Nina and I will head east to Pennsylvania this coming Thursday afternoon, meaning we will be gone for Mothers Day. So, today we went over to Soda Springs for the afternoon and took a basket of goodies over for an early Mothers Day present. Mother is so fun when she’s opening presents. She just has a great time and enjoys everything — even a jar of green olives!! The menu was delicious — mashed potatoes, corn, and steaks grilled outside on the BBQ. Nina has come up with a new dessert made with tapioca and strawberries. What a nice way to end a fast on Fast Sunday!
I am so looking forward to the trip out east. There is a bit of a dilemma, however. Jim would like to have the old dining room buffet. It’s in the basement storage room. It is a reasonable piece of furniture, but heavy! The question is, how do we get it out to him? I’ll do some measuring tomorrow, but Nina thinks we can put it on it’s back up top in the overhang. Maneuvering it up stairs, out through the garage and into the motor home and up on the bed in the cab-over will be a real trick. I think I’ll need to get some help with this. It is much to heavy for Nina and me to do by ourselves. Jim has always liked this buffet. He was with Nina when they bought it at a used furniture place near Chardon, Ohio when we lived in that part of the world. When they brought it home, they discovered that it has a hidden compartment! So, Jim, with any luck it’ll be on its way out to you — as long as it’ll fit through the door into the motor home. All we’ll then have to do is figure out how to get it out of the motor home and into your house when we arrive there on Saturday.
Our route of travel will be across Wyoming to Laramie in I-80, south through Ft. Collins to Denver on I-25, then east to Missouri in I-70 and a side trip to Springfield, Missouri to drop off the buffet. Then we’ll continue into Ohio on I-70, north on I-77 towards Cleveland, then east on I-76 / I-80 into Pennsylvania arriving sometime late Sunday afternoon. That’s the plan — we’ll see what the reality brings. This will be a busy week getting everything ready to go and doing a week’s worth of work in 3 1/2 days at the office. We had some good friends from Colorado Springs call this afternoon. We went with them on the Mediterranean cruise last fall. They’re looking at a couple of cruises and the bug has hit. Maybe we can also do both of those cruises with them?? That would definitely be fun. It’s time to retire — I don’t have time to be working anymore! I’m right ready for a vacation….