Sharp's Travels

Happy Easter to everyone. We took Grandma and Ed & Lorraine to church this morning. After church we went to Golden Corral for our Easter dinner. The food is always very good and every one can have whatever they want and as much as you want. After dinner we drop Ed & Lorraine off at their place and then we stopped by Grandma’s and play three games of Five Crown. It was a fun time. Late this afternoon we got a video call from Coz, Nikki, and Cece. It was great to be able to see them while talking to them. Cece is learning how to place her fingers on the keyboard so all she wanted to do was type messages to us. The last few days up north have been very nice. So they wanted to know when we were coming back to Wisconsin. Of course we are in no hurry as we know that they still have some cold weather coming. No supper this evening because of the big dinner. On our evening walk we see Dean and Betty sitting outside so we stopped and visited with them. By the time we got our walk done and home it was 9:00 pm. It was another great day with the temp in the mid 80’s.

Once again we got a call at 12:30 am from Grandma’s heart monitor service and then again at 6:30 am. We are glad that the test is now done. We took the monitor off of Grandma at 10:00 am and put in the mail. We did our grocery shopping and then back home. We had lunch and then went to Lakeland shopping. We stopped at Harbor Freight to pick up a collapsible step for the 5th wheel entry door; there are some places that we need the extra step to get in. Well they were sold out and got a rain check. Then we made a stop at the DQ, first time this year and that wasn’t very good. Cheri wanted to stop at Michaels for some ladder ribbon and they didn’t have any. So we stopped by Best Buy so I could pick up a SMI extension cable, they didn’t have one. Cheri went into Joann Fabric for the ladder ribbon and they said they never heard of it. So we came home empty handed. When we got home Cheri gave me a much needed hair cut. Then we stopped to see Ken & Eileen on our way to Dade City for the Saturday Night Cruse In. There were a lot of cars and some we haven’t seen before. We were back home by 6:00 pm and had a late supper. Hey at least it was a beautiful day with a high of 84 degrees.

This morning the weather was great for walking and got up to a high of 81 degrees and no wind. It was a perfect day for a motorcycle ride. Bud and I along with another guy here in the park (Don) headed out at 9:45 am. We made a stop at the Harley dealer in Kissimmee. Then we stopped for lunch at Burger King. From there we took a different route back to Lakeland and stopped at the Harley dealer. Then it was time to head for home and arrived at 4:30 pm. It was a great 134 mile ride. Cheri went over to Grandma’s to put the heart monitor on the charger. She did a couple loads of laundry and then went shopping at Beall’s. She had a good day and found several things that she liked. For supper Cheri made a pasta dish called Pizza Pasta Dinner, also garlic Texas toast and strawberry shortcake for dessert. I it was very good and I didn’t go away hungry. On our evening walk we stopped by Dean & Betty’s for a visit. Then we were going to stop by Ken & Eileen’s but we could see that they had company. It was near 8:00 pm before we got back home.

Hey!! We just won 11 million dollars in the lottery. April fools. Well it would be a nice dream. We got a call at 1:30 am from the monitoring center on Grandma’s heart monitor. We had it set up so we wouldn’t have to respond until the next day when we would take it off Grandma to put it on the charger. Well the word never got pass along so we had to get dressed and go over and check on her and call the monitor center to tell them that she was ok. Cheri told them that she was death and that is why they had our number to call and that Grandma would write down the time and the problem when she pressed the button and then we would call them with the results when we would put the monitor on charge. We got back to bed around 2:15 am. We both had a hard time getting back to sleep. Then we get another call from them at 7:30 am. Once again we had to go over and check and call the monitor center back and tell them everything was ok. At 10:30 am I went over and took the monitor off so it could be charged up. At 11:30 am we went back and put the monitor back on Grandma and Cheri called in to the monitoring center and talked to the person that she talked to the day before and told her what had happened. So once again we hope things will go better. Cheri worked on the binding of her picture quilt and I mowed four lawns and did the trimming. By the time I got that done I was hot, dirty and tired. I took a shower and felt much better. This evening I went down to see how Ken & Eileen were doing and they weren’t home. So I walked on down to get the mail and then back home. It was another perfect day with a high of 78 degrees and no wind.

We went over to Grandma’s this morning and got the heart monitor put on her and tested out with the receiving center in South Carolina. It is for three days, any time she has a problem she has to push the button on the monitor and the monitor center will record it and give us a call to check in with her because she is death and can’t here the phone and the message the monitor sends to her. Today I worked on getting the antenna moved to a different location on the truck. I am putting it on the mirror in hopes that it will have a clearer path to the antenna on the 5th wheel. I hope that I will get a better picture in the truck from the camera on the back of the 5th wheel. Cheri spent the day working on the binding of her picture quilt. It was perfect day weather wise, 74 degrees for a high.