Sharp's Travels

 You ever have one of those days when things never go as planned, well today was one of those for me. The first thing this morning Cheri and I went over to see Grandma. She was up and doing pretty good. Cheri made a bunch of calls to set up doctor appointments for next week. The home care nurse is supposed to come to day but not sure when. At 10:30 am Cheri had to leave to go to her quilt class and I was going home to start mowing the lawn. We told Grandma to call when the home nurse came so I could be there. When we went out to the car Cheri got a call that she would be there at 11:30 am. Well that was ok as I could get some of the lawn done before it got too hot. I got the lawn mower out and got it started but couldn’t keep it running. Tried again and it started and stopped. Tried again and the starter rope broke. So I pushed it aside and went in the trailer to get a drink of water. I checked e-mail and had an e-mail from my cousin in Wisconsin and wanted to know about the fire here in Baker Acres. Thought that was funny we hadn’t heard about any fire. About 3:00 am I heard a truck and looked out and saw the fire truck go by and didn’t think too much about it as they always come with the ambulance when they are called. I just figured that someone had called the ambulance. So after looking at the e-mail I got in the truck and took a ride around the campground and sure enough there had been a fire around 2:30 am. It was a bad fire and completely burned a trailer on lot 266 which is on the bottom end of the campground. I went back home and got the camera and walked down, when I got there the batteries in the camera were dead so walked back to the 5th wheel to get new batteries and on the way back down a lady told me that there had been a loud explosion around 2:45 am. It’s funny that I had to hear about the fire from my cousin in Wisconsin when it was only four blocks from our 5th wheel. I took pictures and then I had to hurry to get up to Grandma’s place to be there by 11:30 am. The nurse didn’t get there until noon. It was around 1:30 pm before she left. I left when she did and went down to the campground shop to get a lawn mower and back home with it. I got the lawn mowed and then got the weed eater out and did all the trimming. To make a long story short I got too much heat and ended up with heat stroke and was very sick. I thought I was going to pass out. I managed to get in the shower and get cooled down. Then I headed for the bed. Cheri came home from her quilt class about an hour later and I was still in bed. I got up then and was feeling much better but real tired. Cheri said she had a fun time at the quilt class and what she has done so far looks great. Cheri said she felt like having chipped beef on toast for supper. So I dropped her off at Grandma’s so she could fix her some soup for Grandmas supper while I went to the grocery store to get the dried beef. I asked at the meat counter and they looked at me like I was crazy, they had never heard of dried beef. So I went looking in the caned meet section and found it. So it was back to Grandma’s to pick up Cheri and then home for supper of chipped beef on toast. We had a high of 93 degrees and high humidity. We did get a rain storm around 4:00 pm with a lot of rain but only lasted about 20 minutes.


I have uploaded pictures of the fire, see album: Baker Acers Fire or click on this link. http://picasaweb.google.com/sharpstravels