Wednesday, July 21, 2010

LAST WEEK IN CANTON, OHIO AND OLE MISS

We can’t believe that we have been in Canton for three full weeks and working on our last. It was and is another week of visits. On Monday, July 26, we will leave for Washing DC.

On Saturday we visited with our neighbors that lived across the street from us. We were both so surprised at how BIG both the kids grew. This is Anna. Marsha calls her…her adopted granddaughter. She has grown a foot or more since last October. She is going in third grade and is smart as can be.

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This is Anna’s brother, Anthony. He cracks everyone up. He is ALWAYS either laughing or smiling. He is just on the verge of walking by himself. He has also grown a ton!!!

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Of course, we couldn’t leave before Marsha and Anna had their picture taken together. You can see by the picture that Anna is almost as tall as Marsha. Of course, no one would call Marsha a giant or anything.

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HAIRY SITUATION! Paul's computer has been acting up lately so we thought we better have someone check it over. We took it to the local computer store and explained our problem. Three days later, we returned to pick it up. It's only problem.....it had a cat hairball and dirt....LOL. It seems the fan that cools its interior had sucked in cat hair. Bella (our cat) loves to lay on the window ledge by our table. That's where our computers are and where we do are computer work. After seeing Paul’s computer, Marsha thought she better take her computer in for cleaning. Her computer is twice as old as Paul's and her hairball/dirt was twice as big.....crazy. So we now have another item on our annual maintenance list....”Get computers cleaned!”

This is what came out of Marsha’s computer.

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If you are wondering what problems we were having that led to us getting the computers clean…fan would stay on all the time, hot computer bottom and Marsha’s kept turning off all the time. We were told that we shouldn’t use canned air to try to clean the fan. That just causes the dirt to be sent somewhere else in the computer. The computer actually needs taken apart to get the dirt out.

 

Just one more flashback. When we were in Red Bay, AL, we drove to University, MS, to The University of Mississippi or better known as Ole Miss.

It was about one and a half hours from Red Bay. The university is very pretty. One thing we did notice is that the buildings are very close to each other. There are several new buildings going up. Usually a campus has a theme, we didn’t really see one but think that the presences of columns on most of the buildings may be their trademark. We spent a few hours enjoying the campus.

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The Grove is very pretty.

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The Student Services building is beautiful inside.

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The Magnolias were all blooming in May. They are huge!

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Interfaith Pairs Yates Chapel

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Pairs bell tower with 36 bells

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This one is for our daughter Kelly. She is the softball coach at her high school.

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Here are more pictures of Ole Miss.

Thanks for stopping by. See y’all real soon.

Friday, July 16, 2010

CANTON, OH & A FLASHBACK TO NEW ORLEANS

Thursday, July 15 – Visiting, eating, gaining weight…seems to be our daily routine. Every day one of us has either an appointment, lunch date (Marsha does this.), breakfast outing (This is Paul’s favorite.), visiting a friend at home, and we manage to see  Marsha’s dad for a while each day. We can’t believe it has almost been three weeks since we arrived in Canton. It has been great to see our family and friends. This past week we saw our friends, Cindy and George Woods, and Joyce and Howard Kirk. Paul went to breakfast with 8 guys he taught with. Marsha went to Leigh Ann’s house and then to Jackson High School…where we both retired from…to see Keith, Carolyn, Dave and Shawn.

Since we are doing a ton of visiting and not any site seeing, we thought we would share some pictures of New Orleans and the Garden District. We didn’t have time to post all the beautiful houses we saw. We thought this would be a great time to share this wonderful section of New Orleans with you.

The author Anne Rice lives here.

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This was the home of Jefferson Davis, first and only president of the Confederate States of America. He died in 1889.

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Beautiful side balcony of the Davis’ home

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Women’s Opera Guild House

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Colonel Short’s Villa. That is Paul reading about the cast-iron fence, in cornstalk pattern.

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This house was once owned by author Anne Rice. Once an active Catholic Chapel, the building is known as Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel.

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These are just some examples of the beautiful historic homes.

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Porches

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Railings around the houses.

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Outstanding detail

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Lots more pictures here.

Thanks for stopping by. See y’all real soon.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

MORE GOINGS ON IN CANTON

Canton, Ohio (continued) – Since began our travels, Marsha has had one awful experience after another finding some place to get her roots done and a good cut. She was sooooo excited about seeing Krista again. Krista has been coloring and cutting Marsha’s hair for about 5 years. She loves her. Marsha says, “If you are traveling through Canton and need your hair cut, colored, etc. there is only one place to go and that is to Le Salon Boutique in North Canton. And the only person to have it done by is Krista Damiano. You will LOVE  the way she does your hair.” After reading this, I wonder if Krista will give her a price break…LOL.

Marsha says…Isn’t she a cutie?

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We are parked in brother Rick's driveway for about two weeks now – time to pull-out and dump the holding tanks. The city has a free RV dump station...now that I find really surprising!

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The place is so easy to get in and out of.

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It's been VERY HOT here as in most of the country. Unfortunately, being plugged into Rick's garage receptacle, we are at the extreme end of the line for electricity and have experienced “brown-outs.” Our Electrical Management System senses low voltage and knocks us off-line. We have not been able to run our AC as planned. So it's not very comfortable to do anything in the MH during the hot days. Fortunately, it has cooled-off enough at night to permit semi-comfortable sleeping.

We emptied the basement of the MH and did a thorough cleaning. After sweeping out all the storage bays, we carefully reloaded everything we own hoping we'll be better able to find things when needed. We even have some empty space for the eventual “spreading out” of stuff.....LOL

All for now. Hope to see y’all back real soon.