New Friends, Batteries and Other Stuff

Rantoul, IL.
67 deg. cloudy, SW wind @ 9 mph.
Forecast today  = high temp. 75 deg. mostly cloudy, W. wind @ 15 to 20 mph.

The only thing that happened Tuesday was that CLT (Cute Little Truck), took Jim and Linda down to the Hobby Lobby store in Champaign so Linda could look for more handy-work projects. She bought some when they went to Hancock fabrics a few days ago, but they were out of a lot of the embroidery items that she really likes to do.

So anyway, they left here a little after noon and were back here by about 2:00 with a whole bag of embroidery stuff. :-)

Oh, I want to tell you about the nice couple and their Pace Arrow motorhome that was parked next to me for a couple of days. The couple's names were Sam and Donna, and they are from Oregon. Sam's father was originally from Illinois, but Sam had never been to the Mid-West, and was here to try to find some information about his father at the genealogy society over in Danville, IL.

He found not only information about his father, but also found out that his father had two more brothers that he didn't know about.

Like I said, they were a nice couple and Jim talked to them from time to time while they were here. During the talks, Sam and Donna gave Jim one of their friendship cards and invited Jim, Linda and me to look them up if we ever got to the Bend area of Oregon. They even said that I would be welcome at their home and they have a 30 Amp outlet that I could plug in to.

Wow!!! That was really nice of them! :-)  Maybe we can look them up sometime when we're in Oregon to visit Jeff!!

After Sam and Donna left yesterday morning, Jim decided that he was going to service all of my batteries, so he got out all the stuff he needed and proceeded to fill them with distilled water, check all of the connections and then finally spray them with some battery cleaner stuff that he had bought and then hose them off.

By the time he was done with the batteries, it was lunch time, and then nap time. ;-)

Linda still hasn't been feeling very well. Her allergies are still really bothering her, so again, she stayed inside, did a load of laundry, worked on her projects and played with the computer.

After Jim woke up from his nap, he went out and dumped and flushed my tanks and put some stuff away as they were forecasting rain and possible t-storms for last night. We did get some rain, and a little lightning way off in the distance, but no storms.

For dinner, Jim and Linda took CLT and went over to Long John Silver's. Then  after they got back, they watched TV until bedtime.

Did you know that on this day in 1893, the largest land run in history began with more than 100,000 people pouring into the Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma to claim valuable land that had once belonged to Native Americans? With a single shot from a pistol the mad dash began, and land-hungry pioneers on horseback and in carriages raced forward to stake their claims to the best acres.

Have a safe trip back to Oregon, Sam and Donna. :-)