our new neighbors ..

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limbo, we're in limbo in Middleboro!

Just a post that's really a "nothing" post .... Sir and I went to the "dog park" space here at the campground earlier today - he was practicing his "agility" stunts and posing so nicely for me.

I had hoped I'd have pathology results today, but that didn't happen. I think (Rick may disagree however) that I've been fairly calm with this - other than going into my procedure on Friday and that was a given, being that there were lots of needles involved and NO flippin' anesthesia ... Those of you who know me "well" don't need an explanation - others - well ... I have this HUGE HUGE HUGE thing about needles ~ can't explain it, won't even try.

Anyway, yes, I think I've been fairly calm (I think), realizing that nothing I can do is going to change the result ... but come on this waiting crap is the pits - just call me with the results so we can do what we've got to do and "carry on" .... UGH the longer it goes on the bitchier I get ... Rick did go out on his bike tonight while I stayed here and "futzed" around doing whatever - laundry, eating, drinking, eating, "picking up" ... whatever but just mostly wallowing in self pity, and as it turned out it was a wise decision for both of us.

Tomorrow is the final day for "home repairs" before Chad and Amy move into their house so I will be over there late afternoon to clean and do whatever I can do to help them out. They, and their moving truck, will be arriving late morning Thursday and the house needs a final cleaning from the tradesman that have been in and out over the last week so I'll do what I can ... the predicted high is 90 degrees tomorrow so that may have an impact - one of the "upsides" is that one of the cleaning tasks is that the refrigerator needs to be cleaned!

Seems we are headed to NH on Friday to watch a minor league baseball game in Manchester. Good time will be had I'm sure as we'll be with Pat and Bethie and meeting up with friends Mary and Richie .... AND I'll get a "Muffin fix" with my Paige ..... YEAH .... and I'm sure she will "tell T-T a big story" about this cereal stuff "they've" been trying to make her eat! Can't wait to witness THAT chapter!

Below is just a peaceful (??) photo of yet another sunset. This was taken on a "back road" in Morrisonville, NY a couple weeks ago. We were on our way to our niece's house when I spotted this great sunset and pulled over next to a corn field (which are VERY plentiful in upstate New York). Just another of my sunset photos .....

a boring one I guess!

No photos, no nothing other than comments (oh NO not that) ... We are still here in Middleboro where we will be until at least Sept. 4 (well that's when we are scheduled to leave here only because it is the start of the holiday weekend - who knew - and everything here was "booked"). Actually, we should get my pathology results Wednesday (8/26) at the latest as they tell us and THAT will determine our plan.

Rick removed my "dressing" (let's not even go there!!) a while ago because I was such a fairy I couldn't do it for fear of .... ummmmm whatever ~ the unknown or the fear of splitting myself open or something equally gastly! ... AND much to my delight I didn't split open and come gushing out or whatever I thought might happen so I felt "confident" enough to unload two bins of wood from the car .... just a little bit of positive reinforcement motivates a whimp like me - YEAH ...

Hopefully I'll be able to be of some help to Chad and Amy this week cleaning or whatever needs to be done at their new place before they officially move in on Thursday .... painting (although Chad is a perfectionist and I HATE HATE HATE to paint) so that is NOT the best mix is it!?! I can clean though! I can dog sit if that helps ... we shall see, I would LOVE to plant some mums or something but that is not a priority right now there..

Other than that we are in "limbo" here waiting for "results" but Rick and I do have a few things we can do - maybe I can get on the back of Rick's bike and be a lazy biker girl - don't think I can handle my own right now but we shall see ...

Hopefully I'll have a better - WAY BETTER post in a a day or two .... hang in there with me please .... (and thank you!)

Beyond all this, we still don't know, of course, if we will continue with what was our "plan" two weeks ago and head to Michigan or be in limbo here in Massachusetts then head to the Keys for our two months or so down there ... some uncertainties are so much fun, some are so distressing! That's life though isn't it...

There's no place like home, there's no place like home

As Amy (above) and Chad (below) enter THEIR VERY OWN HOUSE for the first time ....

Congratulations kids ....

Chad is starting the demolition (below) within 30 minutes of walking into the house! Oh to be young and have that energy. Obviously I'm not so young anymore - Chad's Dad didn't even recognize me today (last time we saw each other was two years ago) ... yup guess I've gotten quite large and out of shape for sure. In fact, as I pointed out to him - the only time he saw me this large was when I was pregnant with Joshua and/or Chad!!

So it was an exciting day for Chad, Amy and Indie - Indie went to "daycare" for the first time today and she was such a good girl, she is welcome back!

Congratulations guys ........... enjoy it and make lots of wonderful memories in that house.

back on the road (sort of)

First, and most importantly ~ a fund raiser for the MSPCA ~ information below (thank you Amy ... ) this is where Chad and Amy's dog Indie came from - hope anyone in the area can attend - hopefully WE can attend - Sir's paws definitely need to be washed!

So, what's with this blog post roll I've been on? Who the heck knows! Why ask why?

Today we traveled 342 miles from Plattsburgh, NY back to Middleboro, MA. We had no intention of traveling this far today - planned sort of a "stop" along the way. I was having great difficulty finding a place that had room for us - I had emailed or called and left voice mails at several places that couldn't be bothered to reply to emails or voice mails ... I guess things are great in the campground world - even weekdays - this time of year. That just irks the hell out of me that these businesses can't even give a prospective customer the courtesy of a reply - screw them I don't want to stay there anyway. So, does that speak volumes about my frame of mind?

So we arrived at our "safe haven" (as Rick referred to it) about 5:00 today ... long long driving day, but my honey persevered and here we are. Trouble is we can only be on this "premium" site for four nights - after that who knows what kind of site we will be moved to for Friday and Saturday then we can go back to a "premium" site (and besides that we don't even need a premium site - just electric, aqua and sewer if we'll be here for a length of time) for another week and a half - trouble is Friday isn't a great day for us to move - my "procedure" is at 8:00 and we have to be off the site at 11:00 I can be pretty darned sure I won't be in any condition to be moving anything (not even my large body from the car to the coach to the bed) at 11:00 so ... guess what - I think we'll move on Thursday night!! Whatever, it will "all work out" as my beloved reminds me often!

Above were photos I took on our northward travel from Elizaville, NY to Plattsburgh two weeks ago ... I guess maybe I should have reversed the photos, since today we headed south (as opposed to north from Elizaville to Plattsburgh). Whatever - use your imagination!

We really have nothing planned for the next few days - since I (we) had no intention of being here this soon). There is a great quilt store down the road, but as "luck" would have it (as it seems to be going these days for us) - they are closed for vacation until Monday the 24th. Chad and Amy are closing on their house (about 12 miles north of here) on Thursday - wish it were tomorrow cause I could use the opportunity for HARD physical labor as a mental diversion but on Thursday I don't think that'll work real well - but I can supply coffee and donuts??

There is a pond/herring run across the road from this campground where Sir sometimes goes for "water play" and with the weather predicted to be in the 90's for the next few days, and his lack of exercise of late (with the exception of his visit with Snoopy for three days) he hasn't had much of a work out so I guess he and I will be there tomorrow for starters.

That's all from "back in MA". Hopefully we'll truly be back on the road soon, but it won't be for at least two weeks .... we shall see what I can dream up for posts during that time! Stay tuned.

Oh yeah and by the way - Tom Delay on Dancing with the Stars - seriously what is with these flipping reality shows???? UGH aren't I so "fugly" tonight!?!?!?

Woodstock ..

This was a post I'd started (well uploaded photos for) about a week and a half ago (gotta upload when the uploading is good!). These are some shots of our afternoon in Woodstock, NY. Getting there from where we were staying in Elizaville, NY (really about 30 miles or so away) was quite a chore because the GPS (aka "smarty pants") got us totally lost and headed about 40 miles north of where we should have been before I figured out we were way off track!

I'm not sure what either of our expectations of Woodstock were but it wasn't what I thought for sure - I didn't expect the commercialism for starters. Plus it was rainy (of course) and not great weather so that didn't help much in a crowded crowded walking town. So, I guess the bottom line is ~ "been there, done that".

Above is Rick's Woodstock Town Hall shot and below, the Blues Brothers outside some (another) tee shirt store!

For whatever reason I've had a fascination with labyrinths for some time - I thought we should have made one at the house in Whitman after the pool came down - heck it was nearly made for us with the 30' perfect diameter already there!

Well along the way into Woodstock we passed a church (St. Gregory's) that I thought I saw a sign about a labyrinth, so when we left a couple hours later, we pulled in and there was in fact one there. As well as the labyrinth there was a gorgeous, peaceful garden you could go through to get to the labyrinth. As anyone who knows me realizes, the church aspect of all this is a bit over the edge for me in fact would make me run the other way, but the labyrinth well I just had to be there!

Rick sat it out in the car while I took a few minutes to enjoy. It was just beautiful. Why couldn't I ever design beautiful, peaceful places like this when we had a house?

Chad - how about one of the photos below that is a shot of the gate with the terrific angles, looking at the church with the same angles! Did Mom do alright? Critique it for me - please. Speaking of Chad, he and Amy will be homeowners on Thursday - after a long fought battle they are finally closing on a house in Abington.

Rick, Arlo and I arrived back in Plattsburgh late this afternoon after our whirlwind trip back to MA. We are leaving here tomorrow to head back to MA again - sort of heading backwards from our original "plan" (this maybe why we try NOT to make plans!?!?). We'll be there for at least a week - I have to have a "procedure" done on Friday and we will remain there at least until we get the results sometime next week. After which we will re-think our plans depending on those results.

In spite of all the chaos while we've been in Plattsburgh - two tows, broken laptops, awful campground we really enjoyed the area and would love to return (to a different campground) to RELAX and explore the area and enjoy the lake - this was obviously not the trip to do that.

Speaking of which I haven't done a post since our travel to the FMCA rally - the one that was scheduled for August 12-16. We got there around 11:00 on the 12th, paid our fee to get in and was told the vendors (the reason we were there) opened at 2:00. Well 2:00 came and there was NO activity around that "hall" so we inquired - OH NO the vendors don't open until the 13th! For heaven's sake why doesn't FMCA put this stuff on their website. We traveled miles to get there, paid for a ferry, burdened Elisha with Arlo ... UGH ... that was more of the Plattsburgh saga!

But like I said, we really liked the area and I'd love to return here - another time .... plus, my Elisha is here!!