Cleaning, Playing and Celebrating

August 1st – 31st

It’s been awhile since I last wrote. The reason I haven’t written is because we didn’t travel or visit any new places. We stayed in Tullahoma from early July until mid September. We have been busy cleaning out Ed’s mom’s house and settling the estate. It took longer than planned. Long summer of decluttering but at least it is done. Below are some of the activities we did while we were in Tullahoma.

We celebrated Zooey’s 2nd birthday on the 14th in Winchester, TN. Trevor and Tina (Zooey’s mom) invited their family, friends and kids to the Minnie and Mikey mouse party. We had a great time.

We wore the Mickey Mouse hat but Zooey didn’t want to wear her Minnie Mouse headband. So her mom wore it. So cute.

Trevor, Tina and Zooey

The following week we had a play date with Zooey at the Barton Springs Campground in Normandy. We played hide and seek and walked around the lake. It is was sunny and a nice day to be outside.

Zooey said “Gamma I’m hiding!”

Most of August Ed and I cleaned and packed stuff at his mom’s old house to get it ready for Trevor to move into the house in late August. The house is a two bedroom and one bath with a laundry/mud room. It is a small house but just the right size for Trevor and Zooey. It does have a large backyard and plenty of room for Zooey to run around. The house is painted lavender because that is what Ed’s mom wanted and that’s what she did. To me, it looks like a little doll house.

Ed’s mom lavender house

Trevor will be staying there for awhile to take care of the house and yard. Big project but he will take good care of it. Trevor moved most of his stuff into the house by the end of August. He had more stuff than he thought. He has a lot to reorganized of his and Zooey’s stuff. Life is different when you have a child to take care of.

At the end of August, I babysat Zooey at Trevor’s house. We played dress up, walked around the yard and visited a horse across the street. That was a fun and exhausting day for me. Whew! Zooey is a full of bundle of energy and I could use some of it to catch up with her. lol

September 1st – 17th

On September 1st, we had to move from site #54 to site #40 due to someone having already reserved site #54 for the Labor Day weekend. We didn’t mind moving. It kind of gave us a change of view.

Site #40

We like the view of the lake sitting by the tree listening to the wind chimes. It is very relaxing and quiet at this site.

Our favorite place to sit

There are plenty of hummingbirds flying around here. Here is a picture of what I could capture that wasn’t blurry. Geez they move fast. lol

Ed counted at least 7 hummingbirds at one time

We didn’t do much for Labor Day except for relaxing, drinking and eating. It was beautiful weather in the low 80’s all weekend. It was real nice.

I hope everyone had a fabulous Labor Day weekend!

After Labor Day weekend, Ed cleaned and waxed the roof on our RV.

When we bought our Mobile Suites one of the service technicians at the dealership gave us a few tips on maintenance of the roof. He said he used to run his own business cleaning, sealing, and waxing RVs. He said we could clean the roof (toppers and awning) with Totally Awesome. After you rinse it off he said to use Murphy’s Oil Soap and apply it to the rubber roof, toppers and awning. According to him the oil soap coats the surfaces and provides a little UV light protection. It does make the dew and rain water bead up as if the surfaces had a wax coating. After I finished with the roof, toppers and awning I proceeded to wash the sides of the RV. It took me about 7 hours to complete the whole project. I would not want to do that for a living. After all that work I have to admit the DRV looks great.

We celebrated Trevor’s birthday on the 10th with Oreos Cookie and Cream. Sorry no picture. Happy Birthday Trevor! It is hard to believe that he is 26 years old now. Where did the time go?

Happy Birthday Trevor!

Lastly, I took Zooey to the Tullahoma Library for story time. The last time I took her was in March. Zooey remembered the Library and was excited to see all of the books and kids again. Most of the parents recognized her and was glad to see her. Zooey hugged everyone there. It was so cute. Here is a picture of her playing the Scarf game.

Zooey at the Tullahoma Library

Well, that’s it for now. We will be heading on the road very soon. Stay posted for our next adventure.

See ya’ll later!