Trailer repairs and Stephanie Update

I realize it has been awhile since our last post.  It seems we have less to tell about while we are sitting in one place rather than traveling down the road.  We have been experiencing mixed weather here in North Carolina.  We have a couple days of pretty nice temps and then the wind blows and the storm comes through and the temperature drops again.  This morning it is 24 degrees after yesterday it got to 6o degrees.  This is the start of the next Arctic blast (not vortex) which will keep us pretty cold for the next few days. We did brave the cold to try and get some pictures of a beautiful moon rise the other evening.  We are still learning to use our new camera but the picture did turn out nice.

  We celebrated Stephanie's Birthday by going to Southern Pines, NC which is only about 20 miles from Raeford. 

We went to a local restaurant and had a delicious meal and then went shopping for some new clothes for Steph.

Stephanie had Pecan encrusted Wahoo (on right) and Bill had Blackened chicken and shrimp

Restaurant where we ate for Stephanie's Birthday

 

  We had the opportunity to meet one of our other great-nieces last weekend.  Alex and her family were down from Ft. Lee Virginia for the weekend.  Her husband, Jake, is in the Army and they had a 4 day weekend so they drove down.  They were a wonderful little family and really enjoyed meeting them.
  We have been fixing all the problems caused by plugging the trailer into the wrong power source back in December.  We replaced the Microwave oven ourselves and had a repairman fix the refrigerator.  Bill will be trying to repair the central vacuum when the weather turns warmer and we still need to deal with the entertainment system but we are starting to get everything working again
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  Stephanie had her appointment with the Orthopedic Surgeon in Durham at Duke University Hospital yesterday. The drive up to Durham is about 2 hours form Raeford and we saw countryside which we have not been through before.

Cape Fear River

  The outcome from the appointment was not as we had hoped.  We thought she was a candidate for arthroscopic surgery of the hip to repair the Labral tear but the doctor found that the Arthritis was to bad in her hip so he referred her to a full hip replacement surgeon.  The doctor was able to secure an appointment for us but we had to be 14 miles away in 20 mins. in a city we don't know anything about.  We entered the address for the new doctor in the GPS and started driving.  We ended up about 5 mins. late but they still fit her in.  After a short examination and a review of her records and xrays they confirmed the need for a new hip joint.  So, Stephanie is scheduled for surgery at Duke Raleigh Hospital on 13 Feb.  I guess this means there won't be any dancing for Valentines day this year.