Family Coming Over

Time has gone by real fast and I just realized how long it has been since my last post. Gee I have been busy getting chores done around the barn.  Sherri worked just down the road last week so she was home every night and we had time to visit and get some joint projects completed.
Sherri spent some time shopping for things that we needed around the MH and we are now stocked up with some of the essentials...such as dish washing liquid soaps and all those things that you use everyday. I hate throwing them in with the grocery budget because you do not buy these items all the time and they seem to inflate the average budget.
I have always tried to separate out grocery...household...and MH supplies so that I can see how much we use while at the lake vs traveling. I guess I get that from being a Manager for so many years and trying to justify my budgets to the accountants upstairs.
We plan on using the "Home base" as a place to re-coupe some of the money we spend while traveling. If I know what it takes to travel and compare it with what it takes to stay at the "Home base" then I can see how much I can put back into the travel budget when I am staying at the lake.
I got the oil changed in the Jeep and soon I will have to change the oil in the MH. I was going to attempt that myself. I use to do the oil in the old MH. It was not that hard to do and I saved a lot of money doing it myself. One other thing that I need to get done is the call-back on the Shift Cable in the Steering Column. Ford has the housing for the shift lever mounted too close to the manifold and it will melt the cable closed and the shift cable will soon  be stuck in one position. The only thing about getting this done is getting an appointment made when they can get it done in one day.
We have some of the kids coming by this weekend to visit and eat some good grub. We plan on having a picnic and then they will stay overnight for more fun the next day. Our kids are not real long on RVing but they do like to camp out and enjoy the outdoors. I guess we must have burned them out over all the years we drug them out to the campgrounds. They don't know what they are missing.
OK I guess this is enough boring dribble for this post. Hope that all of you out there are traveling safely. The time for our great adventure is growing closer every day. We will be passing by you soon...

Somewhere in Time