Rainy Days And Mondays . . .

Today is both, but it’s our Friday .  TGIF!!!!!  More to come tomorrow.

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We’re All Hanging In There

Well, it’s been back to w*rk now for the past couple of days.  We’ve finally hit the half way mark and now only have ten 10 hour shift days left to go (maybe 11 if we have to stay and w*rk on the 23rd).  We’ve managed to get into the groove, but we’re not saying that it’s not tiring.    

Anyway, we are becoming quite the contortionists with all the positions that we need to get into to count bins.  A good thing about this flexibility program is that should we ever encounter a nuclear war, we are now limber enough to bend over with our heads between our legs and kiss our hinnies good bye.  Also, I can scratch the back of my head using my foot which comes in extremely handy when both hands are busy.

The weather has been mild – emphasis on the word “has”.  The old weather dudes are calling for “more seasonable” weather conditions in the next few days which means colder temperatures with the possibility of sn*w showers – yuck.  Here’s hoping that we get some good weather for our days off beginning Tuesday.

By the way, Katie and Alex are hanging in there.  They’re not thrilled about our long absences, but are figuring out the routine.  Alex saves his energy so he can act up once we get home.  He loves to get up in the recliner next to his mom and beg for her attention.  Katie gives us the cold shoulder for awhile and then comes around for her attention.  At least they don’t think they’re orphan katts anymore.

So, I guess what can be said is that we’re all hanging in there.  Can’t wait for Christmas break, though, bringing forth our former freedoms.  “The sun’ll come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar . . . . !”

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Out Of Humble Beginnings

We got a not so early start on Thursday heading for Hodgenville, Kentucky, the birthplace of our 16th President of the United States – Abraham Lincoln.  From Campbellsville it’s a 50 minute drive through the country with beautiful pastoral scenes along the way.  Hodgenville is small rural town in Kentucky not awfully far from Elizabethtown (Etown to the locals) and/or the I-65 corridor.

The National Park Service oversees both the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace in Hodgenville and his early boyhood home which is 9 miles away in Knob Creek.  And, as with most NPS sites, there is an introductory movie which is always well done and informative.

The glass etching and the bronze statues of the family are located in the visitor’s center.   The statue is of Abraham’s mother and father, Nancy and Thomas along with Little Abe and older sister Sarah.  He had a younger brother, Thomas, who died as an infant.

 

The memorial is built on the site of the old homestead and a replica of the log home is housed inside.  The cabin was built along side of a spring that still runs today.  Due to a land dispute, the Lincoln’s were forced leave their home and move to Knob Creek which is north of Hodgenville.

 

Hodgenville has erected statues of Abraham one of which is from his boyhood.

 

Six miles north of Hodgenville is the site of his boyhood home where his family lived until he was eight years old.  Due to another land dispute, the family was forced to move again – this time they moved to Indiana.  The site at Knob Creek has remained undeveloped since the time the Lincoln’s lived there.  You can still see the fields where Abraham and Sarah played and worked in the family gardens.

We’re not going to include any detailed history here.  You can find everything you want to know just by “Googling” Abraham Lincoln. 

After all that site seeing, “Feed Me” showed up.  So we made a beeline back to beautiful downtown Campbellsville to the Happy Days Diner where you can order a dinner named after your favorite Happy Days character.  Judy had a Fonz burger and I had a Mr. C’s special burger.  The food was yummy and the ambiance was great.

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Running A Little Behind

And, no, I’m not referring to my behind, that ain’t little and I ain’t running.  Yesterday was a fun filled day and we had a great outing, but didn’t get the photos edited or the blog written in time to meet the publishing deadline.  So, with some luck we’ll get our trip to Lincoln’s Birthplace posted tomorrow.

In the meantime, here are some photos from our drive with Thurman and Phyllis the other night through the “Christmas in the Park” light displays.  It’s difficult to get good night pictures from a moving vehicle, but it was too cold to keep stopping and getting out each time so we’ll just have to live with the blur. 

  

We sure are glad that we had the three days off, it took two days for us to recuperate and catch up on the household chores.  However, we did manage to have a little fun each day.  Now we’re about ready to knock off four more days of this w*rking ordeal.  But, we are thankful for this six week opportunity to make the money that will allow us to keep on living our fulltime RVing lifestyle.  And, we are already making plans for another outing for next “weekend”.  It’s all good!!!!

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Recovery? Almost!

It only took two days for our bodies to begin to feel good again.  What can we say?  We are out of shape and this physical work is kicking our asses.  Judy has a big toe that has turned purple under the toenail, she has pain shooting up and down her left leg, and the little toe and the side of her right foot have gone numb.  Darrell has lots of pain in both his knees and in his left shoulder as well as a sharp pain at the base of his neck all of which makes it hard to fall asleep at night.  Yep, this job maybe suited for teenagers, but it’s certainly rough on us keenagers.  It will either kill us or cure us – here’s hoping for the latter.

Anywhoo, we hit Wally World yesterday morning to augment our grocery supply, got a Christmas package ready for shipping to our son in Michigan, took a short nap, and read a little.  While at Uncle Wally’s we picked up an inexpensive speaker system with a subwoofer for my computer so we could have decent sounds while listening to Pandora Radio.  We’re “streaming” on TengoInternet while here at Green River Lake State Park, but it will only use 15MBs per hour to listen when using our Verizon modem.  Even if we have to pay an additional $10 per month, it’s nice to be able to listen to our favorites on commercial free radio – we like 60’s or lite 70’s music streams.

Last evening we joined Thurman and Phyllis for a real fine meal.  Phyllis loves to cook and we love to eat, so it makes a rather nice arrangement.  After dinner the four of us took a jaunt into beautiful downtown Campbellsville to see the Christmas light display in one of the city parks.  They were real purdy, but sn*w is needed to make it feel like Christmas seasons of days gone by.  We just may get some before we pull up anchor and haul assets; the temperatures are already dropping into the high twenties during the nights.

We took a bunch of pictures of the lights to share with you, but wouldn’t you know it?  After returning to Thurman and Phyllis’ for dessert, I left the camera at their house.  So I’ll just have to retrieve it later today and post the pictures tomorrow along with today’s outing.  Today the four of us are heading to Hodgenville, Kentucky to visit the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Park.  Hopefully we’ll have something interesting to share with you tomorrow.

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