Jim and Darlene On the Road Again

July 4th party's, Turtle Race's, Visit MIL and Thomas in Truck, Lost my new Phone

July 2, 2024

Today is Jim's brother's birthday, he is 2 years older and lives in Colorado.

Watching AGT aka, Americas Got Talent.

Check it out, great show.

Oscar Stembridge. He is 16, fabulously talented young guy.

July 3, 2024

Mary Kay delivered today, one more order on the way.

Made an apple dump cake today.

Drew loved it.

July 4th

We have two party's to attend today.

I went to the store and bought some veggies so I could make a veggie tray.

We left about 3:00 in the afternoon, we were following Drew, first we stopped at Drew's friend Breck.

Beautiful view on the way to there house.

We only stayed a short time chatted with everyone. Told a few of the ladies about my new Mary Kay business.

It started to rain a lot.

Jim and I headed out. Then we went to see Jeanne and Lynn .

They had a lovely party and we enjoyed a meal with them.

Robert and Dina are coming to visit. They are part of our Switch Crew, they met Jeanne and Lynn in Florida.

We actually chatted with her while we were all still there together. She wanted to know if they could stay for a week before they headed on to their next location. Looking forward to getting together with them later in the month.

We headed out so I wouldn't have to drive in the dark. We saw a lot of deer on the way home, wish we would have counted them all.

July 7th

Today's big exciting news in the mountains is going to a turtle race .

We arrived at and VFW way out in the middle of nowhere . I was able to chat with quite a few people. While Jim and Drew enjoyed some beer at the bar inside.

I watched a few of the races, there was over 200 turtles here. Which I believe they told me most people released them back into the wild at the location they were found, thank goodness for that.

Talked with a family and grandparents all hanging out. Very wholesome family fun.

After we left, long beautiful country drive out of there.

The three of us stopped and got Chinese food for dinner. The bad part is by then it was 9 PM. Didn't arrive home till after 10:00.

July , 8,

Today, Jim and I got ready and took the truck down state to see his mom. 3 hour drive went so fast.

We had a lovely visit. She dog sitting this basset hound.

Went to see Thoma, Kerri and Sarah went to moose's LZ for dinner.

Saw my Aunt Sandy in Walmart.

We boondocked in Walmart parking lot in Palmyra. Beautiful sunset at our spot for the night.

We had a lot of options for where to stay, since we know the area.

WM is quieter than a truck stop. Wanted to blend in. We ran the APU so we had AC on all night, and had fridge on too, had a lot of leftovers from the restaurant. It was terrible hot and humid today.

I had a lovely solo shopping trip inside WM.

July 9, 2024

Had a great night, was very quiet overnight. Didn't sleep as well as I hoped, but Jim sure did.

We went to McDonald's for coffee he had egg muffin too. I made him eggs and I had my oatmeal and yogurt in the truck.

He said I was playing Motorhome. Lol

Then we went to the UPS store and got our mail. Next I ran into Sally and got some stuff for my hair.

Then I went into my former nursing home employeer, had to pick up my gallery artwork, I was hoping they would let it up, at least till I was dead.

Now I have to stash them at Drew.

Former coworker Betsy Weis. She loves the truck.

Then we stopped at Jim's mom's for a quick visited with her again.

She really declined since her stroke. So weak and she won't put her hearing aids in, so hard to talk with her then.

We headed out to go back to the cabin/ house, as I call it.

Such a great drive coming back, 3 hour drive went so fast. We got situated and loaded the car up.

It is soon switch it up, huddle time.

July 10

This morning we took a shower. I washed my hair. Jim and I went into Dushore.

The only place to get pizza here is inside a gas station. It's Pudgie's Pizza, never heard of it before, but it was really good .

We decided to take a pizza home for Drew and his friend Vince that's visiting.

Then I went into Hurley's and I grabbed a few things.

Then we went next door and had an ice cream cone for our dessert.

It was our early dinner. We stopped and picked up the pizza, and once we arrived back with everyone opened up the box and it was actually a stromboli.

But Drew loved it. He was starving. Jim finally remembered he needed it to fix the freezer door in the RV.

I realized I couldn't find my phone and I looked everywhere. Everybody was helping me look. I told Jim, I don't know where else to look.

He said " what if I picked it up and put it in my tool bag when I fixed the freezer door. "

I said, " SO what you're saying it's your fault then. "

So he ran over and guess what.

I looked for 2 hours and it was in his tool bag the whole time, OMG.

Tried to pack up. So excited for Huddle time. It will be great to see all of our friends and make new ones in New York at Watkins Glen,

Switch It Up Huddle.

Rest of the Month Review in Dushore in July

Friday June 7, 2024

Drew is leaving on a fishing trip in a few days. Richard, his neighbor that's 94, has a horse named Nina.

He's in a rehab facility, not sure if he'll be able to come home again. So the three of us got in my dad's old truck, which is now Drew's. And we went into Tunkhannock.

We stopped and got Chinese food for lunch

and then we went to the Tractor supply farm store and got the horse more hay.

While we take care of her for a few more weeks. Apparently someone is supposed to pick her up and take her to a better location, since Dick might not be coming back.

Once we got home and went to feed the horse there was deer in the back pasture.

And we had deer and fawn behind us in the fifth wheel. Really cool being here to see that.

Then David made dinner of smoked deer sausage with rice and vegetables. It was delicious.

Would love to make that again.

Saturday June 8th.

I'm feeding the horse twice a day now. I have a horse for two weeks.

Later I made waffles for everyone. There's a lot of snakes around here. Jim keeps taking pictures of them.

Later. Later Jim had a fire out back since we have 90 acres of mountain land, plenty of firewood. He watched hockey.

David came over later to join him.

Monday June 10, 2024

Today I made scrapple and eggs for breakfast. Did you ever have scrapple ?? it's Pennsylvania Dutch, my Dad used to make it. David made this batch

Jim planned a couple days visit with Byron and his grandson Travis. They arrived later in the afternoon.

He wanted to play the drums. He drove my car up behind the house.

On Tuesday we took the gator up the mountain to show him Drew's Taj mahal hunting cabin he built.

We parked the gator and walked a little bit as it was getting hot. I walked the whole way. It's only a two-seater and Travis sat. In the back.

Later I made white chicken chili

we had at the fire for dinner for all of us.

Byron brought my car so David even said it was funny to see it here,

knowing I don't technically own it anymore.

Wednesday June 12

Last night Byron said goodbye to me, as he was afraid I wouldn't be up before he left in the morning.

I got up to feed the horse and said goodbye to them as they were leaving this morning. Jim is the one that didn't get to see him and was not up yet.

Later Jim and I went into Dushore, the one traffic light town.

Went into the little hardware store here, and finally found the filter we needed for our return AC vents on the ceiling.

Not much to do here, in town. Did a quick run through the grocery store, Hurley's.

Friday, June 14, 2024

Today, beautiful morning, butterfly's everywhere. Drew says a lot of milk weed around, they love.

Jim and I went in to Dushore again. Ate at the jolly trolley.

Beautiful flowers on the building.

It started to rain as we were leaving. Went into the liquor store next door and I ran into the family Dollar.

Saturday June 15, 2024

Today we decided to go into Tunkhannock to Walmart. Looking for a place for lunch as it was so late by now. Ended up at Burger King. Should have went somewhere else.

Then we went into Walmart . Trying to remember what we needed in Walmart.

We said we should go look at phones.

As we've talked many times about us needing new ones.

Well we came across an amazing salesman, and long story short. We walked out with each of us getting a new phone, an AT&T pixel 8a.

Anthony pictured and Alex were amazingly helpful.

They even transferred all our data from one to the new one.

Once we got home, we were still in shock of our crazy purchase.

Let the learning curve begin.

Apparently there was a deal going on. And we really didn't have to spend a lot of extra money .

Sunday June 16, 2024

Today's I fed Nina in the morning. A few Chipmunks come out while she eats.

Today is the day that they were supposed to come and pick the horse up.

They were supposed to tell us. David and I were going to follow them to see where her new location would be. Never heard from them all day or saw them drive by, as we were outside a lot today.

This is been very warm the last couple days and it's supposed to continue which is rare for upstate.

Later I went up to feed the horse and she was gone. Very sad, Dick's red pickup truck was not there too.

Went back as David was watching hockey with Jim inside the RV. We were all so shocked. They never contacted us.

Drew, send us a few pictures that they sent him.

We're assuming they knew he was in Canada.

Jim feeds the wood burning fire before bed when Drew is not here.

Monday June 17

Today we needed to add more water to our tanks, as we only have 30 amp on that side of the road.

Jim filled up our 45 gallon water bladder, 2 times using David's truck.

Quite the long process. He needs to get a pony pump, instead of using his drill.

The water pump didn't want to work cuz there was a lot of air trapped in the lines. Jim will have to work on that tomorrow.

Thursday June 20,

Our Granddaughter Sarah is 17 today.

Today I took the Smart car into Dushore and went to the Second Hand Rose.

So many dresses to try.

Friday June 21,

Today I found a carrot cake recipe to try.

Not as good as I anticipated.

Healthier version with crushed pineapple

and homemade applesauce.

Saturday June 22,

Jim and I went to the hardware store and stopped at a few seinic view overlook. So beautiful up here.

It was stunning up here.

Stopped at Wendy's for lunch and next door Shore Sisters Farmers market.

A new western wear store opened up.

Love Mary Kay pink western hat

Beautiful boots.

Grand opening was yesterday. I said they should have line dancing in here. She said they tried to get someone. They stood them up.

She asked if I line dance " yepp"

Do you teach "yepp".

She said DARN, and you were free yesterday, yepp, if only I had know. She took my number. I said the only problem is that we are not here long.

Cool pink western hat, I tried on the way out.

Then I went into Aldi's.

Monday June 24,

Later this morning we all went up the mountain to get a load of wood.

Tried to get a picture of Drew cutting a dead tree down. Still getting used to new phone,

Missed it, told him we had to cut another one and try again.

We stacked firewood as he cut it up.

When we returned Drew stacked it and Jim and I got a pork shoulder going on the Ninja to smoke.

Wish I would have remembered to do it before we left.

Tuesday June 25,

This afternoon I picked wildflowers. What the table looks like when just David and Drew are here alone.

This is what it looks like when I'm here. I also made some mud slides.

A lot of fun cooking in this kitchen and using a big dishwasher.

Wednesday June 26,

Today the three of us went out for lunch, stopped at Cracker Barrel and we went to Sam's club. I thought Jim was bad shopping. Drew is really no fun to go shopping with. He is in and out to quick.