Window of opportunity weather wise

The plan was to leave Mission on the 23rd of this month. I have this wonderful weather travel site - that I start watching when it's time to hit the road. Normally after some majors storms like this weekend there is a stretch of decent weather and after looking at the site starting this Tuesday it looked good. So the plan is now to leave Tuesday (17th).

As I've said we've been working on getting things done for closing up the trailer and having the car/truck ready for travel. Most of the things that were left were last minute "to dos". Yesterday we took the truck out and filled it up. $3.99.9 good thing we only needed 120 gallons. I worked most of the day packing the items in a tub that we want up north. Today first thing we took the brackets down from the awning and got it rolled back up than went to Walmart and got some of those vacuum storage bags. I started laundry early, got the freezer defrosted, sorted food items to give to a lady that's coming tomorrow and took Pepper to the puppy park one last time to see what friends that are still here. As it turns out all but one will be leaving this week too. It was almost like they all knew it was their last day together, none of them wanted to leave and wouldn't come when called.

After lunch we started putting lawn furniture, grill etc in the shed. Larry took the steps apart and we got those in and I have all the tubs ready to go in the back of the car.

Tomorrow early we need to go to the water dept and put everything on vacation, than to the post office to mail in a oil sample from the big truck that Larry does every year when he has the oil changed. Oh and a stop at the bank to get some cash. We made plans last week to meet Dave and Linda Monday afternoon for one last Blizzard and when we get back we'll put the tubs in the car, Larry will take care of most of the hoses, unhook the cable and back the car up and hook the truck to it. So come Tuesday morning it won't take long to finish things up and take off. All of this would have been a lot easier to do if it wasn't in the 90's.

We should be home by Friday sometime. I haven't told Larry what the weather report is for next weekend back home. Lets just say we'll probably be out of our shorts and t-shirts for awhile. I'll probably have to make a trip to Meijers for some flannel sheets and a heavy blanket as the bed up there has cotton and a thin blanket.

I only have two pictures to share and both are of Pepper. All this commotion of getting things ready has made her pretty nervous and she's been staying pretty close to us. One time when I was packing items I turned around and she had all her toys in the middle of the room.

This is the look she's been giving us for the pass week.

And yesterday she went with us to fill the truck up and had to take this picture.

Guess that's it for this week. Till next time....................... from Michigan