CARL'S MASTER PIECE ON THE STEPS
















#2 Looking towards the second deck


























A big improvement and a big deck!

Mother's Day Weekend

Hi,

We are in the motorhome visiting with Rick and Lori. Carl is helping to put on a new deck at their house. We worked yesterday preparing to get ready to build the deck.

Carl and I with the help of our Tracker pulled out shrubs along the old deck so we could start the new deck! That little Tracker has some pulling power. It was fun!

You know the old saying, if it starts to rain before 7:00 am it will quit by 11:00. Guess what that is what happened! Pretty cool. At this time which is 12:40, there are still some rain clouds! Let's hope and pray that it doesn't rain. We have a lot of work to do yet!

Today, after it quit raining, Rob and Marty, Lori's brothers came by and helped put the deck boards on the deck. That was a big help. We thank them for all their work!

Yesterday was funny....I tied Sadie to Higgie's collar and he took Sadie for a walk.....I laughed so darn hard. It was too cute! Of course it didn't last long.

So, hopefully, we will have a good day tomorrow with sunshine! We have to finish the deck and do landscaping done before Amber's Open House which is in two weeks.

Hooray!

Sharon and Larry Smades

12 years ago Larry and Sharon moved to Madisonville, Tn. They feel they made the right move!
They love Tennessee! These people are friends from way back when!

GAR'S ROADSTER

Gar has a roadster and we got to take ride! Fun, Fun in the Sun!

Gar and Shirley Wilson

My cousins live in Woodruff, South Carolina. A great place to call home!
We arrive on April 9, 2009 and parked in their back yard for a week!
We played dominoes, ate good food and laughed and laughed! A very
memorable week to say the least! We traveled to Greenville, Spartansburg and
up to the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. They showed us around and enjoyed their
company.

We left there on Thursday April 16 and drove back to Larry and Sharon Smades in Madisonville,
South Carolina. We drove to Strawberry Plains, Tn to see our niece Sheila Rhode (Roger's daughter). We had a delightful visit with Sheila and her wonderful daughter's Nicole and Brea.
We had to say good bye in a few hours and headed back to Madisonville, Tn. (about 1 1/2 hrs away) We spent the night at Sharon and Larry's and left early heading towards Michigan.

12 1/2 hrs later we were at Rick and Lori's. Had a short visit with them. We left Sunday afternoon after breakfast and headed for home. We haven't seen our home for 4 1/2 months!

Wonder what the furry kids will think when they can romp in a big house?

Paula Deen's Restaurant

We left this morning early to go to Savannah to get our place in line at the"Lady and Son's Restaurant". Story goes you have to get there early to get a time for lunch or dinner. We abided by the story and we did get a 12:00 lunch date.

We toured downtown Savannah. Went to Riverfront, very cool place. Savannah is a beautiful place!

Went back to Paul Deen's Store wanted to pick up her new book. We shopped around, went upstairs to look at more stuff...and I ran right into Bobby Deen, Paula Deen's youngest son! Boy, I was so excited I could hardly talk!

For those of you who do not know who Paula Deen is....she is on the foodnet work with her own show. She has two son's who also cook and they appear on her cooking show. I love her southern cooking! I think Carl does too!

The Restauant is awesome! It is in an old run down building at 102 Congress in Savannah! It is 3 stories with a restauant on each floor.

The food is total awesome! I ate so much! Yes, when I get home it will be

time to get the "South Beach" out!

We had a totally fabulous day with our friends John and Carol and the Deen's!

Thank you Hilton Head for some decent sunshine and warm weather!