Bidding adieu

Pack, pack, pack. We are really closing in on the finish line. We have really been to approach this in a leisurely manner. We worked awhile and then went off to look for a garage sale that was to be city wide. We looked all over Illinois Street where it was to be. We came home and talked to the bearer of the information who said it was tomorrow. Actually, we learned later, it was last Saturday. We didn't need anything anaway. We cleaned up and met Joe and Bonny for lunch at Fat Daddy's restaurant. We had a nice visit and met then because they wanted to leave for Austin to visit their daughter and new baby. She has spent a great deal of time up there. One would think this was her only grandchild instead of her 17th. They plan to come to visit us in NC this summer. We came home and went back at it. I did go to Popeye's Chicken to use our 2 for 1 coupons before we leave. We had four 3 piece dinners to take on the road. We did split one for dinner. We ate in the motor home, thinking we would sleep there tonight since we had changed the sheets inside. Even though it cooled off in the evening, Evelyn decided it was too hot to sleep there. Cest le gere. Earlier in the day she received a call from her brother saying her mom had wandered off and the staff thinks she needs constant supervision. He didn't like the looks of the alzheimer's unit, so he put her in the same wing that her dad and my mom spent some time there. It is a beautiful facility and she will wear an ankle monitor that will not allow her to exit the door. We are praying for both her and John, Evelyn's brother. We thank God for his faithfulness and perserverence. We were able to say good-bye to many of our winter friends. We plan to leave sometime in the morning. The big question is what will we forget. :-)