"Keeping Cool"

 We had a change of plans, and came to California where we decided to sell the motor home.  We didn't expect it to sell in two days time.  We arrived to San Clemente on the 1st of December and sold motor home on 3rd.  We rented an apartment in the downtown (1 block over from Main Street Del Mar) area close to the beach.  We had a great holiday with some of the family and Shawn was home also.  We are enjoying being close to family and our new great grand baby is absolutely adorable.  She is the happiest baby I've ever seen.  We have gotten all our medical appointments under way and scheduled and it feels good to be in one place settled again.  We're enjoying walking the beach everyday and all the little shops and restaurants.  Don't miss the motor home it was a lot of stress for us and after Drew's stroke was just too much to handle.  We did enjoy our trips through the summer and made good use of it.  So now we ar...

       We are still on the road, heading to Casa Grande by December 1st.  Will make our winter home there at "Desert Springs Ranch"   and then spend 3 months during the summer traveling to visit family in Utah and Oregon. We have had a great summer and fall, after spending July and part of August in Utah with my brother and his family we continued on to Oregon to visit our son, daughter in law and grandchildren. Spent August and September in Junction City area where we were in all the fires going on.  It was the worst thing I've ever seen or experienced in my life.  Our family reunion was on September 19th and fortunately the smoke cleared and we had a great day for the reunion (see pics below).  This family reunion was scheduled after finding out we had a new family member "Ben" and it was to welcome him to the family.  It was much more than that, it was also a renewal of family in so many ways.  I had not seen my dads side if the ...