Thanksgiving 2010

The start of every Thanksgiving is a visit to our Mothers favorite spot in Ohio. She spent many an hour at this 1 acre property in the middle of Wayne National Forest. Left to Right are Rick, Nancy, my sister Carole and my Sister Toni. Of course all the dogs are here too.

This is our Mother's gravesite in the Church of

Christ cemetary in Burr Oak. This site is about a 5 minute walk from the property.

Pictured are Toni, Rick and Carole. This cemetary is active and maintained by locals.

The Church, pictured below, is no longer being used.  

Church active from 1833 to 1881 Pews are still inside

The cooks are ready.  So much cooking you will stick to the floor

Turkey must be lowered slowly.  Do not mess with hot oil

Every year we Deep Fry Two Turkeys.  Here is the first one going into the hot peanut oil

Carefully lowered into the Hot Peanut Oil

The Finished Product.  Great Taste and Easy to do

Cooks and Dogs

Bandit doing his Thanksgiving Thing

Nancy cleaning the dining room

Carole, Nancy, Holly and Jameison

Andrea, Chuck, Toni and Carole. Chuck is cutting Turkey

All this food was worth it. Notice the Happy Faces

Lots of fun at the table

Food Everywhere

Passing and Asking for the food

Many conversations going on

Sandy passing the Turkey

It was all worth it

Jameison filling his plate

Family Conversations

Nancy, Jameison, Holly and Rick

Nancy, Sandy KR, Rick, Shayla and Kiley

The cooks have collapsed

Ricks New Computer. Just in Time to update the blog

Thanks for reading the blog.  I hope you had a very 

Happy Thanksgiving

Rick, Nancy, Bandit and Belle

Wild Turkey's in Canal Winchester

The Wild Turkey is one of the most famous birds
in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin
wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States.











In the 25 plus years we have lived in this home
there have never been wild turkey's on our
property. What a treat











Wild Turkeys have excellent vision during the day but do not see well at night. They run about 25 mph and can fly up to 55 mph.

The Turkeys make a short run on the ground and then like a rocket fly just about straight up into the tree tops. A sight to behold. Last night Nancy counted 21 wild turkeys. Wild Turkeys were almost extinct in the 1930's but thanks to hunter conservation programs there are over 7 million today.

Thanks for viewing the blog and have a great week. Happy Thanksgiving.

Rick, Nancy, Belle and Bandit

Fall Travel Ellijay Georgia

The top picture is Cody with his Bodyguards Bandit and Belle. We were visiting friends in Ellijay GA and Cody, Bandit and Belle play nice together.

This is a picture of our Campsite in Ellijay.

For additional pictures please visit our trip journal at

http://MyTripJournal.com/HelloRoadSummer2010

Thanks for viewing the blog and have a great week

Rick, Nancy, Belle and Bandit

Fall Travel Pigeon Forge TN

Above is a picture of the famous Pigeon Forge Ole Mill. We were in Pigeon Forge over 25 years ago when there was nothing in town other than the old Mill. The picture we took then is on the wall in our family room.

Scenery was great this time of the year.

The horses and scenery just go together.

For additional pictures of this trip please visit our trip journal at

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Thanks for viewing the blog and have a great week

Rick, Nancy, Bandit and Belle

Fall and Travel Update Nashville TN

On October 6-10 Nancy and I attended the 85th anniversary of the Grand Ole Opry. Below is the entrance to the entrance to the famous Opry house. Above is picture of Dolly Parton who entertained at the big party

For more pictures of the Grand Ole Opry and Nashville Trip please visit our Trip Journal

at http://mytripjournal.com/HelloRoadSummer2010

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Updated Amateur Radio Station

A picture of our Amateur Radio Station (Ham Shack). The big change after the room remodeling is the updated console. Notice the two new console shelves on top of the desk. Made the last cut yesterday. It is really nice having everything at your fingertips. We also installed kick panels below the desk to hide all the cabling. The panels are removal just in case we need to run new cables. The computers are located on the left side. The computer is interfaced to the ham radio equipment. Pretty slick if I do say so myself





Nancy sitting at the updated station. We both are proud of the two small consoles . You cannot see them but there are 3 inch access holes in back of the smaller console and 3 inch holes on top and in back of the bigger console. These cutouts provide cable access to the equipment. Notice Nancy's little wood sign and flower on top of the equipment. It was hand made by a friend in Indiana named Charlie. He has passed on but he left a rememberance




Rick sitting at the new console. The wall speaker is an Old RCA Broadcast Speaker. It is one of two speakers that we use for the HF radio.

The VHF and UHF Radios have their own speaker system




This is a close up of the two new consoles and we have Charlies handcrafted signs on the top shelf. Charlie was a one of our friends from Rushville IN and he loved Cherry Pie.

Our other friend in Rushville IN are Mick and his wife Alice who introduced us to Charlie.






Thanks for viewing the blog and Have a great week


Rick, Nancy, Bandit and Belle

Nancy's Doll Houses

This is Nancy and her first doll house. All the shingles, all the windows, all the parts were in a box. Over a few months time she built this doll house from scratch.






This is an inside view of her first doll house. Notice the wallpaper. The wallpaper came from scraps that, at one time, were on the walls of our home.
The above house is 43 inches tall.

This is a picture of Doll House number 2. It is also 43 inches tall. Again all the detail that you see, is constructed one piece at a time. With the help of a dremel tool, box knife, glue and a hot glue gun the houses take shape.

This is the inside of Doll House number 2. Each room has wall paper and after all these years it is still sticking to the wall. All the steps, windows, flooring were cut to size and glued into place. Lots of detail in these houses.

This is the last picture you will see of Nancy and her Doll Houses. An antique dealer in Pickerington Ohio heard of the houses and wanted them. We delivered them to the store yesterday. At the store one of the houses was placed on a mantle and as you walked into the store you could not miss it.

Lots of work but Nancy really enjoyed building these. In fact she has started on another one. The new one will be slightly smaller than these two.

The antique dealer was thinking of putting one or both in the front store windows. That would definitely attract walk ins. When we delivered them customers were amazed at the amount of detail in the houses.

Nancy does not brag about her work, so I did it for her.

Thanks for viewing the blog and seeing one of Nancy's hobbies. Her other hobbies are Reading, RVing, Ham Radio, Cooking and Gardening.

Thanks again for looking at the blog and have a Great Day

Rick, Nancy, Bandit and Belle