HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

 

Today is Mothers day and we are celebrating with our son Jason. Jason took his mother to breakfast this morning at Mimis. I was allowed to tag along with them and even got a breakfast out of the deal….Yahoo.

After eating and visiting we decided to go over to our RV and do a little more of the same…but on the way Sherri wanted Jason to see an addition to the model home located down the street. This house was the model home built by the builder that built Jason’s house and the model was Jason’s house plan. Sherri thought if Jason wanted to add on to his house this was a good idea…so as moms often do they give out ideas….HE HE.

 

Actually I have to say it is a nice looking addition.

OK so after the tour of homes we did make it back to our mobile home unit. We continued our visit and really enjoyed the time we had with our son. Thanks Jason for a wonderful day…it meant so much to your Mom.

Sherri and I finished the day off by spending some time together shopping and eating at a great steak place in Irving. What a wonderful day this has been.

Thank you Sherri for being the Mother you are and raising my children the way you did. A man could not ask for a better wife or a better mother for his children. You have made all our lives a little easier by sometimes making yours a little harder….and for that we owe you more than just this day…we owe you a lifetime of days…and pray that all those days will be filled with as much happiness in your life as you filled ours with….

Forever and Always….

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Small Rant

This morning came as no surprise…yes I knew it would come I just was not ready. The sun was up and I was a little on the cold side…seeing as how my bride had turned the AC unit down to keep her cool and it had worked.

I made some coffee and took a shower and then by that time Sherri was up and she too was not ready for this morning. She has a Doctors appointment for a physical this morning and we had to get up and get ready to go there. We did not have too much time to drink coffee and visit but we did take a little time for each other. We are still working on the plan for the yard sale and the trip out to the new place to locate some more stuff before they bring the barn. It is taking a little time but I am not going to rush it….because every time me rush stuff we end up wishing we had done it another way.

OK straight into the rant which I promise not to take too much time on. I read an article about Miss USA today and I had to email it to some of my Dreamer Friends. Please don’t take this as I am opinionated one way or the other about Gay Marriage….but I read this article about the question they asked Miss USA… what her feelings were about Gay Marriages??? Now my rant is not over the topic but the question and to whom it was posed and where! Why would this be a question for this young lady? What brain trust came up with this question and for what purpose was it asked. Believe me I think it was asked so as to get one answer and that was not the answer that this person gave them ……so it was the wrong answer….Do you see where I am going with this. Sex and religion and politics should not be the subject brought up in a contest of this sort. Too many people have too many beliefs on these topics and to think that a beauty contestant will have the answer to these types of questions is sheer insanity. Besides the audience…which is made up of many young girls…has to listen to these answers from people who have no business answering them in this type of setting. What happen to the old question….”if you could wish for anything in the world what would that be” Remember that one….and the answer was “World Peace”. No not any more now they ask …how do you feel about abortions?? GEEE what is this world coming to….or this country?

OK I am through and you say… “Thank God”!

Sherri and I are looking for a rolling laundry basket to roll our clothes to the laundry mat. I think we located one at Target and if we have the chance we will order it. We have to carry clothes in a tub now and that is not as easy as rolling them over.

Tomorrow we head to Wills Point to start our Yard Sale. I will have some pictures of the big sale in the next journal entry…until then I am signing off here to return later….

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Back to Normal?

Hummmmmmm…what is that? Oh it is the fan. I had weird dreams last night. This morning when I woke up I must have still been in my little dream state. That is really bad when you dream so hard and it is so real that when you wake up you think your still dreaming….maybe I am.

Sherri got back in last night and when I got in she was already in bed. I guess she was tired cause she usually waits up for me. She had to drive to Southern Louisiana Monday….work all day Tuesday and then drive all the way back on Wednesday. GEEE that is enough to make you tired…let alone working.

I was tired but not so tired I could not eat my bowl of cereal and watch LOST. Now that is one crazy show I want to tell you. I think the writers of that show must be on Crack! They jump around in time and good guys become bad and then back to good…who knows who is what when.

Today we have to return Sherri’s rent car and then I have to get a hair cut and buy some groceries and run some other errands. Well that will pretty well take up the morning. When we get back I need to do my walk and my Wii…by then it will almost be time for me to go back to work. WEEE I can’t wait.

Well that is about all the news I have today…I will try to catch up on all my journal reading tonight and then jump on chat and visit with all of you. Until then I will just go on hold….

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Sorry I am Ashamed

I am so sorry...I forgot to wish you all a HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO....Really I did not give it much thought I was pretty busy and when you work all the time and don't get those days off...why don't we???...then you tend to over look them.

Well this is the day after Cinco and I was roused out of the recliner... where I slept last night....by the doves outside my window Cooing away. I went to bed rather late due to watching LOST on TVO...now that is a show you do stay lost in.

I managed to make me a pot of coffee and settle down here behind the computer to read some journals...I hate to call them BLOGS! When you start reading what all of you write...it is not a BLOG...it is a journal of your life and what is going on. Now to me a BLOG is just that a log of what ever...but most of the entries I read are journal entries or diaries of life's happenings. There is a difference...therefore I will refer to the ones I read as journals.

OK that being said I read all the Journals that had been updated and really enjoyed them. I thank you all that take the time to write in your journals from day to day telling me what you are up to. It is like I am following you around and enjoying the same adventures you are enjoying. For those of us that are not yet on the road...these journals are our outlet to travel. We are locked into a job or some other reason we don't get on the road and reading what all of you write as you travel is an escape from the everyday Doleful repetitiveness in our lives.

When pictures are added to these entries I get excited even more...I can actually see what you are seeing and that puts me more in the adventure than just words....Pictures say 1000 words...I've heard that somewhere. I hope that when I am able to travel and see some of these wonderful places I can bring you along on my journey and entertain you until such time you too can join in the travels.

Well I guess I had better go and get my house work done. Sherri is coming home this evening from Louisiana and I have to have the place looking good. I was going to do the laundry but the laundry mat here is being remodeled so it is closed for the day. We have one on the other side of the park but I hate to have to tote the laundry that far....OK Lazy...to find out all the washers are taken up. Well maybe I can get it caught up tonight or .....

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2nd Entry of the Day

Gosh that seem to work real good! I can’t thank Jesse and Ginger enough for the help they gave me in getting this program loaded and working. I guess I will just have to return the favor somehow. The only thing that I am good at is carpentry and Jesse seems to be good at that so I am not sure what I can do but maybe they will need something sometime and I can help out

OK so now I have to bring you up to date on what I am doing now. I know everyone is waiting with baited breath to find out. Baited breath??? OK Jenny there is one for you to look up and let me know where that came from. Jenny knows all that kind of stuff. So today before I got so involved in Windows Writer I did get some organizing done to the bay areas of the mobile house. Everyone tells me that they don’t have room in their bays…so I took a long look at mine…

only to find out I do have room…Why? Believe me it is not because my Bays are bigger it is just I don’t have that much stuff. Wonder if I need more stuff. We have been living in our RV for more than 3 years now and I have not gone without anything that I am aware of. I know you are going to say that I have a barn full of tools…but those tools I have not needed here while staying in the RV. Nor have we needed any of the S T U F F  that we have stored in the barn.

I feel comfortable that we will not need anymore than what we have stored in the RV when we hit the road? Could be wrong and we will soon see  if I am. I will just have to move from here to another park and see if anything comes up.

It will be nice to be close to my barn when we are at the lake…just because I can work with my tools and make things we need.

One project I have in mind is a sliding drawer for my printer under the desk. Also would like to put a false back under there to hide all the wires that are under there. Sherri does not like to see those things and I tend to agree with her on this. Anyway that will be a project I tackle as soon as we get set up at our place. 

Well I guess that sums up this days events. I will jump on Wii and see how my weight is progressing …downward I hope. I did my mile today and with a work out on the Wii board I should be ready for bite to eat. I sure hope I get out of the Obese range this week. It is embarrassing to have a software program know that you are fat!! I will show this thing I can lose weight…

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Working Off Line

Well Jesse,  http://www.kram-a-lotinn.blogspot.com/ gave me this Windows off line blogger program to try out so when I cannot get on line with my Air Card  I can just post an entry here and then later when I can get on line I can download or upload… whatever you call it to my Journal and then be good to go. I am not sure if I can put the pictures on here or not but I will try that

 

too. OK …that seemed to work real well and much faster attachment than Blogspot has.

Why do they make all this so difficult. They put all that terminology in these instructions to blow the average non geeks mind…and then when you do what you think it means for you to do it closes out and tells you that you can’t do it that way. But you just told me to do it that way??? My gosh I think I will hunt this program down and strangle it!!

OK so I have pumped my blood pressure up to the point of exploding…I get out of the program before I chunk the computer out the wind and set back and say “Forget It”…then I give it one more chance…it knows I am really P*^*ed off now so it will let me get in and do what I want.

After the umpteenth time the program does allow me to get in…actually I finally get it right…and now it is time to see if I can do this or not? I hope when I publish this  to the journal it all works out and you will be able to read this. Like I said this is a back-up for when we don’t have a signal or a good WIFI connection.

Well here goes I am going to post this to my journal and maybe it will show up…

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She is on the Road Again

Actually went to bed rather early last night. Yes it was 10:00 pm when we both decided to call it a night. Sherri had to get up early to prepare to leave for Louisiana. She will be working there this week.

We made our coffee and set down to visit and plan the driveway and barn location on the new land. I know you will be glad when we have that all done and I can talk about something else. But for now we have to decide where it is all going. I have to meet the electric company out there this week and set the pole and all that is contingent on the driveway placement and the barn. This is the last month before I retire and I have so much to get done. I would not mind if I could do it on the phone but I have to be out there to do each thing and that requires an hour and one half drive out and back!

I am almost tempted to stay a couple of weeks at the State Park and get this all done when I am not working. What it cost to drive out there and back would be what it cost me to stay there. I will have to give that some thought.

OK Sherri got off and I sat down and started thinking about what I could post today besides the lot prep...which everyone is tired of hearing about. I thought I would display my new grill I bought the other day while shopping with Sherri. I need not shop with her too much because I end up finding things I think I need and don't....with the exception of this grill I found.

I want to do some river exploration while on the road and I thought this would be just the thing to have. You can put your charcoal in it and your cold drinks and your hot dogs and viola you have all you need for a cookout on the river bank when your ready. It is light weight and will fit in the boat with out taking up too much room.

So here are some pictures of my find. I guess that will about do it for today. Not much going on here...so I will check out and pop back in....

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Cold storage for drinks and hot dogs burgers or whatever you might want to grill out.

Light weight and has a carrying strap for hiking ...not bad

Sunday...Day of Rest....NOT

Ahhhhh it's Sunday and it is a day of rest.....well maybe not. We got up did the coffee thing and then set about planning what we needed to do. I actually was up and made the coffee this morning just seconds ahead of Sherri. We turned on the TV to check on the Cowboy practice field to see how it was coming. Yes the storms last night left a mark on the landscape in this area.

Sherri was home alone and I was at the office when the storms started rolling through here. We did not suffer any damages other than some outside furniture being blown around.

OK so we decided to go and get the mirror for my bathroom lavatory. Sherri has never liked the small mirror that came with this RV so she wanted to get one that filled the wall more or less.

We loaded up and went to Wally World....right after Sherri went to the Widget factory and got paid....I know...living in a cartoon world can be blissful.

We found the mirror and several other items that we could not live without. I found a charcoal grill that has its own carrying case and cooler...which will work great for river excursions. Also found me a book to read and a wallet. Man what would we do without Wally World.

We came on back to the RV and passed by the Cowboy training facility and took a look at the damage....WOW that thing got tore all apart!!

When we got home and opened the door the aroma of my pork ribs engulfed me and I knew that I must be hitting a home run with the sauce I had made??? Time will tell and I will report back to you as soon as we partake.

I got the mirror up which was a challenge for me in that little bath area...LOL...I should say with Sherri's help...now all I have to worry about is it staying up when we travel.

That is about it for this day of rest. I will catch you on the other side of tomorrow...

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Bad Storms Here

Well here it is Saturday morning and I should be planning some great stuff for Sherri and I to do but OH NO I have to work today so there will be no plans for us.

We got up this morning and fixed our coffee...or I should say Sherri got up and fixed the coffee...I was a little slow in doing that today. I rolled out of bed and she had the coffee going and was working on her expense report at he dinning room table. Every month she has to turn it in to get reimbursed for her expenses while on the road. She really dreads this part...having to get all the tickets and mileage and motel receipts together and list all of them...not a fun task but one she has to do.

After coffee time and while Sherri was putting the finishing touches on her report I decided to head outside and vacuum out the bay and the truck. The sky looked like it really wanted to rain so I thought it might be a good time to clean some things up. I hate to put all this off until Sunday cause I would not have anytime to relax before I had to head back to work Monday morning.

Sherri completed her stuff and I finished cleaning up so we decided to take our walk...sky still looking like storms. We lucked out and got the entire walk in and then returned home to get cleaned up so we could go to the store to pick up some things for next week.

Netters http://macandnette.blogspot.com/ had shown Sherri some canisters she had bought while they were in Kerrville last March. Sherri just fell in love with them so she has been on the hunt for them ever since that time. Well while we were out she located some and she bought them for the RV.It is great when she finds what she wants and then the hunt comes to an end....just in time for another hunt to begin...LOL

I left for work about 2:30 and had not been there long when Sherri called me to let me know that a giant storm came through with winds well over 100 mph! She said the RV jumped around a little but all was well there...however just up the road from us was a building that collapsed. It was the training facility at Valley Ranch. It might be 2 miles from where we are parked as the crows fly and the wind did a number on the roof there.

You can see from the pictures that it came down right on the playing field. All reports are not in as of this post...but I am sure by the time you read this you will have all the information.

I did not know that this roof was a canvas type roof but it sure looks like it. It appears to have been stretched over ribs that spanned the field. Oh well what ever it was it came down when the gust of wind hit it. Several folks were hurt...I don't think anyone was killed.

These areal views show the amount of roof that collapsed...sure looks like all of it to me.

I am so thankful that Sherri was not hurt where she was. She said it really hit out of no where with no build up just boom it hit and the RV just jumped and so did she. We still have storms all around us and we are keeping an eye out for any dangerous cells coming our way. I just hate this time of year...here in North Texas....Wish we were some where else....

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Signed The Papers

Today I woke up with Sherri moving around the RV. She was up at early thirty and I was still trying to figure out what day it was. You see I was up rather late last night doing laundry in the new laundry mat across the street here in the park. Yes we got all new machines here and they are so nice. I guess I got the last load done last night about 1:00 am. When it was time to get up this morning...needless to say I was dragging.

Today was the day that we were getting our Deed signed and notarized. We drove to Arlington Texas to meet with Sherri's brother and his wife who owned the property that we purchased. What was going to be such an easy part of all the projects we have lined up to do this one feel apart very quickly. The papers were sent via Internet PDF files to the Turners and the cover sheet told them that this transaction was going to cost them $475.00 to complete! Well in the very beginning I was told by the title company that the cost would be $100.00 which sounded like a fair price to pay for them doing all the leg work and filing the papers with the court house. When they sent an estimated cost of $470.00....well needless to say all kinds of alarms started going off and I had to get on the phone to find out what the deal was.

OK that all got settled out and we did locate the correct paper to sign and notarize and we went to the bank to have that done. Well we all thought that the bank would notarize the forms for no charge because the Turners had been customers of that bank for 30 years.....OH no they no longer notarize papers so we had to go upstairs to a lawyers office and have them do it at a cost of $10.00. OK so what is $10.00...plus the diesel to travel to Arlington to do all this and the diesel to drive to Canton to file the papers with the title company and then the trip to the court house to file the document....Well let me see now the title company is getting $100.00 for emailing a PDF file to Arlington and that is it??? We have done all the rest of the foot work??? I don't know anymore. You have to have a lawyer to do everything now. No one person can do any of this on their own.

I'll have to say at least we have it done and now we can drop all this off and be ready to get our survey and start the ball rolling. I will be glad to get everything done so I can start working on Sherri's space and getting it all squared away. We can move a lot of stuff out of the RV and into the barn for safe keeping.

We headed home after we dropped the Turners off at their house and Sherri and I started thinking about a place to eat. I had to be at work at 3:00 pm and it was getting close to that time. We had not eaten at all so we were rather hungry. Sherri ,by the way, had to stop at the Dr's office and have blood taken before we went to Arlington so she had not eaten since yesterday. We decided to stop at our favorite Mexican Restaurant in Louisville and grab some burritos. I had the chicken and Sherri had the beef...and they were sooo good. We could not eat all of them so I packed the left overs for my dinner tonight.

Our last stop was Racetrack fuel stop to buy diesel at $2.05 a gal. Not a bad price for this neck of the woods. Then on to the RV so I could clean up and travel in to work....Which by the way is where I am right at this moment...working... or a facsimile there of.

So that about sums up this day in the life of the Dynamic Duo. We will post an update on our next adventure...

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Wii Wii Wii All Day Long

Pitter Patter Pitter Patter....coming from the roof this morning...rain...birds...a squirrel? Rain it is...they said it would rain all week long and it has just about done that. We sure need it so you will not hear one thing bad from me this morning about waking up to the wet stuff. I just laid there for some time thinking about what I could not do because it was raining. Those were the things I would plan for this morning....AHHH yes let us plan on doing those things so we will have a good excuse not to do them. Now do you think Speedy would do that....plan on doing nothing because of the inclement weather. Not this...getter done guy...no sir...I always have things that will fill my slack moments and keep me going no matter what Mother Nature puts in my way.HE HE that even makes me laugh...the truth as it turned out was I got up and went down stairs and put the coffee on and then went over to the windows and raised the blinds. The sun was out....I know....I just heard it raining...and it was...but Mother Nature must have heard me procrastinating and decided to put an end to that thinking. Well you know this means I can do my walk and then come back and Wii for 30 minutes. Hey that is fine with me...I really want to lose that 25 lbs.

I am not sure but I will check with Wii today and see if I have lost any at all. If I can just see some progress I will feel like I am getting somewhere. I just hate to give up my eating and not see some benefits from it. One other thing I am trying to do...besides lose weight is...write my journal entry in Text and save it for when I have a good signal to down load it on. Yes I have a good signal here but I know in the future we will be places that don't have a strong Air Card signal or a WIFI signal. If I can write each day and save it to a Text Doc. then I wont lose these great thoughts over time...GAG...I know what you are thinking.

So I have been writing my journal entry in Text and then saving it and down loading it to blogspot. So far everything is working OK. I do have a problem with adding pictures and getting them to fit in...I am trying word wrap in Text maybe that will work.

One thing I am not is a genius when it comes to computers.Speaking of which...when I went to college the industry...(Graphic Arts)...was just getting type setters perfected. You know for years all type was "Hot Type"...type that was cast out of hot lead and molded into fonts of type... and then "Cold Type" came into being...this is like type writers that set type and print it out on paper slicks that you could paste down and photograph...OK I don't want to bore you with all that...I just want you to know that we did not have all this computer technology when I was being educated. So over time I had to learn all about computers and keep up with the technology as it grew in this industry. The older you get the harder it is to grasp a lot of this new stuff so you have to know how to hire people that do understand this and put them to doing what you have no idea how to do. But in doing so you have to have them think that you do know so they don't get arrogant...if you know what I mean.

OK...now I said all that to say this....I ain't got a foggy idea what is with these computers...So I just have to make the computer think I know....so it wont get arrogant with me. I do all this stuff and then try to figure out how to get it to work. I get in trouble a lot as you may well know...but so far so good. I hope this all gets in the journal later...I have no idea if I could explain this one more time...HE HE :)

Sherri comes home today and I better get started with my walk and my Wii...cause I have to clean the house and have everything looking like I keep things neat all week. I know she knows better but I like for her to smile when she walks in after a long week on the road...my life is soooo much better when she is happy. What is it with that...eh? Until the next time you tune into my dribble...have a safe day....

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