THIS TERRIBLE NON STOP COLD BEATING RAIN HAS TAKEN A TOLL ON US:(((((((

The rain has basically not stopped since starting early Thursday morning.  Heavy at times with the rain front seemingly stalled over top us.  We are parked on grass and by Thursday evening ‘getting stuck’ began to become a worrisome concern.

LESLIE TOOK THIS PHOTO AND IT’S ONE OF THE FEW PICS OF ME THAT I ACTUALLY LIKE.  FOR ME IT SUMS UP IN ONE PHOTO WHO I AM AND HOW I SEE MYSELF Most of tonight’s photos were taken Wednesday when we had our last nice day and they were taken around Kelly’s Mom’s house especially in the back yard.  It’s a deep treed lot with a small creek at the far end.  Walking around back there with Pheebs I noticed a lot of mushrooms growing.

 

As any RV’er knows it’s quite a clattering racket on the roof with rain pounding down on it.  It’s loud enough inside to make one have to crank up radio, stereo, and TV volumes.  Nice and comfy cozy but after awhile all that comfy cozy stuff begins to wear a little thin.  Needless to say we are very much looking forward to getting out of this nasty bit of bad weather we are stuck in.

GROWING UP THIS WAS KELLY’S BACK YARD

HER DAD ONCE HAD A BIG GARDEN HERE

CREEK REFLECTIONS

 

As readers know I am not a phone person and don’t expect to ever be one.  Always thought having a camera in a cell phone was a great idea but the quality of the photos never interested me much and i never really paid any attention to them.  Well that is until Kelly got her new Blackberry a month or so ago.  I have been amazed and impressed with the quality of photos she has been taking with it.  At Hurd Orchards Wednesday I was using my Canon point and shoot for darker inside shots and ended up scraping most of them.  There was no comparison between my point and shoot shots and Kelly’s Blackberry photos.  The Blackberry’s colors are right on.  Photos are clear and sharp with exposures being about as close to perfect as one can get.   The camera and technology in that Blackberry is far superior to my older Canon Powershot for sure.   Now how can I get that savvy camera technology into a wafer thin lightweight format without having to have a silly phone attached to it.  Below are some of Kelly’s Blackberry photos from Hurd Orchards.

Below are 4 Hurd photos I had left over from Wednesday and that wraps up all my photos from that day.  Now, unbeknownst to me Kelly sent Hurd Orchards a link to my Thursday night post and we received a nice response this morning.  I saw right away I had Aimee’s name spelled wrong and it should have read Amy. I have no idea where I pulled that other spelling from.  I’m tellin ya folks it’s not easy being me.  Oh and remember the photo of Susan Hurd I had in Thursdays post.  Commenter QUILTINGISBLISSFUL said in part, “wonderful photos--but there is one photo that I had to go back to and re-see and that is the one with Susan holding a marker”…..  Well Di I can tell you why she is holding that marker.  While pointing out the many varieties of apples near the door a pick-up truck rolled in and some farm workers hopped out and carried in more bushels of apples.  Some of those apples were a new breed and with her marker Susan wrote the names of each bushel on a small piece of white paper then placed those apple names on the correct bushels:)) 

MY LAST HURD ORCHARD PHOTO

Becky and Norm flew in from Florida this morning landing in Rochester about 11:20.  From there it was straight here to Kelly’s Mom’s house to drop their luggage then the whole eating gang saddled up again and rode off to another big food feed round-up.  Well except for Kelly’s Mom who wasn’t feeling well.  By the way it was Gene who paid for everybody’s great day at Hurd Orchards Thursday.  Now how’s that for nice.

Luckily the Bad Apple Bistro was only a few blocks away but no matter we all got cold and wet getting in and out of cars in the non stop drenching rain.  Enjoyed my fish ‘n’ chips.  What absolutely miserable weather this has been these past couple days.  Cold, wet, and damp.  Reminds me of November which in my books is the very much most miserable month of the year up here in this climate zone.

HALLOWEEN HAS ALREADY BEGUN ON COLEMAN AVENUE SPENCERPORT NY

WITH CHRISTMAS FAST APPROACHING NEIGHBOR CHUCK HAS DONE A BANG UP JOB ON HIS BACKYARD CHRISTMAS TREE….HE PURPOSELY SWITCHED IT ON JUST FOR US TO SEE…….THANKS CHUCK:))

Nice to see Becky and Norm again and some long time readers may remember them when we all met in New Mexico’s ‘Truth or Consequences’ a bunch of years ago.  They were full-timing in their Damon Challenger Motorhome at that time and working at T&C’s Hot Springs Resort for awhile.  They now live in Largo Florida. Today was Norm’s 80th birthday and they brought him out a small molton chocolate cake complete with a single candle on top.  Maybe they will give you 2 candles on your second 80th Norm:))

HERE’S THE ‘FOOD GANG’ FROM L TO R, AL, KELLY, LESLIE, PETER, BECKY, NORM, AND KATHY…NORM HAS AN EYE CONDITION AND SUNGLASSES HELP HIM WITH BRIGHT LIGHTS

I’m a little concerned about our early morning departure Saturday morning.  We are parked on grass here and with all this rain saturating the ground it probably wouldn’t take much for us to dig into the soft lawn leaving us stuck in the mud.  Toyed with the idea of maybe trying to move the rig over onto the paved driveway but I think we’ll just wait and take our chances in the dark cold wet morning.  I haven’t slept well the last 2 nights, been eating way too much and with this constant non stop rain I’ve had no exercise and my legs are aching.  Just not feeling myself tonight. Kelly has been very tired as well so we’ll see how far we get Saturday.  Really looking forward to some real live warm sunny weather.

Assuming we don’t get stuck in the mud Saturday morning I have no idea where we will end up Saturday night.  Think we’ll see if we can make our way down to Harrisburg Pennsylvania and maybe climb aboard 81 for awhile and see how it goes.  

THIS SMALL CREEK RUNS THROUGH BEHIND KELLY’S MOM’S HOUSE

GROANER’S CORNER:(( Each evening bird-lover Tom stood in his backyard, hooting like an owl. One night, an owl called back to him. For a year, the man and his feathered friend hooted back and forth. He even kept a log of the "conversation."
Just as he thought he was on the verge of a breakthrough in interspecies communication, his wife had a chat with her next-door neighbor.
"My husband spends his nights... calling out to owls," she said. "That's odd," the neighbor replied. "So does my husband."

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‘How to talk native SOUTHERN in one easy lesson’

Aig - What a hen lays

Aints - He's got aints in his paints

Paints - What cha put on your laigs of a mornin

Arn - Ma's tard of arnin

Bag - He bagged her to marry him

Bobbed - A bobbed wire fence

Bresh - He had a bresh with the law, and the law won.

Bub - the light bub burned out

Cheer - What you set in

Crick - A small stream

Clum - He sure clum that tree fastern any 'coon

Chiny - country over in Asia

Chuch duds - Sunday go-to-meetin clothes

Core - He got hisself a new Ford core

Cyow - Animal on Farm

Deppity - He helps out the shurf

Dribbed - He dribbed milk on his shirt

Dainz - Satidy night social

Ellum - A graceful tree

Fanger - What you put your rang on

Faince - Whats round the hawg lot

Far - What get the brandin arn hot

Furred - He got furred from his job

Flar - A rose is a purdy flar

Frash - Them aigs ain't frash

Furiners - All non-'bamans

Further - Hits ten miles further to town

Grain - She was grain with envy

Hail - Where bad folks go

Hep - Poor George, he can't hep it, he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Hern - It aint hern, it's his'n

Hilbilly - People in the next county

Hollar - Whats between the hills

Hard - Got a brend new hard hand

Tar - His core blew a tar

Laymun - A sour fruit

Laig - Most folks have two of them

Lather - What you climb up

Liberry - Where you go to check out books for larnin

Mailk - what you get from cyows

Mere - What you see your self in

Minners - Live bait

Misrus - Married Woman

Nar - Opposite of wide

Nayk - Your head sets on it

Nup - No

Orrel - Them hinges need orrel

Ormy - What the sojers go in

Pank - A light red color

Parch - Sit out on the parch and watch the grass grow

Petition - What separates the rooms

Poke - A paper bag or sack

Pokey - What the shurf and deppity puts crimnals in Poke

Salit - A green vegetable

Puppet - What the preacher is in

Purdy - She is purdy as a pitcher

Purt near - Almost; he purt near caught that greased pig

Rang - You wear it on your fanger

Rut - That there tree sure has long ruts

Rah cheer - I was born rah cheer in town

Rainch - A big cow farm

Rat - Do it rat now!

Rench - Rench the soap yourself

Roont - She plum roont her shoes

Salary - A stringy vegetable

Soardeens - Small canned fish

Shar - A light rain

Gully Worsher - A medium heavy rain

Toad strangler - A heavy rain Sody

Pop - A soft drink

Sprang - Water out'n the ground

Shurf - The Shurf put Clem in jail

Storch - This here aprn has to much storch in it

Skeered - that plumb skeered me to death

Thanks - He shore thanks he's smart

Tho - Tho me the ball

Thoat - I shore got a sore thoat

War - A bobbed war fance

Worsh - Go worsh your face

Warter - What you worsh your face in

Yurp - A continent overseas