Some Great children

Since I may not be able to blog too much, I have to send along a few pictures of the great grandkids.

Autumn sang The Intsy, wentsy spider song with hand motions. The kids all enjoyed the soft blocks we took for a present. It certainly was a good choice, because they can't make any noise!!!

Children's visit on way west

Our layover in Lafayette, Indiana was a wonderful treat. The Great Grandchildren are precious and sooooo smart. (Aren't they all?)It was our first time to see Gabrille who will be one in July.
Heather and Lee took the Great Grands to the zoo today and we saw our first wallabees. The children have been so much that they led the way to the wallabees, butterfly garden, sea otter playground, above and below water,lots of other neat exhibits and of course the petting zoo. Autumn was nearly eaten up by a baby goat, who also liked Tom's trousers.
We think we are well over a third of the way to Glacier and feel good about the campground settings. We meet a lot of nice people. We may make it to Wisconsin tomorrow. It depends a lot on what we find to do along the way.
I will blog when I get a chance, but that is not as easy as it sounds. Only a few campgrounds have wifi.

Day 2 of Westward Ho

Day 2 of Westward HO
Last night we spent a lovely night in a Park in PA near a lovely lake. The campground was in the woods, but we stopped and took pictures of the lake. We had no hookups last night, but the camper battery gave us light and worked the camper fans over our bed. We actually turned them off early in the night. The temperature was near 80 degrees when we stopped.
It was so quiet and still and peaceful. I lay watching the fireflies dance before I fell asleep.
We woke up at 6 this morning as we had gone to bed so early last night. We both took showers, ate cereal and juice for breakfast and were on the road again by 8:00.
We ran into a lot of rain storms today and spent a lot of time in lines on the highway due to construction. PA is so beautiful, we didn’t mind the slow pace.
The storms continued so we stopped and ate supper to give the front time to move and it did. Now we are in a nice park just inside Ohio. I just heard the train pass on tracks behind the campground which brings to mind the story our campground lady manager told us when we checked in. She warned us about the train because we are in tornado alley.
The story is as follows. A genteel couple from Georgia were camping near the tracks, which they didn’t know were there. When the train came through, the genteel lady paniced and tried to find a place to hide. There is no place even in a fifth wheel to really hide but she huddled down in the tiny bathroom. Then she got stuck. The manager found out when the husband came and asked where a grocery store was. Later he told her it took 2 bottles of cooking oil to get the somewhat robust genteel lady out of the shower.
More the next time.

I will add a little more as we are in our campsite in Lafayette, Indiana and we see the grandkids tomorrow. It's not easy to get online, so don't know how this is going to work. We have a site for two days here with access.

Westward HO

We will be leaving on Sunday for another adventure in our Coleman tent camper. We are very excited about going to Glacier National Park as it is one of the few National Parks that we have not visited over our lifetime.
The camper is packed, the car is packed and we are like two 77 year old kids going away for a trip and can't wait.
One reason for going Sunday is that I cover five towns for the Sun Journal daily paper and I have a big annual town meeting on Saturday. I will have one more in August and that will be the big ones for the year.
It is not a perfect time to go as far as my garden is concerned because the daylilies are just beginning to bloom. Being gone for three weeks will see the peak gone, but I should have a fair showing when I return. This photo is one of my favorite seedlings and is worthy of introducing if I were into that again, but I'm not. I just like to look at them.
I will have several of my seedling bloom that I have yet to see, and hopefully they will not all be bloomed out when I get back. I shall blog along the way whenever I can.