For the last few days we have had friends visiting [full time RVers] who stay at the same RV park we do in Texas [when our neighbor Mike saw the Texas license plates in our driveway he said "there goes the neighborhood!"]. Anne & Scotty are staying at our place with limited hookups [although Scotty is such a great handyman that he has solved all the hookup problems] while Jim & Linda are staying at a park south of here where hookups were easier to manage. They have had dinner here a couple of times and once we ate out [Chinese]. For one of our dinners we had pork chops [cooked expertly by Anne] and fresh vegetables [that I had picked that day out of our community garden]. There is nothing that tastes better than just picked veggies. We had potatoes, peas, carrots, cabbage and beets. Yummm!!

We also had home made apple dumplings. For over 100 years our town has had a festival called the Creamery Picnic where there are a lot of food booths and a barbeque cookoff. Our church women make and sell apple dumplings, which is our one fund raiser for the year. These dumplings are well known and people come from all over to get dumplings. We made them this week, they will be frozen then sold at the festival next weekend [thawed then microwaved then served with ice cream for only $3.50]. Since we had made them the day before our dinner, I bought some early and that is what we had for desert.

Yesterday Anne & Scotty left to fly to Maine to be with family for a week, leaving their motorhome here, while Jim & Linda will continue on their way. Dan and Scotty have some projects to work on when the Scotts get back. We don't want to work him to death but sure do appreciate Scotty's expertise as you sure need to know what you are doing especially when you get into electrical stuff.

The poppies that were blooming [see earlier photos] have now gone to seed and while they are beautiful at the time, cleanup is another deal. We have decided that next year we are going to limit their production.

It has warmed up here [in the 90's] but even without air conditioning in our house we are keeping cool. This place is well insulated and we manage the temps by opening the windows at night when it gets into the 50's then closing the windows and blinds during the day when it warms up. I am the first one to complain when it gets hot but even I am happy.

We have a pond on our place that has thousands of small fish, and obviously some large ones. I have tried my hand at fishing but I sure don't have the magic touch. Our neighbor told us that the fish were easy to catch....ha!! Good thing my life does not depend on eating what I catch.

I have had the second back injection when they burn the nerves. It is an improvement but not back to normal [I think those days are gone...I will always have to be careful]. It will take a couple of weeks to get maximum benefit from the procedure.