 Good morning, good morning, a good morning and happy Monday! So I'm gonna try to do a vlog this week and probably won't get published until after the fourth because we are going away for the fourth and I want to add some clips to the end so I'm like super excited because we did we've been working on the motor home and we had it in for repairs that's the one thing about an RV you know they can they can really suck when they break down but so we had it in for some maintenance and some repairs and we got it back so Jay was out there and superimposed this clip so you can see what he was doing but he really worked super hard with the trying to get the cabinets he really did a great job he wiped them all down he shined them all up it was really awesome so I'm gonna superimpose this clip and I'll be right back so we finally got the the RV back and we're like trying to get it cleaned up and trying to Jay was actually doing the cabinets he was he was tackling the cabinets and then I still have to get all my utensils in this tub here whereas how we store it over the winter and then I still have to take it all out and you know put them in the drawers and then in the bedroom we still we've got everything piled up in the bedroom because we have you know we've got you see everything is piled but we've got a lot of stuff to all over the bed here because Jay wants to buy a new mattress so I don't really know but yeah so this is all sheets blankets pillows for the living room oh I don't know what else is over there mostly sheets and towels in here in these containers so yeah it's an old motorhome but it's a motorhome he's doing a pretty good job with the cabinets that's for sure he's doing a really good job I gotta get some liners and then I can put all the the stuff back in here that's in here we're ready to go can't well not quite you can see we have a lot still to do but we're almost ready to go camping yeah so I figured I'd try it maybe a different type of a blog I don't know we'll see but so now the rest of this week I'm working obviously and I have to stock the refrigerator I've got all the drawers put together I get all the utensils in the drawers on Sunday I bought Saturday I went out and I bought the draw liners so I get that all done and we put all the I put all the utensils in there the beds made up we still have some other things we have to do inside to you know make sure that we have everything we need I probably have to do a pair of long pants because it gets cold at night in Maine and Jay needs to put some of his clothes in there but other than that I'm all set my cosmetics and stuff I describe that as I go when I leave Thursday morning I'm gonna be working out of Exeter Jay we'll take the motorhome up and I'll meet him up there that night so yes I'll just take my cosmetics and whatever I need you know with me when I leave but and I'll do grocery shopping I'll stock the refrigerator we'll stop we'll put a little stuff in there what I have here but normally you know I kind of decide what we might eat a little bit and I'll go shopping sort of on my way up so I'll probably do that Thursday so anyways yeah so it's been it's been a busy busy busy week doing all that and I had a video that I did on I'm sure hopefully you all saw it on the well now by the time you see this it'll be really quite a week and a half ago but yeah I did a video confession of a mature woman woman which was Susan little poet's tag and I really enjoyed that I had some really good remarks and you know it was well received then I did another video which is not yet published just gonna be published after the fourth but I did another collab with Babs from Take Control Beauty and we sort of came up with this one on the cuff so I hope it I hope it goes well I do it's it was it was a fun collab and she's just an awesome person so yeah it's been an exciting week and welcome to my vlog I don't know when this will be published but it'll have to be after the fourth so have a good one guys so we're in the booth Bay Haber Botanical Gardens and Jason's were in the what is this the Overlook Bridge the Overlook Bridge these Botanical Gardens that are pronounced in the outright are just beautiful we went in the butterfly hut saw two butterflies that's kind of like bummed I thought it's even more but really pretty really pretty gorgeous yeah the bridge we came over and check out that these calls this installation we went inside and we had some hot chocolate and coffee and I would have loved to have that out here but the outside cafe was not open so gorgeous we are going to go look for the Dahlia Gardens so we're gonna look for the Dahlia Gardens which was my dad's favorite plant I hope that we we have the opportunity to really please some pretty ones dad would love it this garden is absolutely fantastic and this is all like it's a kids learning center I mean from awesome amazing houses and little toy houses and and then the gardens and oh my gosh got to bring my granddaughter and my grandson when he's old enough this is so amazing just so amazing toolshed all the boards in there absolutely what do you think Jay you haven't you haven't a good time yeah beautiful the funny thing is I've seen a lot of these plants yeah you get to know what they are they're identified and all that stuff and I can't imagine what this looks like you know at Christmas time when it's all laid up and all that be beautiful but the grounds are gonna be all lit up and beautiful whether the flowers are alive or not I know that but it's like amazing I love this little kids maze you know behind me like awesome this is really been a fun day I look like a really wacky tourist I have myself Carolina had on in a bar harbor and I'm in booth Bay Harbor not by Harbor or as well the Carolina actually working these that's an easing so we're heading to East Booth Bay right now this is our third time there it's our third time there this will be the first time that we've had actually a little bit of sunshine and what not right so heading over to East Booth Bay and Jay is gonna fly his drone unless the wind kicks up amazingly bad then he then he won't but we're gonna go out on Grimes Beach out on the rocks last night we did the fireworks booth Bay Harbor they were they were you know it was just really awesome to be there and see the fireworks but I was a little disappointed but I think it was out vantage point sort of like into clinic I guess it was sort of non-descript and all that but you know to watch the fireworks over the harbor was nice last year we were there we watched the fireworks out on a boat and that was like fabulous yeah and due to COVID the boat was like so we had we had there's plenty of room in the fireworks which is I think they put on an extra special show because of COVID but so the fireworks that we're into however the finale was really nice up and closing now so you can see it so that's the beginning of the path at Grimes Beach our car is parked up there this is just probably one of my favorite spots over an ocean point this is a pathway that is for the public last year taking pictures from there or a couple of years ago I should say I probably don't have the correct shoes for this as usual me must be all the rain they've had so how is that drone experience honey bun it was good I got it out that way then I sent it over there get over those houses other houses hopefully you know be able to edit some good footage cool absolutely beautiful audio I love it there goes up up up probably my favorite spot ocean point over an East Booth Bay just gorgeous here oh my gosh and this little church this little chapel I always say that if Jay and I ever renew our vows this is where I would want to do it time we came here and the doors closed behind us I thought we were locked in it was really it's really something else this is where I would want to renew my vows I can see us standing here renewing our vows this is where we definitely renew my vows so we're over in Southport Island and Jay's been flying the drone here this time he turned the record button on it's a beautiful day absolutely gorgeous and he's having fun with his drone we we ended up I mean we made the best of the weather situation over the 4th of July weekend we love going up to Booth Bay Harbor and other than the weather our trip was mostly uneventful we enjoyed the botanical gardens we did that the first day were there Friday and then we went out to dinner twice we cooked lobsters in the campground once and we just we just relax we just kind of totally venged out Jay had a couple of little issues with his drone meaning he forgot to hit the record button once but other than that he got a lot of practice and he really enjoyed it but you know I I had the biggest misstep ever many of you have seen my avi aviator glasses I think that's what they're called well they prescription glasses and their prescription sunglasses and I dropped them and I stepped on them they were in a soft case they slid out of my pocketbook when I got to get up and go into a store and I stepped down on them and I totally bent the heck out of them I can't even wear them the glass itself the lens themselves did not break and the frames didn't break they just got skamushed just totally skamushed I don't know and you know and I wear a lot of sunglasses because I hate squinting in the sun and you know the prescription sunglasses are not inexpensive they're pretty darn expensive so I was so mad at myself I couldn't believe I did that oh my gosh I was really proud of myself though on the makeup I brought I I wore my same sunblock every day the foundation that I ended up bringing was my Estee Lauder I you know what I just it lasts really well on me it's not a 24 hour wear but it lasts a lot longer than any of my drugstore foundations do so I brought that because I knew I wasn't going to I was gonna be out in the weather and I wasn't gonna be running into touch up and so as it was I put my makeup on very very minimal amount of makeup in the morning then we went out and explored we got rained on we got wind blown I looked a mess half the time but I never really touched my makeup up I brought two toppers two buns and one wig with me and that's the the perfect thing about wearing a wig I'll tell you is that when you when when the of course I didn't wear the wig all the time obviously but when you do wear a wig and weather is bad and rain and all that you hear looks really really good even in bad weather conditions so but I didn't wear it all that time when we were away but you know normally I just overpack like crazy and so the one thing that I didn't do was all my warm weather clothes I somehow inadvertently I left my jean jacket home I left my raincoat home I left my sweatshirts home I had one sweatshirt with me and it was lightweight and then I had two long sleeve tops everything else was summer short sleeve shorts and I had one pair of longer pants I was I was I was like I think if it left to my own if the stores hadn't been closed when we got there and the next day I think I would have probably bought some cold weather gear because we really needed it and so I ended up borrowing a J sweatshirt my my girlfriend let me borrow one of hers but I left all my cold weather gear at home so what do you think I did first thing I did after we unpacked the motor home we came home I brought my cold weather gear out there so it's in my closet in the motorhome yes on our way home we stopped in Freeport didn't buy anything but we stopped in Freeport and then we ventured further south and we crossed over the New Hampshire border I think it was right around 12 30 they were about so I can't remember the exact time but about 10 after 12 we were on route 95 about 10 after 12 there was a horrific accident and what it ended up happening is 95 is a thorough where it's a huge huge highway it's an interstate and a woman was going northbound on 95 mind you we were coming southbound we were going home from Maine a woman was going back to Maine and she was 66 years old a year younger than me and she was driving drunk she's a drunk driver she sideswiped the car next to her in the northbound lane on 95 then went through the medium which is like a huge medium right in the road it goes down it's grassy and then it goes up and goes into the southbound side well she sideswiped the car and then drifted down the medium went over went into the southbound lane and hit a Jeep carrying four people head on the Jeep spun the I don't know if it was the driver or passenger but one person was killed I can't understand how you know I mean gosh a drunk driver it doesn't matter why guess what time of day but you know who would even think of a drunk driver at noontime you know what I mean so I'm always antsy when we hit the road to come home from a trip away always because until we're off the road I'm just I'm in like a little Nelly nervous Nelly not little nothing little about me big so yeah you know and it was so sad we from it took for us to go three miles to get off of our exit right three miles on 95 two hours that's how long we were backed up and traffic was closed for a lot longer than that there were people that backed up and they sat in traffic for four hours we were at least able to get off route 101 and head west on 101 to come home but so scary right I mean you never know when when when the last moment will be I guess so so scary so it's been a crazy week at home yesterday of July 8th was a tough tough day for me it hit me last night it didn't hit me during the day as much but it hit me last night and and I just relived the moments a year ago when my dad died and you know I looked at the clock 7 o'clock I was in the hospital with him I was holding his hand 8 o'clock you know I knew something was happening I was scared 9 o'clock my dad died it's like it just hit me last night it just hit me and I mean I woke up in the morning and I said I am not going to cry today I'm going to focus on happy memories I tried I failed I didn't focus on happy memories you know that's one of those things so anyways next week is going to be kind of cool we have guests coming they're coming in their motorhome and they're going to be camping in our yard and then head up to Bar Harbor where we meet up with them in August so yeah that's the scoop I've got a couple of videos I'm going to record I'm not too sure when this is going to go public but hopefully hopefully soon I'm just going to add this to the end of my vlog it's kind of a mishmash of stuff but it is what it is so I do thank you so much for watching guys and I will see you in my next video bye