At the Lake Part 4 - Settling In

[note: This is an 8 part story written by my sister Esther.]

It took several trips to get every thing done so we could move in and let Vernon fish. The son-in-laws were a big help and our son Jr was an extra big help. He was there every time we made a trip and he saved Vernon many steps which really meant a lot. Once again, we had a family gathering at my second daughter's house and had a “bring a dish supper”. Vernon did his thing working the bar-b-q grill and the next morning we all drove up and got us settled in. Then off they went home and we were sitting outside the travel trailer in our new lawn chairs watching the sun go down. The sky had such lovely dark pink clouds and the wind was strong enough to let the clouds roll by gently. All was right in the world that night.

We had settled in on a Wednesday and by Friday we had it down about how we were going to live here. It won’t be too bad if we kept up the team work. Keeping everything in it’s place was the first and last thing done and done all day long. It did not take long to get that one rule down pat. With out fail. Otherwise, it was a lot of work. And when I could not play, neither could Vernon, so we helped to make it second nature to do “Rule Number One” every time.