One Last Entry Before We Head Out

Just a quick Hi and Bye before we head out to Galveston. Sherri and I got up early and drank our coffee and made the plan and now it is time to carry it out. I just wanted to tell all of you that I will get some pictures and have them ready to view Monday. May all of you have a great weekend and we will see you soon....

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Cooler Weather Is On The Way

It is cooler this morning...dark and cooler. It does not get light until I get to work now. I just hate getting up when it is dark outside. When it is dark you should have your eyes closed...you should be curled up in the fetal position sucking your thumb and not making coffee and getting dressed. The older you get the more you should return to your younger you. You know, you go full circle in this life. From having to be taken care of to taking care of yourself to being taken care of. I know that I am getting closer to that having to be taken care of time in life when I want to stay in bed and not go to school.....work..... you get the picture.

Sherri will be coming home today. I know you must get tired of me telling you what Sherri will be doing today....she is going...she is coming...Gee is she ever here. When she is here we go to Wills Point and work on our place. We do need to stay home one weekend and get some things done here. This weekend, however, we are going to Galveston to make an estimate of materials to fix June and Jim's house.

They still don't have their roof fixed and Sherri wont let me climb up on roofs anymore...I wonder why??? So we will be estimating the interior materials and making a list so they can order them. It takes a month to get your stuff in down there. The main thing I will be doing is fixing their bedroom ceiling that feel in from the roof leak. I will have to take some sheet rock out and replace it...then re float and re texture. This will take some time but we can get it done. The hardest part about repair work is keeping the repair from messing up all the good stuff around it. June and Jim if you are reading this you need lots of drop cloths.

OK we will be leaving in the morning early so I will not be posting until Monday. I will have many pictures to upload to you. I hope to get some pictures of all the damage to the town as well as their house so it should be interesting .

Stay tuned for our return....

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March Plans Still The Same

Thank you all for your well wishes. It is nice to know that so many people care when I get on the road. Believe me when I say that I want to be out there as soon as possible.

The question was asked....Am I going to be at the "Gathering" in Kerrville and the answer is yes. We plan on being there opening day and I think as of now we are planning on staying two weeks. I don't think that will change. I would not miss this for the world. You know with the problems that Howard and Linda are having with their investments...and with the possibility of them having to work full time for a while we may not have a rally this next year. If that should happen then all we will have is the "Gathering".

No mater what Sherri and I will be doing our thing next summer for sure. Another question was asked about how long Sherri will continue to work. That is up to her. She says that it will come to an end in December. She will decide that and I will back her decision.

Time is running out this morning and I have to get ready for work. I will join you all again....

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The Date Is Set....Sort Of

Yesterday was ....well it was a day? I am not sure anymore about what day it is. I just try to get through them the best I can. Sherri was gone and I was here all alone and I miss her. I did all my chores except make the bed this morning and when she gets home she will tell me so...but I have to post this morning because I will not have time today at work.

OK I told you that I had a meeting with the big bosses and we discussed me leaving. They really did not want me to go so soon but they understood up to a point and this point is what we had our meeting about. Our season starts in November....at a crawl but it does start then..that is when the schools start sending in their pages for the yearbooks. The heavy season starts in February and that is when they start up the middle shift press room that I am in charge of. My duties go from Press Room Corrections Coordinator to Press Room Middle Shift Manager and then I have to do my job plus run the press room. It is not an easy job having to balance all these responsibilities...but this is my assignment and I have to do it.

Now here is the thing...they have to replace me and I have to train someone to take over and do some...not all...of what I do. They want me to interview the applicants and then train them to run the pressroom minus the Statistic analysis which is my first job. That job they want me to hand over to one of the leads in my department. Now this is why my date had to be adjusted somewhat. Data gathering is not all that hard when the system is set up and working. It is the analysis that gets a little tricky. So to make a long story short I have to get all this done between now and May of next year.

I can train the press room replacement in short order...if I chose the right applicant...the lead person...now that could take some time. I had thought that my secretary would be a good person to promote...however when she heard that I was retiring she said she was going too so that took that option out of the field. So here I am scratching my head thinking who would be the right choice. Have no fear I know I can do it...I just have to have a plan and that is what this week and next week will consist of....making the plan.

Well wish me luck ...OH and by the way there is a bonus in me staying to do all this so don't think I am that much of a Company Guy...LOL However, I do have to say that I started this department years ago and set up all the systems and SOPs so I do have a soft spot in my heart for it even though I am leaving . I would like to see the department go forward and my folks benefit from it.

May will be the latest I will work...the season ends in May and I will be out of there the first of June. Now if all goes well sooner than June 1 I could leave earlier at my own discretion. I will have to be the one that calls that shot so who knows I could be on the road sooner. I guess it all hangs on who I hire and how well I am at training??? Follow along with me on this last leg of a long journey and we will see how it goes...

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We Are Back

Yes. we have returned from the land of no cyber-link. Back to the big city with all its noise and pollution. Actually I have to admit only I am back Sherri peeled off in Forney Texas with Randy and left for Shreveport. They will be there until Tuesday evening when she will return here...rent a car and then head out to Arkadelphia. She will be there until Thursday. She returns here and then we head to Galveston.

Ah yes, Galveston...or what is left of it. We are going down to take inventory of what materials we will need to get started on my sister's house repairs. They have to order all their supplies and it will take two to three weeks to get them in. Yes that is how far behind the area stores are on getting materials in!!! Gee it is hard to believe that but if you could see the destruction you would see how much of these supplies are going to be needed to get this area back into shape again.

I finished the swing set/fort/slide Saturday and then started work on my electrical plugs and switches in the barn. I have a long way to go getting that ready. I have to get the RV hook up done before too long so I can haul my house down there every once in a while. It will be nice to have it there so I can do some maintenance to the RV. It is hard to do it here without all my tools.

Not much else going on right now. I have a meeting with my bosses this morning about me leaving. Don't know what that is all about but you will know next post so stay tuned and I will give you the whole update right here Somewhere in Time.

Dryer Is A Go Houston

The repairman came and did his thing and has left me with a dryer that is heating up and doing fine. Sherri is so happy now and she can dry my unders without hanging them on the front porch. We paid just at $100.00 for the man to come out and fix it so I feel good about that. Not near what I thought it would cost so all is well.

I left work today at 12:30 so that I could be here when he arrived. He got here about 3:30 so I had a chance to rest some and visit with Sherri. Rodney dropped by on his way back from taking his trailer to the dealership.He has some warranty items to take care of and he wanted to get them done while he was not using it. When he got up there they told him it would be several days before they could get to his because of all the new units they were getting ready. Evidently they have not slowed down on the sales there?

Sherri is getting ready to go to Arkadelphia next week and she is having to rent a car for the trip. She is on the other computer as I work here ordering her car. They have a special on upgrading if she orders it now. She has to have a car because Randy has to stay in town that week and wont be able to drive her up there. She is really getting to do a lot of traveling just as she always dreamed of....well not quite LOL. She was thinking more of the sight seeing trips. Soon my dear soon.

It has cooled off here somewhat in the last few days and the weather looks promising for the weeks to come. I really enjoy it when it starts feeling like fall. We seldom have a fall here... we go from hot summer right into cold winter. I hope this year it is different. Well I better get off here...I am on Sherri's computer and operating on battery...she left her charger at our daughters house in Wills Point so no can charge up this one. I will be able to pick up our other computer next Monday...it is all fixed and ready to go.

OK my friends I have to go now so have a good day and dream wonderful dreams...

Somewhere in Time.

Wednesday Equals Work

Yes, this morning the alarm went off as usual and old Speedy once more rolled out of bed to start another day of w**k. I don't even like to say the word anymore. It is 6:03 now and I have taken my shower and made my coffee so I decided to set down here at the computer and speak to all of my family and friends out there in cyber-land.

Did you watch the debates last night...what a waste of time! The same talking points we have heard for the last 40 years. I'm going to fix the economy...I'm going to lower taxes....I'm going to fix Social Security. Don't you just get tired of listening to the garbage that comes out of these politicians? Do you really think that they are going to do any of this? It will be business as usual with the Special Interest groups and big business running this country. We the people are no more. What we need is what they say we need.

The government managed our Social Security funds into the toilet...now they want to run Health Care??? What sense does that make. They took over our Education System now they want to oversee the housing market. I am telling you right now if we don't get the government out of running non government entities we are going to be in real trouble. What am I saying ...going to be?? We are in big trouble.

I guess the only reason I keep going on about this is because it effects us...Fulltimers... so much

Government regulations are choking us all in every aspect of our lives. I hope that all of us are spared much of this government intervention in our lives on the road...this is the last real freedom the American people have...to travel freely around this country without too much government regulation....then there is California and some of the other states that regulate what you can drive etc...LOL OK there is regulations on us....

I am going to shut up now and try to think happy thoughts...can I find one??

I have a repairmen coming out Thursday to fix my dryer. It stopped heating. I have read that the 110 dryers and Hot Water Heaters burn out elements much faster than the 220 units. They pull more amps and create more heat and burn out quicker. Oh well I will see how much it cost to be replaced. I got a price on the element at $40.00 and I know that the service charge is $50.00 so that plus the labor....$$$$ should make me squeak a little. We will see. I still have not replaced my element in the Hot Water Heater and I know that I will have to do that soon....

OK so much for all that. I have to go and fix my lunch now. Get my stuff together and head out on the highway. I want all of you to have a wonderful day and search out a bit of happiness and then share it with Sherri and I...

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ByeBye Money....

Well I guess we are all losing our hard earned dollars that we put up to help us with our retirement. Funny thing is the guys managing this money don't lose a dime? The elected officials that we put in Washington...they don't lose any money...they have their retirement...thanks to dopes like us that put them in office to begin with. And so life goes on. Big business just keeps on making money and our government just keeps taking money and we just set here like a bump on a pickle. OH well at least we have our Social Security....LOL ...I am being funny. The government has raped that too. Do you get the feeling you are running out of time. Maybe putting off retirement might not be the smart thing to do....next year what crisis will we be in and what will it do to our retirement?

Socialism* is just around the corner my friends. Please don't think that the answer to all our problems will come from our elected officials. They want your money and that is it. Every four years they want your vote...and start telling you how they are going to make your life better so you will vote for them. Funny thing is they never get there...but four years later they tell you why the other party didn't let them and if you vote for them again they will once more head in that direction and make your life better. You know the only life I see that is getting better is theirs???

*Socialism:

political system of communal ownership: a political theory or system in which the means of production and distribution are controlled by the people and operated according to equity and fairness rather than market principles Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

I am going to cut this post short and leave you with this one thought. I could go on about this for hours but I have to go to work so I can pay my taxes....LOL When you go to vote this time look at who is running. The same faces that have been there for years that have done nothing....take a look at the new faces and vote for them....then the next four years roll around if they have done nothing fire them and vote for a new face .....until we get their attention and they know if they don't fullfill our needs they are out of there. Cut off their retirement fund so they will fix one that works for all of us...not just them.

Just a thought I had here Somewhere in Time

Construction Weekend

After work Friday I headed to the RV...Sherri and I were going to Wills Point to put together the new swing set for the three little ones and we had some extra stuff to haul back. Yes we are still cutting back on S T U F F in the RV. I guess that will go on until we head out in February.

I want to let everyone know how much admiration I have for Jesse Haman....and where are you Jesse when I need you. I bought this set at Wally World and I worked on it for two days and left Sunday still not complete! Well I do have to admit Sherri and I wasted a lot of time trying to come up with the safest place to put it...you know the grandparent worrying thing that goes on. No not there a limb might fall out of the tree...no there is an electrical line too close to it...Oh no not that close to the pool...that is too much direct sunlight...its not level there..and on and on.

OK after we did decide on a good location I commenced the construction of this little project. When I turned around everyone had left and I was all alone....you know all about that too I am sure. Soon my daughter...feeling sorry for Dad trying to read the instructions find the parts and going back and forth to the shop to get the right tool..came out and helped decipher the instructions and things started picking up. I guess next weekend I will complete this project and hopefully by then my culvert will be in and I can take my home down there to start on my parking pad.

This was Homecoming weekend and Jennifer had made the girls their mums for the big event. She did real well I think.

Well it is time to head to the work 20 and you know how I hate to be late ...NOT! I'll catch you later Somewhere in Time



Let me see Part A to Part B divided by Part C and inserted into Part D.....Oh my this is tough OK Dad that is all wrong take it apart and let's start over. I... will read the instructions now..
OK Poppa you are taking entirely too long to do this and I need to play sometime today
Jennifer makes some real nice mums for Homecoming...Girl you should go into business!!

Question Was Asked "When Should You Move"

The other day on the forum a Dreamer asked the question...
When should you move. This is a very good question and there are many answers to this question... if all the Dreamers were Polled you would come up with so many reasons it would astound you.
I have a very simple answer that I think most all would agree upon. With so many opinions out there I wanted to nail down one reason for sure. I think the following pictures will be sufficient enough without too much explanation to get the point across.

Take a look at these... and if you should at any time see this type of sky I think this would be a good time to pull up stakes and head out of town.














Now this is only my opinion...so don't think for a minute that I am in anyway trying to force it on you ....but for your well being I feel that it is my duty as a Journal person to pass this on to all our Fulltime Dreamers out there.

I hope that you are never exposed to this type of weather condition...but if by chance one fine morning after pouring that first cup of coffee...you wonder outside to the patio and look out toward the horizon and view this type of sky....PACK IT IN ...don't be caught blowing away...

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Got Off Early

This morning was a real early morning...I mean real early!! Sherri had to be up and over at Randy's house by 5:30...yes that is in the AM...Do you know what time she had to get up to be there that early?? She was up stumbling around at 4:00 GEEEE is this really worth it? I know the diesel money but if you fall over from exhaustion will the diesel be worth all that? This is her call I stand behind all her decision no matter what. I hope that she will try and stop around Thanksgiving or Christmas so we will be sure to have some time with the kids before we head out on our adventure.

Below you see a picture of Sherri's kitchen and she has a new pretty for the cabinet top. We received this ceramic tile from Mac and Netters...chat names...who we were so fortunate to meet two weeks ago in Kansas. They are Dreamers who we have been chatting with for some time. Sherri and I had mentioned that we were headed to Kansas City to see our new grand baby and Netters told us that they would like to meet us. We would be passing by where they live so plans were made to meet up in Ottawa Kansas...just north of their home town. We had the meet and enjoyed getting to visit with these two wonderful people. I know all you chatters and Dreamers will really like the two of them...they are our kind of folks.

OK getting back to the ceramic tile...Sherri and I have a post office box in Wills Point that we only check once every two weeks when we go there. Last Sunday Sherri called me and said that we had a package from Mac and Netters. She could not open it because she had no knife or scissors so she brought it home and when we did get it open viola we had this Tile. It is so pretty...Netters put these letters...how I have no idea...on a ceramic tile and provided us with an easel to place it on. What a fantastic idea...and you can see how nice it looks on Sherri's counter.

Thanks to you both for such a lovely gift.

As I told you all earlier we had the g-kids....well two of them ....up to Carrollton last weekend. We always enjoy having some....and I do emphasis S O M E of the kids up every once in a while. Entertainment is the key word when you have them up and you must have plenty of that planned or you will be very unhappy....if you know what I mean.

We took them swimming one day and they loved it as you can see by the look on Kris's face. He is learning how to swim from Maw Maw. Gee I wish my instructor had been that nice looking.

OK I know this picture is a little fuzzy but then look at the photographer...he is a little fuzzy too. This is Sarah... she is our tell it like it is granddaughter.. you have one too do you.

Poppa is still a swinger...here he is swinging Sarah at the Park close to my Daughters house.
My little buddy is not real sure about Poppa sending him sooo high in the air...but he enjoyed it and said he would like to do it again Somewhere in Time.