CAMPGROUND REVIEW - North Bayshore County Park, Oconto, Wisconsin

We had a quandary last week...

We wanted to go camping but also we had a couple things going on at the house.

One thing was that we were having our city water meter changed. So the water utility repair guys needed access to our basement. We had an appointment for Thursday morning for that. 

Also, on Tuesday we had a much awaited FedEx delivery scheduled. So we wanted to be home for that!

But we also wanted to go camping. We had the lawn cut and the flowers watered and we really didn't have anything else to do all week at home.

So away we went to North Bayshore County Park. It's a small campground of only 34 sites just north of our home along the waters of the Green Bay. It's really only 6 miles as the crow flies. About 8 if we drive on the road!

We checked online and saw that there were a number of sites available for 3 or 4 days...

It is such a nice little county park. It has a marina and breakwater, as well as a nice boat launching area for fishermen. It tends to attract older people or fisherman, because there really isn't a big swimming beach. Things are pretty rocky there. There is some playground equipment for children. But not much else. So it's a pretty quiet campground even during the week. 

The county has enacted a special for Monday through Thursday for only $20 a night for a campsite. Friday Saturday and Sundays it is $35 a night.

We loaded up the motorhome and drove on over. Once we decided on one of the six or seven available sites, we drove over to the kiosk to pay for it. 

The kiosk in the park, located over near the boat ramp area, is available to pay via credit card for any of the sites that are not already reserved. It is the camper's responsibility to either look online or drive over to the park and go through each of the campsites looking at the little calendar on each post. Reserved sites are stricken off. If a site is open a certain number of days, then you can pay for those days at the kiosk. But the kiosk is not hooked up to the reservation system....  We didn't know that. 

Sooooooo

We accidentally paid for FOUR nights on site 11. Technically, according to the strike off marks on the little calendar on site 11's post, it was going to be used by somebody else on Thursday night.

Uh oh.... So now we had a kiosk slip paying for FOUR nights, but we could only stay on site number 11 for THREE nights. I made a quick call over to the courthouse. The gracious clerk helped me switch my fourth night over to site number 10 across the road. That one was not taken by anyone else. So she put it in the computer and everything was completed,  easy peasy.

Here is the link to their website and access to the reservation system:

https://parks.ocontocountywi.gov/parks/camping/north_bay_shore_county_park/

So now I'll do a little campground review. I will start off with a YouTube bicycle tour of every campsite. I am trying to build up my YouTube channel called "What-A-View". It is only going to be videos of camping and campground reviews and camping products. Not to be confused with my other YouTube channel with videos of everything else in my life. 

So this is a bicycle tour going from campsite to campsite --- so you can kind of use it to figure out which site you want to reserve. By seeing them on video it's a little bit easier than trying to look at a graphic map or a Google map view of the park.

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For those who don't care to go to YouTube, here are some photos of shots I took around the park. As you enter the park there's this beautiful little Harbor. There's a nice deck, situated lengthwise to the water, with some little benches. A perfect spot to sit and do some fishing or watching the birds.

We are dealing with the emerald ash borer here in this section of Wisconsin. They ask that you only use certified firewood from the area that's been inspected for pests. They do have this cute little self-serve kiosk that is like a vending machine! For $10 you put it in and you can punch in the number and letter of the door that contains firewood. Just be sure you only punch in the letter and number of one that has not previously been emptied! Also there is a local certified vendor who drives through the park once a day and sells firewood off the back of his truck.

There is a restroom building with flush toilets at one end of the park. There are also pit toilets situated in other parts of the campground and over by the boat launch as well as the group area. But this building is the only one with flush toilets.

It is kept neat and clean, and the campground host is located directly across from the bathrooms which helps to keep down any vandalism or nonsense going on.

The shower rooms that are located on each side of the building are a little more worse for the wear. They could use some updating. Also the showers are coin operated. You get 4 minutes of showering for $1.00. 

(We shower inside of our motorhome)

Outside, there is a water faucet available as well as a drinking fountain. Perfect for filling up water bottles. About 3/4 of the campsites have water faucets. Sites 12 through 21 do not have water at the campsite.  So be sure to fill up from the potable water fill at the entrance if you are on sites 12 through 21.

All in all, it's a quiet park. Located far enough away from any main roads or railroad tracks or noisy residential or cabins. For the price, to get a site with electric and water during the middle of the week it's a bargain! That's why we like coming here. Cellular coverage and broadcast TV are pretty good. And the fishing is great!

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So that's it for the technical review of the campsite. Now I'll get on to our own camping experience while on site 11 and later on site number 10.  As I said, it was just a hop skip and jump from home. To buzz up along the shore and get into our campsite.

Because we were going to run back and forth to home a couple times, I followed Steve in our Kia. I towed along our little utility trailer with the e-bikes and our extra camping gear in it. Normally we just hook it on to the motorhome. But since I was coming along in a separate vehicle, I towed it.

The campsites are nice and deep, plenty of room to park an extra vehicle.

Now again, I made a YouTube of our four days at the campground. If you want to watch it, here is a link below. Please like and subscribe if you do!

We had an enjoyable afternoon and the evening cooled off enough to take a nice long bike ride up the Bay. We found some back roads and had some fun pedaling around. 

After dinner, the sunset was looking a little strange and starting to cloud up. Everything was getting that funny yellowish light, you know the kind, right before a storm? 

Well well well, look at that. We clicked onto our radar app and saw what was coming!  We tuned into the local weather station on TV and watched the announcements slide by on the bottom of the screen. 

As the storm crept closer and closer, the warnings got more and more ominous. We were looking at nickel to quarter size hail, combined with up to 60 mph winds.

Well, motorhomes are insured. But people and dogs not so much. So at 1:00 a.m. when the wind started rocking and the rain was just beginning, we grabbed our wallets and cell phones and the dogs. Hopping into the Kia just as the rain started. We drove the short 8 mi back into town and soon we were pulling right into the safety of our garage.  We curled up in our own bed for the night and the storms raged around us. We didn't need to go down to the basement but a tornado did touch down across the bay on the tip of Door County. I'm glad we made the smart decision and went home for the night. 

The other benefit of going home was in the morning we could grab some cute grandkids to haul back out to the campground. They wanted to do a little fishing! 

We picked up a couple tubs of worms and grabbed the fishing poles. It's one of their favorite pastimes. Grandpa spent most of the time either untangling lures, fixing tangled lines, or adjusting the fishing poles so they could reel in all of these big huge whoppers.

It was a beautiful morning after the big storm. You know how things always look so much nicer after the storm goes through? The air feels so fresh and things are so green.

The total catch of the day was "1". And we let it go to get bigger and bigger and bigger.

While the two older kids were still fishing with Grandpa, Claire came back up to the campsite with me to start some lunch. The kids had opted for cheese pizza. To keep the excess heat out of the motorhome, we took out our Camp Chef oven from our camping gear in the cargo trailer. It's the nicest little propane oven with three different rack positions inside as well as two burners up on top. We could cut the pizza in half and cook both halves at the same time. We just alternated the pizzas on the shelves halfway through.

Kids, camping and pizzas. A pretty good combination!

In the afternoon, it started to cloud over a little bit. The few raindrops started splattering down so we headed on inside. It was getting pretty hot and muggy. We clicked on the air conditioning and popped on some movies on the TV. We have the Starlink along, so they could choose some of their favorites. One of the favorites is a separate little Roku station called The Pet Collective. The grandkids call it the "puppies and kitties" channel. As it started to rain, Chelsea cuddled little Binney, and made sure she was comfortable. Someday Chelsea would like to be a veterinarian.

Claire and Clayton crawled up on the top bunk. We don't often have the extra mattress up there. Usually we store it in the garage. But this time we had it along and they had the perfect perch to lay up there and watch TV.

The storms blew over and soon the sunshine was out again. A cold front had blown in. This time they opted for spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. Sloppy spaghetti and little grandchildren don't really go together inside of a motorhome. So we ate out on the picnic table.

The bread sticks from our local bakery / deli are a real hoot. Chelsea was definitely incognito.

We brought the grandkids back to their house and also we waited for our FedEx delivery. One small box came but the main big box evidently had a smeared barcode tracking label and it accidentally got shipped way over to the far west side of the state! Our box was in LaCrosse! So a new shipping label was created and now we would have to wait one more day for the box to arrive at our home.

So Steve and I went back out to the campground and spent another day and another night in total relaxation and comfort 

It was pretty hot and muggy again on Wednesday. We decided to cook and keep the heat out of the motorhome. Steve did up some burgers on his Blackstone flat top griddle.

I got out my instapot that has an air fryer lid attachment. This is another one of my favorite appliances that I carry along in our cargo trailer. On the video up above I show how I made french fries while we were camping. They are much better to eat coming out of the air fryer than anything fried in grease or baked in the oven. 

Yummmmmmmm

On Thursday, We got up early and drove into town to meet up with the city water utility worker. The new meter got installed and the paperwork for the new phone app to go along with it was set up. New technology.

As we were getting ready to head on back to the campground, we got the notification on our phones that our FedEx box was finally arriving! We carefully moved it from the driveway into the garage. That box is going to be one of our next update motorhome modification projects, and you will see that in an upcoming video and blog post. 

But... If you do watch the video from the link up above, I tell you on there what is in the box that we were waiting for!

Anyhow, we went back out to enjoy another beautiful day at North Bayshore County Park. It was time to pack up and move over to site number 10. Our site number 11 was reserved for 3:00 p.m.

About 1:30, we did the big move over across the road. We hand carried the lawn chairs and our ground mat. We pulled in the slides and unplugged the cord. Picked up the Starlink and drove the motorhome across the street. Big move! 

Soon we had everything set back up and Steve sat back to enjoy a nice cold beer. 

The people who had our site 11 reserved pulled in at 3:05 on the dot. I am glad that we didn't delay getting off our site and making the move.

The grandkids begged to come back out on Thursday evening. They pestered and pestered us to be able to sleep overnight. We said it would be okay and they hauled all their gear into the motorhome. Chelsea opted to stay in a tent that she pitched up behind our camper. 

We were going to do s'mores out by the campfire, but it got very cold and windy. So the next best thing was to do something inside. 

On my video up above, I have Chelsea and Claire's creation of making a new treat using mini marshmallows, chocolate chips, a fudge stripe cookie and a sugar cone. Guess you'll have to just go look at the video to see what Chelsea and Claire came up with? 

In the morning, everybody was warm and cuddly and cute--- we had a nice breakfast together. But there was going to be rain coming again about 1:00 p.m. It was probably best to get loaded up and back into town. Chelsea pulled down her tent and we got the gear all stowed back where everything belonged. 

It was time to head on back so I hauled the little trailer behind the Kia. Chelsea was my co-pilot.

But there's always one more task that needs to be done when leaving a campground. It was time for Claire to learn what happens to the contents of the toilet and the sinks of the motorhome when we go to leave the park....  That section is also on the video up above!

Steve had come up with a really good idea for some birthday presents for the grandkid's parents. Our daughter's birthday was on Sunday and our son-in-law's birthday in the middle of July. We figured out a really good idea of something to get them, and the grandkids were really excited to help go pick them out. 

It was two new maple trees from the local nursery. One for each of their parents to plant up at their cabin.

The trees were huge, about 10 ft tall. We really didn't have a way to haul them in the Kia.

But I came up with a really good idea that we could haul them right in the motorhome!!! 

And we did!!!

Yep, Steve wrapped plastic bags around the bottom pots so the dirt did not fall out. He was able to hoist each one into the center aisle and lay them gently down in our motorhome!

Once we got to their house, Clayton got out his little dolly cart furniture mover. It sometimes doubles as a little flat go-kart for him...

So here's three little goomers with all of their camping gear. They are smiling at the delightful thought of their parents surprise at getting two huge trees for their birthdays. 

It was quite a productive weekend, combined with camping, water meter installations, storms, FedEx deliveries and purchasing and hauling birthday presents!

CAMPGROUND REVIEW - We Energies Wilderness Shores Rec Site #1

Even though we just got home from a month-long trip, we had the urge to go camping again already by the weekend.  So we tossed some stuff in the rig and away we went.

It was a beautiful Friday morning with sunshine and blue sky. Those white puffy clouds mean the humidity is low. Just perfect to get away and escape into the woods. We don't often go camping on the weekends, but time is running out, and winter is coming.

If you read my last blog, you will know that I am very happy to have my laptop now accessible from the front passenger seat. I have my GPS dongle sitting in the windshield and it functions perfectly. Microsoft Streets and Trips is still operational, even if they are no longer supporting it. I love having the big screen with the accessibility to plan a trip and look forward, look back, zoom in and zoom out. 

The new laptop stand with articulating arm works perfectly. It is bolted right to the seat frame and can rotate with the seat to face the rear of the coach. It works really well and does not vibrate at all as we are driving. The only change I'm going to make is to switch over to my corded mouse. Twice I dropped my cordless mouse and it went down in the stepwell by the door. If I had the corded one I could have easily retrieved it.

NOW ON TO THE CAMPGROUND:

We headed up to a little out of the way place called the We Energies Wilderness Shores Rec Sites. There are thirty different locations scattered around northeast Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, all maintained by this energy company.  Here is the blog post from another time when we were there:

http://kareninthewoods-kareninthewoods.blogspot.com/2020/08/campground-review-we-energies-rec-site.html

The We Energies system has various dams built along the Menominee River. Around the edges they have cultivated little recreation sites for camping and fishing. Here's their website with more information.:

https://www.we-energies.com/environment/wilderness-shores

Our favorite one is called Rec Site #1. Located just south of County K, at the border between Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, near the Chalk Hills Dam. So we set our sights on getting there early and looked for an empty campsite. At Rec Site #1 there are 4 little campsites to occupy first come first serve. The rate is only $15 a night. It is rustic camping with no hook ups or water source. There is a pit toilet, trash can, and 4 picnic tables and fire rings at each site. There's a pay post and envelopes for cash only. No reservations, no credit cards, nor any campground host.

We pulled on in and managed to snag site 1 C!!!   The sites are 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D. How wonderful! A beautiful shady site, and we can pull right up to the water's edge with the motor home. It is grassy and, level as all 4 sites are. We have a little picnic table and a fire ring made of rocks.

We are on the Michigan side of the Menominee River, and just across the river from us, down about 10 miles, our oldest daughter has a cabin near Wausaukee.

We got set up. The view out of our door and our windows is absolutely fantastic. We are only about fifteen feet from the water. 

 The colors of autumn are rapidly changing in the area. Trees are starting to turn faint hues of red and orange. The last of the wildflower blossoms are opening up to the sun before the first frost takes them out.

Binney got out and about and sniffed around the camp site. She gave it her seal of approval and settled down in the sunshine next to the fire pit. She supervises us setting up camp.

We put out the slides and our camping ground mat with our relaxing recliner lawn chairs. This sure was quite a comfortable site, and it was total peace and quiet. The neighbors next to us were out fishing and we didn't hear a peep.

One we were all settled in, we whipped up a quick lunch. Then it was time to relax and take a little nap for the afternoon. We had all of the windows wide open and a soft breeze blowing in off the river... it was a very pleasant afternoon

We had bought some firewood nearby on our way into the campground, and Steve unloaded it next to the fire pit. It turns out, the neighbors that came back from their fishing excursion and invited us to share their campfire for the evening. So we carried some over by their fire pit.

We were treated to a beautiful sunset, and nice camaraderie around the campfire. They had caught some fish and decided to cook them up and share sample tidbits with each of us around the fire. What a treat. Fresh perch and bluegill... yummmmm!

As the sun was setting, I snapped this picture of the neighbor's lawn chair and fishing pole. I hadn't gotten mine out yet, but I planned to do it the next morning.

Our new neighbor, Chickie, did something we've never seen before. She has a little shovel and some old aluminum disposable pie tins. She shovels hot coals out of the campfire and sets them into the pie tins. Using her shovel, she carefully slides them underneath each person's lawn chair from the back side. The heat coming up off the coals can really be felt while sitting in the lawn chair! Every 30 minutes or so she would replenish the trays underneath our chairs!

We sat out around the fire with them till well after 11:00 p.m. and a few beverages were consumed. It was time to toddle off to bed as the temperatures were dropping and it was going to be a very chilly night.

We did have some other people that moved on the other site next to us to the north. Two couples who set up a couple of tents earlier in the evening. They were kind of loud. But we certainly did not expect them at 10:00 PM at night to fire up a diesel heater and place it between their two tents!!!!  From the noisy diesel engine, they ran two hoses expelling heat into each of their tents! This diesel heater was quite loud, similar to a generator. Of course there are generator restrictions in the campground after 10:00 PM. We weren't going to cause a ruckus by complaining about it, because really there wasn't anybody to complain to. So we just bit our tongues and put up with it.

By early morning, I glanced at the outside temperature which was down to 41°! Brrrrr but we were cozy warm inside our little motorhome. Their diesel heater had run out of fuel about five o'clock in the morning. They were slamming and banging around and having an argument amongst the two couples. I kinda presume it's one who didn't have enough fuel along for the the heater?  They settled back down by 5:30 and had to finish the night by sleeping in their idling vehicles.

We got up and perked our coffee. We were just going to ignore them. They were prepping to go out fishing. So we didn't need to have a confrontation with them anyhow. There would have also been a slight language barrier, although I've heard a few English phrases and words every now and then. My high school French is not nearly good enough to follow along with their French Canadian dialect.

With coffee cups in hand, we took Binney for a nice little walk out of the campground and around towards the boat landing.

It was such a beautiful morning, crisp and cool. Just the type of morning to put on a nice, thick sweatshirt and sip a steaming, hot cup of coffee. The birds were singing, and it was absolutely magical. I love fall camping!

It was a short walk over to the boat landing. Binney doesn't like to go walking too far any more. Everything was calm and peaceful. The river was like a sheet of glass, perfectly mirroring the images along the shoreline.

We walked out along the launching pier to check for any signs of fish in the area. Binney had her own ideas and said, absolutely no way, no how was she coming out on that pier? 

We didn't see anything of any size other than a few minnows flickering about here and there. But I still decided that I was going to dig up some worms in the woods and overturn a few rocks around the campfire pit and see what bait I could find.

Well, I was getting breakfast together, Steve decided to haul out the solar panels. We really didn't need them because the batteries had only gone down 7 or 8% from watching a little TV before we went to bed. But he wanted to charge up our batteries, of course, without running our generator. In no time at all, he had them topped off to 100 percent. These Thunderbolt Panels from Harbor Freight are kind of handy. They separate into four individual pieces and can be stored away in a narrow compartment. I made flannel fabric sleeves for over each one so they don't get scratched. They can be hooked together in pairs or triples or all four, or just single. Each one is 25 watts. 100 watts was enough to top off our batteries. Steeve thought if we had needed more than that, we could have started up the generator.

In our last blog, we mentioned the new little camping oven and stove that we had bought last week. This will be a good addition to our meal prep equipment. Inside of our motorhome, we only have a built-in 2 burner propane cooktop, no propane oven. The only oven is a microwave convection combination, which requires either electrical hookups or the generator running to bake things. So our next best alternative was to purchase this Camp Chef propane oven and camp stove. It was either that or cut out the countertop and put a complete RV oven and stove in the motorhome. We did that in our last Safari motorhome and it worked really well. Here is a link to that project:

http://kareninthewoods-kareninthewoods.blogspot.com/2017/07/cooking-up-new-modification-on-our.html

This cute little Camp Chef oven rides in our closet. We carried it out and set it on the picnic table and made sure it was kind of level. It will run off either a 1 pound green propane cylinder or a 5# or 20# propane tank with the hose.

I added a pizza stone to the bottom surface of the oven. This is an old RV'ers trick. It helps spread the heat to distribute it more evenly while baking. It eliminates the hot spot and burning of the pans or cookies in the middle of the tray.

We fired up the oven to make some toast on the baking racks. Steve made some bacon that he set aside in the oven to keep warm. Then he started up a square griddle full of hash browns and at the end I fried up the scrambled eggs. We usually cook in pairs and make a great team! 

We are pleased to report that it worked perfectly fine. Our outdoor cooking was a success and we could use anything as large as a 9 x 13 pan in the oven.

Our friendly neighbors next door were getting ready to go fishing again. They had two very friendly golden retrievers. This one was named Brooks, and he came over to visit and become Binny's new boyfriend. She really seemed to like him and kept following him around. Soon though he had to jump in their truck and go fishing down the river below the dam.

The sun was out, and it really seemed to be a really nice day. There was absolutely no rain forecast for the next three days.. (or so we thought). It was so nice that we hung up our solar lights on the awning and put out our little whirly gigs. We were only planning to stay for one more night, maybe two, but we felt like putting them out anyhow. Then again, if our neighbors to the north of us were going to be loud and obnoxious, maybe we would pack it up and just head home?

Everybody was gone fishing, so our campground loop of four little sites was again totally peaceful and quiet. We were the only ones there. I wandered around in the woods a little bit with a stick and dug out some of the moss covered lumps and piles of piles of leaves. I found four little red angle worms and one maggoty looking grub to go fishing with. Good enough for me. Who needs to buy nightcrawlers at a store?

I set myself up next to the water and had my little fishing buddy at my side. It was her job to guard the worms in the container while I was busy feeding the fish. I had lots and lots of nibbles, but no good bites and no big fish at all.

About supper time, Steve thought maybe we should give the oven another try. This time we were going to make a pizza. The cookie sheets I have couldn't quite contain a whole pizza. My pizza pans at home are a little too large. I'm going to have to look for 10 inch ones. So instead, I did the next best thing, I chopped the frozen pizza in half and put 1/2 on each of the cookie sheets. I always lay a piece of parchment down to keep things from sticking.

While the pizza was baking, we took out the cribbage board and played a couple games. This is the one that our granddaughter, Chelsea, made in her woodworking class last year. It's one of our prized possessions when we go camping.

Pretty soon the pizza was done to perfection. Look at that! Absolutely no complaints... the oven baked evenly and perfectly all around. We did add a little oven temperature gauge. The reviews of this Camp Chef oven said that the gauge that is installed at the top of the oven is not inaccurate. Mainly because the sensor is located up at the top and really doesn't give an accurate reading of the temp in the middle area of the oven.

As the sun was going down, we were treated to another really nice sunset. But some clouds were rolling in from the West. We checked the weather app on our phone, and realized that the weather had changed. Suddenly it looked like there was going to be some extensive rain showers coming our way. We decided to roll up our awning and put away our lawn chairs before we went to bed. It was a lot better than trying to deal with wet stuff in the morning if it did rain.

And yes, our tent neighbors to the north fired up their diesel generator again right at bedtime. They must have went and got some diesel fuel from somewhere. We tried to drown out the noise by playing our TV for a while, but then there was another noise starting outside. What was that? RAIN! and lots of it!

It poured and poured during the entire night. At times, the sound was almost deafening on the roof. Other times it was a gentle rain that was so peaceful and easy to sleep to. We had no complaints, we were high and dry. As for those noisy neighbors, at first light, they were packing up all of their wet gear, and they weren't too quiet about it either. They threw it all into their vehicles and left the campground. Oh, well.

We perked our coffee and hung around the campground for a while. And then we decided we would contact the kids and see if they are still at the cabin. They were just getting ready to cook breakfast. So they invited us over. It was a mere 12 miles away. We hopped in the motorhome and headed on over. What a nice way to have an early morning breakfast on a rainy, icky day.

So that was about it for camping at one of our favorite spots in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We will go back again probably one more time during September. They do close up by September 30th and they are not available for camping into October or November, like a lot of the National Forest campgrounds are. So if we want to enjoy it one or two more times, we'd better get back up there..

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We headed on home and took care of a few tasks around the house. The rain was splattering on and off all day. But that's okay, we were going to curl up and watch the Packer game by 3:15. They won and it was a fun game.

I've been picking tomatoes every other day and canning them up. We brought a bag full today to go visit Steve's dad down at the Hospice Center. Excited to get fresh tomatoes, that he cut one up right away and ate it as soon as we came in his room.

I got a special package in the mail from Canada. In my blog a few posts back I mentioned where I had bought some beautiful fabric at a quilting store in Sturgeon Falls, Ontario. I realized I hadn't bought enough of this fabric --- and it's been discontinued. I can't find it anywhere else. I was able to internationally call up the owner of the store, and she took my order over the phone. She cut all the remaining yardages that I needed. Of course, in Canada, it's called meters. She bundled them up carefully and put them in the mail. I got them yesterday, and they are absolutely beautiful.

Last night, we decided to watch some Monday Night Football. it was to see how our EX Packer player, Aaron Rodgers, was doing in his new position with the New York Jets. We settled down in front of our fireplace and tuned into the game. I had a mug of spiced apple cider to sip on. We were ready for some Monday Night Football! Well, it didn't last long before Aaron Rodgers was out of the game.

From there on in, I decided to do some sewing instead. I half listened to part of the game and later we turned it off and tuned into some HGTV shows instead. It was a lot more entertaining.

And as a final note, our oldest grandson has been working a summer job at the A & W root beer stand. He is continuing on into the school year, working on evenings and weekends when he can. His boss let him off early. He needed a ride home. He's only 15 and not yet driving. He couldn't reach his parents, so he did the next best thing. He called me up and asked if I could pick him up???  

He dubbed me "Grandma Uber"

It is a name that I will proudly wear from now on.