A bad day at Black Rock

Well it was not at Black Rock but it was just north of Tyler Texas in Lindale. We were headed to a Christmas dinner with some of Sherri's co-workers from years past. We had just past a wreck on Interstate 20 and were saying we were glad that we had not been a little bit earlier or we may have been involved in it.
We tuned off of the Interstate and headed north on Hwy 69 toward our destination. I was in the far right lane minding my own business when up ahead I noticed a car traveling at a high rate of speed,,, passing several south bound cars. I also noticed that he was passing in the turn lane!
I guess he noticed that there was a car in the turn lane and hit his brakes. Well that is when he lost control of his car and it started to fishtail! I moved over as far as the road would let me but not far enough for him to miss me.
Well looks like we will be setting at home...

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Well the cold weather finally got here

We have been wondering when the cold weather would get here and now we know. I can't believe it is snowing down in the valley! It must have been a big gust of wind come down from the north to get snow down that far south.
Here the valley is getting snow and California is burning up! They probably would like some of that snow. It must be Trump's fault all this is happening.
We are just staying indoors and enjoying the temps. I love cold weather as long as I am not having to work out in it.
Christmas is not too far off and we are excited. It will also be Sherri's Birthday so we have so much to celebrate. Kris has his list of items all laid out and all we have to do is figure out how to pay for all of it! 
Like I said we are just kicked back and doing nothing at all. Not much to tell you at this time but I bet something will come up...

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Almost lost it

I love YouTube but there are things on there that trouble me some. These DYI videos that come up can make me feel too confident in my ability to do things.
Yesterday our day night shade in the bedroom broke. Being the kind of guy I am I turned to You Tube to see if there was anything about fixing these kinds of curtains. 
Why yes there is! I watched two or three of them and it looked simple enough to me so I headed out to the RV supply store to pick me up one of those handy dandy kits like the showed on the tube.
Wow! was my first reaction when I saw how much those little packages cost. Oh yea it will fix more than one shade but good gosh I had no idea they would cost that much. 
After getting over the shock I pulled out my wallet with my shaking hand and paid the gal at the desk. 
Upon arriving at the house I got all the tools together that were listed on the package of instructions. Even the instruction looked so easy I was at ease with getting started.
The curtain came down just like the video and the instructions stated. I took the broken unit out to my shop and laid it out on the work bench. Slid all the covers off as instructed and got right to work threading the new lines through the curtain.
That is when the first whoops happened...No where did it say that you should make sure that the curtain would not accordion out and pull all your strings out of the shade.
Reviewing the video I did notice that they had the shade laying on the garage floor. With 400 square foot to work I can see how they had no problem with that. And with the fact that this guy could squat down and do all the work. Not me my legs have not been able to do that for years!
OK so now I have to re-thread the entire shade. This is good practice which by the way I did more than once! I can thread a shade in under 5 minutes now.
Moving right along. I got the shade put back together and took into the RV to re-install it. Whoops number two... After getting the shade back up on the window I then found out that you have to secure it so as it does not fall down and once again pull all the strings out of the shade. If practice makes perfect I am about to become a window curtain threading specialist!
One more trip back to the shop. Once again all the work was done and I returned to the RV for the installation. This time all went well when whoops number 3 happened. The cords are too short and will not reach the stays on the wall! 
Well after a good 2 or 3 minutes of bad words and arms flailing...I am so glad this was not being videoed...I took the &(^$&^ curtain back to the work table and...yes...more practice.
This time I thread a quarter of a mile of line in the curtain so there is no way it could ever come out and I am assured it will be long enough to reach the stays...back to the RV.
This time having practiced so many time all went as planned and now the curtain is working again.
At the present I am trying to find out the address of this guy that made the video. I have  thoughts of stringing him up...and I have had practice in that regard...

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