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Tuesday November 17

We have left Franklin RV Park without major incident.  We both feel like we are out of jail.  We loved the park, we loved the guests, we loved Franklin (didn’t get to see much of it).  The owners are some of the most narcissistic folks we have ever met.  We only got into the first week there before they violated our contract with them. A few weeks ago they said they would not pay us our final check – they did give us the final check. 

We only got to go gem mining 2 hours, got to one event at the Smoky Mountain Performing Arts Center, got to 4 or 5 movies.  We were simply tied to the park.  The highlight of our being in Franklin was the fine folks at Franklin Covenant Church.  We were welcomed with love, taken into two life groups (whenever we could both get away), taken into small groups, and enjoyed worship.  Last Sunday dozens of people surrounded us during the service, prayed over us, and blessed us on our mission journey.

Our near future plans are, today we go to Live Oak, FL; park the fifthwheel at friends land, rent a car and start a two week 2,600 mile trip to see our kids, grandkids, sister, and mom.  Mom was 90 last week!!  We will spend time at each kid’s house and get together with most of the family the Saturday after Thanksgiving.  We have to stop and pickup my custom made shoes on the way back to Florida.

Once in Florida we will have 11 days of R & R, finish a couple of projects on the RV, visit friends, and see our nieces and nephews.

Upon leaving Florida we will work our way out west (slowly) having to be in the southern desert mountains of California for a mission assignment at a Baptist camp.  We will spend February and March another mission assignment in Glendale, AZ.  Early April we will fly back and see the kids, and late April leave for Alaska.

Pray that all goes smoothly for us.  We now are restarting our blog for new adventures lying ahead.  Yesterday we went to the Air Force Museum at Warner – Robbins AFB.  I spent too much time on my injured foot and am feeling that today.

Peggy (AKA Wild Weasel) in the Wild Weasel Trainer)

Jim in front of one of the Vietnam displays.

How great is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you, which you bestow in the sight of men on those who take refuge in you.

 – Psalms 31:19

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Tuesday April 21

Well it’s not all sunny today?  Still a few showers, but we mow and mow and mow.

One of Miss Peggy’s projects is to refurbish the two “RV Bus” decorations on the fireplace screen.  They are made of copper, brass, & other metals, and haven’t been cleaned since they were installed 3 years ago.

                                                    Looking Nasty

After working on these about 1 hours a day for three days we are seeing improvement.

This is all hand work! 

                               The pile of dirt isn’t getting much smaller!

We had a nice campfire tonight even though we only two guests. Recently retired teachers for a hiking trip leaving the hubbies back in Florida.

Friday April 24

The last two days flew by as we had sunny weather so it was outside work every day.  Flower beds to weed, weeds to spray, mowing, trimming and don’t forget the bath house and pavilion to keep clean.

                          You can see me getting the tractor ready to roll.

Last week I moved two chairs from Glenville to our fifth wheel.  On the left is the leather chair for our office in the fifth wheel, on the right is Miss Peggy’s glider with the mountain print fabric.

We have been looking for an ottoman to go with her chair, we have the fabric for it.

Babies R Us had a special deal that beat out Amazon by 50 bucks so we had to buy it.  Speaking of purchases we had to buy this freezer.  We have a very small location in the garage of the fifth wheel for a freezer.  This one fit and it was on sale $70  off – that is 1/3 off.

             The only drawback is that we will fill it up with sale items.

On Thursday I went to a real nice men’s group at Covenant Community Church and really enjoyed the guys.  

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Thursday April 16

April showers bring May flowers – Right? – well they also make the grass grow like crazy.  We were told the mow cycle is about every three weeks during the summer, well right now it’s about every 6 days!  We have 6 1/2 acres of lawn, flower beds, trees, roads, and sites to maintain.

                                                        Ditches to maintain.

                                                Horse shoe pits to refurbish.

After the morning showers were over, we started the mowing, only to the stopped by the afternoon showers.

Friday April 17

Guess what?  Morning showers, mowing, afternoon rain! The object is to get it to look like this each week.

Peggy cleans the bathrooms at least once a day, everyone wants clean showers and bathroom – it is the mark of a well maintained RV park.

Each bathroom has two showers, today a guest didn’t turn one of the showers off completely, and of course the water hit the handles, splashed out of the shower and not only messed up that bathroom but migrated to the other bathroom.  At first we thought we had another leak (this would be number 7 this month), but after tearing off the finished wood we only found it was migration.

Tonight we went to see the movie Paul Blart – Mall Cop 2.  

Very Funny, I don’t know how a guy as big as Kevin James can move so much.

Ruby Cinemas, Franklin NC, has brought back the movie (for a second run) Do You  Believe?  If you haven’t seen this great movie, go out of your way to find it.

Saturday April 18

Guess what we did today? You got it mow between the rain drops.

Look at all the different types of fuel we have, diesel, mower gas, Lawnboy gas, Stihl gas, blower gas, chain saw gas and oils. Hope we can keep then straight.

We have a tiny office we work out of, but do most of the paper work in our fifth wheel.

The receptionist must be away right now!  More media center than office.

Our main steed, the mighty Kubota Diesel.  It mows, grades roads, thatches grass, pull stumps, plows ditches, and spreads chemicals and fertilizers.

If this lawn vac was any bigger we would have to rent it is own RV spot. You can actually crawl in and sleep in it.

I forgot the 30 ton log splitter, eat your heart out Tanya. Our fertilizer is on the back shelf.

                                             This is how our sites look.

Sunday April 19

We got up and went to Franklin Covenant Church  this morning.  Friends Jeremy and Julie told us about this church.  She and her friends did worship dance here on Easter Sunday.  This is a very friendly church.   After church we watched it rain most of the day and did paperwork.

This is what the rain is supposed to do, May pictures of Franklin RV Park last year.

Monday April 20

Guess what we did today?  If you guessed mow between the rains you win the prize.  Peggy got into weedeating.  Because of the rain there are a lot of areas neither the tractor nor mower can get to – so we weedeat.

                                         Lots of weedeating along our streams.

Of course we have guests in the park, so the cleaning keeps going on and on.

                                   Cleaning supplies for everything!

We do enjoy our birds.  We currently have five feeders in the park and dozens of birdhouses.  The blue jay seems to push everyone out!  This is from our dining room.

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