I didn't wake up until 6:30 this morning after going to bed at 9 last night! I guess I needed the sleep. I think our bodies know when we need the extra rest. The coffee was still perking, so Dean had not been up too long. While waiting for it to finish I checked my phone. Misti had sent me a text message with a picture of our grandson, Logan. He wanted to have it put in the Labette Avenue (Oswego's, and other nearby communities weekly paper). She asked me if I could send it to Rena (the editor). I was glad to and I worked on that. You get a sneak peak!
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| The picture was taken in San Diego. Logan is currently stationed at Camp Pendleton, CA for his field medical training battalion for the Navy. I'm so proud of this young man!! |
After getting my first cup of coffee I worked on the prior day's post. Once that was done, I went through my morning routine. Dean went outside to try and figure out why our trailer brakes are not working. I can't remember if it was just outside of Garnett or once we got into town that the message came up on the dash. This has happened once or twice before but he was able to get them to work. He tried a number of things but still nothing.
While he was starting to pick things up, the north wind began to blow and it was pretty crazy. The trees were swaying and you could see the water in the lake behind was being affected as well. Dean hurried to get the remaining things put away. He wanted to run by the Chevy dealer to see if they could take a look at the brake connection on the truck. It was already raining so we donned our raincoats and drove over. It's just a short distance from the RV Park. Unfortunately, they said they were too far behind and at least two weeks out now. He has an appointment with the Chevy dealer in Parsons next week to have some recall work done, along with a few other regular maintenance items, so he will ask them to add it to the list.
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| You can see how the flag is blowing from the north wind, and if you enlarge the picture you can see the water is being impacted as well. |
We returned to Bentley, where we quickly ran inside out of the rain. The worse was yet to come. We could hear (and feel) the wind blowing and it rained hard for about an hour, before it finally calmed. While there was still a light rain, we left to have lunch with Dean's family at the Dutch Country Cafe.
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| We heard there was 1.5 to 2" of rain in the short span of an hour. |
During the storm I was "chatting" online with someone from Verizon. We purchased a MIFI, for internet service in the RV. The major reason we got this was for the printer. We couldn't link both of our phones hotspots to the printer, so it was frustrating when the person with the hotspot linked to the printer was gone. Since we received the MIFI, we also connected Alexa and our Amazon Firestick to it as well. The reason for my call today...I cannot get the MIFI to connect to my Chromebook. I would rarely use it but there have been a couple of times it would have been nice to have had it, and today actually happened to be one of them. I follow a blog called Geeks on Tour. In an email I received today it talked about a change with Google Photos. One item told how to make sure all of your photos are backed up at High Quality for their free storage service. Since I had many pictures on my Chromebook that transferred from my old computer, I wasn't sure if they were all set to High Quality. To be sure I was going to begin a process mentioned in a link to an article explaining how to change any photos not already set to High Quality. Unfortunately I could not connect my Chromebook to my MIFI so it could continue making these changes while we were gone. I keep getting a message that the password for the MIFI is bad, but this only happens with my Chromebook. Everything else works fine - including our phones with the password provided from the MIFI. Unfortunately, after an hour of trying to figure it out, I had to tell the technician I needed to leave for our lunch dinner. I did get a reference number so I can go back to it, but I will call this time rather than text. I thought it might be an easy fix, but I'm beginning to wonder if anything is easy anymore.
The Dutch Country Cafe has not been open too long. The former bowling alley was remodeled into a large dining area with two or three meeting/event rooms. Some of the meals ordered yesterday were hot beef sandwiches, Chef salads, bacon cheeseburger/fries, and fried chicken. Everyone seemed to be happy with their meals. They serve both breakfast and lunch. The pies looked delicious but evidently no one had a sweet tooth today or they were just being good! The cinnamon rolls also looked tasty and they have a drink list that includes lattes, frappes, and several other beverages. Here is a link to their menu.
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| Dean's Family: Joyce (sister), Jerry (brother-in-law, Marie), Marie (sister), Connie (wife of brother Dale), Sandi, (wife of brother Larry), Larry, waving to you all, Dean, Carina (Ruthann's daughter), Ruthann (sister) and Katie (Ruthann's granddaughter). |
It was after 1 before we left. Dean and I went back to Bentley, and then we headed to Walmart for a few things. DEF for the truck was one major item, as that message came up on the way here. We have several hundred miles to go before it needs it, but now we are prepared. With our upcoming trip it won't take long for the miles to add up. Once we returned, I put things away and then we enjoyed just relaxing for awhile. We had sandwiches for our dinner at Bentley. I still had half of my sandwich from last night from the restaurant in Ottawa, and I made Dean a wrap of turkey, cheese, bacon and tomato.
We left the campground around 5:00. We told Marie earlier that we would come up to visit. Dean wanted to take the back roads from Garnett to Marie's, north of Richmond. We drove by the place where he lived until he moved to Oswego in 1970, the rural school he attended, and many friends and family members homes. It was a reminiscing day for him being back in his hometown and surrounding countryside.
We arrived at Marie's as they were getting ready to eat. Roast beef salad, potato salad and homemade chocolate chip cookies they had just finished baking. It looked so good, but we were too full from dinner to eat anything except the choco chip cookie Marie handed us right from the oven! They had cooked up a storm after lunch today in preparation for tomorrow. Since we had already ate, we set at the table with them and visited. Just as everyone was finishing, Marie's daughter Tracy and husband Aaron stopped by. We all moved to the living room and enjoyed a few hours of visiting. A great group of people with many, many memories and lots of laughs.
Tomorrow everyone will gather back at Jerry & Marie's for a mini family gathering.
Another wonderful day. We are so blessed with family and laughter!
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