Dam West Campground, Carlyle Lake

We are back here and staying a few days.

Already playing games.

Eating

 good as always

Cookie from Michelle:

Getting some bike riding in:

Carol fixed breakfast. She said she never had 3 burners going at once in her whole life. It was great!

We had visitors too: 

We are looking forward to our next trip

Boulder Campground, Carlyle Lake

We booked a few days here at our favorite site overlooking the marina. 

Nice truck, 1962 Willys

Fish House for lunch

Sunsets are always good

Always a good time

We are leaving here and heading to the other side of the lake.

Dam West Campground, Carlyle, IL

We were able to get a site for a few days here. Had a good time and the weather was good. A little rain but not much.

The hummingbirds were swarming when we backed into our site. Carol went through a lot of juice for them.

 Bob Hollenkamp visited. We traded chemo stories and compared ports. It's not the same as the old days.

We ate at the Wheelhouse two nights. Very good!

We had visitors a couple nights and played Fast Track.

We had a good time and look forward to the next trip.

Craig's Birthday

We got together today for Craig's birthday. Went out to eat and just hung out.

Craig isn't much on birthday cake so Carol made a Pretzel cake.

A nice day, hard to believe he is 33.

Sewer Issues

We have lived in this house for 30 years, moved in 1986. We have had six sewage backups into our basement, of varying degrees. One in 1995, one in 1996, two in 2013 and two in 2015. 
Several neighbors have also had the same problems. Our sewer company Metropolitan Sewer District, MSD, hired a plumbing contractor in 2013 and installed a back-flow prevent valve. This was supposed to fix all our problems. 


It didn't work and several neighbors failed also. 
So now the latest fix is MSD hired a contractor to install a tank, pump, etc. this has supposedly disconnected us from a gravity sewer system and now our sewage is pumped into the main. 

I wonder if this fix will work. Time will tell.

Update:

It didn't take long for this new system to be tested. We had 4" - 5" of rain on August 15. Several neighbors had sewage in their basements. Our basement stayed dry. So I guess the new system has worked. We feel sorry for the neighbors.