Worn Out

We just finished spending a few days at home, and boy are we bushed! We got home last Thursday and we managed to cram in lots of work and play. I helped Leora paint her kitchen (it looks beautiful if I do say so myself). Tim and I also helped his brother Jeff get his trailer ready to move into, then we helped him move! :o) Tim also restreatched some carpet just before we headed out on Monday. Besides all that, we managed to play several games of Catan and Dutch Blitz!


Two brothers laying carpet



Katie checking out her new living room





Katie LOVES her Grandma Teed



Rylan Schenck

Sabryn Schenck


Somehow I missed getting a picture of Landen :o( Hopefully I'll get one next time!

TEXAS

We are in Fort Worth, TX today. Nothing exciting happening here. Fortunately, there is no bad weather. :o) We're going to head on home for a day or so since we're so close. Hopefully we'll have time to squeeze in some visiting with family and friends while we're there.

Catching Up

After Niagra Falls, we have traveled many miles and seen many things. I don't have many pictures of those things, but we saw them, nonetheless. :o) Last weekend we had a bit of excitement. Our refridgerated unit on our box broke down (air compressor went bad). We had to get that fixed as we have been hauling many refer loads lately. Fortunately, we were in Charlotte, NC when this tragedy happened. I grew up in that area, and Tim and I both lived there for a while when we first got married. Needless to say, we have many friends there.
One such friend, Terri Russell, was gracious enough to allow us to stay in her home for the weekend. She had a very busy schedule already in place for herself, so we had the run of her lovely home. It was like a mini vacation for us. Thanks Terri!

Our beautiful room at Terri's




Some other good friends of ours, Bill and Lois Brown and Bill's son William invited us to a delicious Sunday dinner. It's so nice to have friends that will look out for you when your stranded. :o)

We were also able to meet us with some friends in Charlotte. We have known the Horner Family and Michael Macalouso for many years and always enjoy visiting with them when we are in the area.

Left to right: Tim, Tommy, Vickie and Tom Horner and Michael Macalouso




After they finally got our truck fixed, we headed to Indiana. From there we were immediately dispatched on a load to Connecticut. That brings us up to last Friday. While in CT, we were given our next load assignment going from New Jersey to Texas. The exciting part is, it doesn't pick up until Monday afternoon! That meant we had the weekend off! :o) My parents had told me they were going to Richland, NY to visit a camp meeting, so we worked it out to meet them in Binghampton and rode up to Richland with them (stopping at their favorite seafood resturaunt- Eddie's on the way). Unfortunately, I left my camera in our truck :o( so I wasn't able to get any pictures. We saw many old friends there--The evangelists were Brother MR McCrary and Brother Reiff, and the singers were the Fullers. It was like a Hobe Sound reunion. Brother and Sister Blowers took good care of us for the weekend. They even took us to a WONDERFUL icecream place Saturday night after the service.
We are now back in our truck getting ready for the week ahead...who knows where we might be or who we might see by the end of the week....

Niagra Falls

Lest anyone think we only take pictures in Canada! :o) We had a few extra hours when we picked up by Niagra Falls, so we ran up to the falls and took a romantic walk.

Duck, Duck, Moose?

Ok, so that's a pitiful title. :o) You get the idea. We FINALLY saw a moose along side the road. We were in the Fundy National Park when we saw this guy. As you can see, he was back in amoungst the trees, so it was a bit difficult to get a clear picture. It was still kind of exciting, though.

Hopewell Rocks

This blog entry will have LOTS of pictures...hope you enjoy them!
After visiting Prince Edward Island, we drove along the Bay of Fundy while heading back to the USA. We had seen a brochure about the place called Hopewell Rocks and thought it sounded interesting, so we decided to stop and check it out. We thought it was pretty cool. To really get the full experience you have to visit there at high and low tides. We went Saturday night at high tide, and then went back Sunday morning before church to see it at low tide. WOW! What a difference! When you see the pictures you'll know what I mean.
Just a side note...Saturday night it was POURING down rain (which you can see in some of the pictures). Hiking in the downpour was quite an experience in itself!

The details for each set of pictures are written UNDER each group of pics.


It's kind of hard to see, but that Orientation plan shows the bay and the trails. We hiked most of the yellow line on Saturday night.



These first few pictures are of Flower Pot Rock at high tide and again at low tide. As you can see...during high tide you have to stay up on the observation deck, but when it's low tide you can walk right down on the ocean floor.




These pictures are of the "Big Cove". The first two are high tide, and the third is at low tide. The third picture was taken from down on the beach.


Next we have "Diamond Rock". The first picture is H Tide. The second is L Tide from down on the beach, and the third is L Tide up on the observation deck.





This area was Tim's favorite! It is called Daniel's Flats. They told us that at low tide it is possible to walk out to the little island you see in the picture. (It would be a VERY muddy walk, though).


At the end of the line is an observation deck looking out over "Livingston Hills". The mountain you see is called Shepody Mountain and is the highest point in that area. I'm not really sure why they call it "Livingstone Hills".

Lobster Traps

We saw a lot of these lobster traps on our trip through that part of Canada. Believe it or not, we didn't eat a single lobster dinner while we were up there. Maybe next time...

Prince Edward Island

We had to drive all the way across the island to get to the place that they filmed the Anne of Green Gables movies (which is the main reason I wanted to go). The main part of the island doesn't really look that much different from some of scenery you would see in Iowa (farmland mostly). But, when you get over to the water WOW! It's really beautiful!
We basically went straight to the Anne of Green Gables Museum. There are some other intersting looking tourist attractions on island, but I was on a mission.
I learned a lot more about the author (LM Montgomery) than I ever know before. The homestead she basically grew up with was the inspiration for her Anne Books. It is still owned by some cousins of hers.
Several people there were quite amused that Fed Ex visited Green Gables. They were a bit disappointed that we didn't bring them any "parcels".

A funny side note...the little girl in some of the pictures that looks like Anne is hired by groups of Japanese tourists that come frequently to the museum for photo opportunities. We "borrowed" her for a couple of pictures.

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Not too far from the museum they have a village called "Avonlea" that is supposed to have the characters from the books walking around as well as some shows and shops. We didn't have the time to enjoy it, but hopefully we'll get to go back someday. They also have a theater in Charlottetown, PEI that has a musical version of Anne of Green Gables.

On To Canada!

We took some medical equipment up to Miramichi, New Bruswick, Canada. After we caught up on our sleep, we went in search of some sights to see. :o) A huge storm had moved into Miramichi (with hurricane force winds predicted) so we quickly left that area and headed towards Price Edward Island. On the way to PEI, we stopped at a quaint little shop that makes all-natural homemade soap. They did free demonstrations. We really enjoyed looking around and seeing the demo. We were the only spectators there that were not French-speaking, so we got our very own interpretor! They had a bubble blowing contest (using Bubblicious, not soap) and the one with the biggest bubble received a free bar of soap. Since we were sitting in our own little corner they just had Tim and I compete against each other. :o)


They let us sample some of the soap at these handy dandy sinks.

This was where they held the demonstration. I was so busy watching and listening that I totally forgot to take pictures DURING the presentation.

This is the pan of "Rose Soap" they made while we watched. It will take almost a month for the soap to harden and be ready for them to sell. (They do cut it into smaller pieces). If you talk to me in the near future remind me to tell you a funny story about the large block of soap (it is not "blog apprpriate").

We saw so many quaint little towns with museums and lots of walking trails...it was hard to pass them up, but we had limited time and I REALLY wanted to get to PEI.

Next Stop....

From LA, we went to NC, then to GA. (I didn't get any pictures from those pretty states since most of those trips were done at night). Then, from Atlanta, GA we got a GREAT load taking us to Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada! :O) What an opportunity!
On the way we stopped in D.C. and had breakfast with Amber and Bob (they are going to be living in that area for the next two years). Of course, I had to get some more pictures of baby Joseph :o) Amber managed to sneak into one of those pictures. :o)

LA Pictures...as Promised!

So Much to Tell, So Little Time!

We have been VERY busy lately (which is a good thing). We have been hopping all over the Eastern US and Canada. I'm going to post some pictures and details over the next couple days. I have only a short time to be online right now, so I'll keep this one brief. But, stay tuned, cause more is on the way!
I'll start with when we left home (was it only a week and a half ago?). We went to Dallas, TX, then headed right over to Baton Rouge, LA. We hadn't been there very long when they decided to send us to Houma, LA to pick up a high security, refridgerated load going to New Orleans and then swapping that out and going right back to Houma. What was this all important, high security, temperature sensitive load? It was a box about the size of a tackle box with data tapes in it. It was a little difficult to secure in our big old box (Tim had to bungee it to the wall to keep it from sliding all around back there). The roads in Lousianna are very intersting. Since it is mostly swamp down there, it is hard to build something firm and solid like a road. I have a couple of pictures here to show what they have to do. We drove on miles and miles of these bridge/roads while we were down there. There's not much scenery to see...just swamps and trees.

GRRR...blogger is having problems uploading the pictures! I'll have to try again later.