From Great Falls, MT, N47°29.386’ W111°19.942’
Day 72
We were blessed with more rain during the night and morning. I went to see Glenna during the lunch hour. I always like to encourage her to eat more. Looking at the plates the other residents left she is a heavy eater compared to them. I stayed until about 2 and then went to WalMart to shop for new tires for the Jeep. They wanted me to come back tomorrow to have them installed.
I went out caching grabbing 7 more today. I have to remember to take a camera when I go caching. Today’s hunts took me to a great view of the Missouri above Black Eagle Dam and a great view of the dam and falls looking up.
We went to see Glenna at about 7 and got interested in Jack a Nicholson/Diane Keaton movie. We stayed until about 8:30.
Grandson Sean in Reno called and I played WoW with him for a couple of hours.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
August 13, 2010
From Great Falls, MT, N47°29.386’ W111°19.942’
Day 71
It started raining about 11:00 PM last night and continued all night and most of the morning. It was in the low 60’s inside the coach. It rained more in the afternoon. Sometimes the rain was very hard with wind. It seemed that the rain knew when checkout and check in times were. We saw a lot of scurrying around getting hooked up to leave and later incoming RV’ers getting parked and set up.
We talked to Dana and the kids on Skype for quite awhile in the morning. What a couple of live wires. Vanessa will be two soon. She has started calling us Papa and Mimi.
I visited Glenna just after lunch and we watched an old movie on TV, An Act of Violence starring Robert Ryan and Van Heflin.
After hanging out at the RV Park I went to visit Glenna again at about 7. This time we watched another movie with Robert Ryan, The Set-Up from 1949.
Day 71
It started raining about 11:00 PM last night and continued all night and most of the morning. It was in the low 60’s inside the coach. It rained more in the afternoon. Sometimes the rain was very hard with wind. It seemed that the rain knew when checkout and check in times were. We saw a lot of scurrying around getting hooked up to leave and later incoming RV’ers getting parked and set up.
We talked to Dana and the kids on Skype for quite awhile in the morning. What a couple of live wires. Vanessa will be two soon. She has started calling us Papa and Mimi.
I visited Glenna just after lunch and we watched an old movie on TV, An Act of Violence starring Robert Ryan and Van Heflin.
After hanging out at the RV Park I went to visit Glenna again at about 7. This time we watched another movie with Robert Ryan, The Set-Up from 1949.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
August 12, 2010
From Great Falls, MT, N47°29.386’ W111°19.942’
Day 70
We didn’t have anything planned until 2:30 when Bingo and Happy Hour was scheduled at the Missouri River Manor.
I went caching and found 8 before it was time to go for Bingo. I got there about 2:00. That allowed plenty of time for Glenna to walk to the auditorium using her walker. The Happy Hour part was snacks and punch. Glenna got one Bingo and I got two. So her candy stash grew.
On the way back to the RV park I grabbed 2 more caches.
We hung out at the coach until about 7 and went back to visit Glenna. Every time we visit we ask what she had at the last meal.. She never knows the total meal.
This is a view of the Sun River from near one of the caches I did today. This is about 5 miles up stream from the RV Park.
Day 70
We didn’t have anything planned until 2:30 when Bingo and Happy Hour was scheduled at the Missouri River Manor.
I went caching and found 8 before it was time to go for Bingo. I got there about 2:00. That allowed plenty of time for Glenna to walk to the auditorium using her walker. The Happy Hour part was snacks and punch. Glenna got one Bingo and I got two. So her candy stash grew.
On the way back to the RV park I grabbed 2 more caches.
We hung out at the coach until about 7 and went back to visit Glenna. Every time we visit we ask what she had at the last meal.. She never knows the total meal.
This is a view of the Sun River from near one of the caches I did today. This is about 5 miles up stream from the RV Park.
August 11, 2010
From Great Falls, MT, N47°29.386’ W111°19.942’
Day 69
I went to the rehab center this morning to make sure I wasn’t going to miss a care plan meeting today. I saw Glenna briefly and went caching.
I have had quite a few that I didn’t find in the Great Falls area, so I asked another cacher for hints. Fulltimerbob had found four of them after I couldn’t. With his hints I found all four. One was close to the Moose Lodge in Black Eagle where he is staying. This lodge has hook ups for about eight RV’s and a dump station. I stopped and visited with Fulltimerbob and his wife for awhile. After that I found two others and couldn’t look for another. I went to the area of a cache I hadn’t found before. It’s under a bridge, but there are Trolls or Urban Nomads living there.
In the afternoon Gerri and I went to a Laundromat after that we did some shopping at Sam’s and Albertson’s.
After we got back to the coach, Gerri told me the care meeting was scheduled at three instead of eleven. Since Noelle had told me there was no meeting, I didn’t worry about it. I went and visited Glenna at about 7 until 8:30. We spoke to Todd and wished him a Happy Birthday. It’s hard to believe he is 46.
Back at the coach Gerri and I had supper and just hung out till bedtime.
Great Falls with my phone from a west side geocache.
Day 69
I went to the rehab center this morning to make sure I wasn’t going to miss a care plan meeting today. I saw Glenna briefly and went caching.
I have had quite a few that I didn’t find in the Great Falls area, so I asked another cacher for hints. Fulltimerbob had found four of them after I couldn’t. With his hints I found all four. One was close to the Moose Lodge in Black Eagle where he is staying. This lodge has hook ups for about eight RV’s and a dump station. I stopped and visited with Fulltimerbob and his wife for awhile. After that I found two others and couldn’t look for another. I went to the area of a cache I hadn’t found before. It’s under a bridge, but there are Trolls or Urban Nomads living there.
In the afternoon Gerri and I went to a Laundromat after that we did some shopping at Sam’s and Albertson’s.
After we got back to the coach, Gerri told me the care meeting was scheduled at three instead of eleven. Since Noelle had told me there was no meeting, I didn’t worry about it. I went and visited Glenna at about 7 until 8:30. We spoke to Todd and wished him a Happy Birthday. It’s hard to believe he is 46.
Back at the coach Gerri and I had supper and just hung out till bedtime.
Great Falls with my phone from a west side geocache.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
August 10, 2010
From Great Falls, MT, N47°29.386’ W111°19.942’
Day 68
I started the day trying to find out if there was a care plan meeting on Wednesday about Glenna.
Her tentative release date is the 24th. I ask if a home evaluation could be made at the motor home. I was told it could but probably the week of the discharge.
I spent some time cache hunting. I found one that I couldn’t find a week or so ago. I found a total of three and didn’t find four.. Not a good ratio and not many of the cache owners in this area make contact about their caches or check on them very often.
Tuesday night is Bingo night at the Missouri River Manor. Gerri and I got there about 6:15 to allow plenty of time to get to the auditorium from her room. I got three Bingos and Glenna got two and Gerri got one. Her candy cache is built back up. The way they play there are a lot of winners. Bingo is on the schedule again Thursday afternoon, I don’t know if they play this type of game.
Day 68
I started the day trying to find out if there was a care plan meeting on Wednesday about Glenna.
Her tentative release date is the 24th. I ask if a home evaluation could be made at the motor home. I was told it could but probably the week of the discharge.
I spent some time cache hunting. I found one that I couldn’t find a week or so ago. I found a total of three and didn’t find four.. Not a good ratio and not many of the cache owners in this area make contact about their caches or check on them very often.
Tuesday night is Bingo night at the Missouri River Manor. Gerri and I got there about 6:15 to allow plenty of time to get to the auditorium from her room. I got three Bingos and Glenna got two and Gerri got one. Her candy cache is built back up. The way they play there are a lot of winners. Bingo is on the schedule again Thursday afternoon, I don’t know if they play this type of game.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
August 9, 2010
From Great Falls, MT, N47°29.386’ W111°19.942’
Day 67
We headed further north. As you all realize the scenery doesn’t change much just because you cross a border. What I’m saying is we saw a lot more prairie. Only this time it was Alberta prairie. We went as far north as Milk River. We stopped at a visitor center with a dinosaur display. We then had lunch at a golf club house. Good cabbage rolls. Gerri also bought a Nestlé’s candy bar we had never seen in the USA.
We stopped at a Duty Free store before crossing back into the USA. The only thing we bought way a candy bar for Glenna.
Day 67
Today was the day we decided to take a drive to Canada. I downloaded some caches along the route. Away we went north on I-15. It was about 120 miles to Coutts, Alberta, the first town over the border. We saw a lot more Montana prairie with a few mountains in the distance. We stopped for two caches going north, one was a first to find.
Crossing the border was quick with only a few questions. My first cache found in Alberta was only a few hundred feet into Canada, but we had to drive several blocks to get to it. I had the next cache in my Street Pilot so we headed north on Alberta 4. It wasn’t far to the location indicated, a turnout with a Welcome to Alberta sign and some historical markers. I discovered that I didn’t have the cache in my handheld GPSR. While Gerri took pictures of some nearby elk in a field, I searched the few places a cache could be hidden. I found it quickly enough.
We headed further north. As you all realize the scenery doesn’t change much just because you cross a border. What I’m saying is we saw a lot more prairie. Only this time it was Alberta prairie. We went as far north as Milk River. We stopped at a visitor center with a dinosaur display. We then had lunch at a golf club house. Good cabbage rolls. Gerri also bought a Nestlé’s candy bar we had never seen in the USA.
We stopped at a Duty Free store before crossing back into the USA. The only thing we bought way a candy bar for Glenna.
Crossing back into the USA was pretty quick. The agent ask if we bought anything while in Canada, he remarked that it must be a special candy bar since we drove so far to get it.
More prairie on the way back to Great Falls. I stopped for two caches.
We went to visit Glenna at about 6:30 and stayed until about 8:30.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
August 8, 2010
From Great Falls, MT, N47°29.386’ W111°19.942’
Day 66
We were finally able to tune into the Church’s webcast with very little problem. We had planned to go to the Montana State Fair after church, but a storm cell came through with a lot of wind and some rain. The sky remained gray and threatening looking with wind blowing. We didn’t go to the fair.
At the start of this trip I tried to open the generator slide and it wouldn’t work. Once we were set up in Fillmore, CA I tried it again. It worked that time. Earlier this week when we moved from space 80 to space 139, I wanted to put out our patio carpet which is stored in the generator slide out. The slide wouldn’t operate. The motor ran but the slide didn’t move. Today I remembered that there was some discussion of this problem last month on the American Coach Yahoo group. I checked the archives and found what was recommended for the problem. Apparently the culprit is some air in the hydraulic line that operates the slide. The solution is to open the line and operate the motor for a short period of time. I followed the procedure and sure enough after I reclosed the line the slide worked. Now this may not seem like a big accomplishment for some, I have a purple thumb when it comes to things mechanical so it feels pretty good when I open a can of getting it done. Now if I could just get the solar panels working. I’ll make a call to Kevin and post a description of the problem on the ACC list.
I went to see Glenna at about 6:30. She was sitting on the bed leaning sideways. She said her leg was hurting. I asked if she had pressed the call button for the nurse and told her about it. She had not. The nurse came in about that time with her Tylenol and a new pain patch. I had brought Gerri’s computer and was able to get tuned in to the Oakey Blvd Church webcast. Not much volume on Gerri’s laptop, but we managed to worship with the Oakey congregation and Glenna took communion.
I left the home at about 8:30 to go back to the coach for supper. Gerri had prepared a casserole with egg, ham, cheese and tortillas. It was delicious and made spicy with a little jalapeno hot sauce.
Tomorrow we plan to drive up to a town just across the Canadian border; Coutts, Alberta. We will see what is to be seen. I want to do a couple of geocaches in Alberta which is new territory for me. It’s about 120 miles each way and there are at least three caches along the way in reststops.
Day 66
We were finally able to tune into the Church’s webcast with very little problem. We had planned to go to the Montana State Fair after church, but a storm cell came through with a lot of wind and some rain. The sky remained gray and threatening looking with wind blowing. We didn’t go to the fair.
At the start of this trip I tried to open the generator slide and it wouldn’t work. Once we were set up in Fillmore, CA I tried it again. It worked that time. Earlier this week when we moved from space 80 to space 139, I wanted to put out our patio carpet which is stored in the generator slide out. The slide wouldn’t operate. The motor ran but the slide didn’t move. Today I remembered that there was some discussion of this problem last month on the American Coach Yahoo group. I checked the archives and found what was recommended for the problem. Apparently the culprit is some air in the hydraulic line that operates the slide. The solution is to open the line and operate the motor for a short period of time. I followed the procedure and sure enough after I reclosed the line the slide worked. Now this may not seem like a big accomplishment for some, I have a purple thumb when it comes to things mechanical so it feels pretty good when I open a can of getting it done. Now if I could just get the solar panels working. I’ll make a call to Kevin and post a description of the problem on the ACC list.
I went to see Glenna at about 6:30. She was sitting on the bed leaning sideways. She said her leg was hurting. I asked if she had pressed the call button for the nurse and told her about it. She had not. The nurse came in about that time with her Tylenol and a new pain patch. I had brought Gerri’s computer and was able to get tuned in to the Oakey Blvd Church webcast. Not much volume on Gerri’s laptop, but we managed to worship with the Oakey congregation and Glenna took communion.
I left the home at about 8:30 to go back to the coach for supper. Gerri had prepared a casserole with egg, ham, cheese and tortillas. It was delicious and made spicy with a little jalapeno hot sauce.
Tomorrow we plan to drive up to a town just across the Canadian border; Coutts, Alberta. We will see what is to be seen. I want to do a couple of geocaches in Alberta which is new territory for me. It’s about 120 miles each way and there are at least three caches along the way in reststops.
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