I hope everyone is enjoying the Spring weather. We have had lots of different kinds of weather; from the cold to hot, from nice sunshiny days to days with tornadoes. The tornado that went through Mayflower and Vilonia, AR was about 30 miles from us but we also had the same system touch down 10 miles west and 10 north of Searcy. A real scary afternoon and evening. We were glad we had a storm cellar to get into. Many years ago my Dad had built a genuine fall-out shelter behind his house. It would house 20 people for a long time. Now is serves as a storm shelter and comes in handy. Charlie has had the electricity redone and built new steps down into it. In the past we have had about 40 people and pets down there in bad weather. It was tight but we were safe.

We went to the International Area Rally in Lebanon, TN in early May. We had a good time and stayed over to see our oldest grandson graduate from Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN. It was a proud day for our grandson, Charlie, and for us. He also has a job at Nissan which he applied for before he graduated . He started to work on May 19 and said he likes it.

We left Tennessee and went to Cincinnati, OH for Executive Board Meetings. Along with business conducted by the Board we enjoyed evenings enjoying good food and fellowship at Round Bottom Road. The women who didn't go to the meetings got together to cook the evening meal and we played Hand and Foot card game. I want to thank all who helped with the meals.

When we left Cincinnati we were headed to Decatur, IN to pick up our new coach. Charlie had calculated the fuel and thought he could make it to Decatur with only 10 more gallons of fuel. We followed Jon Walker part of the way and when we parted ways Charlie passed a big truck stop but did not stop. He was convinced he could make it to Decatur. As we passed through Wilshire, OH, 11 miles from Decatur the motor home died in the middle of the intersection to move no more. He told me to get behind the wheel and he was going to try to push us out of the intersection. We did get out of the intersection and Charlie went to find diesel only to be told there was not any within 8 miles. A man drove up about that time and said his son had some farm diesel and he would sell us 5 gallons. We put the 5 gallons in and it still didn't start.

Charlie decided it was time to call Freightliner. They told him he needed 20 gallons and the lines purged of air before it would start. He then called road service and found out we basically didn't have road service. I will not mention the name of the Road Service but it was not good. They called a man to come out and he said it would be $300 for him to come about an hour away. Needless to say the man called back and said the road service company told him the cost was too high. How many calls did we make to the road service? I don't know but the road service finally sent a man out with 20 gallons of diesel but he had not ever worked on a Detroit diesel engine. He put the fuel in at $6.00 per gallon and couldn't purge the air out of the system. We were still stuck in the middle of a parking lot/street. We decided to stay the night and call someone to come help us the next morning.

About that time a young man came by to ask what our problem was. Charlie told him and he said he could fix it. He crawled under the back of the motorhome and after 15 or so seconds came out and told us to start it up. It started and we thanked him and were on our way to Decatur and arrived before dark. Oh, by the way the young man was a diesel mechanic that worked on Detroit diesels every day. That was an answer to prayer.