Finishing our travel on Friday

With the snow on Friday morning (https://journeyinamazinggrace.blogspot.com/2020/04/more-miles-on-thursday.html), and because we had a shorter distance to travel than the past two days, we took it easy getting going on Friday morning... unfortunately, not only did we have the problem with the gauges not working on the RV, the battery on the CRV was also dead...

...so, Carl hooked up the jumper cables from the CRV to the RV and we were able to start it...

While I was running through the gears on the CRV (a procedure required by Honda, I think for the lubrication of the transmission when flat towing), Carl drew pictures in the snow on the windshield to entertain me...

We were finally on our way, but had to traverse the steep driveway down from the Cracker Barrel to the road that would allow us to access the interstate - we made it safely!

The trees alongside I-81 were so beautiful - I took about 4 times the number of pictures I'm including in this post... so you can be thankful that I culled out a lot... but I wanted to share some of the springtime beauty that we saw!

I think the pink trees were redbud and the white were dogwood, though some of the white could be pears... and the pink trees were so luxuriant in blooms that I wondered if they were really redbuds...

In several of the pictures, you can see reflections of things that were on the dashboard -- the main one is a tablet with a blue cover that reflects as a bluish diamond in some of the pictures.

You might notice that there were more passenger vehicles in these pictures on the interstate on Friday than we had seen on Wednesday and Thursday (https://journeyinamazinggrace.blogspot.com/2020/04/moving-along-east-with-just-few-bumps.html). We weren't sure whether that was because of where we were or that it was Good Friday (maybe more people were off work?) or what...

As we were driving on I-81, we were getting quite a side wind, but when we turned east (southeast) on I-64, it was more of a tail wind (which you would think would be beneficial), but the awning on the large slide on the drivers side started making a flapping noise. I used google maps and found that there were some shopping areas at the next exit that appeared to have large parking lots, so we got off the interstate to take a look at what was going on...

Carl found that the awning did not appear to be wound tightly... the picture is not great because it was into the sun...

Maybe you can kind of see it there at the front of the roll...

We decided that maybe the snow and wet on the awning before we brought the slide in this morning had caused it not to wrap correctly, and figured if we put the slide back out and brought it in, it may correct the problem. Unfortunately, to extend or retract the slide, the engine needs to be off - and we were trying to not turn the engine off due to the gauge issue (https://journeyinamazinggrace.blogspot.com/2020/04/moving-along-east-with-just-few-bumps.html)... but, we decided to risk turning the engine off, put the slide out, eat lunch, bring the slide in, and hope that the awning issue would correct and that the gauges would work okay... the slide out/in fixed the awning (it was also in the sun so maybe it dried a little), but the gauges wouldn't work with the battery reset. So, Carl pulled the fuses that we thought would correct it (they looked fine) and reseated them, he also tapped on a few relays... and the gauges worked! We started up the coach and continued on our trip...

Our exit off of I-64...

... and the sign at the entrance to the farm - both signs we were thankful to see!

We got Carl's RV parked in front of Miss Doozie, and have it plugged in to the electric and we're living in Carl's RV at this point. We may move back and forth depending on what work needs to be done on each rig.

There were 3 eagles who had flown over us as we were hooking up the battery charger to the CRV at the farm.... Jimmy saw that one of them had something in its talons, and the other two were trying to get it away from him - which ultimately made him drop it. They all ended up fighting over it on the ground, and a number of black buzzards were on the ground and in the sky as well. When the eagle finally finished (it appeared that one of them pretty much had control of whatever had been caught and was steadily eating), we walked into the pasture to try to determine what they had been fighting over. It turned out to be a fish, Jimmy said a large mouth bass, and the combination of birds had pretty much finished it off!

The calf that we helped bottle feed when we were here in March (https://journeyinamazinggrace.blogspot.com/2020/03/monday-on-farm.html) is now out in the pasture... her copper color is so beautiful - a cross between Hereford and Jersey.

The calf was interested in whether any of us had a bottle for her!

Miss Kitty is *very* happy that we are back - she has been on top of Carl most of the evening and we're anticipating that she will be enjoying being with us through the night!

We are glad to be at the farm in Virginia!