Out for a couple of nights to make sure everything still worked. Nothing exciting, but nice getting out.

March 13, 2020 was the day that changed my life. 90% of our staff and all of our students were sent home and the rest of us stayed to man phones, get the mail, and pay the bills.

Hubby and I took advantage of this time to put our house on the market and relocate to the mountains to prepare for retirement. He had already retired, and I had 2 years to go.

As a family, kids, grandkids, and great friends, we made the best of it for quite a while before we started traveling again.

Gotta love Paso in December. Chilly but not too cold. We stayed at Wine Country RV Resort, of course, and had a great time. This has become our favorite place to spend New Years.

Who knew what was going to happen in just a few short months. I’m just now getting caught up on my blog after the craziness of Covid. We only went on a couple of trips then everything was cancelled and our lives changed forever.

Thanksgiving was wonderful in Lone Pine at Boulder Creek RV Resort, one of our very favorite places to camp! It snowed like heck! It even snowed at home, just about as much as the Antelope Valley has ever seen. Just beautiful!

We had Thanksgiving with a bunch of strangers and to be honest, it was glorious! Our kids had plans with their in-laws which freed us up. It was strange at first but the warm “strangers” we broke bread with were a lot of fun, and all I had to do was bring a side dish. So easy. The food was delicious, the lodge was packed, and they put out the leftovers the next day. How can you beat that? We can’t wait to do it again.

Just to chronicle the timeline, in July we went to Tehachapi camping for a couple of nights right before my total knee replacement surgery scheduled on the 18th.  Then right before I returned to work in September we went back.  The surgery was a complete success but the first 3 weeks of recovery were hell.  Three months of PT is behind me now but I will continue to exercise the joint for up to a year before it’s completely healed. I am so happy I finally did it.  I can’ NOT wait to hike on our next adventure coming up soon!!

So proud of Nikki graduating with her MBA in teaching.  Ceremony was at Chapman University in Orange, CA.  We traveled in the RV and stayed at an Elks Lodge down there in Orange.  Something we have observed after staying at 2 Elks Lodges now, our local Lodge isn’t near as fun as others…what the heck?

~Fun and Proud Moments from Nikki’s Graduation~

This was one of our longest trips.  Monday to Friday…I actually took a whole week off of work!  Garrison, Emily, Marlowe, Hugh and Welles went camping with us.  They are pro tent campers.  We took the RV of course, and we operated out of it for cooking meals, changing babies, and doing crafts.  I took Marlowe shopping the weekend before to pick out supplies for crafts which was a blast.  We made flowers out of hand prints, owls out of pinecones, butterflies out of tulle and painted bird houses.  So much fun!

Remember RV’ers Rock from an earlier post? Well, Marlowe found 2 rocks at the campsite that someone else had planted there.  They didn’t have anything on the back but we posted them anyway.  We also left a couple before we left.

Not travel, just a few pictures that make me smile.  

Grammy’s cup runneth over.

My 5 Blessings

Poppies!  Best season ever this year…the hills were painted orange for weeks!

 

Silly Animals – they love each other a little too much.