Back Home Again In Indiana

Well, we have been "home" for 9 days now. Thanks Terry for inquiring how I am doing. I was actually down for 2 weeks with the sinus infection. I coughed so hard , I , well, actually vomited sometimes (sorry) and hurt all over. I was afraid when we got back to Indy, I might get sicker because of the cold weather, but I'm doing good. We were greeted very warmly at church last Sunday morning. We had attended there 23 years before movin on and it is bittersweet coming back. We had a 12 hour day that Sunday. We lunched with some dear friends, went back to church for a special meeting that had been called, and spent about 5 hours with our middle daughter. It was probably the best time we have ever spent with her.
The next day, we went to my mother-in-laws , along with my sister-in-law, her husband and her daughter , to help clean up the lawn and get it ready for mowing. As we were leaving, everyone but myself were already outside, and as I headed out the door, it happened. Mom H. fell. She is 80 years old, and she still takes her class C and goes camping with her camp club. Anyway, I hollered to the others to come in and we got her up. Nothing was broke, but she did have some very sore places the next day. We insisted she get a cell phone to carry with her at all times in case she falls when no one is around. She did comply and now we can all rest a bit easier.
We had a busy week working around Gary's sisters' place. They have graciously let us stay here again. We were parked here while I went through chemo and they are so good to us. She made dinner every night last week and fed us. It was wonderful to dine and converse with them daily. We are helping shore thing up as they prepare to put their place up for sale in a couple years. This weekend we all went up to northern Indy to help their daughter and son-in-law tear out some lathe and plaster walls and put in a big new window in their 100 year old plus home. There was old insulation in the walls and it was everywhere!! I had the privilege of watching our 4 month old great niece. She is adorable and smiles much and just melts your heart. Her little brothers just kinda hung out . We ate well and had a great visit. We ended the weekend by attending their church. It is in a farming town and I would assume most of the local churches have been well established. They started 2 years ago meeting in a school and now meet in the community center. They have about 400 in attendance now! Like so many churches now, the pastor wears jeans and drives a Harley. There is a band. We love this kind of church. No stuffy suits. Jesus went where the people were. They were smelly fishermen and tanners.They came to hear him just as they were. No polished shoes or made up faces. Just come. Then we went back to the house, had lunch, and they finished up some electrical work. On the way home we stopped at a small drive thru ice cream place. Gary and I had an extra thick chocolate malt. It was soooo good. Tasted just like when we were kids. Oh, I forgot to tell you that we left Fla and it was 80 degrees and tonight it will be 28 degrees. And today there was icy rain coming down on the way back. I do not miss this weather and if we can plan it better, we will wait til nicer weather to return next year.
Tomorrow we have to go get our taxes. We owe! Ouch! Hopefully, next year we won't owe anything. One of the reasons we came back was Gary was going to sub bus drive to nest egg a little extra cash so we could spend the summer in Michigan and not have to volunteer. I still get worn out from the chemo and it could be awhile before the aftereffects stop. So we were going to spend at least two months resting. But with the price of gas, it looks like we will still volunteer along the way. We will stay here probably for 3 months and that will help. We also wanted to do some remodeling inside the RV but looks like that is to be put on hold. One thing we realized is we sure do like sleeping in our little home and own bed. Not that we didn't enjoy our visit. But I remember laying in the bed having trouble falling asleep and wondering if it was because the room was so big and I was missing my "cocoon" bedroom!!! Well, that's a good note to end on and until next time, we're just passing through.......

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