Dave is coming thru Illinois!!

Linda you will have a grand time with Dave!! He is such a sweety! Please let us know how the visit goes and when you post the pictures.

You lucky lady! Dave is a great guy, and such a sweetie. You'll enjoy meeting him!!

Here's the Update on Dave's visit! Warning this is looooong!

Sorry I didn't 'report' back on our visit last night...you will see why after reading this..lol

I called Dave when I got off of work Sunday afternoon, and we arranged to meet at the truck stop for supper. As I mentioned before, I was kinda anxious to meet him, being the first time EVER meeting someone off of the internet. My DH and youngest DS went along...oldest DS had to work. Our visit went very well! He is such a lively person, and boy does he like to TALK!!! LOL He let me browse through a couple of his scrapbooks, and he showed me April's patriotic scrapbook that she made for him. The online pictures I had seen of this earlier did not do it justice!..It was just more gorgeous IRL! He had it filled with his pictures, and it looked great! I brought along a couple of my books to show him, and he gave me some constructive criticism (as he called it) on a few things. (The books had a few of my earlier beginner pages in it, and I agreed on most of what he told me :-) He also tried to enable me with TLC..and right in front of DH, no less...imagine that! Gotta give him credit for that....hahaha.. (DH has no idea what I spend on stuff) LOL I took home a catalog he gave me. He was really a pleasure to meet! He was also generous too, and gave me a couple of TLC page kit packages..very cool!!! I gave him some paper...and a few cards, and I also baked him some Toll House cookies with white and chocolate chips in them, and he about had a fit over those!!! I wonder how long they will last him? :-) DH and Dave had a lot to talk about. DH used to drive a truck back before our oldest son was born, so they swapped some trucking and traveling stories. DS looked through Daves books too, while we were chatting. He thought Dave was funny and really nice! :-)

Now I can tell you why I didn't post this last night!

We were all sitting talking after eating supper, and we noticed the sky getting real dark! It was working up a good thunderstorm, or so we thought at the time, so we headed for our truck, and Dave headed to his, to beat the rain. The temperature had really dropped! We said our goodbyes and all that and headed home. On the way home, the wind picked up, and it rained like the sky just opened up!! Closer to home we had to dodge a couple of tree branches in the road. On the radio in the truck we finally heard a weather bulletin and that there was a TORNADO WARNING for our county, and our town. I was like,"OMG and Dave is out there in his truck!!! " So when we got home, and turned on the tv to see what warnings were for where, Dave called me on my cell, and was telling us how bad it was there...Oakwood was out of power, and storming really badly, and he had heard on the radio of trucks being blown off the road, and a roof being damaged...it was like all hell broke loose after we left, and we had no idea anything was going to happen before we left the truck stop!!! He was quite worried about the weather, and I felt so bad for leaving him there, & I was ready to give him directions to come to our house for shelter, but the storm passed through very quickly, and I called him back and told him we were all in the clear for the rest of the night and I assured him that if I heard of ANYmore bad weather coming thru I would call him. My DH left the house to head up to his parents house to see what damage might have happened up there. Their house was near to the projected line of the tornado, according to the tv news.((it was fine) OH.... did I happen to mention that there really WAS a tornado??? and that it touched down about three miles north of the truck stop we had just eaten, and where Dave was planning on spending the night?! It ripped the roof off of the middle school, and power poles were damaged, and transformers blown, I think a pole barn blew across a road somewhere...it was just a whirlwind (no pun intended!) of activity last night with the weather! I heard this morning that there were 12..yes you read it right...TWELVE tornadoes across Central Illinois last night..and I normally love storms and I have always wanted to see a tornado, but you can't see that SH*T at night..not knowing where anything is and all that...wow....it was pretty darn scary!! So...the internet was out of the question last night and I just decided I would post this today. Dave said it was one memorable vist!!! Our waitress took a pic of us,and its in my Webshots under RCS Meets.

Here's the Update on Dave's visit! Warning this is looooong!

Sorry I didn't 'report' back on our visit last night...you will see why

after reading this..lol

I called Dave when I got off of work Sunday afternoon, and we arranged to meet at the truck stop for supper. As I mentioned before, I was kinda anxious to meet him, being the first time EVER meeting someone off of the internet. My DH and youngest DS went along...oldest DS had to work. Our visit went very well! He is such a lively person, and boy does he

like to TALK!!! LOL He let me browse through a couple of his scrapbooks, and he showed me April's patriotic scrapbook that she made

for him. The online pictures I had seen of this earlier did not do it justice!..It was just more gorgeous IRL! He had it filled with his pictures, and it looked great! I brought along a couple of my books to show him, and he gave me some constructive criticism (as he called it) on a few things. (The books had a few of my earlier beginner pages in it, and I agreed on most of what he told me :-) He also tried to enable me with TLC..and right in front of DH, no less...imagine that! Gotta give him credit for that....hahaha.. (DH has no idea what I spend on stuff) LOL I took home a catalog he gave me. He was really a pleasure to meet! He was also generous too, and gave

me a couple of TLC page kit packages..very cool!!! I gave him some paper...and a few cards, and I also baked him some Toll House cookies with white and chocolate chips in them, and he about had a fit over those!!! I wonder how long they will last him? :-) DH and Dave had a lot to talk about. DH used to drive a truck back before our oldest son was born, so they swapped some trucking and traveling stories. DS looked through Daves books too, while we were chatting. He thought Dave was funny and really nice! :-)

Now I can tell you why I didn't post this last night!

We were all sitting talking after eating supper, and we noticed the sky getting real dark! It was working up a good thunderstorm, or so we thought at the time, so we headed for our truck, and Dave headed to his, to beat the rain. The temperature had really dropped! We said our goodbyes and all that and headed home. On the way home, the wind picked up, and it rained like the sky just opened up!! Closer to home we had to dodge a couple of tree branches in the road. On the radio in the truck we finally heard a weather bulletin and that there was a TORNADO WARNING for our county, and our town. I was like,"OMG and Dave is out there in his truck!!! " So when we got home, and turned on the tv to see what warnings were for where, Dave called me on my cell, and was telling us how bad it was there...Oakwood was out of power, and storming really badly, and he had heard on the radio of trucks being blown off the road, and a roof being damaged...it was like all hell broke loose after we left, and we had no idea anything was going to happen before we left the truck stop!!! He was quite worried about the

weather, and I felt so bad for leaving him there, & I was ready to give

him directions to come to our house for shelter, but the storm passed through very quickly, and I called him back and told him we were all in the clear for the rest of the night and I assured him that if I heard of ANYmore bad weather coming thru I would call him. My DH left the house to head up to his parents house to see what damage might have

happened up there. Their house was near to the projected line of the tornado, according to the tv news.((it was fine) OH.... did I happen to

mention that there really WAS a tornado??? and that it touched down about three miles north of the truck stop we had just eaten, and where Dave was planning on spending the night?! It ripped the roof off of the

middle school, and power poles were damaged, and transformers blown, I think a pole barn blew across a road somewhere...it was just a whirlwind (no pun intended!) of activity last night with the weather! I

heard this morning that there were 12..yes you read it right...TWELVE tornadoes across Central Illinois last night..and I normally love storms and I have always wanted to see a tornado, but you can't see that SH*T at night..not knowing where anything is and all that...wow....it was pretty darn scary!! So...the internet was out of the question last night and I just decided

I would post this today. Dave said it was one memorable vist!!! Our waitress took a pic of us,and its in my Webshots under RCS Meets.

Oh wow! Linda. And I thought we had an eventful night. Thank goodness you are all safe as well as Dave. I saw a tornado when I was eight. My grandmother and I were driving to the neighboring town to visit my grandfather in the hospital. It was getting so dark and windy and we topped a hill and saw a tornado down the road just "blow up" a house. Our car was spun around a couple of times right in the middle of the highway and when it was over we were heading back the way we came. My grandmother just kept driving as calm as everything and didn't stop until we were back home under the carport. I had to help her pry her fingers off the steering wheel.(I always thought she was one tough woman. I remember the time I was around 15 and we slid on ice coming down into a bridge - we slid all the way across the bridge sideways, looking out over the river. The whole time we were sliding she was lecturing me about turning my wheels into a slide and keeping a firm grip on the wheel. She straightened up the car as we came off the bridge back onto the highway and kept on driving.) The next tornado I was involved in destroyed half our town and we were lucky enough we had enough warning to get our three children, my sister, niece and her boyfriend into our basement to ride it out. We could even feel the walls of our basement heaving, the roar and our ears popping. I don't ever want to experience another one. Sandy

"Linda C" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...

Wow Sandy! your grandma was a strong woman! :-) I dont know what it is about thunderstorms and tornadoes with me! I just get some sort of adrenaline rush or something!!! But seriously, it was really scary last night! Linda

Wow Linda!

Sounds like you had a good time meeting Dave:>)

And that storm! Wow!!

Hey , you don't suppose Dave is Mary Poppins in disquise??HMMMMMMMMMMMM....... (I'm already hiding, so don't throw anything)(LOL)

Glad all turned out well for both of you.

Trish

Ok, I'm really jealous now. You meet in Oakwood right. By Danville and St. Joe. I used to live in Georgetown. I live about and 1 and 15 minutes from Danville now. I hope Dave stops by the Barn next month so I can meet him. Sounds like you and a real memorable time. LOL. With the weather. I was watching the weather channel and I heard of tornado in Odgen. Well close to there. They always seem to get hit. Picture looks great. Glad to hear you had a great time.

LOL Trish..too funny..mary poppins....LOL

Linda

Hello Shannon I did not realize that you lived that close to me! I thought for some reason you were further away!WOW Yeah Danville is the first town off I74 coming from Indiana. I grew up here! Did Dave ever get ahold of you? He mentioned to me that he was going to try to reach you since he was going to be in the area after he left Chicago! I had asked him earlier if he would be able to stop by the barn, and he said no...He also told me that the gal who owns the Barn informed M-C that he couldnt be part of our get together..NO MEN. Needless to say he wasnt very happy about that. Isn't that discrimination?

Linda

Yes, Dave just got a hold of me. I get to meet him in a few hours!!! I can't believe to men either. There are lots of guys out there that scrapbook.

Sounds like you guys had fun. Dave made it through the tornado fine.

Teresa in MD