Friday July 10th

10:27 AM I slept late and Don was up early this morning. It seems both the kids are having some health issues. Donnie Lee goes today after work to see if he has a spider bite or what. Also Kristi is having some issues with that knee/arm issue from last summer at work. Getting ready to eat a late breakfast and hand around here today to get things ready to leave in the morning. It is drizzling rain off and on here and has been most of the morning.

3:26 It has continued to rain off and on but we can at least open the blinds today since it is overcast. It is very hot here. Thank God for the wind. The wind is strong here at times. But it is cool and if you are not right in the sun you can actually stand to be out there. It seems Donnie Lee's bite was terribly infected and they drew the infection off and cleaned it up and put him on an antibiotic. He should be fine in a few days. Kristi went to work this morning and the doctor called her and then faxed orders to her work for her to be out of work today and Monday. However she had to stay at work until someone came back from lunch. She has a doctor's appointment on Monday afternoon and then again on Wednesday. We will be leaving here tomorrow headed to OK. We will stay there until Monday morning and then we will leave there headed for the AR, MS & AL lines. Not sure where we are staying at there yet. We will begin making our way back home tomorrow. The kids are so ready for us to be home. Kristi is praying for us to come home but she has been since we were in KY. I am saddened by the fact that it is already time to head home but I do miss the kids. After I report in to work, depending on what I may have to do, we would like to head up north before I return to work. Donnie Lee called and asked his dad about going to Green Mountain in August so they may be up there the week I start back to work :(p. I truly enjoy traveling and seeing all the sights. I am so glad we were able to do the east coast with the kids when they were younger and now we hope to see the rest of the US.

I have had a headache most all day today. I walked last night with no hat on just about sun set. We have determined that is causing my sinus headaches. It used to be an issue years ago - being out with no hat when the dew falls. I thought I was over that - evidently not. Every night that I have walked late in the evening with no hat I have had a sinus headache the next morning. The nights I walk with a hat - no headache! So I am on a mission to find a cute ball cap to wear in the evenings. I have a straw hat but sometimes it just doesn't go with what I am wearing (not that I am self conscious or anything - lol).

10:29 Central Time
Well we have been in for the night about an hour. We had supper about 7:30 and then I headed out (with hat) to take my evening walk. I made it around about 3 times. The park here is about the size of a football field. So that's not quite a mile but every little bit helps the diabetes. So while I was walking Don was bringing in our chairs and my horse flag and bird feeders. When I finished my walk a lady that is camping came by to talk. We had a very nice chat with her and she promised to come by to let us know they were heading to the shelter if it came down to it tonight. She says on the average that happens about once a year and they had to do it in June so maybe we won't have to. It began lightning while I was walking and then thunder came about 9:30. Then the rain came about 10:00. It is still thundering and lightning but I think the rain has quit. Opps spoke to soon it is starting to rain again. So w e came in about 9:30 and I went back to working on a website for my Mom's family reunion. In between uploading pictures and waiting for the internet, I put somethings away here in the camper. Most everything will have to wait until tomorrow morning because we still have to move around in here until we are ready to pull out. We are also doing some laundry. I hope to get up about the same time we have been getting up and eat a quick breakfast. Then we can put the plants and other things away and be ready to pull out by about 10:00 at the latest. We have about a 5 hour drive tomorrow. We will be staying SW of Muskogee in a town called Checotah, OK. They have WIFI but who knows if I will have a connection. I will update as soon as possible.

Because I don't have a new picture from today, I am adding one of me on the Mark Twain Riverboat.