Sherri is on Her Way Home

Well it has been two days since my little sweetie left and she is coming home today and I will be so glad to have my room mate back. I am at work and it is 5:25 pm. She called me about 30 min ago and she was 90 miles from here so it will be at least another hour before she gets here. I guess I will just post this in the journal and wait for her.

This has been the longest day. I had to run the floor in the press room all day and all the problems were dropped on my desk to solve and I did not really want them but someone had to make the decisions and I was picked. Let me start a short timers calender here and see how many days until I get to set under my awning and sip on cold drinks and worry about what I plan on doing next...let me see nap or read a good book...oh I just can't decide.

I am still working on my budget and I don't know why it has taken me so long to put it together seeing as how I have very little money to work with. I should have something by next week so I will present it to you then and see what you think.

I think I spotted RV Dude the other day at the gas station. Seems he is trying out a new car that gets better gas milage. I will have to call him and see how it is doing. I took a picture of him while I was pulling out.

Nice wheels Dude...looking sharp as ever man

Well I guess I better check on the crews they are all about to leave so I have to check and be sure they got all their stuff done before they go. I will return when you least expect it and continue this great adventure Somewhere in Time.

You Can Go Too Far

I read a journal the other day and it really upset me. I do not get upset too often but when I do I have to comment on it or it will eat me up inside. I emailed some of the Dreamers and copied some excerpts from this journal so they could read it and tell me if I was reading something into it or not. What I got back was a confirmation from all that I was not reading anything into it other than what was in black and white. I will not say anymore than that and I will not say who wrote the journal but I will say this that when we write our journals we should be careful about our comments concerning others. OK this is not one of our regular reads and this person is one that most of you would not know so do not worry. I am just commenting on the content of the journal and how we should all be vigilant in what we write.

OK I will move off that subject move on to say that Sherri is in Atlanta Texas working and I am home alone. I got out our big jar of coins that we collected over the last 5 or 6 years and started going through them to see if there were any worth more than the face value. I only got about 1/3 of the way into the jar and became tired of looking...having not found anything interesting. I then turned my attention to finding me something to eat and there too found nothing of interest so I settled with a rotisserie chicken from Kroger that I got on sale for $3.00. I am starting my
PO FOKS FULLTIMING BUDGET plan that I have been developing for some time. I will lay this all out for those of you that will be as poor as I when you retire.

The beauty of this plan is that you can read it and no one will know that you are poorer than a Pea Farmer. If anyone ask..."Do you read Speedy's PO FOKS journal"...you can say heavens no I have money!!! See...and then on the sly you can read it and take notes at night and follow the plan and no one will be the wiser. Oh I have it all figured out. Just don't let all the folks with that long green stuff see you leaving out of any of the CG that Ol Speedster stays at...that could be a dead give-a-way that you are following my advise.

All kidding aside people read these journals where RVers tell how much money they have to live on and many wanna bes shy away because they think that they could not make it on there income when they retire. When they read my journal they will immediately feel richer than a freshly fertilized garden.

Some of the first things that I will be researching in my new endeavor is to identify FUN. What is FUN made up of. Once we categorize this we will be able to move into $$ FUN and FREE FUN. By enhancing the FREE FUN we will find avenues to take... that leave the old wallet in the pocket so you don't have to hockit. This will be a fun trip across this wonderful land that will leave you feeling secure that you will be able to eat tomorrow...no more staying out behind the Wally World eating out of the dumpster...you can move right out front with the best of them.


I will be working on the first pass at the budget this week and I will try and have it posted by next week so you all will have an idea on what we can get by with on a low income diet. I will try to have variations of the budget so we have several avenues to follow in differing times.

Well it is time for PO Professor Speedy to slowly fade on out of here and drift off into that misty distance Somewhere in Time.

Beetle Bloomers

Well I went from Speedy to Beetle Bloomers. OK I know you want to know what in the heck I am talking about. Jim of http://www.justravelin.blogspot.com/ had an encounter with a snake some time back and it scared him so, he jumped 3 ft in the air and screamed like a girl...Well I thought that was so funny and I mentioned that I wish I had a camera and had caught the whole thing on tape. Well not to leave Jim feeling embarrassed I told the story of me and my encounter with a beetle that had some how made a home in my pants one night while I slept. Now I have to tell you that I was overseas at the time and sleeping outdoors of course so the beetle just came on in and made himself at home. Well the next morning when I woke up and was getting ready to head out with the rest of my platoon I woke the beetle up and he began to let me know of his presents! Needless to say the pants came down in a hurry and I began the search for my boarder. Running around with your pants down around your ankles is not a pretty site but I had to evict this guy quickly. OK Jim if you can picture all this... your screaming like a girl and jumping 3 foot in the are ain't so bad buddy. Don't feel bad. So this is how I got tagged Beetle Bloomers. Somehow by trying to help a fellow Dreamer out I ended up on center stage.



OK moving right along I will tell you that yesterday holds no exciting stories for me to relate to you. I went to work and Sherri went to work and we came home...Oh we did get our table cloth from Don Cat ....Thanks Don it got here just fine and we will have to make use of it very soon. If anyone out there would like to get the greatest table cloth in the world take a look at http://www.rvdaydreams.blogspot.com/ Don and Cheryl Catoe are Dreamers and they just happen to sell vinyl table cloths that have a pleated edge that fills with water and goes on your table. the weight of the water on the edge of the cloth keeps it on you table no matter how high the wind gets...no more flapping edges!! You have to see it to believe it.



OK I am at work this morning and things are getting hectic around here so I guess I better check it to you. Here is a picture of a beetle that looked similar to the one that took residence in by "Bloomers" now what would you do...Somewhere in Time???

We Had a Busy Night

Yesterday was spent looking for Sherri a computer table to no avail. The ones we did find were not what she wanted and the ones she wanted cost an arm and leg. We are putting the table on the back burner for a while. Maybe they will go on sale and she can get the one she wants??

Not much else rocked our world except for the chicken I grilled out and it was good!. We had that and salad with a baked tater and I got fuller than a tick....no nap today though. All low cal for you that are wondering if I am still dieting...the answer is yes but no results...could it be the ice cream?

I jumped on chat last night to check in on all my Dreamer friends and had every intention of getting off early and posting my journal. Well my friend Dee got me started on IM with the Web Cam and we were trying to do a conference call...so to speak...and before either one of us noticed it was 12:00 Dee's time and 11:00 my time. This did not afford me the time to post last night so I am a day behind on boring you to tears.

For those of you that may only read my journal I have some pictures of my good friend Jenny's new to her Motorhome. For being a used unit it is really nice looking and from what I can tell maintained very well also. I am anxious to see the insides and hear back from her on how it drives and all the other sorted details. We will be counting the days until she can come down and meet us all in Kerrville at the Gathering of Dreamers. Save your pennies up JJ so you can get that gas money to come down on.





Jenny you look good behind the wheel of your new MH




This is in good condition for used!!!

I am waiting to hear all about it Jenny so get us some more pictures and take us all along on your first voyage Somewhere in Time

A Do Nothing Day

The original plan laid down for this day did not turn out at all. We were going to get some paperwork at the bank and get some stuff mailed off for our insurance rebates but when we got to the bank they said they could not do it on Saturday. Well now that is not what the lady told me on the phone...I said...Well we are so sorry....Well so am I...said Speedy...wanting to bite a nail in half...You call on the phone to save some diesel going to all these places and then when you get there it is not the way they said it was...GERRRRRRRRRR!

OK not all lost for the day we headed to Camping World to see about getting a heating element for the Hot Water Heater and also to see if they had a computer table for Sherri's new computer. Well the computer table they had was not really what she wanted so we settled for the element and headed to get something to eat.

On the way down the road I...for whatever the reason thought of eating at Olive Garden. I had not eaten there in some time so I suggested that we find one and try it out. Sherri was hungry and she said that would be fine with her. We located one in Lewisville just down the road and pulled in about 1:00. The lunch crowd was just about out of there so we did not have to wait long to be seated.

We had a great meal...I ordered the spaghetti and meat balls and Sherri got the chicken and veggie plate. They were both good and the salad and bread sticks..OHHHHH my! We ate until we were both packed to the top...and you know that is a lot of packing for me.

After eating we headed to Toys R Us to get a gift certificate for our grandson in Kansas. He will be 2 years old the 1st of August. Gosh has it been two years??? Time just gets by so fast. It just seems like the other day that he came into our lives and now he has been here two years and his brother is due here in a few days! GEEE I see a trip up to Kansas in the near future.

We had planned on a couple more stops but the food and the heat was taking hold of us so we decided to head to the 5th Wheel and get cool. Not long after we got home we both set down in the recliners and kicked back to rest and let our meal settle...well this was about 2:30 the next thing I knew it was 6:00 and Sherri was up putting the dishes away. She and I both had slept all that time ....we must have been tired.

Well tomorrow Speedy puts on his plumbing hat and tries to change the element out. FD5 said I could do it....so John if this does not work out it is all your fault...NOT...LOL I hope that I can muddle through it. If any of you out there has had to change a HWH element that is located in the back of the heater let me know what to look for...I know look for someone to do it for you.

Until then my friends this is your old friend Speedy and his loving...wonderful charming...kind DW signing off Somewhere in Time.

This is the Federal Building

You wonder if this is one of the crews lost in the World Trade Center??

This Church is just down from the WTC and the cemetary there was the one they had on the news...if you remember.

This is a famous catholic church and the name has left my memory...do you know?

Made It One More Week

One more week is down...they seem to be going fairly fast if you look back to the Rally and see how long ago it was. I don't want to wish my life

away but I have been working for 45 years and 30 of those 45 were spent in one building. You see how I could be longing for something new. The plant I work in...like so many manufacturing plants has no windows...nor does my office so I spend a lot of time looking at four walls and no sunlight...trees...clouds. It will be good to spend time in a comfortable climate outdoors.

I read all my journals today and enjoyed them all so much. Everyone has such interesting travels and great pictures. I travel right along with all of them...and they don't even know that I am there...like the fly on the wall. For those of you that are not able to retire and travel now this is a great means of getting away from the day to day humdrum. Read a journal and look at the pictures and you too can be traveling.

Sherri did not work today but I was fortunate enough to draw the short straw and work and go in to baby sit the Press room. We are working on commercial accounts and they will drive you over the edge if you let them. People want the craziest stuff. Their demands are out of sight and sometimes unreal?? We get them as much as we can and then we have to pull back on the rains. Yearbooks are a little easier to work and you do not have the customer looking over your shoulder...in most cases. We do have some big schools that come in and press check their books but not that many...due to cost constraints.

Enough about work!! We are setting here at ten after seven...Sherri is working puzzles and I am posting my journal. We ate hot dogs tonight...didn't we have those the other night. It is hard to think of meals if your tired and worn out. Hot Dogs are a good meal in a pinch. I heard on CNN today that they cause Cancer now. Oh well that makes about 123,645 things now that cause Cancer. GEEE everything causes Cancer. Next thing we will hear is RVing causes Cancer. Now that would be about it for me.

Tomorrow I have to run up to the bank and get the papers on the Truck payoff. I have to have that to get the rebate on my GAP insurance and the Credit life. We are going to take that money and put it towards deductibles on our insurance. We will be covered without the worry of covering deductibles. There are so many lose ends to tie up when you are getting ready to retire. I hope that I can get my Disability re-evaluation in and working before February. I know that is a long time off but getting reevaluated takes so long...you know that is a government thing. I want it behind me before I set my retirement up so I have all my ducks in a row. Like I said there are a lot of lose ends to tie up here.

Well I am still posting pictures from my trip so you will just have to bare with me. Have you ever gone to someones house and had to set through their vacation photos. You know you have to set there and OOOO and AHHHHHH the whole time ....show me that same respect here OK. I love digital cameras...you can take thousand of pictures and never pay any developing. Pick the ones you like and delete the rest. Technology is good.

Speaking of Technology what did we do without the cell phones...fax...scanners...voice mail...email...text messages...chat oh my I don't know how in the world we ever made it. So much of my business is done over the phone lines and Internet. I have had to grow with these advances and learn new systems. When I went to college we did not have computers and any of the technology that went with them...digital printing for example. So I have had to learn all this as time went on. My schooling is about to come to an end. OK I am rambling now...please stop me.

OK I will leave you with these pictures...and best wishes to you all Somewhere in Time.

Hot Dry No Hope For Improvement

We got up this morning and believe me I was cold!!! The air was on 70 but it felt like 30! I had to turn it off before I could shower. I know that it will be on the other end of the thermometer soon enough. I took a real hot shower and it sure felt good. Put the coffee on and made sure my soul mate was up and getting ready to go. She is taking me to work this morning and then she is heading to Rockwall to work.

We have been doing pretty good with our dual working schedule. Sherri sometimes has to take me to work when she is working local and then when she is traveling out of town she rides with her brother. All her fuel is payed for after the first 20 miles so it works for us.

She finished her job up around 2:30 and gave me a call at work. She decided to head back home and relax for a while before she had to come and pick me up. That was OK with me seeing as how I had no way to get off early so I told her to rest and come at 5:30.

Before Sherri had left to come and get me Rodney called to see if Sherri and I wanted to eat out with him and Becky. I told him I was game and he should check with Sherri. We put a plan together and we met them at a Mexican Restaurant about half way between them and where we live.
We had a real good meal and got to visit with them. Becky is still in the wheelchair and should be for 4 more weeks. She is really getting tired of this condition and she can't wait to get out and about for a change. She has not been able to get into her new trailer since Branson. She only had it one week before she broke her leg. Bummer.

After we said our good byes Sherri and I headed to the house. We were only there about 30 minutes when we decided that we needed some creamer and cereal for the morning. Back in the truck and down the road to get supplies. We can find more ways to burn diesel.

We got back home and it was time to get on the chat line. I was lost as soon as I logged on...Jenny said that I was a pirate with a parrot??? Anyway, come to find out Roz was logged on as Jolly_Mon he was giving everyone a hard time so they would think it was me....OK Roz that is one for you...I owe you one. And Jenny....Yee of little faith...to think you had me pegged as Jolly_Mon ...shame on you. Not that it would have been fun to be Jolly_Mon...:)
OK here we go again time is running out. I have to lay my little head down...I will catch you all in my dreams Somewhere in Time

Weeks Half Gone And So Am I

Well it is Wednesday evening and Sherri and I just got in. Sherri came and picked me up after work...she came from Anna up close to Oklahoma. She got there about 5: 30 and we headed for the Panda China Cafe to grab some grub. She was starving and I had a hint of hunger myself.

After we had eaten we headed to the grocery store to pick up some food items and then went to the house. It was 7:30 by the time we pulled in and we were both just worn out. With Sherri working and me on 12 hour days we are both dragging these days. Will we make it 7 more months?? Gosh I hope so.

We are posting all our new information with our new addresses and we have moved our banking to a national bank so we will have plenty or branches all over the USA. We got us one of them thar Debit Cards too. GeeeeeWhizzzzz wez up town now! I always want to be an ontomanure and now I are one.

Do you get the feeling that I am running out of things to talk about....well your probably right. I wish that I had some exciting thing to tell you about today but it has been a boring day to say the least. Gosh if we just had some bad weather to talk about. Nothing comes to mind and I am so tired I can't think of any thing.

I will stop wasting you time with this dribble and head to the fridge for ice cream and then on to bed so I can get back up and head to work Somewhere in Time.

New York Stock Exchange Building

Take a look at these parking prices!!! No wonder New Yorkers don't have cars!!!

This is our MH. We had it 7 years and loved it...Not enough room

Another shot of the World Trade Center...gone forever

View from Liberty

Sherri Is Home And So Am I

I did not do my journal entry today at work because I was too busy. I got up and went into work early and had to work 12 hours today and by mid day when I usually do my journal I was knee deep in problems. With Larry out and my secretary too I am working full speed to keep up with all the things that are going on.

Sherri called about 5:00 and said she had made it to the RV and wanted to know where I was. I told her and she said that we would just go out to eat instead of trying to cook in the trailer...it would make it too hot...it has been over 100 here all week long. I told her that would be fine and I would be home around 7:30.

Well has things would turn out we did not eat out and we did not cook in the trailer either. We fixed some hot dogs in the microwave and that was it for dinner. I usually have a good lunch so dinner does not have to be spectacular by any means. I was full when all was said and done so I am a happy camper.

Not just a whole lot to report on today...what Speedy you don't have much to say???? Are you sick?? NO I just have worked 12 hours and not a lot of exciting things happened today at work. I guess it would have been exciting if HR had called and asked me if I would take a package for early retirement...I would have a lot to tell you about...but that was not to be so I guess I will go get me a bowl of ice cream and chat to see what everyone is doing tonight. I will turn in early cause tomorrow is another 12 hour day!! Maybe I will get some rest

Somewhere in Time

Downtown NY City

Ms Sherri at the Statue Of Liberty...notice the Twinn Towers

This is the Brooklyn Bridge

Our Lady

Front of the World Trade Center the year before 9/11

Its Monday And We Start All Over Again

We were up at the crack this morning. Sherri had to be in McKinney this morning to meet her brother. They are headed to some town in South Louisiana. It is a 7 to 8 hour drive and they had to get started early. Well that meant that ol Speedy had to take her so we were off about 6:00 am. I hate traffic! Now I want to tell you that North Dallas has big time traffic. I have never seen the like of cars. It took me 45 min to get there and 1 hour and 15 min to get back...Ouch! I was wore out by the time I got to work....and about 1 1/2 hour late.

OK that being said I need to comment on Darell and Judy's journal for a minuet. I don't know how many of you read good ol Darrell's journal but he is a gifted writer and funny to say the least. He open this morning by saying that he wished he did not have to work and that he should just go back and get a full time job!!! OH my I almost lost it. If he had a comment block on his journal I sure would have commented. Darrell!!! wake up man...what your doing is not working ...I am working Darrell. OK I am strapped to a desk and a computer with people constantly coming in whining because Latasha looked at her funny and she knows it is because she broke up with her boy friend and she is making fun of her for losing him...Oh no Darrell you don't want a job. You have been out of a job too long and you just think you want one...set back take deep breaths and repeat after me .....I do not want a 40 hour a week job with all the headaches and butt chewing and moaning and fighting traffic to and from and on and on BLA BLA BLAAAA.

OK I hope everyone out there understands what I just said and if you need anymore explanation I will be glad to help you out. Workamping can be enjoyable if you don't lose sight of what a real job was like and what all was involved in doing it every day of your life for 45 years.

I do plan on working some of the months between traveling and visiting the kids. We will need to supplement some of the higher cost of fuel and this would be one way to lessen the blow. I will never lose sight of...One: what a real job was like and Two: the money I save working will help me travel a little further at a later date.

Our life style will fall short of the glamorous lives of many full timers but I will venture to say that non will have anymore fun than I. I am mentally preparing myself for camp grounds without lush green yards and workout rooms...Spas and Olympic swimming pools...golf courses...shuttles to the Wally World...and 45 foot Wonderlodges that go on forever. I will be in Uncle Buddy's Campground and Body Shop but I will have plans to see everything within one tank of diesel that is free...which will include beautiful sights that the good Lord made and does not charge the general public to look at . Can I get an AMEN?

OK I am through with this sermon but I am not through with the message. I am going to get me some ice cream now... jump on chat with all my good Dreamer friends...see what everyone has been up to today. I will be back tomorrow with more words of wisdom and truth. Until then my faithful readers I will see you again Somewhere in Time

Sunday Not a Day of Rest For Us

This morning started early as many of our days do. We were to meet Jason our oldest son and Susan his girlfriend for breakfast. It is Jason's birthday and we were taking him out to eat. He lives in Prosper Texas which is north of Dallas and not all that far from Mom and Dad. We had a real good visit and a great breakfast.

After saying our good byes Sherri and I headed for our oldest daughters house to drop off some STUFF and then we were on to Lowe's to shop for HVAC filters and some other supplies for my honey due list. From Lowe's we headed to Wally World...a day without Wally World is not a complete day. We picked up some Bar Keepers Friend to clean some things in the RV...this was recommended by one of you Dreamers out there...I can't recall who but it was said that it was what we needed to do our cleaning so we got some. Then we went to Target to look for a computer desk for Sherri's laptop. She saw Ellie's and had a fit over it but we cannot find one. Ellie if you read this tell Sherri where to go get one so I wont go broke filling up with diesel every other day looking for this desk. Well Target did not have one so we gave up and headed home.

I have a project that should take me a good while to accomplish...I have to scan all our pictures and put them on CD. I hope my scanner holds up. I mention some time back about all our Slides that we have from the seventies. We have hundreds of them and I need to get them scanned as well. I have an idea how to get them from slides to CD without sending them to a photo print place...which I found out would cost me an arm and a leg...to get them all done! Oh well Sherri order us a viewer and it is on back order so we are waiting for that.

I is about 4:30 PM here now and it must be 100 degrees outside so my other chores will have to wait for the temp to cool off some. I hope to get my projects done before dark. Oh and I have one more movie to watch...we got the bucket list and we need to watch it here pretty quick...it is due back tonight.

OK my RV Dream friends and family I must retreat to the fridge for ice cream and then on to the movie. I will join you all later....Somewhere in Time.

We Are Debt Free Tonight

When we started planning our great adventure we knew one thing for sure we could not retire owing for STUFF. Our plan was to become debt free prior to my retirement. Well today was the day that happened. Sherri and I went down and payed off all our debt and we are now debt free and soooo close to retiring! There was a large implosion at our bank when I wrote the last
check...I hope no one was injured.

We have been planning this for 35 years and finally we are getting sooo close to that time... it is a little scary. After 12 RVs... 7 houses and 4 children we are rounding the corner on our dream. The last house is sold and we own our home on wheels and the truck that pulls it. OK now we have to start the last few items on the list of things to do before we head off on the road. Now you might ask what are those last items.....

Number one on the list...learn to live on the amount of money we will have coming in after I kiss my job good-bye...Now that should be a hill to climb. After living foot loose for all these years we will have to clamp down on spending. With the price of fuel up so high now, that will be another problem to face and work around. We both feel confident that we should be able to overcome the temptation to spend more than our budget allows. This is why we will be practicing for the next 7 months living on a set amount and not going over that amount for no reason at all.

Number two on the list is looking at all the things we have that we can shed between now and the time we leave out. We need to revise our phone needs Internet needs and other attachments that we can slim down to better fit our budget. We have 7 months to do this in... so we will be real busy getting that done. Insurances have to be re-examined to see what kind of savings we can find out there. All the extra needs in life that we just picked up and through in with all our necessities need to be weeded out and replaced with better ideas and cheaper price tags.

OK so we are going to be busy this next 7 months and you will be here with us as we muddle through all this. We will be looking for all our friends and family to give us some suggestions on how to live cheaper and stretch that dollar as far as we can.

I hope that some of the things we do might help some other poor soul out there that is afraid to take this big leap because they don't have the money. Well if we can do it then I would have to say that anyone can. We will be collecting all the Po Foks out there to follow us and have fun on low budgets. That's right hang with us and you will feel rich. We will show you all the free stuff on our adventures...cause we can't afford anything different.

OK we have established our following...you Foks with all that long green can follow us too... maybe we can show you a good time. Like I always say when you feel down and out and you need to re-coop some money to pay for that high rolling life style ...come follow us for a while and you will save a ton... of course you wont go anywhere but you will save a ton of money!

Well that is about it for today...I dropped a ton of money today...imploded a bank in East Texas
cheated several creditors out of thousands of $ of interest bought me a $3.00 roasted chicken at Kroger and finished watching Big Mommas House 2 ...I guess I can sleep tonight with no problem.

Come set on my porch Somewhere in Time

Thanks To All Our Friends

It is so comforting to know that we have so many friends out there....and when I say out there I mean it...all over the US! How great is that. Did you ever think that someday you would be conversing with friends in Washington State, North Carolina, Texas, Colorado, Alabama and this is just to name a few. Every night Sherri and I are amazed at all the folks we know now that we did not know one year ago. We lived on a street for years and did not know the folks living next door much less at the other end of the street...but now we know people in other states and talk to them on a regular basis! And on top of all that you all have been so kind to pray for our granddaughter and us WOW! Thanks SOOOOO much all of you!

To let you all know your prays have helped. Meagan went to the doctor and they ran some more test and they are re-thinking the diagnosis. They may be what they call pre-cancerous cells?? I may have that all wrong but they are testing to see if it is really cancer or not. So keep those prayers coming! I don't know why these doctors want to scare you like that but they sure do and it may not be as bad as we first thought. I will keep you all updated as soon as we learn more.

OK we had the discussion last night about our gathering in Texas next March. I am not sure but I believe it will be the 1st of March and last 2 weeks? Dortha is checking on the rates for 15 or more rigs and what the cost would be. No matter what we can all plan on it and take the weekly rate which I believe is $200.00 or so...electric included. Anyway we will have to be somewhere why not there???

I wish I could get off earlier than February but I have to get all my bennies from the company...no way I am giving those up! I have to give up so much all the time but not my bennies. Now if I can get them earlier than my anniversary date I will be outa there! We'll see.
I guess we will summer in Colorado somewhere...or where ever it is cool and cheap to stay. LOL We are going to be the poster children for Poe Fok Fulltiming PFF. I bet we have a good time though. No where is it written that you have to have a giant budget to have fun. I remember the first real vacation we took as a family. We went to Colorado...pulled a Jayco pop up trailer with a 1972 4 cyl. Vega! We left Texas with $300.00 in our pockets and stayed a week in the mountains and had some money left over when we got home. Even in 1972 $300.00 was not enough to leave the state of Texas with! But we did it and had a ball. Now we regress to 2009 and still broker than two Pea Farmers we are off again. If you travel with Speedy and his gal don't expect lavish living folks. When we say we are eating out...we mean on the front porch.

Yes this will be an adventure to match them all but we look forward to it and hope that the good Lord is kind to us between now and then and our health holds up. I will have a list of dirt cheap Camp Grounds on my journal so if you need to slum for a while tune in and we will guide you to
the re-coop Camp Grounds. You may even find me and my best friend there sharing a meal
Somewhere in Time

Work Work Work

The last couple of days have been just awful. I have been on a 12 hour a day schedule and Sherri has been working all kinds of hours. We got our new computer the first of the week and it is still in the box! This last 7 months is going to wear us both out I just know it. I will really need a....I started to say vacation....Retirement after all this is behind me.

Not only am I on a 12 hour a day schedule I had to come in at 5:30 this morning to hold a meeting with my night shift employees. I really do not have my heart in this but it is something that I have to do. I guess that will mean I will be here 13 hours today....UGH!

My granddaughter is having some test done. She might have cancer...or the signs lead them to believe that . Sherri is real worried and I have told her to wait until we hear from the test results before she gets too upset about these findings. I am very optimistic that it is going to be OK. Any prayers you might have out there would be appreciated.

Sherri and I have missed being on chat. Hello to all the chatters that read our journal. We will be back on soon to add our two cents.

Well that is about it for this post. Not much going on around here except W*#k. Maybe something real special will happen Somewhere in Time

We Have The New Computer

We got up yesterday grumpy as usual and both of us were not happy campers. Time to get up comes much too early any more. We go to bed early but the time just flys by and the next thing we know it is time to get up and start all over again. Now that Sherri is working she has the same grumpy feeling I have been working on for the past year. It is good to know that I am not alone in this bummer feeling I have. I have even noticed some of you short timers out there saying the same thing about having to work. UGH!

OK let us move along here and address the good news that we have to tell all of you out there. We have a new computer. We stressed out on this selection and just could not decide until day before yesterday when we came to the conclusion that the HP that we have was doing a good job so why not stay with what brung ya. We got a 6000 series again, except this one has twice the memory and hard drive and Hz that our last one does and it is $300.00 cheaper! We decided to go ahead and get the 3 year extended warranty on it at $50.00 a year which seemed well worth that and the rebate of $170.00 that we are getting plus the $50.00 in house rebate pretty much covers that cost.

It is still in the box tonight...we have not had the time to even peek inside due to our W*&K schedule...which in 7 months will change....YEHAAA! I hoped tonight I would be able to go home and load this baby up so Sherri could chat with us...oh well they asked me to stay 12 hours tonight and you know what....I said yes....I am losing it I know I am...I need some drugs to get me through this time in my life...maybe a cold MGD?? What was I ever thinking to say yes I'll stay...I love this place I have spent 35 years of my life at...without windows to see outside...in this office with no back door to escape out of in times of trouble...yes I could not ask for a more miserable place to be setting than this.

I must get off this subject before I have a break down. My good friend Dee and Jim Walter sent me an email this evening. While I set here typing away on all this nonsense. It came to me and I picked out some of these pictures that I thought best sumed up my feelings. I will try and post them on this journal entry so that you get the full effect of my enter most feelings...

This is me on the right at my last review....Weeeee I am working for free Teeee Heeeee
Me after a 10 hour day....can you guess where I am

A day dream I have while setting at my desk....floating down a slow moving river Somewhere in Time.

Houseless At Last

Well Friday was the big day. We had a 3:00 PM appointment to close on our house. Sherri was in Tyler Texas and I was in Wills Point and the closing was in Canton Texas. Now you would have to have a map to see the triangle these locations create and then see I had a lot of traveling to do to bring this all together by 3:00. The need to close on this house was so strong that I found a way to make it all happen...and it did.

We are now officially without a stixs and bricks and...still living in our home on wheels. It is getting closer to that time and we are tweaking the plan to make this all happen. All the STUFF is out of the house as of Friday night. What a push to get that all loaded. We had the truck stuffed to the headliner and the back packed as well. Everything is gone out and the new owners are on their way to moving in.

We returned home Saturday late and unloaded the STUFF that we will keep in the 5ht wheel. We will weed through it in time and eliminate some more. Saturday was pretty much doing that until time for bed.

We got up Sunday morning feeling tired but relieved to know that the worst was behind us. We both dreaded the fact that we had to go to work Monday morning. We sat in the recliners for some time talking about retirement and computers and what we needed to do and then what we really needed came to the both of us. We needed to go and have some fun. I immediately picked up the phone and called my Bud and asked him if he wanted to go somewhere. Mark and Dortha live in Ft. Worth Texas and have been our friends for years. Mark said he had no plans and the adventure started coming together.

We all planned on meeting in Denton Texas at the Cracker Barrel on 380 and IH-35. We parked our still half loaded truck in the parking lot and we took Mark's Liberty to the restaurant of our choice...which was up the road a ways...Babes is a family style restaurant that puts all the food on the table and you help yourself. My kind of place! We got there in short order and found the line to be way too long for us so we opted for Chili's down the road.

Lunch was good and the conversation was all about retirement and traveling...wonder why? We enjoyed it as always. Now it was time for some serious planning and that was going up the road to the casino in Oklahoma. Well need I say more...we had a great time as soon as we arrived. Mark and I came out the winners...Mark really did win about $70.00 and I won $7.00...hey not bad for the ones that usually finish gambling about 20 minutes after they arrive...broke

We as always enjoyed our time with Mark and Dortha and hope to see them again real soon. Thanks guys for being our friends. Can't wait to share all our great adventures with all our other friends...I know you all will like the Halls and the Pitmans...just give us a try Somewhere in Time.

She Made It All Day And So Did I

Well another day another dollar...for both Sherri and I. We made it through without a scratch and now it is time to start over again!

Not much to report today things are very slow here at the office and Sherri is having a very uneventful day. I spoke with her this morning and she was ready to come home for sure. I told her that the Realtor called this morning and said that the closing was a go for Friday...hope that holds. Sherri will be in Tyler and if she can get loose in time she will meet me in Canton Texas where the closing will take place. If she can't get a way there I will have to go pick her up so that means I leave much earlier to make that happen.

I will be out of touch with all of you until next Monday so this will be my last post until then. I will have all the updates on the closing and anything else worth reporting then.

Until then I will leave you with some more pictures of our trip...we are still in Niagara Falls Canada and we will leave from there and head to New York.

Maid of the Mist heads to the Canadian Falls with the USA falls in the background

Sherri looks back at the Canadian falls and yes she got wet

Passing by the USA falls with the Canadian falls in the background

Sherri wears the Mapel leaf for a crown? The observation tower/restaurant holds a story all its own. You can see it in the upper right of this photo. Someday I will relate that story to you.

This is a view of the USA falls as we headed back into port. Overall our trip to Niagara was exciting and many memories were made there. We will be headed to New York State next and will be staying at Lake George Escape CG. Darell and Judy Patterson are presently there working as entertainment coordinators. So until then I will fade into...Somewhere in Time.

Sherri's First Day

Oh my it is time to get up again. Even with all the encouragement of my fellow Dreamers it is getting so hard to go to work now. What is it with the final months that make it so hard to concentrate on working here? Yes the alarm went off and I slowly pulled my self out of the bed and onto the floor...wobbled over to the coffee maker and flipped the switch to get the process going. I wonder how many times I have done that over the past 45 years. Gosh it must be several...ya think. I know we use to have one of those peculator coffee pots and then we went to the electric self contained coffee makers...do you remember those times?


I got that going and then wobbled into the bathroom to shower and shave...you noticed I wobble everywhere now with my leg hurting me... I am a wobbler. It really is starting to feel better now that I am off of it most of the day. I have excused myself from going out into the press room and this has helped me reduce the swelling some what. OK... shower, shaving, dressing, prepared lunch, fixed coffee, found my wallet and keys....I am off for another day at the office.


I spent most of the day doing reports and answer questions as usual and then ate my lunch and got in some journal reading. I am so far behind on all the journals I don't know if I will ever catch back up. I love to read about everyone's travels especially while I am at the office because it takes me away from here and puts me in a happy place. Keep them coming Dreamers.


OK I told you that this was Sherri's first day on the road. She just traveled today to Marshall, where she will be staying while she is working in Hallsville...which evidently is so small they do not have accommodations for temp folks. I don't think that Marshall is that far from Hallsville so all is well.


Upon arriving in Marshall, Sherri found a motel and went in to get a room. She told the clerk at the desk that she wanted to be on the second floor and she did not want an adjoining room. These are two things that she has always been very adamant about. She does not feel safe on the first floor and she does not want a door that adjoins another room. OK that being said these are the two wishes she conveyed to the clerk. All the paperwork was made up and she took off to her room...which she found to be on the first floor...and low and behold it adjoined the room next to it. Well this was just too much for her take at one time so she dropped her stuff off in the room and headed back down to the front desk to register her complaint. She explained once again to the clerk that she wanted on the second floor and no adjoining room. The clerk apologized for the misunderstanding and changed it all to full fill her wishes.


Back to the room Sherri went to get her stuff and make the move to the new room...whats this the door is locked...Oh I have the new card but it is for the new room and not this one...the card to this room is in the room with all her bags . Gee I will have to go back down to the desk and get a card for this room so I can get my stuff and then go back and get the card for the new room...oh I already have it...So she heads back down to the desk... the clerk sees her coming and knows that we have another problem. OK, says the clerk I will make this card open that room and you can get your stuff out and then you can come back and I will make it fit the new room again. Sherri gets the card heads back to the locked room and retrieves her belongings. Back to the desk to get the card for the new room and then up to the second floor and gets into the new room. All is well...second floor no adjoining door...life is good...for a short time. Toilet runs will not stop...OK shut the door and ignore it...Takes a shower the shower does not drain...OK this can be corrected in the morning. This is the first day...stay tuned for day two.


My job went on an on and on and finally 5:30 rolled around and I was outa here. Time to go home to that empty 5ver and fix supper and then I get to chat with all my friends. This is the best part of the day. I fixed me a breakupper and ate...before I knew it, it was 7:30 and I wondered why work can't go this fast. I jumped on the chat and everyone was there chatting and all my problems just faded away...just like that. Got me two bowles of ice cream and really enjoyed the evening with friends.


OK that about sums up my exciting day. I will end this entry today with some more pictures of Canada and our 17 state tour.

Arch on the backside of Mackinaw Island Michagan

This is a view of Fort Mackinaw from the back side

Sherri and Dortha take in the view from the balcony of the fort

We left Mackinaw and headed through Canada to Niagara Falls. We took the Maid of the Mist tour which was fantastic

We stopped and had lunch after the tour at a cafe on the river over looking the Canadian Falls

I will have more on the falls tomorrow and a good story to tell you about the guys trip to Fort Erie. They got lost Somewhere in Time.

My Last Day With Sherri

The alarm went off at 5:30 am and it took all I could muster up to pull myself out of the bed. Oh I was so sore...my leg is still swollen and it takes me some time to get to moving again in the morning.

Sherri did not flinch when the alarm went off and I checked her pulse to see if she was still with me. She did have a pulse, however faint. I sighed with relief knowing that she would be able to make us some extra diesel money before I retired. How cold Speedy! I hear you all out there moaning and saying all manner of things about me...I can take it. Hey this is our plan....and as our plans go we have things come up now and again that dash them into pieces, and her passing could be one of those dashing moments. You know you never can be to sure of yourself.

Not to worry Sherri is alive and well and after I got out of the shower she was up and sipping her coffee.

Is this only Tuesday! GEEEE this week is going to be a slow one for sure. Sherri starts her job in the morning and I will be all alone...WHOAAAA is me. I will have to get my stuff together and go off to work without that morning snarl from my true love and life partner. It will not be the same until we both rid ourselves of these J O B s! Eight more months...I think I will start a count down calendar like Dee and Jim have.

OK Coffee made lunch packed...phone wallet keys located...Houston we have lift off the Speedster is in the truck and headed for the office and all manner of torment to look forward to upon arrival.

The day at the office went as usual...Mr Pitman this Mr Pitman that AUGH!!!! please release me let me go. Phone calls...press checks...reports...meetings...He said she said reports from disgruntled employees! OK I am ready...is it time to retire yet??? I have this reoccurring nightmare and I find out that I am awake while I am having it. I long to be in my boat on a slow moving river fishing for catfish and planning my next nap.

I know I have a while before I retire so I am posting some pictures of a happier time in my life. These are some pictures of our world wind trip with Moppah and Mark and Becky and Rodney a few years back.

It started out at Monmouth Cave Kentucky Can you tell we were tired?

Next stop was Mackinaw Island Michagan...Mark and Dortha on the Ferry

View of the Grand Hotel from the ferry boat going over

No motorized vehicals are allowed on the island just bikes and hoarse drawn carriages

This is the side view of the Grand Hotel..Somewhere in Time

OK I am making myself sick. I have to go to the Birthday Party/Anniversary on the chat tonight and try to be witty. It is getting harder every day to be witty and happy. Things will change

Somewhere in Time.

Another Do Nothing Day

We got up this morning about 7:30...I should say that I got up...Sherri slept in a little longer and I got to do yesterdays post. I hate to post while she is awake and I know I need to be spending time with her. I guess after I retire I can spend all my time with her and post too.

We drank our coffee and worked on our phones some more. I had to see if the alarm worked on mine...you see I need to get up and go to work...UGH! It worked much the same as my other phone so I got it set. I hope that I only have 8 more months of this. It will be nice to know that I do not have to get up and rush off to work anymore!!!

Sherri got all her numbers listed in her phone book and I got the alarm set so it was time for us to plan a trip to the store. Kroger's is only about a mile from us so we can make multiple trips at no big cost...I guess that is good because we make multiple trips. It has been part of our morning to go to the store for many years now. I know when I retire the trips to the store will become fewer and we will have to get all we need in one trip. But until then we still plan our store run.

After returning from the store we unloaded the one or two items we so desperately needed and fixed us some lunch. Sherri made a salad with chicken that I had cooked out on the grill the day before. It was sure good and we ate it all.

After lunch I sat down at the computer to check the stock market and see if I had made any money. I checked that out and decided to go ahead and work until February. I can see now that we will be traveling less and setting more...I hope my friends out there are planning the same thing. If not we will be waving goodbye as everyone else pulls out to see the world. No matter it still will be better than going to work all the time!

While setting at the computer I heard a noise at the door and went out to see what it was. The people at the park left a note on our door that the water would be shut off in the morning at
8:00 am because of a leak somewhere up the line. So Sherri and I went outside to fill up our tank for the next day. While we were outside we heard sirens and soon the emergency vehicles were pulling into our park. Two firetrucks and two ambulances followed by two police cars. What is going on...they went down to the end of the street and stopped. Some of our neighbors walked down there and found out that one of the mobile homes had a fire in the kitchen. They put it out in short order, but you would have thought that they had a two alarm blaze...Oh well no one was hurt and that is important.

Sherri and I had some watermelon and then went straight to the chat room to visit with our family chatters. Ellie Moppa Nonna Dee JJ and Bobguy Sandra Ginger Jesse Penny....everybody was there. We had a good chat and when I took a break to have some ice cream Sherri took over and did the woman thing with all the ladies..LOL. We did meet some new folks again and enjoyed chatting with them.

OK it is about time for me to check out of here and find me a place Somewhere in Time.

Last Day of Freedom

We woke up with no alarms and that will soon change tomorrow. Tomorrow the rooster will crow and I will have to be up early. But this morning we had our coffee and enjoyed not having to rush around and load and unload STUFF. We talked about the plan for the next 8 months and how we will conduct ourselves...LOL. We have to be sooo conservative until it is time for me to retire.

The plan was to finish our coffee and get dressed and head to the store for some supplies. We goofed off as long as we could and finally got dressed and headed off to Wally World. We were shopping for new phones and we had no idea what to get. Technology has run off and left us. The lady at the counter started telling us what all these phones do and we were standing there with our stupid hanging out...we looked at each other and shrugged our shoulders and said we would take them...with hopes we could make a phone call??? We got the razor phone and I could see no way I could shave with it but I guess there is a trick to it.

Next we got some food stuff and supplies for the kitchen. I dropped off a camera to get the film developed...I think it is about 2 to 3 years old? Oh well we will be surprised when we get it back.

We have been looking for a 35 MM slide viewer so we can look at some slides we took back in the 70's. Most all our children's pictures from 70 to 85 were on slides. Our slide projector went south in the 80's and we have not seen any of these pictures since that time. I want to get them transferred to CD's but I need to look at them first...I don't want all them done, seeing as how it cost about .67 cents each and we have over 500 slides. No matter...we have to special order the viewer out of NY City.

We returned home with our new phones and sat down to figure them out. It took 2 hours to get my phone numbers in! Sherri tried to down load a new ring tone but that failed so she just gave up. I think you have to have degree in electronics to use a phone now.

Today was my sister June's birthday. Happy Birthday Junie! She is older than I am...I'll leave it at that. LOL. I called her yesterday...I could not remember if it was on the 5th or the 6th...I have a problem with dates...DUH!

Not much happening here today...but things should pick up when Sherri leaves for her job and I start cooking for myself...UGH! I hope that I live through this. I will report on my progress on the chat at night. Sherri should have her own computer next week and she will chat from where ever she is located at that time.

OK friends and family I guess I better get myself ready to chat here...it is 6:30 and Sherri and I will have to warm up the old fingers and eat a bite before then. I will join you soon...

Somewhere in Time.

Jenny chats across the room and now we chat across the Country

Sherri chats by phone while at the lake house...we had no WIFI out there.

Here we are chatting around the table and we are still chatting today just further apart.

What A Week

I did not have to work Friday so when it was time to rise and shine I got up but there was no shinning going to happen. Sherri and I had to get these kids ready to head back to Wills Point and start packing our STUFF. We got them up and got them ready...which was a feat in itself...and we had to pack enough close for a week stay at the lake house. That being done we loaded up the truck and we were off.


We dropped the kids off at our daughters house and said our good byes and we were off for the adventure of a lifetime..LOL. We knew that there was a lot that had to be done and we were not looking forward to it. You know...those of you that have been through this...that the last bit of STUFF that you have to deal with is the hardest... and this is what we had to deal with this trip. Sherri had all the house STUFF and I had all my shop STUFF and we would have to sort through it all and put it in totes and load it in the cargo trailer and on and on.


It was a long and hard week. Every morning we were up early...made coffee...sat on the back porch made the plan for the day...and after putting off the plan for as long as we could we were back at it. During one of our planning sessions we decided that we would buy a barn instead of renting a storage space. We could park it at our daughters house and that way when we came for our visits we would have all our STUFF there! What a great idea!


Off to the portable building place we went. We looked and figured and came up with a red barn... Sherri always wanted a red barn... and we had it delivered...after a few modifications that Tuesday. OK now we are really ready to move.


We made 4 trips with the cargo trailer to the barn and she filled up quickly. It is nice to have a place to put all the important STUFF you cannot live without. We sectioned it off into Barn Sale items and We Have To Keep items. Then Sherri set a plan in for when we would have the sale. If all goes well we should be free of a large collection of STUFF by the end of this month.


Believe me a lot of tears flowed when going through this STUFF and some of it had to go from the go pile to the keep pile...OH WELL this will all pass. As my friend Ellie said after a year you don't know what is in the totes...it must not be that important. So all the STUFF is locked up and tucked away for now and we are ready to go back to our home on wheels. It has been a long time without chat and email and all the communications to the outside world...our cell phones don't even work at the lake...did I mention boonies. We had to have sun light pumped in out there.


OK so now we are back in Coppell and putting all the STUFF we brought with us in its place. Sherri is still working hard and I got into my recliner and took a nap. Oh you say how thoughtless of me...believe me I do not know where all this STUFF goes and I would be in the way if I tried to help. My leg is swollen twice its size due to all the lifting and kneeling I have had to do for the last week. I need medication and rest.


Everything being put away it was time for food...we thought about going out to eat and then remembered our plan. We will eat at home and save that money! Save Save Save! We can do it yes we can. We ate grilled cheese sandwiches and they were good...then it was time to chat. Oh it was soooo good to talk to all our friends. It had been one week with no chat and we had so much to catch up on...which reminds me we have all those journals to read!! this will be a busy day.


Well it is time for our morning coffee and I do have to start reading...so we will fade off here and see you all Somewhere in Time.

Sherri goes through all her treasures...which ones to keep?

The STUFF in the background is being kept...Foreground right is Barn Sale Items

This is my helper...We both look good...Don't you think