no one is there.....except for the DOG.  Rick and I walk back to the Moho and sure enough Rudy was on the driver seat jumping up and down on the (air) horn. We all laughed, but not the manager. I bungeed some cardboard to the steering wheel and we were back at the card game.
   The storm pasted.  We had a few nice sunny days one that we spent at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. We were worried it was to late in the season and there wouldn't be much to see. Boy, were we wrong.  We spent the entire day there only taking a break to eat lunch. The place was amazing. I would certainly recommend it to anyone in the area.
    The rest of our time there we enjoyed eating lobster, playing Mexican train, antique shopping, a trip to Portland and did I say eating lobster.

Downtown Boothbay
Harbor!

Trolls at the 
Botanical Gardens

All good things come to an end.  We headed home on the 23rd of September stopping at the same place in Benington VT.  The 24th we toured some covered bridges and visited a revolutionary war battle memorial.  We never knew there was an important battle fought there, very interesting.
  

The war memorial!

  We arrived back at Ives run Monday the 25th.