Greetings, blogfans!
Well, summer seems to have settled in here in the muggy midwest, and we are NOT enjoying it! Keith is still recovering from all that Interstate travel or we'd be on our way to Rapid City--where the highs are in the 70s and the lows are in the 40s! Sure sounds good....
Tomorrow we're hooking onto our house and heading 70 miles west of here to park it in a state park where our old 'biker buddies' are having the National campout next week. All those years when I campaigned for tolerance among the bike-camping crowd when it comes to folks who just cannot show up on bikes and sleep in tents are about to be put to the test. :) There will be a lot of (I hate to use the word "old") cool people that we used to camp with and we're pretty excited! And at the end of the day, we can walk back to our air conditioned home to sleep--instead of lying in a pool of sweat in a little nylon tent, with half the mosquitoes in the world humming around the door, waiting for one of us to have to crawl out to hike to the bathroom! Been there--done that!
Yesterday Keith finally got the old green riding mower to fire up and actually RUN again! He was so pleased with himself while he was scalping the yard to within a 1/2 inch of its life--I'm advocating buying a big FOR SALE sign and putting the thing out in the front yard immediately! That overpriced piece of green junk has never, in the 5 years we've owned it, run an entire season! Last summer it ran ONCE for the guy who was coming over to keep the grass cut! And that was right after we'd spent $100 on parts. Always the same parts, every year! I was content to push my new Walmart mower around the yard once a week.... :)
Aside from that, we're planning to pull out after the 4th and go West, if Keith has caught up on his rest and rehabilitation by then. Got stuff to do deal with in SD. Of course, by then it'll be full-blown summer out there--100 in the daytime and 60 at nite...
Ya'll enjoy the weekend....
