BACK TO FLORIDA

We left 7:30 Sunday morning to head south. We got around Baltimore and Washington DC  with no problems and decided to drive to South of the Border to Pedro's Campground for the night. We were there by 5. It is a nice campground.  

 I drove for a little while on Monday and we back in Florida and home by 5. It was a smooth ride back. Good timing since Hurricane Sally would have given us rain and wind through the Carolinas the rest of the week.  

BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS

We visited with the grandchildren a few days after we arrived. Averie played on a dinosaur.

Hunter dressed as a fireman.
 

Ashtyn home from kindergarten. Hard to believe she is in school already, but she will be 6 in October.

The next week we went over to celebrate all the birthdays. Averie's birthday is the 13th of September, so they made it her party. She is 4. Her mom made her up as a princess, complete with new dress, shoes, tiara and makeup.

She is a princess!

Opening her gifts.

This is the baby doll we were told the girls wanted. Baby Alive

Ashtyn's 6th birthday is October 1. We got her a Baby Alive doll too.

Hugs and thank you were given.

Alivia's birthday is next October 22. She will be 11.

We got her a microscope but I am not sure how well it worked.

Hunter was born November 3rd Three years ago.

He loves dinosaurs. So a floor puzzle and a dinosaur bubble gun were his gifts. 

Playing with balloons was lots of fun.

And then there was cake and ice cream. Glad we were there to celebrate birthdays.

BOB'S VISIT

Bob had started working on the dent in the back of our RV when we were up in May.
 

When we were home this time he finished the body work.

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and painted it.

While he was there I gave him the genealogy book I made for him for his birthday. 

VISIT TO PA

 We left on Friday, August 28,2020 for a visit back to Pennsylvania. Larry had to stop at 11:00 to do a Zoom Move call with the VA. We parked across from the Barberville Yard Art Emporium. I wondered around it while he did his meeting. It is acres and acres of yard art and Mexican pottery.

We camped at Green Acres in South Carolina on Friday night. We are being blown home with a nice tail wind from Hurricane Laurie.

We stopped at South 40 camp ground in Petersburg, VA  Saturday  night. It was too hot and humid to stay in a Walmart parking lot like we often do.

Able to park back in the woods,

We didn't go on  the Nature walk since the white sign says Caution Bear in Vicinity.

We usually go around Richmond  but since it was early Sunday morning we went through.

 On Sunday afternoon we were in PA.

We had reservations at Circle M for the next two weeks.

I have been wanting to gather all the history and pictures I knew about our family for years. My Aunt Dot was the family historian and given me some information she had before she died. The pandemic was the perfect opportunity for me to work on it. My son Robert Moyer is the end of my family line, but I wanted him to know some of the stories and have this information before I died. Covid 19 made you realize that tomorrow is not promised and life is short. I gave Bob this book for his birthday.

 

His mother's side of the tree

His father's side of the tree

I have this desk in my home. It was built by Henry Whelpton in 1879.

My mother, Edna Merle MacAllister Stine

My mother's sister, Dorothy MacAllister. She was a Baptist home missionary and a teacher.

My Dad, Howard Kenneth Stine

My only cousin, David McBride.