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06-06-2017, 06:54 PM
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Rivet Master
2007 Interstate
Normal
, Illinois
Join Date: Jan 2009
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I'd like to know what it is, other than very unusual looking.
Have sent the pic to a serious rock-hound friend...
Maggie
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06-07-2017, 08:15 AM
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4 Rivet Member
1973 27' Overlander
1995 19' "B" Van Airstream 190
Bay City
, Oregon
Join Date: Mar 2010
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Good morning Maggie!! Please share what you find out about the rock... I'm interested.. it has so many different parts... have a lovely day there... Hugs and love from here... it's not raining!!!
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06-07-2017, 09:32 AM
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Rivet Master
2007 Interstate
Normal
, Illinois
Join Date: Jan 2009
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Glad you're having good weather, Gail.
It is beautiful and sunny here today, with no rain expected in the foreseeable future....not sure if that is a good or bad thing, tho...
My new Lily Launch Pad, off my back stoop....a combination effort of the young man who did the rock border, and myself who hauled five, 40 lb bags of sand, gravel and rock this morning to fill it.
Unique to its very purpose, I'm very pleased with it.
Gives Lily a place to launch herself, out or in, without tearing up grass to then leave mud when it rains.
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06-07-2017, 09:37 AM
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2007 Interstate
Normal
, Illinois
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Half of each of the bags of larger rock first went into my expanded rock and shell bed in the front...which will now need some shells added to it.
When I opened the first bag, this rock came rolling out.
Does Doug watch over me, encourage me, and find ways to let me know he is there, from his perch in the afterlife?
Yes, I believe he does, and was saying good job, Margaret..
It's a heart....it has to be meant for me.
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06-07-2017, 03:22 PM
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4 Rivet Member
1973 27' Overlander
1995 19' "B" Van Airstream 190
Bay City
, Oregon
Join Date: Mar 2010
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I love it!!!
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06-07-2017, 03:38 PM
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1966 22' Safari
Hilltop Lakes
, Texas
Join Date: Jun 2008
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Spied this in my new rock border, in and amongst granite and very ordinary looking stones....
I agree. It's a neat looking rock. Does your local university have a geology department? If so, I'll bet they could identify every part of it and tell you how they must have come together.
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06-07-2017, 08:14 PM
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Rivet Master
2007 Interstate
Normal
, Illinois
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The big, beautiful and very interesting rock seems to be a massive hunk of rose quartz...per my rockhound friend, and Gerard who was here this evening.
It is also called "the heart stone".
It is directly out from my front door, where I will see it coming and going.
I am a bit stiff this evening, and have realized I lifted 200lbs of sand and gravel four separate times today.
I couldn't have done that 3 years ago.
On to Moraine View tomorrow...
Maggie
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06-08-2017, 05:10 PM
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2007 Interstate
Normal
, Illinois
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Baked cookies, loaded up, and we were settled into Moraine View before noon.
Trailers have been pulling in all day, and we have about filled this section up with regular attendees...and a few new faces.
Weather is good, all is well, this will be a weekend of socializing.
Maggie
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06-09-2017, 07:39 PM
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Rivet Master
2007 Interstate
Normal
, Illinois
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A good day, with near perfect weather....warm and sunny, but a good breeze.
We have sat and visited, caught up and worked on our respective projects...and Lily has had three walks, so is a happy girl.
At dinner tonight, Dana Johnson (the other half of Airtandem), had made a small counted cross stitch "Bless this..." for each of us, with a stitched picture specific to our particular rigs...including Gerard & Lauras orange Argosy.
Very sweet, and I am going to put mine inside my cargo door.
I have a picture, but signal isn't good enough here to get it to load, so when I get home.
Maggie
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06-10-2017, 12:03 PM
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Rivet Master
2007 Interstate
Normal
, Illinois
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Posts: 18,051
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Two bars of LTE...
Hung just inside the door.
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06-10-2017, 03:29 PM
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1962 28' Ambassador
1961 19' Globetrotter
1962 26' Overlander
Mesa
, Arizona
Join Date: Jun 2013
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That is a beautiful personalized gift. Thoughtful and kind.
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06-11-2017, 10:36 AM
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2007 Interstate
Normal
, Illinois
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It's been a very nice weekend, including a group breakfast at the American Legion in Leroy this morning.
Plenty of sun, no rain, tho gale force winds coming off the lake yesterday.
Are waiting in line as I type.
Tanks emptied, we hopped on 74 to make a stop at the Blue Beacon in Bloomington before heading home, as a fine spray of tree sap is coating everything.
Tomorrow is my last day of volunteer work until probably the first of November, will make a run to Iowa and then look to head north and east within a couple of weeks.
I'm ready.
Maggie
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06-12-2017, 05:13 AM
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1973 Argosy 24
Kitchener
, Ontario
Join Date: Jun 2014
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Hi, Maggie. We're home safe after a wonderful week that culminated at Moraine Niew. Wonderful people, but that was to be expected as anyone who is among your friends has already been vetted and passed. Thanks for the dinner on Wednesday. MMM delish. I will have to trouble you for the recipe for that pasta dish and also for the wonderful 'lasses cookies. I can see bringing a large quantity of those to a Scout camp and watching them evaporate.
hugs.
Gerard and Laura
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06-12-2017, 05:20 AM
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2007 Interstate
Normal
, Illinois
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Awww.
It was great to see you two again, and to get to know you better.
I'll get those recipes to you.
You are welcome here any time.
Maggie
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06-12-2017, 12:16 PM
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2007 Interstate
Normal
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After unloading and doing some laundry yesterday, had a good soak and scrub in the tub last night....lovely, after navy showers in dry, dusty and windy conditions.
It is in the 90's and very humid today, so it seems our prolonged spring has passed and we are now in full, Midwest summer mode.
My newest plantings have all been watered, and seem to be thriving.
The wind has cleaned rock dust off my new border, so they are all showing theirselves better than last week. Going to do some fine tuning and rearranging of their placement a bit tomorrow, so the prettiest are where I will see them most often.
Did a bit of digging at Ancestry to articulate to Laura this morning my relationship to Henry Clay....whose great grandfather and my 5th ggf were brothers. The Henry Clay.
Laura was born in the US, and is also related to him, amazingly, so we are distant cousins.
That is two cousins that I have met and confirmed thru the Airstream Community...both from old Northern Neck of Virginia families.
Have started a granny square type blankie for my sweet niece, who moves into her first apartment in August....uses the variegated, RedHeart Ombré yarn, which does the color changes for you...no cutting and tying off of a gazillion colors.
Nothing much going on here. Planning a trip to Iowa City sometime next week, then will load the Interstate to begin heading north and to cooler temperatures.
Maggie
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06-13-2017, 10:32 AM
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2007 Interstate
Normal
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Lily and I had an early walk this morning, as it is hot and 100% humidity is predicted for today.
Then I hauled and did some re-arranging of rocks in my border, and replaced some screws...one missing, one rusted...in the Interstate's awning.
Got on a ladder, got the rusted one out, took it to ACE Hardware and got a handful of new ones...you always know when you go into ACE that you will readily find help...after first self-selecting the right size, but not stainless steel.
It looked like stainless, but their bins are actually labeled as such.
Back on the ladder, and got them in tight.
My new neighbors to the north... the ones with the wandering 3 year old, who likes to run next door to my place, just to be chased, which he did again last evening ...are fencing in their back yard, tagging on to my existing fence, which is then looking old and sag-y in a few places, next to their bright and shiny new one.
Going to take a stab at shoring it up tomorrow....using wood screws, strategically placed at a few posts, to hold in place a sort of brace...via steel fence posts.
It should work, right?
Sometimes....I hardly recognize solo me, doing things I have never done before, with muscles I have never had before, and I feel like a grey haired version of Wonder Woman.
Maggie
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06-14-2017, 02:52 PM
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2007 Interstate
Normal
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Made an early run to Home Depot for a couple more bags of river rock for the LLP off the back stoop, and cedar mulch for my north bed of periwinkle and lily of the Valley.
Now properly bordered, mulch finished it off...and all hauled via my trusty, now slightly rusty, Gorilla Cart...hauled, spread, plus fence repaired and shored up by 10am.
Why so early, you ask? Because it is hot as ---- here, and humid enough to turn me into a puddle.
75 degrees already at 5am this morning.
Pulled out the cordless screwdriver, drilled some new holes and put in 3 1/2" or so wood screws to re-attach a fence panel at the far back corner that I didn't even know had detached at one end.
A job, but good for my aging bones, and nice to have the immediate gratification of completion.
Immediate gratification is a good thing.
We did get a small spattering of rain today, and hopefully will get some more before tomorrow from a system moving thru, tho the heaviest of the storm..with hail...will pass north of here.
It's been about 3 weeks, so it could rain for a couple of days and not be too much....and I could stop watering.
That's the news from the little house. Starting to plan my route north, and going to spend some time on the shores of Lake Superior, where I have not been in two years.
Our favorite lake...there's nothing quite like it.
Maggie
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06-14-2017, 04:24 PM
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1966 22' Safari
Hilltop Lakes
, Texas
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The land John owned in Canada is near the north shore of Superior. I agree that it's beautiful up there. It was a bit of a culture shock for me the first time we went there. This West Texas kid didn't know that many trees could exist.
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06-14-2017, 05:18 PM
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Rivet Master
2007 Interstate
Normal
, Illinois
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It's beautiful up there, but I won't be going that far north this time.
Lake Superior is the most spectacularly beautiful lake...so clear and vast, unlike anything we had ever seen,
It was one of our early-on trips...maybe in the year we traveled 30,000 miles in our Interstate.
Maggie
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06-14-2017, 06:35 PM
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Rivet Master
2006 22' Interstate
Port Angeles
, Washington
Join Date: Sep 2016
Posts: 936
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Wow- 75º at 5am? That is too hot!
Of course, if it is 75 around here everybody is whining. If it is below 40 everybody is whining.
I wonder how I'll do when I go to Arizona this summer (Moto World Trial round). At least I'll be at about 7000 feet, so maybe just hot. (Not HOOOOOTTTTTT)
(Hope my AC is working well!)
Mark
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