We finished the Sojourn in Saguenay on the 14th of August and drove down to Toronto to see our granddaughter, Amélie and her parents, Mary and Brad. We got there on Sunday afternoon, the 16th and stayed until Saturday, the 22nd.
The night of the 21st Amélie spent the night in the Trekker with us. She is the 2nd of our grandchildren to do that. Neo being the other. Phoebe hasn't had the nerve to yet. Maeda and Rowan have an in-house bedtime routine that precludes their being able to to date and Bela is just too young yet.
We arrived at Shults-Lewis Children's Home in Valparaiso, Indiana in time on Sunday morning (Aug 23rd) to attend services at the church that meets in the school's gymnasium - the Hilltop church of Christ. So, we are here two weeks early. The sojourn here doesn't begin until September 8th.
So, what do you do when you've got nothing on the schedule for 2 weeks and you own an RV:
Well, Irene seizes the opportunity to make cards for grandkids and the children here @ Shults-Lewis and thank you cards for the church in Saguenay. She also does a lot of beading. They have Annual Day here (a once-per-year large Fund-raising event) on the 2nd Saturday after Labor Day. Irene has a booth there where she sells jewelry she has made.
I decided it was time to clean out the Trekker's "basement." As you know we travel a LOT in the Trekker. We put about 13,000 miles per year on our rig. That's a lot of set up camp; live there from 1-10 days; break down camp and move to our next destinations. So we are constantly getting stuff out of the storage area underneath of the Trekker (the "basement"); using it and having to put them back when it's time to go: Tools; Bead Crates; Compressor; VBS material; porch mat, macerator equipment, etc, etc. It would be nice (in this instance) if I was OCD enough to have "a place for everything and everything in its place" but, HEH, I'm 62 and this old dog ain't learning no new tricks! So, when we leave somewhere I just open a basement door; see if there's enough room to shove whatever I've got in my hand into that space and if so, SHOVE and CLOSE the door. If not, move on to the next basement door and repeat the process.
So, this past Sunday I totally emptied the basement and vacuumed out the whole area. Then I went through all that was under there and tossed the trash that has built up; Combined 3 or 4 one half full boxes and got all my tools sorted and placed back in there original satchels and boxes. Then I labeled all of the storage boxes and put everything back into the basement in a wonderfully ordered manner. Now the 2 pass-through trays in the basement work as they should - they can pull out from either side and I won't have to stoop or get down on my knees, unload a bunch of stuff that's in the way to HOPEFULLY find what I want and get it out. The way it should work now is: "My tools are all in this one slide tray." "All the macerator equipment is in this one mini-bay." "All the electrical and water hoses are in this tray."
Well, we'll see how long THIS lasts!
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