Our "new to us" Caterpillar Crawler-Loader !

Roanoke, VA  USA

Hello and Good-bye,

   Tomorrow we leave for Marmaris, Turkey.  We fly from Roanoke to Chicago to Munich to Izmir.  We’ll stay overnight (and eat in our favorite fish restaurant) and then take the bus on the 18th back to Marmaris. 

   These have been the fastest three months!  We accomplished some stuff; Randal’s cataract surgeries and my root canal.  We laid out a tentative plan for the road to our future home.  Randal, being a hands-on kind of guy wants to do some of the work himself.  To do that he needed a crawler-loader for clearing land.   So now we own one. 

   Much or our time when we return to Marmaris will be spiffing up the boat so not so much touring.  But we’ll see.

Hope you all have a wonderful holiday season if you either celebrate or enjoy time with friends who do.  And I hope the weather here is kinder to you all than it was last year. 

Lots of love and hugs to you all

Ru

DoraMac

The Caterpillar Crawler-Loader  977L about to arrive at our Roanoke Wreck Repair/Norandex Complex on Plantation Rd.  One day it will move up to Little Brushy Mountain but for now will stay here. 

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Signing the papers

One of the men who had delivered her from Mount Airy drove her off the flatbed

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She’s all yours!  (Randal in sunglasses.)

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I call this “Reflections on Owning a Bull-dozer”

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All Randal wanted for Christmas……. And all MS Dozer wanted was a new home.  Together they’ll build a road to our future home and clear the land where it will be built. 

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As close as I’ll ever come to driving her.

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Model of an artificial tree

One day this structure will stand near our new house and wisteria will grow gracefully from it creating a lovely shady spot. 

On a small scale of construction, my nephew Andrew whipped me up this two-toned, two-layered infinity scarf on his knitting machine.  I’d picked out the colors when we visited his studio in Philly.  I’m learning the many ways to wear it and it definitely keeps me warm! 

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