Back on the Road Again

Sherri and I are back on the road again...working. Once again we got up early this morning and got everything ready to head out to our next job. We got loaded about 6:30 and arrived on time. Not much to say about the days events other than it was not as much fun as walking up and down the beach early in the morning watching the sun come up over the Gulf.

We are planning on taking some time off here as soon as there is a break in the action and we will have some neat things to write about. Things that you will enjoy reading about and I will even have pictures to boot.

Stay tuned for the upcoming adventure to get better when we break away from the hum drum day to day work. By the way I finished a few of the projects at the lake and I will have to post them as soon as I return home and down load them to the computer. I left my camera at home this week so next week I will get everything loaded and let you see my progress.

Until that time Sherri and I will say so long for a while...We will return...

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Good Weather at Last

Sherri and I spent our last day off at our lake property. We woke up around 7:00 and enjoyed coffee together on the deck. We planned out some more improvements to the place and tried to project ahead and see when we might be able to afford the additional work. Time we always have been able to come up with...but money...that is a different thing.

We have to travel today but before we do we have to complete our wash and packing up all our clothes for the week. Sherri would not trade her new laundry room for anything. We have it all fixed up and we almost have all the stuff situated so she has room to work at her desk and relax in her TV room. Not much more work in that area and we will be done.

We made it to our next job and are tucked away in our Hotel room. Spending some time on the computers reading journals and Sherri playing her games. We have to go to work in the morning and hope to get off early. After work we plan on eating at Chuys...which is just down from us. Well that is about all the news from this side of town. Hope everyone is having fun...I will continue to read about it each night when I settle back here at the desk...

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The Storms Came and We Remain

We got home late last night and after we got the coach all set up we turned the TV on to see what the weather was doing. While driving in from Louisiana we had heard that East Texas was in the path of some real bad weather so we were concerned about high winds. Seems like we are having a lot of that lately.

Sure nuff we had some real bad weather Friday. Down town Wills Point had some straight line winds that tore off some roofs and pulled down some power lines. We are about 12 miles north of town and had some real strong winds but no damage to our property. Thank you Lord for sparing us one more time this Spring Season!

I have several projects to complete this week end and with the rain and the wind I was afraid I would not get them done. I was in luck...Saturday the wind did not blow and we got our deck finished and almost completed our rail around the deck.

We have this year to get our home base completed...while we still have income. Sherri will be retiring 18 months from now and we wont have enough income to build and travel so....we will finish all these home projects so when we come here to stay for a month or so we wont have to work.

Everything is coming together nicely and as soon as I have a chance I will put some pictures up of our progress. A little every weekend and before long it while all get done...

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Addition to the new Barn

Sherri and I heard the alarm go off this morning but did not move. She did turn over after several minutes and turn the thing off. We did not need to get up this morning so we just laid there for the longest time. Finally her phone started beeping...the battery was running low. OK we both decided to get up and start our day.

I went in and made the coffee and Sherri wrapped up in a blanket on the coach. It was actually cold this morning. After getting the coffee started I went over and turned the heat on. The thermostat said it was 60 inside so I put it up to 68. As soon as I hit the button it came on and before I could get settled in my chair with my coffee it was HOT.

I'll have to say one thing...we have a good heating system in our new home. Mater-a-fact we have two heaters in here. One heater in the front and one in the back and if they both kick on it gets hot fast.

This morning we are waiting for our man to get here to add some front panels to our barn. This will close the front in about 10 feet leaving us a 20 foot opening for a door. We will have to wait on the door but it will be ready when ever we come up with the funds to do it. Also on the back for the barn we are getting the gable lowered about 3 feet. This will block some of the morning sun off of us in the summer months if we are here.

If we are here is really what we don't know...We are not sure what months we will be staying here. I am not partial to staying in the summer because of the heat! The spring months you have the bad weather...maybe the fall months will be our best time to stay?? No mater what months we choose we will have to stay here at least 4 or 5 months a year to replenish our money for travel time. It is 9:03 and still no one has showed up to do the work? Hopefully they will show up...

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And they did...

Well we are back in Louisiana again! I think I just might move over here as long as we are coming here every week. We have several days here this week and then next week we are scheduled to come back here for one more week.
Sherri and I both were up early this morning but did not get off as early as we had planned. We had several items to get done before we headed this way. Clothes had to be washed and packed in the Jeep and that took some time. We had to have a cup of coffee too and then before we knew it was 10:00 am.
On the way to Louisiana we had to stop off in Longview and get the title for our truck and send it to Florida so the new owner can get his plates. It did not take long for them to sell the truck and trailer down there. Well I hope the new owners enjoy it as much as we did.
We stopped along the way to get some gas and eat a snack. We only took 30 minutes out of our drive time to complete this and then it was back on the highway.
We arrived here about 6:00 pm and hooked up with some of our co-workers for dinner. We ate at the Outback Steak House and enjoyed a real good meal. We left there and returned to our hotel for showers and some quality time on line.
Soon we climed into bed for some well needed sleep...for tomorrow will be back to the old grind...at work...

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Our Kansas Family

 

Our Kansas family...

After working all day here I returned to the Hotel room to read some emails and visit some of my friends traveling around the country. One of the emails we received was one from our Son and his family in Kansas City. Brice and Jodi have two boys Evan and Brant. These boys are very special in our lives but we don't get to see them as often as we would like.

Brant was born 2 years to the day and just a few minutes apart from Evan his older brother. Now that is what I call family planning. We have not been able to attend the boys Birthday's due to our job schedule but this year we have made it our goal to get to Kansas for their Birthday no matter what comes up.

Brice did get to come down last year for a family get together and he brought Evan with him. We enjoyed their visit and it was good for Evan to meet his southern family. Evan is the same age as Kris so they had fun playing with each other. I hope that they will remain close over time. Family is real important to us and we all spend as much time together as possible.

My boys and my special little girl

Gruesome Twosome 

Dad keeping watch out as kids go wild...

My boys take a break from the action

Thanks for the pictures Son...keep them coming so we can follow our boys as they grow...

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Storms Storms and more Storms

 

Several times during the night the weather alarm kept going off telling us about storms coming in from the West. One line after another would come by and drop some rain and the wind would blow the lightning would split the night and the thunder rumbled all around.

It was quite a night of alerts...and when it was time to get up we both made our way into the kitchen to fix some coffee. We sat down and enjoyed our first cup and looked out the window at the low hanging clouds and the rain that fell off and on for some time.

Soon it was time to get dressed and start our day. We had several projects to get finished before we packed up and left for Louisiana. Yes today is the day we drive back to work. We really did not want to go but we knew that we had to. Sherri finished the wash and I finished cleaning the Jeep and loading all the luggage.

We went ahead and ate some lunch before we took off. It was a 4 hour drive and we planned on eating dinner in Monroe when we arrived. A little lunch before we left would tied us over until we arrived...

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