Sharp's Travels

After our morning walk we went over to Grandpa and Grandma’s to pick them up and take them to Richland Center. We were invited to Ken and Eileen’s for a cook out. Dean and Betty were also there. It was nice to see them and catch up on things. We left there about 4:30 pm and made a stop at Wal-Mart to pick up many things. It was about 6:00 pm when we got home.

A Happy Fire Cracker Day to all. We sure did get a lot of rain last night. When we went for our morning walk along the creek that goes through Boscobel, we found the sidewalk to be under water in a lot of places and lots of mud, so we walked the streets. We got more rain last night. It did wait until the Fire Works was over. We didn’t go to see the fire works or the parade. Cheri did a load of laundry and some more paper work. I spent the day building a 50 amp circuit tester. There is nothing on the market to test the 50 amp service that we hook up to in camp grounds. We have found some in older camp grounds that have been wired wrong.

After our morning walk I went to work on cleaning out the inside of the truck. That took me until noon. Cheri was doing laundry and cleaning in the 5th wheel. We spent the afternoon doing paper work. Late afternoon I took a long walk and dropped off some letters at the post office. Cheri didn’t want to walk with me, said it was to hot and humid out. The rain came this evening; it was a big storm with a lot thunder and lighting. It was bad enough that we lost satellite reception on the TV.

This was one of those days where we didn’t do much of anything. We did do our morning walk. Grandma came over this morning for a visit and before she left Marsha Burkhamer (my cousin) stopped in to see us. She offered a place to leave our 5th wheel while we are getting Grandpa and Grandma settled in Florida. A friend of ours sent us an e-mail about an Alaska RV caravan tour (thanks Bill). After doing some internet searching, we have decided to take the trip next year if they have an opening. I sent them an e-mail to find out if they have an opening for their June 27, 2008 tour. Late this afternoon we went to the grocery store.

After church Burl, Dorothy, Grandpa, Grandma, Cheri, and I went down to the restaurant for coffee and a visit. Since we didn’t get our morning walk in, we did it early afternoon. While we were walking we could see what we thought was a big kite flying, it would go up and down and keep moving away from us. We couldn’t understand how it was staying up as there was no wind. As we got closer it finally disappeared in the trees. When we got closer to the highway we could see a police car and a couple of other cars. Just before we got there the cars moved down the highway out of our site. When we got to the highway we could see the cars and a couple of guys carrying a two person done tent out of the woods. Now we know it was the tent that was flying and not a kite. The sun was very hot and we think the heat in the tent got so hot it acted like a hot air balloon, the hot air thermo keep it up in the air as the birds were also riding the thermo (no I wasn’t drinking). Late afternoon I watched the NACAR race and Cheri read and took a nap.