Thurs. 9/17/26, Took showers, got ready, packed last minute stuff, went to Bill’s dr. appt. with Evan P.A., stopped at Panera, picked my prescription up, unloaded clothes baskets in camper, loaded motorcycle, left for St. Helen, Arrived around 2:15, set up, visited at Sue and Doug’s, with them and Phil and Julie, sat around campfire at Julie an Phil’s, played 3-13, a new game and then dice

I forgot to take pictures during the day, so here we are ready to play games.

I got up first and took my shower and did my hair.  Bill got up and took his shower.  

After we were ready, we packed up the last minute stuff and I drove my car with a load of stuff out to the camper.  I just set the stuff in it and put only the refrigerator stuff away.  

I had to drive back to our driveway and get my stuff so we could leave for Bill’s doctor Appt.  We had an hour wait, most of it in the room waiting to be seen.  Dr. Adam’s is on leave because his wife has cancer, so he saw the PA, Evan.  He’s really nice and seems really smart.  He explained the MRI results and the conclusion is to wait since Bill is doing pretty well, and then see in December what Dr. Adam’s says.  Bill was extra sore today from cutting all the limbs off the trees and trimming all of our shrubs.

He had to have an X-Ray of his neck, so while he went to have that done, I walked through the gift shop and bought some of their yummy freshly made popcorn for $2 for our 2 bags of popcorn.  Vikki showed me how good their popcorn was when Kimmy had her colonoscopy.

We picked up my prescription, then went to Panera and got 2 large lemonades and 2 muffeys.   We came home and both put the stuff away in the camper.  Then we loaded the trike up quickly since it looked like rain.  It sprinkled a tiny bit, but not much.  I put a feeder in the fish pond, filled the bird feeders, watered my plants, made sure Kit Kat had lots of food and told her goodbye, then we left.  We prayed before we took off of course.  

When we were in West Branch we stopped at a gas station to wash off the two big splots of bird poo, one on the motorhome window, and one on the passenger side of the motorhome.

Bill cleaned the window and I cleaned the side.  It looked much better when we were done.

We got to St. Helen’s and Doug and Sue had just parked and were setting up, we were going to back into our spot and Julie and Phil pulled in right then and started backing into their spot.  Set up was quick.  However,  I had set my lemonade in the cup holder in the table so it would be safe and out of the way.  I came out of the hallway to hear Bill gasp as he dropped my large lemonade from Panera that was almost full and his almost gone lemonade.  It went all over the bench cover, the side of the bench and all over the floor.  What a mess. I had just turned on the hot water heater and didn’t think it would be hot yet, the water was very hot.  Bill and I soaked up the spilled lemonade, then I washed everything with warm soapy water. After that I washed the cover to the bench seat.  Bill set up the clothes outdoor rack and I hung the bench cover out on it in the sun.  

After that, we went and sat over at Doug and Sue’s campsite and visited with them and Phil and Julie.  It was a nice relaxing day, other than there were deer flies biting everyone.  I put my socks and tennis shoes back on and one bit through my sock, but after that no more bites.  Bill and Phil both had shorts on, so they were biting them bad.  Doug and Sue had bug zappers, so they let us all use one.    We all went to our campers to eat, then later met at the campfire at Julie and Phil’s.  Bill ordered some wood for the fire, to add to Doug and Sue’s wood they brought.  We finished eating chili and a cabbage bun, then saw the wood guy delivering the wood.  Bill went over to help show him what campsite to put it on.  We went over and sat by the fire after that.  Bill put jeans on and we didn’t get bit any more after that.

Phil still had shorts on so they were still after him.  This is the first time we’ve seen deer flies here.  Me no like them though.  Julie brought out some homemade chocolate covered nuts out for us to try.  They were really good.  We sat by the campfire talking until 9:30.  Then it was down to 60 degrees and getting colder.  We all went inside our campers.  Bill and I played 3-13 which he won, a new cute little game he bought and showed me how to play- he won 1 game and I won the other, and dice which I won.  We relaxed after that and I worked on my blog.