What A Week

Well I guess everyone thought I was no longer in existence…I am still kicking and having a ball…First let me tell you about an adventure of buying and putting up a awning for the table…When I carve, Mary Ann will not let me carve in the motor home…So I have to go outside and sit at the picnic table…Rain, sleet, snow, heat, all the same…she will not let me carve inside…Since I am such a wonderful husband she felt sorry for me and decided to buy me a shelter for my carving…I know why she really wanted it was because Labor Day she is having a family get-together and used me as an excuse…Well Monday we had to go to Rapid City for supplied…We cannot go any where without shopping Wall-Mart…You see they had a shelter on sale for twenty-nine dollars…The Scotch Blood that runs in her veins would not let her pass such a bargain up…You have to get this picture…Rapid City is fifty miles from where we are camped…When we go to get supplies we make most of a day out of it…We have lunch…Buy supplies…and head for home…We are pretty well worn out by the time we put the groceries away…I had to put the awning up anyway…With my outstanding knowledge of everything, I didn’t notice that the wind was blowing 20 mph…After I recognized that I wanted Mary Ann to experience putting together the shelter,I called her out to assist me…Can anyone imagine her assisting rather than leading…After a few words between us we decided to wait until the next morning to really put it up and maybe the wind would die down by morning…The Next day we started putting it together with the the help of our neighbor…We got it together and sat under it and enjoyed our accomplishment.  We went in and had lunch, took a nap and woke up to a strong wind…Well with the expense of what we paid for such a well made piece of equipment it ripped apart…Here it was 4pm and we just had to go back to Wall-Mart and return this item…We purchased a more expensive one and came home after dark…With the previous days experience of trying to raise the tent while we were tired we did wait until the next day…It went up beautifully with no hitches…We had problems with our internet Thursday and Friday…Finally got it back last night and so here I am trying to catch up…I took some pictures of Crazy Horse as some of you inquired about the progress…It seems very little progress is being done…Well with the awning story here are some pictures of the completed project…Talk to you later…Philip