Blog 23 - the road home

Goodbye Jughead, Boo Hoo



Greensburg, Kansas water tower



Parked for another summer


Thursday morning, we went to devotions, said our goodbyes and packed up our RV’s. It was so neat to see Judy waving us goodbye with her hanky with Mary and Pat standing by…

We parked our RV at the storage place we have found for this year near Jasper and soon were on the road.

We had a very good, but long, trip. The first night we spent at Durant, OK; the second night in Nebraska, the third night at Sterling, N.D. and we were home at 6:’30 p.m. on Sunday, March 15th. We arranged it so our route took us through Greensburg, Kansas, where we got some pictures and an excellent book written of stories by Christians who survived the tornado. Then when we got into Canada, we took the route through Rouleau, Sk., the site of the hit comedy series, Corner Gas. We’d never been there before.

We got home to bad news – unbeknownst to Shari, our little black Jughead puppy had got out of our yard because snow was piled up and the gate didn’t close all the way. She let both dogs out to run around in our fenced yard, as usual, and only the white one came back to the door. She spent the afternoon searching the neighbourhood and calling, to no avail. A neighbour drove her around asking everyone if they’d seen him – no luck. She called the SPCA and the R.M. dog pound, but nothing there. At first, we hoping that some kind person picked him up and brought him in out of the well below freezing temperatures, but it now appears that there is a problem with big dogs roaming in Redwing Terrace and there have been incidents of attacks on cats and smaller dogs. So poor Jughead was probably a casualty. That is our feeling, since Shari did not notice that Abby came in with a small bloody wound on her back just in front of her tail, and we have also found a small puncture wound on her side. She must have gotten back inside the yard and they couldn't in. Jughead wasn't so lucky!

In addition, Shari had also been having more problems with her car, so will have to be finding something better to drive. She had a couple of bad weeks there just before we came home, and was ready to have some back-up support!

Both of our kids and our grandchildren were happy to have us back. Emily got to spend a couple of days with us the first week home. We really enjoyed that!

We have had some very cold weather and some warmer weather since we arrived home. Winter is certainly not over yet!