Southern Indiana friends and family

Back to our home state to visit family and friends.

Memories!

 

Our route through our home state.

Juanita's 80th birthday party, celebrated with Catherine,

 Judy, Susie, and the birthday girl on the right.

Delivering Juanita's birthday present on the real day.

Judy and Catherine picking blueberries in New Salisbury.

Just yummy in any baked goods, but most terrific fresh.

Dennis' brother, Eric, (driving) Dennis, Judy, and Brie

 on Eric's pontoon cruising Rough River Lake in Kentucky.

Brie is Eric and Martha's granddaughter.  Martha is the one hiding!

Beginning of the OH HELL! games with

 Dennis' brothers Stephen and Eric.

The next six pictures are from the Heinze reunion

 held on the 14th of July and attended by 62 relatives.

Great food.

Good company.

Kids and fun.

Relaxation. 

And total relaxation. 

 The newest member, Stonewall Oenomaus Dohoney.

He is Judy's great-great nephew.

Signature pose, while hanging a new swing in

 a beautiful maple tree on the farm

 of Jim and Lynda Turner.  Laconia, Indiana. 

Long time friends Lynda and Jim Turner,

along with their new neighbor, Larry.

Visiting Corydon, founded by Governor William Henry Harrison. 

 Corydon was the second Territorial Capital of Indiana

 (Vincennes was first) and the first State Capital.

William Henry Harrison House and Branham Tavern. 

 It has been expanded and remodeled and is now a gift shop.

From the looks of the banner, it may be something else when we come back again to visit.

We enjoyed an ice cream at Dennis' first cousin's

 famous Emery's Ice Cream Shop.

  Both Judy and Dennis enjoyed the hand-dipped

flavors of Emery's in New Albany while growing up.

  Kevin now continues the tradition in the historic district of Corydon.

Judy, Kevin Paul, and Jason Popp (nephew).

  Jason recommended their chocolate covered cherry waffle cone.

So do I. 

Dennis and Robert erecting a green house at

 Robert's (Judy's brother) place in Bradford.

Lunch and a visit with long-time friend, Betty McMahel, in New Albany.

Visiting Douglas (Judy's brother)

 and Paulette Dohoney's home in Salem.

Douglas, Paulette and Dennis in their day lily garden.

  I have some freshly picked goodies from the vegetable garden.

Brother and sister.

Catherine Dohoney Brown at her birthday celebration.

We are celebrating at Buckhead Brewery in Jeffersonville, IN. 

Catherine and her daughter, Jan Fetz Gabhart

 and her granddaughter, Karen Cooke Campbell.

Another birthday celebration.  

Sisters, Juanita Yost, Sue Roberts, Judy Paul,

 and the birthday girl, Catherine Dohoney Brown.

The Louisville skyline is in background.

Saint Mary's Navilleton annual church picnic. 

Church ladies' cakes--many more beyond the camera.

Saint Mary's Navilleton picnic pony rides under the

chestnut trees.

No luck winning that toy, quilt, bingo cash, or cake.  

  :(

Much better luck in Judy's brother's (John L.) garden.

 Harvesting the freshest sweet corn possible.

This brother's home is in Greenville, not far from his home place.

Blackberries--another YUM!

For some reason we did not get pictures of Jack and Joann

 and Judy's home place.

  However we enjoyed desert, cards, freshly-picked green beans,

 free-range organic brown eggs, 

and likely other goodies I have forgotten. 

 Thanks!

Jim and Lynda Turner's newly completed barn/workshop.

We spent three days at the farm visiting and working.

Installing doors in a tobacco barn being

 converted to a hay and storage barn.

Hinges are installed, now cut the doors free to swing.

Jim and Lynda documenting and supervising land clearing.

Monty and Melissa (Dennis' sister) visiting and joking

 during our stay at Indian Lakes Thousand Trails.

About 12 miles from our RV park is the historical town of Oldenburg.

We spent the day there sight-seeing and lunching.  Here are a few pictures.

Overlooking the village.

In the church yard--the town began here.

Our lunch spot.

Just served.  Dennis had a German sausage sandwich topped

 with mozzarella cheese, bacon, pineapple and barbecue sauce.

It sounded weird but tasted great.

  It was better than Judy's German link sausage

 with mozzarella and sauerkraut.

Yep, that's us.

Florida Winter 2012-2013

Hello all!

Our winter outing is nearly finished.  We are in Tallahassee

 and we will soon be heading to Ocala.

  I'm sorry that my postings have been non-existent 

for this trip, but here is the make-up posting.  

This winter we spent all of our time in Tallahassee with our son,

 Brian, and in our two Thousand Trails Parks.   

Brian, re-grading to improve drainage around his garage.

There are always chores when you own an RV--some pleasant,

 some not so much.

We visited Havana's winter welcoming festival

 in 70-degree warmth.

The parade was nice, with old cars.

Motorcycles.  

We are standing in front of the Wanderings store.

  It has an eclectic worldwide collection of gifts,

 along with antiques, furniture, and more.

  It is a great place to shop.  If you are in the area,

 stop by and say hello to the Lombardos.

A Viet Nam era Huey.

And what we all were waiting for--the lawnmower portion of the parade!

Havana even trucked in snow! 

 I hope there was not too many snowball fights

 because the snow turned to mushy ice very quickly.

We visited the Governor's Mansion with Brian

 and our host, Carin Butler.

  Carin is the sous chef there.

Brian and Judy on the lawn sculpture at the mansion.

Later in the week, Brian attended a Christmas party 

for the mansion's employees.

Our time in Orlando Thousand Trails included more maintenance.

It also included lots of pickleball--no pics  :(

A trip to the east coast beaches with

 Rick Gabhart and niece, Jan Gabhart, of St. Cloud.

No fish yet??!

Judy and the birds.  Perhaps she is scaring the fish!

Still no fish!

Finally!  Exactly what we were looking for.  Blackened Mahi, topped with a mango salsa.

  A medium rare catch.

We noticed this sign at the beach's entrance and had

 to borrow a two-gallon container for the picture.

Back at Rick and Jan's place, relaxing on the back deck.

Installing a sunscreen on the motorhome.  

Wow!  What a warm winter.

  And now that spring is here, it has gotten cool. Go figure.

We had a great visit with brother Chris (right), Randy (foreground), 

and Louie (background).  They were down to do repairs

 and maintenance to Nick's place.

It now belongs to Chris.

We will get another visit with Chris and his wife, Kathy,

 when they come down from Indiana on her Spring Break.

Lots of pickleball in Peace River Thousand Trails,

 with pictures.  

Judy and Janet.

Canoe trip down the Peace River.

Some of our traveling mates.

Marge and Dean.

Mira and Renault.

Judy and Dennis in the trees.  The photographer focused

 for the fall.  We obviously did not fall because

 you are not watching the video now!

Lunch break on a comfortable sand bar.

AHHH!  Florida white water!

Approaching the campground.

In the river, looking for fossil treasures.

We found several in our four outings.  Here is a sampling.

Dennis played pickleball too.  Here with Nathan against Rich and Rich.

We spent time with RV friends to eat out, pick strawberries and play LOTS and LOTS of Euchre.

Joann and John are from Muncie, Indiana.

Visited the beach on the west coast on Anna Maria Island.

Judy chose the sun.

I chose the shade, and a goofy glasses look.

A nice beach/tree house.

We stopped at a National Park--really!

Judy as Desoto.

The Pioneer Days were happening, so we hopped on our bikes

 and pedaled to Pioneer Park in Zoflo Springs.

Florida Flywheelers had their hit and miss

 engine collections from the early 1900's on display. 

There were antique tractors (early 30's to 50's) that looked new.

1939 Plymouth pickup.

Unusual V-8 power.

Unusual amount of colorful Fiestaware.

Unusual and colorful insulators.

And just plain unusual.

Before heading back to Tallahassee, we drove to Plant City

 for strawberry shortcake at the "world famous" Parksdale Farms.

  Yum!

  We walked off a few of the calories in downtown Lakeland.