RV Blog--Life in a Box. This just ain't 'camping' any more....

Wednesday, September 29, 2004:

Page 2: The auction has come and gone. Good riddance! As luck would have it, we got an inch of rain the day of the household auction, but the sun was shining and the combines were running on the day of the farm machinery auction. So, neither of us had a good crowd. But, hey! Stuff is GONE!!! So, we didn't get as much money as we could have...all that extraneous crap has gone away!

And now, hubby is spending his afternoons and evenings driving old, junky grain trucks for a local farmer. And coming home wanting sympathy for the hardships he has to endure. Boo hoo. Came to the wrong ex-farmwife for sympathy! LOL! I spent 30 years driving 2 ton trucks, with no power steering, no radio, no air conditioning, sometimes very little brakes, sometimes no lights...and mostly had to dump them myself!!! While he sat in his air conditioned (or heated) combine, with his radio blaring, getting impatient when I couldn't keep up. Shoe is on the other foot, now! I'm lovin' it! So is our son!

This is my first Fall in Illinois since we quit farming, and I am enjoying it! I've picked up persimmons and rubbed them through and frozen lots of pulp, I've been out raking and gathering walnuts and just generally doing what other people do in the Fall. :) Can't say that I miss spending my days and nites hauling grain from the field to the bin, unloading, racing back to the field--or babysitting the finicky grain dryer, or climbing a bin to put duct tape over a hole where grain was pouring out on the ground..... And then dragging home, dog tired and hungry--to fix a meal!!!!! Aaaah. Retirement is a wonderful thing. :)


Dinah // Wednesday, September 29, 2004
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SHE'S HERE! Our granddaughter was born yesterday evening! She beautiful, she's perfect...what can I say! LOL! As I watched the 'event' yesterday, I realized just how far modern medicine has progressed back into olden times! Birthing was accomplished in a family environment, with little Dawn's 7 year old big brother participating right up through the cord-cutting!!! Back when her daddy was born, hubby and I were very 'progressive'--he suited up and came into the delivery room (you remember--sterile, bright lights, stainless steel table with stirrups?) to hold my hand and then I walked to my room carrying the baby....which was then taken away to a nursery. Not any more! What a difference 29 years makes! LOL!

Dinah // Wednesday, September 29, 2004
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Monday, September 06, 2004:

So here's one for the record books! Over a year ago, someone waited until we pulled our RV off "Redneck Hill" and then kicked in the garage door and stole hubby's 4-wheeler. The theft was reported and nothing ever came of it. Today, #1 son was riding thru the little one horse down down the road, and spotted it sitting in a guy's front yard!!!! What are the odds???? He came and got the title and showed it to the guy, who claims to have bought it last summer from a guy who never got around to giving him a title..... So, once again we're a "2 Quad Family". :) We can take them out to our adopted home and go 4 wheelin' in the Badlands! Yeeeee haaaaaw!

Dinah // Monday, September 06, 2004
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Dinah // Monday, September 06, 2004
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HAPPY LABOR DAY, Y'ALL!

Early this morning I slipped out and gathered up another 2 gallons+ of fresh, juicy persimmons, brought them home and rubbed them thru and now have fresh pulp to bag and freeze. That'll make about 18 pints, so far. Soon as it gets cooler, I'll bake up some goodies.... :) Meanwhile, I think I'll take a nap.....


Dinah // Monday, September 06, 2004
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Sunday, September 05, 2004:

Greetings, my friends and faithful readers!

A word of advice. Don't have an auction and get rid of all your stuff--leave it until you die and your kids will have to deal with it! LOL! I am sooooo sick of wading through all that stuff that we just HAD to own over the years! In about 10 days it'll all be gone, and a couple of days after that, most of the leftover farming debris will follow. :)

This is where I heap praise on my daughter-in-law's head: I have to be one of the luckiest mothers-in-law of all time! She's 3 weeks away from "baby" and still wading right into mountains of stuff and sorting right along side of me!

Meanwhile, our son-in-law, the Math Professor, finally got Instant Messaging on his laptop. So, the other day I logged on and saw that he was also online--and naturally I sent him an IM...which seems to have popped up right in the middle of his showing his class something on his laptop. His students got a good laugh out of the Prof getting IMs from his mother-in-law!

And in central Florida, our friends are hiding under their bed and wishing they'd left the state in May, when we did! They were tossed around by Charley and are now hunkered down hoping Frances leaves them a place to live! They picked the wrong summer to stay over in Florida, that's for sure! :(

And so it goes...


Dinah // Sunday, September 05, 2004
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