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Melensdad

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Up early and in the hotel lobby while the lovely Mrs_Bob sleeps in.

Bloomington, IN is a small college town with a big college. Give or take 40,000 students in a town that looks like its normal population is 1/2 that size? Its also one of the liberal bastions in a conservative state.

The town is very much like the TV show PORTLANDIA with hipsters and homeless and there is a drinking game here where the sane people sit at bars and cafes and people watch. The game is called "Hipster or Homeless" and more often than not it appears the people walking by are Hipsters who need a bath.
 

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Just about ready to leave and drive our son and family to Love Field in Dallas so they can fly to Boston. Our grand daughter is starting at New England Law School so they still have a bunch of stuff to do. Most of it, accommodation and the like was done over the phone but still needs to be checked out. Good luck to them and her. After a week in Boston getting her settled in my son, his wife and youngest grandson fly back to the UK. I'll miss them.
 

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Just got back from the airport with Tina and Rowan Elizabeth . They'll be here for a couple of weeks !
 

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Bringing the dogs to get their shots before our trip next week. Then hauling the camper out to set up for a country music festival the missus is going to. Then coming back and loading up the truck camper into the truck for me to go to our regular camp this weekend.

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Had a busy morning here, doing the usual payday runaround stuff.
Stopped at Penn Station for a sub, domestic fun followed- then napped for an hour.

Talked to Ty about the new home they are getting, 5 bedrooms and a pond in the country.:clap:

I WILL be going there this weekend! Love it when a plan comes together :D
Just finished off dinner. Baked tatie with creamed spinach.
 

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The kids new home.. in no particular order.

Is Mom/Nana gonna move to be with them?
Maybe.. :whistling::biggrin:
 

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Forgot two pictures..
 

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Doc

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Very nice. Looks like a great place in the country, away from the hustle bustle. Congrats to them.
 

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Very nice. Looks like a great place in the country, away from the hustle bustle. Congrats to them.

We are kicking around the idea of me moving there to be with them.
That's going to take some time for me as I love where I am right now jobwise with everything.
I have been looking at other nursing jobs in the Defiance area, one of which is where I'd worked all those years ago.
It's like this was meant to be, and I'm going along with it to see how it all pans out.
That is what this weekend is all about and why it was so important for me to get it off.
Going where the love is.
Family.
 

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Go with what your heart feels is right.

I am hun.
My 2017 didn't start out so well as it was.
Seems like after I lost Gretchen, then everything snowballed into a thousand different directions from what I'd always thought would be just a simple life going into retirement.

But then, I have never been a stranger to change lol
 

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Sounds like big changes in the future.

My lovely wife is going to a country music festival this weekend so I brought the big camper out to set up for her and a few friends. I was up and at it at 7am outside loading up the truck camper for me to use this weekend at our seasonal site.

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Well, I had a nutty day at work, but what else is new? :yum:
Nahh, just real busy, thought it was never going to come to an end.

Anyway, been feeling excited about tomorrow.
Found out the house is actually off 424 across from the reservoir.
Lots of walking places to explore and be in the great wide open.

Ali asked me about what to plan for meals.
Told her were are not cooking, we are going to visit and relax!
Knowing Ty he'll want KFC or something so we'll buzz into the one on South Clinton.

I should be leaving around noon tomorrow and won't be back until Sunday night or Monday morning.
Probably going to attend Mass at St. Mary's Sunday.
Talking about trying to catch the meteor showers if possible.
Perhaps Ty going to bbq Sunday afternoon.

I am going to spoil Maddy and Elaina rotten too. :smile:
 

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My sister came into town for 2 weeks from London. She arrived the same day we came home from taking Melen down to law school and has been staying with my brother. She also brought her 2 year old son on this trip but her husband had to stay in the UK to work.

We will be having them over today, along with my brother & sister in law. Just to relax by the pool for the day.

Yesterday we spent the day at the county fare, then stopped at a local lakeside restaurant for a light dinner. We were seated right next to the stage so we got dinner and a show.




i got ink again-- i got an image of Christ on my arm--

Photo?
 

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Sitting by a campfire contemplating if I should go kayaking this morning or just sit here nursing a hangover.

The missus has our big camper at a country festival. Just the dogs and I this weekend.
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Yep. This is a much needed calm before the storm. 3 weeks on the road with 5 kids and 2 dogs in a camper. Should be interesting. We haven't had all 5 kids together in over a month.

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Got here yesterday afternoon and having a great time:biggrin:

We ate at a really good Chinese buffet, then went and looked inside the house.
OMG, the rooms are pretty big, lots of space, screened in front porch, the property is going to be a PITA to mow I think.
We walked around the pond and showed the girls a frog.

After that went to drive the path along Independence Dam which is right across , then came home and watched the 911 film on Netflix, the one with Dennis Leary.

This morning I heard the babes waking, so got up and went in and changed, then fed them letting Mom and Dad sleep in.

Doubt we'll be going to Mass today, Ty is going to grill pork chops for dinner.
 

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I didn't do a thing all day except play on the computer, make some reservations for our trip to Colorado next month and read a book. Thunder storms fired up about 4 o'clock in the morning and they've been rolling around all day. Some of them were pretty violent. We got right at 5" of rain out of them. They've broken up now and the sun is peeking through. It'll be a couple of days before I get round to mowing the yard.
 

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Well, I'm back home now.

Pictures from today--

Ty's grilling, it was good. Very nice pork steaks, and vegetable grill in his cast iron pan.

Me and the wee ones who DID get spoiled a lot! :biggrin:
 

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Making me hungry. Lol

So far today I washed both the Yukon and the big camper. Made lunch for the kids, went to an apt, then brought the Yukon for a tire rotation.

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My sister came into town last week but stayed with my brother for several days. Today she switched an moved in here for the remainder of the stay (1 week). She brought her son Jake, who is now 2. Her husband could not get time off work to make this trip, he's a pilot for B.A. and had been on medical leave but is now back flying so it was inopportune for him to get time off.

Played a bit in the swimming pool, went to the grocery, cooked lamb chops and now she is putting Jake to bed.

Not sure what is in store for tomorrow.
 

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I worked today, but do have tomorrow off.
Went to the front office and asked Karen to dig out my resume and make copies for when I drive to Defiance to apply for jobs in person.

Funny I couldn't find a single copy of it in my personal storage folder that I've had for years. :hammer: lol

Felt kind of blue all day because I sure didn't want to leave my kids yesterday, one of those weekends where you don't want it to ever end.
Some of my friends at work picked up on that too, because they know my life and me so well.
 

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Housework, laundry, dinner (red beans and rice w/ beer brat slices and sweet pertater)
Oh and I cleaned the cat pan :glare: lol
 

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Haven't stopped today but nothing exciting to report. Just last minute packing before hitting the road tomorrow. Are we nuts? Lol 8 states. One province. 3 weeks. 5 kids. 2 dogs. Anxious to see what the next mile brings. Hopefully we've planned everything well enough. I believe the longest driving day will be the final day (September 4th) going from Hibbing Minnesota to home. Otherwise most days are 3-4 hours of driving with a few breaks in between.

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I have been shopping and waiting and looking for the right deal on an RTV for work and for hauling folks down to our river dock ..and for tours of our little slice of heaven.

I have to give Kudo's to Classified IFTTT https://ifttt.com/classifieds

I set up a craigslist search for whenever an RTV was put up for sale in a dozen or so craiglsist sites in my general vicinity. Places I would travel to for the right deal.

So for the past year or so I get notifications. Some so so, some BS and finally one that truly paid off for me.

I got email notification about this ad 23 hours after it was posted.

Normally RTV's are on the market a long time as they are not the 'sport' toys that many folks like to take out and beat up on off road trails. So I saw this Monday morning, called Monday afternoon and set up time to see it Tues after the seller got off work. Thankfully I headed there early. I had been there 10 mins and another guy shows up that was supposed to see it Monday but for whatever reason he did not show. He was ready to buy, and the seller had one more coming later last night if one of us did not buy.

He was selling at a lower price than units of similar shape sold for. His RTV was in better shape and had less hours than other 2009, 2010, and 2011 RTV's up for sale.

So I feel very fortunate to have come to a deal with this seller and I brought this new to me RTV home last night. :D
 

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