Once again we have moved to a new home site.

 

With Kris starting school in Marshall Texas and not being able to secure campus housing we decided to move there. He is going to stay with us until he can move into a dorm there. He has been told that there would be availability in January so we are planning on staying here until then.

It is really nice here we have a fishing pond right across from us and I can just walk down and wet a worm there. It is a catch and release, but we do have a store down the road that sells fish!

We do miss the kids east of us. They are about 2 hours away which makes it hard to drop by and visit. Thanks for video chat we can see them...almost a good as a in home visit.     NOT.

Yesterday we drove over to Shreveport and did a little gambling. We are only 45 minutes away...which by the way is dangerous! Sherri and I had a good time and believe it or not we did not spend too much. I think there might be more trips...

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Today is Jennifer's birthday

 We were so use to living next door to our daughter it was hard to be away from her! We have relocated to Gladewater Texas so we can get Kris in school and in doing so we had to leave Jen and her bunch in Terrell. I know that she will have a good day even if we are not there to celebrate with her. We hope to be moving back close to her and Jason as soon as Kris gets settled...

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Kris started school at TSTC

 Yes Kris started school today after many trips to Marshall to sigh him up. I had forgotten how much paperwork is involved with  getting started. He is getting some help from grants and the VA. Me being a veteran will help on the tuition. He has elected to live at home for the first semester. He wanted to get use to the program before he committed to living in campus housing.

We have located our home close to the campus so he wont have too far to drive. He is planning on getting a job after the first week or so. This way he will be use to his schedule and can get a job that will work with it.

Sherri and I will just hang out here for the time being and then when he gets settled in the dorm we will be moving on. Where?...not real sure but just like the rest of our lives it will be an adventure...

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This is the time to catch up on my journal

 

Kept the grandbaby

Franki started back to school

The storm blew the back fence down

Sherri and Kris took up a new sport

 

We have been moving quite a bit since Kris has been preparing for Tech School. He will be staying with us until the dorm comes available. 

Before we left the last park where Jennifer and her kids lived we kept Dakota, Sarah's baby. We were the live-in baby setter and loved it. But now we have headed east to Gladewater where we are staying at the Antique Capital RV Park. We are waiting for an opening at another park closer to Marshall where Kris will be attending school.

Franki, another granddaughter, graduate to sophomore this year and  we got some pictures of her on the first day of school. We are proud of her. She is very athletic...she plays basketball volleyball and runs track. Not sure if she will be playing baseball this year? 

By the way I forgot to mention that at that park we had a very bad storm come through. We were vey lucky that we did not have any serious damage to our RV. Cant say that about our back fence which was blown down. They have not rebuilt it according to Jennifer. We had to move her RV to another location so they could build the fence. It is much quieter where we moved her. She is much further from the highway now and closer to the pool.

At our new park Sherri and Kris have found the pool table. This is their new sport. I have to admit that I am taken with it also. To bad at our new park which we will be moving to there is no pool table. Maybe we can find a nice Pool Hall near by...

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Yes Kris graduated...I'm a little behind in posting it

Would not look over to see us !

Sure look sad

I could not be prouder

 Mom and I were so happy to see our boy take possession of that diploma after all the years of sending him off to school.

Now he is off to TSTC for 19 months. He will be studding diesel off highway mechanics. That means he can work on any type of diesel machinery. A friend of his took this at TSTC and was placed in a job right out of school. He travels all over fixing all kinds of diesel equipment from earth moving equipment to diesel generators. 

We will be praying for Kris and look forward to his success...

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Great location for the eclipse

 

We had the best location for the eclipse! I was a little worried that we would have an overcast day but it turned out to be real nice. Some clouds did make their way onto the scene but we had enough breaks to get some great photos!

Kris and Sherri had made them a little box with hole in it to allow the light from the sun to peer through. That is what we used to observe most of the eclipse but there were times during the full eclipse that we could look up. That is when we got our photos. This will be the last one I will see here on earth but maybe the good Lord willing I will see it from a better place...

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18th birthday...yes 18 years old?

 

It is hard to believe that it has been 18 years! It is time to start your life my little buddy. We will miss you being here with us but we know that you will be doing what you have been planning for. 

Waco is really not that far and we can come see  you...

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50 Years

 Yes 50 years today. What a ride it has been! Love you Sherrilyn Grace Pitman. From now until…

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My kids Kris Jennifer Jason

Jennifer and her man

Got me a teddy

Jason enjoyed the eats

My brother in law Randy came to celebrate 

Yes this was my birthday celebration. Sherri made me some cinnamon rolls with a candle on top. We had good eats from the Burger King and enjoyed the fellowship. You know when you get my age the party kind of slows down. 

I am doing well the good Lord has blessed me so far with good health. I still take care of all the maintenance on our home so that is a good thing. Not as fast as I use to be but then I still know how to get the things done that need to be done. 

We have really moved into winter for sure. Today it is 8 degrees and we are staying warm. Bought me a Mr. Buddy heater for back up incase the power goes out. We never had that problem in Colorado. They are use to cold weather up there and their grid can handle the cold. It is real shaky here in Texas...especially with the "New Green Deal" in place. You know the one Biden came up with. It is too cold to charge up your electric car today so everyone is having to stay in place until the weather allows them to charge. How ridiculous is that?

I'm sorry Libs...but I just can't take this bunch of nuts running the country. I know it is not Biden running the government but being as how I don't know who is he will have to do for the blame! I pray to the good Lord above that we get someone in office that can get things back to normal...

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Starting off the new year

Starting off this year keeping our little guy for our granddaughter. We just can't turn down the request when it is made. I mean look at that face! Maw of course is the one "keeping" the little guy I just sit there smiling looking at all the funny things he does

Now my granddaughter has a little time to turn out some of the cutest little animals. I don't know how she does this but she does it well. 

So far our new year is going well. I hope this finds all my friends and family also doing well..

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My last entry for 2023

 

Well its that time again! The year is about to end and the new year is about to start. 

We have had many changes in 2023. Started out in Colorado and ended up in Texas. I made 3 trips to Texas pulling all the family RVs to our new home site. We had to pull our cargo trailer first and then our RV followed by my daughter. I can't even count all the pit stops for gas and snacks. About $3,000 later we had everyone here. 

We ended up just outside of Canton Texas at I-20 RV Park. I believe we have one of the better sites here at the park. Our view from our living room window is not quite as nice as our view we had in Colorado. In Colorado our back window looked out at the Rio Grande River. Here our view is Interstate 20 with miles of cars rushing up and down back and forth going God knows where. 

The mountains are gone and all the snow...sure miss my landscape views that I loved to paint. Now I just paint from memory. I had my own little studio there and now I have to use the dining room table. I guess it could be worse.

The 100 degree days just about did us all in this last summer. After living in cool summer weather for 2 years it was really hard dealing with a hotter climate. We had to have one of our AC units replaced and that bumped up our relocation cost once more. I laughed thinking back to last winter when I had to have my heater core replaced! Had I known that I would be here in Texas a few months later I think I would have reconsidered that decision. Oh well I guess I will need to be warm here too.

I want to take this time to wish all my friends out there a very Happy New Year. To my family I want you all to know I love having you all back here with me. It was nice living in Colorado but having all my family around is well worth the move.

I thank the good Lord that he has allowed me to live this long and been able to experience all that I have. I hope that my days will be long and prosperous..

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