Sorry Everyone, I’m behind in my posting.
I was working on posts last week but I lost my internet on the road. Such fun, we got a lot of the house packed up but there is still the attic, a bedroom and two garages to go. Oy! Oh and a car to haul too. This trip we decided to take the round about way so as to miss the Jersey turnpike and NY city since we’re hauling a 35 ft trailer so we went through Scranton and we passed by a followers town, or at least a sign to exit to go to the town. I did wave as we went by the sign MicheleAnn. Just as we went through Scranton and starting thinking about stopping for the night we were hailed by a trucker, we had a tire fly of the trailer at about mile marker 164.5, we didn’t even notice but thank goodness the trucker let us know because one side was listing pretty bad and the other tire on that side wouldn’t have lasted too long.
The next morning we unhooked and went to see about finding new studs so we could put on the spare, it is not easy to find studs for a trailer tire let me tell you, we had to go to 4 places before we found them. We also found our tire that flew off, it was just sitting there leaning up against the guard rail like it was waiting for us to come get it, what luck for us that it was undamaged. I left the grandkids in RI because I had a feeling something was going to happen on the trip and I was right to listen to that Karma or Kismet feeling. So we were able to pound in the new studs put the old tire back on and drive the rest of the way home without incident, yeah. So Saturday we unpacked the trailer most of it going into storage and the rest in the house. No you can barely walk through the house so I’ll be working on unpacking today and tomorrow and on until I get it done. Good news is I got our bed put up after cleaning it up, it started to get a little mold on it from being stored in the basement in RI. It feels so good to be in a big bed again. 
As you can see it pretty much takes up most of the diningroom which is our temporary bedroom until we can expand the house.
And look even my cat Tiger is happy to be home.
So Sunday I decided we would go on a train ride, you all remember I featured the trains here when Denny retired so we drove over to Durbin, WV and took a ride on the Durbin Rocket, here are some of the pictures I took.
The Durbin Rocket 
Ephraim is waiting to get on, he was so excited. 
Tickets please!! 
Here is an old phone or telegraph poles or wires. 
Here we are at the little creek we stopped at for a break. 
The oldest son hunting for treasure…… 
here it is…crawdads. Well time to get back on the train to head back. Here is a look from our car up to the front as we start around the bend. 
Here we are in the open car behind the engine, the coal dust is falling all over me like ash fallout. 
Here was our engineer, he was a nice man, they all were.
Here was a tub out in the woods…nah here just like at home they use them as horse waterers. Took this here at this little creek where we stopped to refill with water for the engine. 
Well there you go our train ride and now for our winners.
Yes I fell asleep on the back of Denny’s bike. I kept waking up when my helmet hit his, he was a little worried about me falling off but I just couldn’t stay awake. The second day I snored a few times he said but I have perfected sleeping while sitting up. So we had a few who guessed and the winner is Carol L., congratulations Carol, email me your snail mail with Reid’s winner in the subject line please. Seawit ch Reviews @ Yaho o.com.
Now there was two more winners for these comments…. Leah, I did bring 3 books to read but I was afraid they would fly out of my hand to be lost forever so I decided not to attempt it….but I did take out my expensive phone…go figure. And Lexi…you naughty girl, how did you know that crossed my mind???? I didn’t do it of course but it did cross my mind.
So Lexi and Leah email me your snail mail and I’m sending you two a mystery book.
Have a great week everyone!
Z Seawitch
Sounds like y’all are having quite the adventure, Zina!
Glad you are almost settled. We have moved ourselves, and others, so many times and in so many “shifts.” I don’t know that we would do well anymore. Age has made it a bit difficult to lift and haul what we once did. When we were in the military, I would be unpacked and settled in about a week. This move, not even close. We bought an old victorian farm house that needed gutting and completely redoing. We have played musical boxes and rooms for 20 years now. You kind of run out of steam and enthusiasm over the years. This summer and fall have been total chaos. I hope when we get back in mid-October from a long awaited trip, I can get serious about sorting, getting rid of stuff and finally move these boxes out of here.
We also did the adding on thing and it made a world of difference. Our master bedroom has changed 3 times, but we are now in our own space downstairs and it is perfect.
Hope the adding on and unpacking, as well as moving the rest down to WV, go smoothly and rapidly for you. Having made the trip from the NE to the south many many times over the past 40 years , I-81 is the only way to go. We took the NJ Turnpike, I-95 once back in the mid 1970′s and that was the last time we did it. Back then I-81 had very little traffic, but even now it isn’t as bad as I-95.
This looks like a great train trip. We will have to put it on our wish list.
Congratulations to your winners.
I loved the pix, especially the train ride. Use to do this as a kid, and still have those fond memories. Thanks for the trip down “memory lane”!
Congratulations to my friend, Leah! Enjoy, Girlfriend!
It looks as though you like the same things I do, Zina. Railroads and looking for crawdads. They’re a lot of work to eat (the crawdads that is!), but oh so worth it!!
Thank you, Connie! And you crack me up…..I hope we never find you out gnawing on tracks somewhere, LOL!
Ahhahaha…I knew it =)
How fun, a train ride! And yay you finally have your bed back! Sigh of relief can be heard.
Zina, your generosity just doesn’t stop. Thank you so much for this surprise!
Congratulations to Carol and Lexi, too!
That train ride looked so exciting. The only train I’ve ever ridden on was at Tweetsie. I just love the old steam engines.
I love trains. I love them all – modern & steam.
Congratulations everyone!!
i think i was there at 1x.. sounds like you have quite an adventure.. keep on going.. you can do it!