If you remember our how my shoulder pain kept us from traveling, this post is about what we did while I recovered from the ablations in the C1-C2 part of my neck. As we’re getting ready for a autumn trip to Florida, the nerve pain is almost gone. Here’s our summer at home. First is an unplanned house project, then we had some fun times with friends, and finally Margie had to recoup from COVID and long-haul COVID.
Barney started noticing that our almost 30-year old wooden garage door was having some problems that couldn’t be easily fixed.
Our garage door man came out one Saturday morning with his adult son and put in this new door. It should last forever.
Our back yard isn’t a lot to look at because of all of the shade from hardwood trees, but we do have this lovely rhododendron plant that grows larger every year.
In mid-May the friends we met at Starbucks invited us to join their family for their youngest son’s, Danny’s, high school graduation. What an honor.
A little later in the month we were invited to Liliana’s violin recital.
Liliana’s family home is where we store our RV when not in use.
She’s been playing since she was a little girl, and her improvement was been wonderful.
Her parents are on the right, and another couple who were in a small group with the four of us are on the left. So nice to connect.
Our family came over on the 4th of July for dinner and fireworks. Amazing how it’s the guys who love to set them off.
A couple of days later most of our Florida family drove up to see us before Jana, Cash, and Colson took off on a car trip. Brian stayed home to work and paint the inside of their home.
We enjoyed celebrating summer birthdays with Mike and Marci, our Starbucks’ friends.
In August two of our grandsons came over to play lumberjack with some of our smaller trees in the yard. Thanks!
Later in August Barney and his sons took Montana’s “stuff” for her college apartment in Hickory, NC, a 4-hour drive one-way. She made a nice home in her apartment that she’s sharing with another soccer player.
During practice a couple of weeks later, Montana had another knee injury and had to come home for a surgery and a week of healing. With both of her folks, working, Barney (Pops) drove to Hickory to pick her up and then drove her back to school (both are 4-hour trips one-way) so her friends could help her get around on campus. He loves to help out others.
At the end of the summer, our host team got new tee-shirts for the next year. We so enjoy serving with these folks every 3 weeks.
The next post has the changes we (Barney) did on the truck and RV to get us ready for our next trip. Hopefully it’ll be north toward Michigan to tour the Henry Ford Museums, one of my favorite places.
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