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I must be getting old

Well I just deleted this post....heeeheee So I hope Zoann had seen it before it was deleted. No I did to forget that we saw you when we were in Indiana too. I really enjoyed being able to spend some time with you and Abe , Brandon and Tyler too. Enjoyed all the good food. We had a great time. I have been trying to set up my iPad so I can post from it also.in so doing I deleted a prior post. Live and learn!

Indiana trip.

Last week Bud and I took off on Thursday noon and went to Warsaw, Indiana to see my niece Dee and her family.  We stayed with Dee on Thursday night.
Her two children loved our Ipads and the time there seemed way too short!

On Friday morning Thomas didn't want to go to school at first, till we told him we would come back again this summer sometime when he could have more time with us.

Friday noon we had Taco Bell with Dee and Kiana then headed for Goshen.  Finally found the building that my Uncle Ezra is in. (His daughter had told me 1525,  typo error he is in 1225 ) He was very surprised to see me. At first he didn't place me as family.  I ask him if he had a sister by the name of Esther?  "Yes"   So I said did she have a daughter named Verna?   that is when it soaked in who I was and then for the next hour he talked my head off.   Well, not really, but we had a wonderful visit!  He kept reminding me that he was the only Uncle I had on either side of my family.
I simply must get back up there to see him again. I know he enjoyed it as much as I did!

From there we went to my niece Cindy's and her family. These three girls were shy at first, but when the Ipad came out it was a different story.  At least for the moment.

 We stayed with them that night and the next morning when we wanted to go home and wanted a photo,  Well J didn't want her photo taken so she hugged dads shoulder.  Yet when Cindy went to pick up the Nelson's Chicken the day before she stayed with us, and even piped out "Have a nice day" to her mom when she left.  That's okay, perhaps later I shall be able to get good photos of them.

We had a wonderful time, and I look forward to going that way again this summer sometime!

Weldon Springs State Park

Yesterday since Bud left for FLorida and I was on my own in the afternoon, I decided that I would go over to Weldon Springs State Park and check out the trails.

I started at the school house and ventured down a path I had not been down yet. It was the gravel road, and I thought it might be interesting.

The first thing I see is this:

Wait,  Knotted rope. Now I've watched to many crime scenes.  Why is this in the middle of this path?

I

 LOOKED AROUND...I was alone...... nobody else around. So I kept going a bit farther.

Oh, this leads to where the maintenance men store old and unused things. Paddle boats and picnic tables.

Then I wondered is this how some of our lives look like...... old discarded things just simply stacked up any which way?

From there I ventured into the path that went into the woods.  It wasn't marked as a trail, but you could see that this is what it was.

Then my phone rings....go figure.....Bud tried to call me, but there is not a good reception, so he said he would call later.

(I did not tell him where I was either until later in the evening.)

Oh, no, I will not try and cross here to the other side,  I must back track.

Now I knew that the School house trail made a loop, so I went back to the grassy trail that Bud and I had been down part of once before. 

I saw the bluebird houses. Some---very few were fixed up like this one.

Most of them looked like this one below.  So sad. Where are the blue birds to nest?

From there I ventured across the road toward the lake. Saw a bunch of trees like this one:

and wondered if this was a beavers work.  Later I saw a sign that there are two beaver groups here in the lake and the trees at waters edge have netting around them to protect them.

Now this trail appears to be a very well marked one. And I saw other joggers with their dogs or children using it.

I did meet a jogger on my way back to the car. I ask her if the trail went all around the lake. She said yes, it did and one lap around was 2.2 miles....

I did not try it yesterday, but will do it in the near future.

I saw this nice fishing spot across the way.

And one guy was actually trying to catch something.

Two lonely geese.

The lake was nice and calm. There was a boat out there too.  And if I remember correctly they can only use oars or a trolling motor.

Now I had been out there almost a hour and a half already, so I headed back to the car. I had my IPad ready to take photos in case I saw something. As I came into the clearing this is what I saw. I didn't even aim. Just picked up my IPad and clicked.  I had only seen the two on the right. Not till I got home and out of the sun did I see the two on the left.

Now this was 3:10 P.M. Deer are not normally out at that time of the day. So this was a real treat for me.

I knew the park lay out and they were headed the ampa theater way. So I drove down and walked down, but did not see them.  They must have laid down somewhere between where I saw them and here.

Camera ready

I find that I always need to be camera ready. Keep that IPad charged up and the camera ready to take photos. you never know when you will want to use it.

The other night I babysit at the church for 4 little ones while parents went to CLC. When I returned this is what I found:

The note says: Don't worry About me Mom, My daddy fed me.

I had forgotten to feed Paco before I left.  ha,ha. he wasn't going to starve.

One day when Bud was gone, I decided to take a golf cart ride. Jerri told me she had some new pets for me.   Their momma had built a nest under the hood of their truck and chewed thru the brake lines. She was not happy.  At first we thought it was the stray cats around here.  But after I had text it to Bud and he sent me a message back and I looked at it when I came back inside on the photo screen. I knew, It was baby squirrels. I didn't think the feet looked like a kitten and when it made a noise it kinda squeeked.

Occasionally we drive thru the park to see the deer. (That is when it is not windy) One day we not only saw some deer, but in this tree below is an owl. At that time I still didn't know how to zoom on my IPad camera and this is as close as I could get.

Later Stan ask me if I saw the photo he had posted on the campground site. He had a much closer view.  This is what that owl looked like. I wonder if it was the same one. Would they travel 3 miles?

When we go back to the pond, well, it simply is just plain fun to make the geese fly into the water off the ground.  It is as tho they see me come and say. OH, NO here is that crazy lady again.

One evening we thought we would take a late golf cart ride.  It was much too cold to be out there, but we went anyway.

Below is my chauffeur for the ride.

We have never, NEVER Seen this much wind before.   I am so ready for it to go away!!!!!!
If it has to stay, why can't it come from the west only?  that way the end of the trailer would break it up a bit and perhaps we wouldn't rock so much.  My chair even moves when nobody is sitting in it. And so does the table and computer as I am trying to type.  I know God has a purpose, but I do not like this wind one bit.  Bring on the warm---HOT Weather.