My wife spotted a yard sign that simply said, “Vote for the Mormon, not the MORON”! Kinda says it all. If you don’t intend to vote for Romney, do us a favor and don’t vote. We can’t take four more years of this dictator. Day by day we’re looking and sounding more like Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Egypt, Syria and so many more delightful places where people have lost all of their rights and freedom. If you intend to vote for Barack, you may want to consider relocating to one of the aforementioned vacation spots (prior to casting your vote of course). One way tickets are very afordable. Enough bitterness already.

Today the temperature hit 92 degrees. That’s bad enough, but the weather gurus are telling me it will hit 100 on Thursday, followed by several more days in the 90’s. What are you people doing. Your carbon footprint is a size 14 and growing! You’re destroying the planet. And, you are doing this with impunity. Oh wait a minute. If King Barack is re-elected, forget the impuniy. You will be punished. Count on it.

Oh I forgot, I was going to lay off the bitterness. The older I get the more difficult it is for me to curb my "cyn i cal ity" (this is a word we didn’t have until now); accent on "cal" You can thank me at your leisure.

We’ve been quite busy since returning from FL. We traveled to Greenwich CT for Cameron’s 1^st Communion. We stayed at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich. We were able to get a deal there. If you stayed two weekend nights, the third night was free. This was the only reason we could afford the Hyatt. Beautiful place and only a mile from my son and families’ home. On our way back we spent a few nights at my sister-in-law’s home in Stow, OH. We were able to visit with my sister in Akron, OH. Both are doing well.

A couple weeks later we drove to Nauvoo, IL. Nauvoo is a Hebrew word meaning beautiful place, and it is. The main reason for our visit was to see my good friend Steve McBride and his wife Darcy. We hadn’t seen them in 20 years. They live in Salt Lake City, but are spending 18 months in Nauvoo on a mission. They conduct tours through the historic sites. In the evening they take part in the entertainment. The music and singing was great. We got to see the BYU top rated dance troop. They were outstanding.

From Nauvoo we travelled to Quincy, IL to visit our friends Diane and Jeff Bloss. We’ve spent 5 winters at Emerald Beach RV Resort in Navarre, FL with them. Jeff has 3 working Jukeboxes that Jeff completely reconditioned. He also has a collection of radios (about 600 of them and 90% of them work). What a talented guy. We had a wonderful visit.

Next on the agenda is a month at Spaulding campground in Niles, MI. We’ve stayed there a number of times. We pull our travel trailer out of storage on July 1^st. We are only 30 minutes from home, so we will be back and fourth several times during the month. It’s like having a summer cottage on the lake. A change of scenery in a very quiet setting.

The week of September 10^th we’ll be meeting up with our Florida gang at Indian Lakes, a campground just south of Shipshewana, IN. There will be 14 of us taking over Indian Lakes. Should be a blast. 

  

JIM