What's Been Happening in Crown Point, Indiana?

The weather has taken a turn for the better.  We have actually had a few days without rain.  We saw some very interesting cloud formation, though.

It was so much fun to visit with our good friends, Jim and Marie.  We miss our family vacation trips fishing together.

Craig cleaned the roof of the Motorhome and then replaced the vent covers.  We also worked with Jeff at the churches he overseas.

Craig's family owned this home for over 100 years.  We have lived in it a couple of times during our married life, too.  There was a fire that burned the huge garage to the ground. 

Below is where the garage used to be.  Craig and I painted the whole thing one year.

Old Garage location ready for the new.

Craig grew up with his parents and two brothers in the house next door.  The new owners have added a big porch on the back.

We had a really nice visit with our friends Larry and Sandy a couple of nights ago.  Sandy has her paintings all around their nice home.

We drove up to Midway Airport today and picked up my Mom who flew in from Las Vegas.  She will stay in Crown Point with her sister, Rosie for a couple of weeks.

Thanks to Ray and Midge for picking her up early this morning, shutting off things around her house and getting her to the airport!

Sisters
Rosie and Marcie

Aunt Rosie had a nice dinner for us when we got in from the Airport and afterwards, we drove to Jeff's favorite fishing hole and caught a few fish with our two boys.

Craig with a crappie.

Kathy and Jeff with fish caught at the same time.

Craig with a nice bass.  We release all of the fish that we catch.  Some before they ever get to the boat.  Ooooopppsssss.

Todd caught some bass, too.

Todd and Craig

Jeff ran the boat and trolling motor and still managed to catch the most fish.  Thanks for a fun night out, Jeff.  The weather was nearly perfect.

We are worn out and ready for bed.  I'm sure we won't have any trouble sleeping tonight.

Tomorrow I will get to see some of my best friends.  It doesn't get any better than that! Friday and Saturday nights we will attend Craig's 50th High School Class Reunion.

Blessings,
Kathy

Green, Green all Around

We have been enjoying our time here in Cedar Lake, Indiana.  It continues to rain on a regular basis so everything is much more green than what is normal for this late in the season.

We go for walks along the north shore of the lake.

The little guy below didn't think we saw him because he was sitting so still.  Thanks for the still shot.

We happened to run into Bob who is the Ministry Director and he gave us a tour of the new Activities Building.  Things are so nice now on the grounds and they host many church group activities.

This is our grandson, Ty.  He is standing on a pile of dirt on the lot that Jeff and Rachel have purchased and will be building on.

We have been helping my Aunt with a few projects and we are spending some time with our two boys and the 3 grandkids here.  

I don't believe we will lack for things to do or people to see.

I had a wonderful time at lunch with my old friend yesterday while Craig and Jeff installed a battery backup sump pump!

Today the temp has gone up to 90 and the humidity has to be higher, still.

Blessings,

Kathy

Home Town Area

The sun was shining this morning and continued to do so all the way up to NW Indiana.

The country side turns a bit flat up this way.

Crown Point is just off of I 65.

There are still flood warnings out in the area.

It's been nearly a year since we were here in Crown Point, Indiana.  We have many friends and family here including our two sons, daughter-in-law, and three grandchildren.

We came into Merrillville, the town just north of CP, where we were looking for some help with a rattle and a small leak in our Motorhome's windshield.

Our oldest son, Todd, met us at the windshield place and we had breakfast together while we waiting for them to diagnose what the windshield needed.

Todd

We had a nice visit and breakfast with Todd, but the windshield place couldn't really do anything to help our issues.  It's too risky  and they could break one or both of the double front windows trying to put in more caulk.  They assured us that is was just from a stretched out seal around the window, but it's safe to drive that way.  So, I guess we'll just live with that.

Cedar Lake is a town just south and west of Crown Point.  We found a small RV park that is a part of the Cedar Lake Ministries that we have stayed in a few times before.  We were able to get into our reserved spot a day early.

They have had so much rain that the ground is pretty squishy, but it's high enough away from the lake that we don't have to worry about getting flooded out.  We plan to stay here for a month.

That sounds good to both of us after all of the traveling we have done since we left Las Vegas on Tuesday, June 23.

Our second son, Jeff, works as the Facilities Director for Bethel Church and he overseas four campuses.  They have one just a few minutes from our campground, so after we set up, we drove over to see what Jeff has been overseeing.

Jeff and Craig

They have added on to an old church and it's a huge new building.

This is the rear of the church.

They contracted out most of the work, but Jeff built this garage.

It makes for a very nice facility for Cedar Lake Bethel.

There are so many people that we want to see.  Hoping to see the grandkids yet tonight before two of them head off out of town.

Blessings,

Kathy

Indiana Beach on Lake Shafer

We are heading a little farther north avoiding major rain storms.  We had a big storm last night in North Salem with lots of rain and lightening.  We were thankful to be safe off the road.

This morning we headed to Monticello and the Indiana Beach RV Resort.  I used to come to Lake Shafer as a child with my family and I think we brought the kids here one time while we lived in Crown Point.  This place has changed so much that I hardly recognized it.  They seem to be trying to make improvements, but it reminds me of a place of "days gone by".  
The glory days have faded.

It is a very large campground with lots to do close by for people with kids and many people seem to live here for the season.

It's very green, but also pretty wet.  It's a large campground.

We took a drive to see the area since it had been so long since I was here.

This is called the Twin Lakes Area.  Both Lake Shafer and Lake Freeman are made from the Tippecanoe River.

 We went for a walk past the water slide, pool and mini golf coarse. And then just a short walk across the road down to Indiana Beach.

The below picture is Lake Shafer.  The beach and lake pool were closed due to all of the high murky water from the rains.

They had some old photos that I took pictures of.  This is more how I remember Indiana Beach.

We will stay here until Tuesday morning and then head farther north to hopefully get a window seal fixed on the motorhome and then spend time with family and friends for a month.

Hope your day was sunny!

Blessings,

Kathy