I discover I am keeping this blog as a journal to remember many events. We spent a night at Kevin's. The next morn as we prepared to pull out with the RV and towing the car, we discovered the car signals, brake lights, etc did not work when connected to the RV. We left the car and hurried on where we were pleased with the service at Sacramento Freightliner which has 2 facilities--one dedicated to RVs tho they also had a firetruck in there. 18 wheelers have their own building.
That afternoon we drove through beautiful scenery with many turning leaves on trees--a mix of red, yellow, and green. Past Placerville, we followed directions off Hwy 50 to what is something like 55 apple orchards. One had made room for 24 of the rigs from our Sierra Ramblers club for a rally. The 3 couples of trailbosses had worked hard to scrub up a shed and decorate it for Halloween. Since we, McCrackens (whose car had quit and the new one not ready for towing), and Diana and Al all came without cars, we were a bit limited but enjoyed several outings--Marshall Gold Discovery State Park, an international restaurant buffet and a Mexican restaurant riding in others' cars plus a day of stopping at three apple orchards to see their crafts, buy a pie, and visit the farm museum and Harry also took the tour of the Gold Bug gold mine. We were all boondocking (without hook-ups). The second day our generator quit so all the guys went to work trying to figure out the problem and after many hrs of work decided it was in the fuel line and would need the shop. Our neighbor plugged our cord into his RV side so while he watched TV at night, we had electricity to blow dry and wash hair or to replenish our batteries which could get thru the day on solar power. Harry's new CPAP machine has a 12 volt connection so can run all night without inverter pulling extra watts out of the batteries.
The surprise was that Harry was persuaded by a trailboss to play the uke since there was no special talent brought in as usual after our pot-luck night. With my slight suggestion, he decided to go for a sing-along and he did very well and the whole group enjoyed singing everything except his presentation of Du du licht in both German and English (no one else but me knew it). He also did his "On top of spaghetti" expecting no one to know it but about five men did and vigorously sang along.
Then Monday we took the RV back to Kevin's and were able to take in the boys' karate and hip-hop (all boy) classes before taking the RV and car to nearby electrician for rewiring while we drove Kevin's prius to Fairfield for lunch with our friends, the Krummers, Diana and Al and a celebration with Bob and Jean Lavender for his birthday.
We had two good nights at Diana's house including supper with Leslie and Mitch and seeing how Taylor and Elyse have sprung up and matured the last 2 years. 5'11" 13 year old Taylor answered our multitude of questions about the computer and playing games on the TV and also tho he doesn't have one, made this sr citizen understand what an I Phone is. Harry and I often think they are inventing technology about five years faster than we can keep up understanding.
We did take a day to go back to San Francisco by BART so we rode the Cable Car, the street car and the metro bus and walked fisherman's wharf and shared the smallest ghiradelli sundae where we each used to be able to finish our own larger ones. A new complex called Westfield has gone up by Nordstrom on Market so we enjoyed their food court for supper and I walked thru Bloomingdale's.
Harry and Kevin took Ryan to his Saturday afternoon flag football game while Landen continued to beat me at the boardgame Othello until his birthday party guests started arriving at 3 pm. Sara had turned the whole house and backyard into a Halloween scene and about ten kids and their parents enjoyed the time.
The boys were asleep by the time Kevin and Sara left for their costume Halloween party so grandparent sitting was easier than ever. We finished loading up the car so the next morn left the RV again and headed home to Bakersfield stopping for church and a follow-up meeting in Byron. At the same time, the boys had their baseball game and Sara had invited the whole team and families over for a party afterwards so by this time the whole family should be relaxing again.
At home, we discovered the little rose plant we took out of a pot and stuck in the ground and then cut off its and our other roses dead flowers two weeks ago resulted in great blooming plants again (probably the cooler weather helped also).
A dr stop reiterated the phone call that my MRI shows liquid in the hip and behind the knees plus some atrophy of the right thigh muscles so I'll be back in phys therapy to try to stretch those muscles plus have acquiesed to taking some pain medication .
Our children will all be grateful they are past their teens and away from home for Harry often plays the uke while I am driving and this time Hwy 5 was loaded with mostly trucks plus cars rushing home after their week-end so if they looked sidewise, they might have been surprised to see our mouths going. We probably sang for more than 75 miles with me stopping the duet part whenever we spotted a dangerous driver and there were 4 or 5 (only 1 was a trucker). Aren't our kids glad they didn't have to listen like they used to do on our camping trips?
We arrived at Renee's in time for supper Monday and they left the next morn for Paris. This is our quiet time as we relax all day after enjoying the Halloween costumes going to school today--Brittany went as a delightful kitty and Brooke is a ladybug ready to fly at any moment with her wings. Tonight Harry and I get to hand out candy as after tennis practice (season is just ending) Brittany's friend's mom picks her up and takes them to trick or treat and when Brittany gets home, she will join Brooke and the next door neighbors to do the neighborhood. As usual, the family had gone to the pumpkin patch and picked out their 4 pumpkins but only the girls and Renee got theirs carved so Brittany suggested Harry carve her dad's. Thus all four jack o lanterns will greet our incoming trick or treaters tonight.
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