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Well as you can tell we are back in the land of no internet service.  We set up camp on the 6^th May for our fourth year of camp hosting here at Tompkins Campground in Lawrenceville PA. Most days our routine/mondain.  Diane does the camp hosting, I mow/weed whack over at the Disc Golf Course. Occasionally go over and work at Ben’s cabin.

There have been some interesting events/stories to talk about.

It was very hectic the last days in Dillsburg. We were in town for more than a month, more than enough time to get everything done and visit with everyone. Yet we had more stuff to do and we ran out of time.

Saturday the 4^th Diane went to Lynne’s, BJ’s, Rite Aid, CVS, JC Penny’s, Wine store and of course Chick-fil-A for lunch.
Sunday the 5^th the before we leave, I went to Mark’s to visit and pick up the kayak. Down to visit Ben and boys.  We spent all evening packing up the Moho. I didn’t think it would be this hectic.
Monday the 6^th we hit the road at 10am.  With both the car and truck to get up north we moved the truck out of the way, pulled the Moho out onto the road, Diane drove the car around to hook up with the Moho. She had to walk back to the campsite to get the truck. Nothing hard just took more time than we thought.  It was our normal trip (with two vehicles) Diane shopped her way up getting needed supplies while I drove the Moho straight to the campsite.
The rest of Monday and the next few days were spent cleaning up around our site leaves to burn, sticks, limbs to pick up and grass to mow.  The rest of the week was Dr appointments, hair cut (Diane of course) Dr’s appointment for Diane and into the hospital for different tests.

Perhaps the best story of the last weeks was the voices Diane kept hearing.  For weeks she had been hearing clicking and an occasional voice. Sometimes it was more like a beeping noise.  I was thinking the voice of perhaps the deceased original owner trying to tell us something about the coach. Sometime the noise/voices were loud sometimes very faint. But I never heard them. I was starting to worry; we would be sitting here having dinner she would jump up and say there they are again (the voices).  She opened all the cupboard doors and listened.  I even told her I heard them just to comfort her.  Finally, one day she could understand the voice it said to (press the button to continue) Now she was sure it was something electronic and searched the Moho for the culprit. But she couldn’t find anything.  Then one morning I was dumping the tanks, and I heard the voice. I opened the next door over and I found it.  Someone put a smoke detector in the basement area.  Not Just any smoke detector, but the ultimate deluxe version with “voice announcements “.   Yes, they do make them!  When the battery is low, they chirp/beep for 10 days. After that they beep followed by an announcement “press test button.” And finally in plain English “replace battery now”
   Mystery solved!! Things we learned, Diane is not hearing voices, Moho is not haunted and I need hearing aids.

Less interesting story. I went hunting three different days, first day very thick fog seen more hunters than turkeys. Second day nice weather, no turkeys, missed a coyote and got a little bewildered on the way out. Days three foggier than the first day, no hunters, no turkeys, no coyote and no fun. That was it for me for this year.

Fog in the woods

 

Memorial Day weekend - Happy Memorial Day and thanks to all who have served!!

Diane was hosting this holiday weekend! And it was very busy A lot of campers came in Thursday, over 70 on Friday. A few motorcycle campers came in Saturday, and we were full every site including tent/hike-in sites.
All went well until Sunday evening around 8pm. We were officially off duty at 6pm but sign stays out all day. While enjoying a nice glass of wine, a camper came running over to report very loud yelling and cursing with lots of “F” bombs and was fearful that violence was about to erupt. She scared Rudy, he barked flew out from under the Moho barking like crazy, knocked over our table and our wine was gone. Before we could re-act another camper drove up to report the same incident. Diane was gathering info from the campers and I walked down to check it out and yes, I took protection along (Rudy).  It took me just two minutes to walk down and all was quiet.  Walked around a bit, not a peep out of anyone. After talking to a guy walking his dog apparently the argument (very loud) was between friends about whether or not they were doing the “planned fish fry.”   Go figure!

Monday 27 May 2024

    We are off duty. None of the campers remember last night. Just as well. Cloudy on and off thunderstorms and we are relaxing/recovering.
   As we stumble along with no TV, poor cell service (texting works(sometimes)), and of course no internet I will do my best to keep the blog updated.