Happy Easter: Hope Spring Brings Some New Life to Your Life

Wishing everyone a Happy Easter! 

Wanted to pass along this springtime story:

A man is driving along a highway and sees a rabbit jump out into the middle of the road.

He swerves to avoid hitting it, but unfortunately the rabbit jumps right in front of the car.
The driver, a sensitive man as well as an animal lover, pulls over and gets out to see what has become of the rabbit.

Much to his dismay, the rabbit is the Easter Bunny, and he is DEAD.
The driver feels so awful that he begins to cry. A beautiful blonde woman driving down the road sees a man crying on the side of the road and pulls over.
She steps out of the car and asks the man what's wrong.
"I feel terrible," ! He explains, "I accidentally hit the Easter Bunny with my car and KILLED HIM."
The blonde says,"Don't worry."
She runs to her car and pulls out a spray can. She walks over to the limp, dead Easter Bunny, bends down, and sprays the contents on him.
The Easter Bunny jumps up, waves a paw at the them and hops off down the road.
Ten feet away he stops, turns around and waves again, he hops down the road another 10 feet, turns and waves, hops another ten feet, turns and waves, and repeats this again and again and again and again, until he hops out of sight.
The man is astonished. He runs over to the woman and demands, "What is in that can? What did you spray on the Easter Bunny ?"
The woman turns the can around so that the man can read the label.

It says..

(Are you ready for this?)
(Are you sure?)

(You know you're gonna be sorry)

(Last chance)

(OK, here it is)
It says,

"Hair Spray"
"Restores life to dead hair,
And adds a permanent wave."

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Here’s a “permanent wave” to you all.

We aren’t traveling far today, just a short walk up to Tim and Jamie’s for Easter Dinner with family.  Thanks for stopping in at Hurley Travels.  Talk to you later.

Catchin’ Up

Once upon a time there was a blog named Hurley Travels that in March 2011, unexpectedly and for no real reason, became a little neglected.  The owners continued to experience various comings and goings that might rate a post. But no, for over 30 days the words did not come.  A few thoughts would get written without that final click of the publish button.  Good ole’ Hurleyblog was patient, however, waiting for a nod or some kind of recognition.   It’s not for lack of subjects or inactivity that I’ve been silent.  Maybe I just needed to think for a while.   But now, I’m in the mood to get back to the forsaken, lonely blog. Finally, after the 35th day of isolation and lack of communication, we have a happy blog once again.  Let the posts continue…..

Our travels in mid-March were from our winter spot in Bushnell, Florida to Indianapolis. We arrived in Indy as a cold snap hit and had the blankets, sweaters and heaters out for several days.  As always, seeing family smoothed over the shivers from the climate. Besides, in late March after the basketball tournaments are completed, everyone can count on the budding of the trees and the grass growing to begin in earnest in these parts. The blossoming trees and lawn mowers are spreading those familiar sights, smells and sounds all around us now. We’ve shared good times already; meals, softball, rock bands and lots of gabbing. There’ve been more than our share of “something to smile about” happenings.  A few were photo ops.  Today’s post includes deer grazing in our front yard as we have many evenings here in Tim’s backyard. And also there’s the smiling little guy, Eland, who has some mischief in his mind at most times and it shows.  (Made you smile!)

But really, this 30-day period has seemed like a blink of the eye. In fact some of our visiting with friends and family has been curtailed by time spent on our newest project. What now?  Well……we are in the “next phase of the Hurleys’ adventure.”  We’ve decided to acquire a “stick home” (not on wheels) in Indianapolis.  So we started looking for a small home or condominium that would suit our situation.  The situation is: continuing to travel at our leisure in Ferd, yet having another place to spread out for whatever length of time needed, located near family.  Now that’s a gigantic consolidation, or summary, of a boat load full of discussion, debate, examination, considering various options and determining our next steps. After all is said and done, we are getting into our “next phase” at this point -- enjoying the hunt.

Over seven years ago when we sold our home and started our fulltime RVing lifestyle we didn’t have a specific plan or know where exactly the road would lead. We enjoyed the freedom immensely and had so, so many fabulous experiences, seeing a whole gamut of places.  The people we were fortunate to meet and revisit are a favorite part of those years of roaming, too.  We have no plans to end all of that.  We’ll be having more good times out there, as well as in Indy!

That’s the synopsis of our lives in the last thirty days.  More to come…..Talk to you later.