Tom's Truck...

This is the truck that I rode in today as we went ' sightseeing'. A couple of times, Tim had to push me in as it was so HIGH up!!! I just had to have my picture taken by it to show you...

Double dating with Tom and Carole!!!

Today after church, we went on a double date with our Sower friend Tom and his new lady friend. She is from the Baltimore area and the one he met on eHarmony on the internet... Her name is Carole too and we got along just great.. Tom was real quiet but Carole, Tim and I talked all afternoon...We ended up going up to the proving grounds in Aberdeen..Not my ' cup of tea' but the guys enjoyed it. They also took us to the PX.. Not much different from a Wal Mart and about the same prices.. The picture was taken with our camera placed on a picnic table and the timer set so....... Speaking of picnic tables. That is the guys' job for the next 3 weeks.. repair and stain over 100 picnic tables that are in bad shape... I think it sounds like a fun job and I may even help... I LOVED the Nazarene church we attended as the pastor's wife was from the same denomination as us ( Free Methodist ) and went to the same Manton camp in Michigan and knew a lot of the same people we know.. We've got to get together again and TALK!!!!! Tomorrow starts our first day so..... Carole

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We are trying to stay put and not go off the grounds as the traffic is SO BUSY this week end in this area.. All the Balties ( Baltimores ) are having their last summer fling... The campground is BUSY too... It is HOT and HUMID so we have spent most of the day staying in the m.h. and a.c. We did go down to lunch in the dining hall and stopped at their THRIFT store... mainly to see if they need any help from me on Tuesday... Just a few things I wanted to tell you.. Gas is $3.34 here now but they expect it to raise because of the Hurricane G..... Our Sower friend Tom is a veteran so he plans to take us to Abedeen proving grounds and the PX... It is where the Army has more military weapons, etc. than anywhere else.. I"m really not into that but Tim may enjoy it.. A neighboring town is Havre de Grace.. It sounds like a neat place to visit and is definitely on " my list "!!There is a light house there and a 100' cliff overlooking the Chesapeake Bay... also a chocolate factory!!!! Tom lost his wife over a year ago .. so he joined eHarmony.. They matched him up with 247 women.. He has narrowed it down to 3.. and one lives in Baltimore.. Her name is Carole and she plans to come see him this week-end and EVERY week-end we are here.. Guess he put down.. NO ONE over 5'5" and 130# so she must be small!!! And he wants us to " double date"...The camp has a lot of different groups coming in next week... father/son and also ' The Red Hat Society'.. They plan a BIG Homeschooling week- end later... We went to the nearest Super Wal Mart yesterday and it is 5 miles from New Jersey.... I forgot to blog that last Wednesday, after the Civil War Museum.. we took a ride on The Pride of Susquehanna... real nice tour of the waterways... That is when we later came home and ate the banana splits at Bonkey's.. ( wordless Wednesday blog )... Not sure about church tomorrow.. A state park around here has another light house to see and at 9:30 they have a church service... Carole

Chesapeake Bay work site!!!

Wow!! What a work site!!! We arrived at our new work site yesterday and it looks really neat! It is located on the Chesapeake Bay north of Baltimore... The village of North East is a small New England fishing ( antiques ) town... The campground itself is fabulous... 3 huge swimming pools.. ( 1 indoors )... A grand lodge that accommodates 153 guest.. 2 campgrounds...even a chapel.. I ask to help in the laundry ( folding towels ) or office ( mailing ) but we will see. I am the only Sower woman here as the other Sower Tom does not have a wife... But there are other volunteers here whom I'll work with... Annie, Sue and Lucy... Picked up brochures and there seems to be a lot of to do in the area... Baltimore blue crabs, Civil and Revolutionary War, Baltimore Zoo and Aquarium, light houses, plays, ships and cruises on the Chesapeake Bay, etc... Hope we have enough time!! Guess we plan to work Labor Day as the traffic will probably be REAL heavy if we go anywhere...The weather is starting to get down in the 70's now as a by- product of FAY heading north.. Every one keeps giving us tomatoes. 2 from a church, 2 from Naomi's garden( Sower ) and 2 from Mona's garden( friend from Harrisburg ) so we have had a lot of BLT's lately.. Work does not start until Monday so we have 3 days to check out the camp ground and surrounding towns... Wal-Mart, BK, etc...They provide lunch every day for the staff in a beautiful dining room.. They even made different name badges for us to wear like the staff... Hope to be able to blog a lot more about this place.. Probably one of the nicer places we have worked.. Do they really need us?? Carole

Wordless Wednesday!!!

Civil War Museum

Today we went to the Civil War Museum in Harrisburg with some friends....You could spend a whole day there if you were a Civil War buff.. we are not ...but we still stayed a long time.. Very interesting... Helped you understand how awful the war was as brothers fought brothers and fathers fought sons...A dark time in our History!!

Gettysburg...

Today we spent the day touring around Gettysburg... I tried to post some of the postcards we bought but the blog will NOT let me so will post a picture that we actually took. This is the statue of Buford...who fought in the Civil War there at Gettysburg.. We saw the hotel where Lincoln slept the night before he delivered the "Gettysburg Address.." We also went to the " Hall of Presidents " where they had all 43 Presidents in wax figures and how they attributed to our History.. Also saw some of Eisenhower's artifacts as Gettysburg was his " second home " when he was in the" White House.." We were only 15 miles from 'Camp David 'but did not drive there as we figured we would only be able to see the gate.. We have been in Gettysburg 2 previous times so we did not take in everything there was to see but it is interesting to drive through the small towns. Some of them were established in 1790's... See a lot of flags flying !! Must be PRIDE!!!!