OK, the choices are Michigan or Texas and you get to guess where we are. 1st hint - cloudy, 2nd hint- have seen rain/sleet/hail/frost all within the last three days and 4th hint - we aren't sitting on wheels. So yes we are still in Michigan. Luckily our life style allows us to make last minute changes. Everything pack, mail forwarding notice done, last good byes to family, refrigerator emptied and food all given to daughter. But something came up the night before departure and we decided to stay for another week. Hopefully the next blog will find us in that other warm State that we so want to be at.
Even Pepper was ready and wanted to make sure her favorite toys weren't left behind.
My friend Jutta said I needed to post a picture of the new car. If you look closely you will see that nasty stuff called frost on it.
If you don't believe me check out another picture taken a few days before.
We went down to the annual Color Tour that our town has on Friday. They say this is the 33rd year. We were really disappointed with the event and probably won't go next year if we're still here. All other events held on the Island has been packed with all sorts of local's selling their home made items but this one had maybe 8-10 booths, with a few food vendors, a petting zoo and a couple of tents showing how the first settlers lived. But what we really wanted was to try some of the bean soup cooked over a open fire that a local farmer was fixing. You would of thought they would have had that ready when the event started at 10am for people to try but we were there long after that and it wasn't ready. This is the only event that they charge for going on the Island and as I said, not worth it. The one thing that was nice was seeing the River Boat with the fall colors.
We went to a Estate Sale a couple of weeks ago that had some Lionel Train Cars. This got Larry to thinking about the ones he has had since he was a kid. They have been traveling with us and we brought it back here this spring. The last couple of days he's been doing some research on what he has and the values, some have been very surprising. He has always wanted to set up the track with the full village and landscaping. Now that Darrius is older and he'll probably be spending more time with us next summer I think they will have a ball working on it together. As long as he had everything out of the box I decided to take a picture of them.
The time frame of this set is 1947/48. He's taking a couple of them back to TX with us to get the interior lights working and the little guy in the picture to come out. Plus maybe we can hit some of the estate sales to see if we can't find things to go in the villages.
Guess that's about it for this week. We are hoping to leave here on Wed or Thursday and will make a straight shot south. The weather at our place in Retama has been in the 90's and we're hoping we don't take any of this rotten nasty stuff down there with us.
Till next time..................................
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