Dad's Birthday Party

Saturday, December 6, 2014 - Indianapolis, IN

I have not posted anything all week.  I don't have any excuses, just lazy, well and maybe the internet is a little slow.  :)  I could not tell you what we did all week...  Yesterday I did pick up a rental car.  I will be driving to Indianapolis for my Dad's birthday party tonight, Christa's baby shower tomorrow, then to Norfolk for the week.


This morning I needed to work a couple of hours, get a little laundry done and pack up and get ready to head to Indianapolis.  Mike had 5 hours of PTO built up and needed to take it today, so when I was just about ready to go he called to see if I wanted to meet him for lunch.  I finished packing, then headed for Long John Silver for lunch with Mike. After lunch Gracie and I headed north.

This evening we headed over to Patsy and Rick's to celebrate my Dad's birthday.  We had a really good time.  Patsy fixed meatloaf, which was very tasty.  :)  Shortly after dinner it was time to sing "Happy Birthday" and have cake and ice cream. 

It was another wonderful day!

Cabin Trail

Saturday, November 29, 2014 - Campbellsville, KY

Today I decided Gracie and I would finally hike the Cabin Trail.

It was a nice trail, even Gracie was happy about it.  :)

Then about half way through the trail we came upon a resting area.

At the bottom of the hill at the resting area, down at the lake, were these floating cabins.  I decided this is why they call it the Cabin trail.  :)

They were a lot easier to see in person.

On the Cobee Trail there was tree down across the trail.  It was very windy the other day and that is what I figure brought it down.

Today I took the direct route to the Cabin trail, so we only walked 4.5 miles. We had a really nice time.

It was another wonderful day!

Happy Thanksgiving

Thursday, November 27, 2014 - Campbellsville, KY

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

For the last couple of years we have driven to Norfolk to spend Thanksgiving with Jess and her family.  Since Mike is working at Amazon he did not have the day off, so we stayed home for Thanksgiving.  With the weather being bad on the east coast I am thankful we were staying home this year.

The day started the same as any other week day, I got up, worked on the computer, took a shower and took Gracie for a walk.  After her walk I cleaned our home, then sat down and played on the computer.  Around 1:00pm I took Gracie for another walk, then put the Honey Baked ham in the oven to warm it up.  Mike arrived home around 2:00pm.  Shortly after he arrived home we walked up to Richard and Marcella's to see what time we would be eating.  Marcella said the food would be ready around 4:00pm.

Around 4:00pm we headed up to the camp store to meet for dinner.  We had turkey, ham, green beans, squash, and mashed potatoes.  Dinner was great, conversation was great with Richard and Marcella and Bruce and Margret.  We finally had dessert of pumpkin pie and apple/cranberry pie.  Then everyone was tired and tomorrow is another work day, so we called it a night around 7:30pm.

James ended up joining us for a while for some conversation, but he was too full for any dinner.  :)

It was another wonderful day!

Breakfast at Campbellsville University

Sunday, November 23, 2014 - Campbellsville, KY

 Since we went to Mass last night we slept in and took our time getting ready to go to breakfast at the dining hall at Campbellsville University.  We arrived around 11:00am.  Today we met Larry and Cynthia.  They are camping at the Stables Campground.  After a couple hours of good food and nice conversation we finally headed home around 1:00pm.

We did not do much else all day today.

It was another wonderful day!

Geocaching

Saturday, November 22, 2014 - Campbellsville, KY

This morning Gracie and I headed for a walk.  I thought I would finally walk the Cabin trail, but part way there I decided I would go find the geocache that is in the State Park.  It is located down by the campground.  I knew it was going to be a long walk, but we really enjoyed.  I was able to find it!  :)

I signed the little notebook, the Gracie and I headed back home.  When we got back we had walked a total of 6.64 miles.  :)

It was another wonderful day!

Dinner with Amazon Crew

Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - Campbellsville, KY

Today was a lot warmer than yesterday, but the wind was really blowing hard all day.  When Mike got home he said the Amazon crew was going to get together for dinner at Garcia's at 6:00pm for the group that is headed for the Jeffersonville, IN fulfillment plant.  Most of them will be leaving on Sunday.  They start working on Tuesday.  So before we could leave I needed to take Gracie for a walk.  While I was gone Mike connected the truck up to the battery charger.  Then he wired up the trailer wiring on the Suburban.  Something he has been meaning to do for a couple of weeks.  :)

On my way back from walking Gracie I realized that the wind knocked over our water softener. When it fell over it caused one of the couplings to leak.  It is going to be really hard to fix it with all of the heat tape that is wrapped around it.  Mike got it set up the best he could for now.  We finally headed to town at 6:00pm.  We were about 15 minutes late, but there was a big group of people that came.  We had a really good time and finally headed back home around 9:00pm.

It was another wonderful day!

Frozen Pipe

Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - Campbellsville, KY

Mike got a call last night from Amazon letting him know that the mandatory overtime had been cancelled, so he took the opportunity to sleep in today.  Once he got up he turned on the faucet to check to see if we had water, since it got so cold last night.  Bad news, the water line is frozen somewhere between here and there!  So he got dressed and headed outside to figure it out.  The thermometer said it was only 19 outside.  Brrr.  While he was working on getting the water flowing again I took Gracie for our morning walk.  It was really cold!


When Gracie and I got back from our walk, Mike had the water flowing again.  It was frozen right at the top of the faucet head.  Mike fired up the torch to melt the in the faucet.  Then he put his flannel shirt on the pipe to break the wind.  :)  Under the green tarp is a blanket that is covering the water filter and water softener.

This afternoon we decided to get our laundry done.  Normally we put the laundry in the washer and come back home, 30 minutes later head back to move the laundry to the dryer.  Well I think everyone in the park decided to do laundry today.  We ended up staying there the entire time our laundry was washing and drying chit chatting with our neighbors.  :)

This evening we ran into town to find and go to the Campbellsville public library.  For our first time to check out books we were only allowed to pick 2, so we both checked out a book.  Once we left the library we headed over to Fiesta Mexican Restaurant for dinner.  It was a very nice dinner.  I think it was better than Gracia's.  Then we found out Tuesday nights is their discount dinner night, so we got a 15% discount on our dinner.  That was nice surprise.  :)  After dinner we headed to Kroger's to pick up this weeks groceries.

It was another wonderful day!