Sending Mom and Dad off

Arrived back at Lake Yale on Friday amid tornado watches. It rained hard almost all 8 hours we were on the road. We saw 8 wrecks. Where we come from, it gets ice and snow on the roads, but most people drive cautiously, although there are a lot of slide offs when it snows. But it was the first time for us both to see so many wrecks from rain. We arrived at Yale about 6P.M. and were warmly greeted by Dorcus and Lew. Chet was there to help as we set up. He and his wife Rose are an older couple and we took to each other when were here before. We settled in for a stormy night, dressed appropriately so if we had to make a quick dash to the bathhouse for a tornado, we would at least have clothes on. Thankfully, one did not touch down.
Saturday morning it was up early to wash our laundry. They let us do it for free and it is such a blessing as we usually spend around $40 an month on laundry. We went to lunch at the dinning room with Chet, finished our laundry and then went to my parents house to visit. Today we again went to mom and dad's to take them to the train station. Dad's sister died last month and to insure everyone who wanted to attend could, they put the memorial service off until this month. Dad won't fly and since they are getting on in years, he no longer wants to drive long distances. So they booked a 17 hour train ride to Washington D.C. We arrived at the station 2 hours early because they didn't want to be late! It was a really different scenario sending my parents off. Mom was real worried about getting on the right car and we kept assuring her they would come off the train and lead her where she needed to go. The station was really quaint. It is situated in a town by the name of DeLand. There were probably only 30 people boarding. The ticket window was a barrel of laughs. Really. He really seemed to enjoy his job. It was very old timey feeling and the day was so beautiful. We watched mom and dad board the train and I felt for a moment like it was a role reversal. Strange. Afterwards Gary and I went into town to find somewhere to dine. But most everything was closed. So we walked the city streets for awhile. The architect was very eye pleasing. We sure enjoy old buildings. It is quite a good size small city and very well kept up.
Tomorrow we start volunteering again. We think we will be picking up broken limbs and twigs as the storm Friday night did a lot of mess here. Not damage, just stuff everywhere. I will enjoy working outside and hope this is the plan they are going with.
We got a call from a friend back home and they offered us their home for 2 weeks when we come home in April, May as they will be coming to Fla at that time. It would work out so great as we were hoping to do some remodeling to the RV while home but weren't sure how we were going to live in the mess!! What a blessing. We want to take out the carpet and put in tile or wood or something. Carpet isn't compatible with fulltiming , at least in our opinion. And since the decor is 10 years old(but in good condition) I would like to redo the window cornices(?) and maybe get a new couch, but that depends on the budget. The colors now are dark and victorian looking kinda and I would like to lighten it and brighten it up a bit.
We have lost two hours coming back here. One was just a time change and last night we sprung forward and hour. It is 11pm but my body thinks it is only 9pm, but I have to get up at 6 so I am going to try to go to sleep now. Hope to write more tomorrow. Just passing through on our way to tomorrow........