Swann's Go South for the Winter

October 20, 2018

PREPARING FOR WINTER

We all know that Winter comes every year and we need to prepare for it, both Spiritually, emotionally and naturally.

So….when stuff happens in life, like Winter (and it will) that is; "bad". difficult, hard, sad, emotionally challenging, painful, out of our control. what do we do?  DO NOW, WHAT YOU KNOW NOW TO DO! (Founding Pastor John A Cherry)   Thinking correctly helps greatly. and knowing the truth is vital!

As Christians, we are not exempt from "hard stuff", we just have the power of God, the help of the Holy Spirit, the knowledge that we accepted Jesus's death, burial and resurrection, allowing us access to God and Heaven.  So if we die it is OK and whatever we go through “Comes to pass”. Also the knowledge that IT CAME TO PASS, and that "All things work together for good to those who love God and are the called according to His purpose."(Rom 8:28) helps to get us through. Just because we don't see how, when, where and who, doesn't mean that God isn't working for our good. Trust God, He’s got it! We must be right with God to have that confidence.  ARE YOU RIGHT WITH GOD???  If not, it only takes a minute.  Pray, Repent, ask for forgiveness and do right.  God will forgive AND forget, He loves us like a Father.  He knows how to give us good gifts, like; forgiveness, mercy, the power to overcome evil with good, like love, etc..  He is such a good and loving God, WOW!!! 

GOOD NEWS:  Spring always comes after Winter!!!! Always, every year, isn’t that COOL!!!

Sooo.  Since Swans go south for the Winter… I’m going to Florida!!!  Woohoo!

I will be leaving Maryland in 4 days from Colonial Beach,VA (where I am now) and travel South for two days and arrive in Wildwood, FL on Friday. Oct 26.  The next day I will be at a Shaklee training in Tampa with an Adopted Grandson I have yet to meet in person.  We met on the phone two years ago when he lived in Kansas, we kept in touch, now he lives in Tampa and will be with me at the Shaklee training.  I just checked the weather in Tampa, 88 degrees!!!  Pool, here I come!

A.J., my “Go to RV guy” will help me get ready for the trip next week, and I will be ready to go.  I should be about a 12 hour drive, and where I am going is not where the Hurricane Michael damage was.  I will be bouncing around between three Thousand Trail parks, all within an hour or 2 from each other. I can stay 3 weeks free, go directly to another park and stay another three weeks until Dec. 15^th and because of the high use season they reduce the time in park to 2 weeks.  I have reservations until Jan 15^th.  I can’t book beyond that until December 19^th.  I will go back to Maryland, April ish, depending on the weather.  I put all my Winter clothes in storage 2 years ago and haven’t needed them yet.

Those of you that have been following along know I have not hooked up my car to the RV for towing since I have been full-timing.  Now is the time.  I looked for the hitch that attached to the back of the RV.  I looked in all the storage in the RV and I didn’t see it on the pictures, so I assumed that I didn’t have it.  I called Kevin (his house was the last time I remembered having it on the old RV 4 years ago), and he said he thought it was in his garage.   He looked for it and couldn’t find it and hoped he hadn’t thrown it away.  He was still looking, so I would have it by the time I left.  I came down to Colonial Beach yesterday went around the back of the RV to get to the hook ups…and WOW, there it was on the back of the RV!  I texted Kevin and thanked him for finding it and putting it on the RV.  HE DIDN’T DO IT!!!

I looked at the pictures again, close up and saw it and realized I had it on the back of the RV for two years and didn’t realize it.  Wow, I felt so dumb!  But I was glad I had it.