Somebody has to do it

I laid there for the longest wondering what time it was. You know the older you get the more you wake up during the night thinking it is time to get up and then find out it is 2:00am. Well this morning it was not 2:00 am but 6:30 am so I reluctantly got up and went in to the kitchen to make me some coffee. Sherri was a little slow in following me but soon I heard her rustling around in the bedroom. She appeared right when I poured her cup and we both proceeded outside to sit and admire the view.

While sitting out back we noticed an increase in activity around the lake. It is Saturday so we figured it was just the weekend crowd showed up. Then we noticed groups of runners coming around the bend down by the lake. I am guessing that a school track team was in the park working out. Young kids spending their Saturday running around a lake? No it had to be a sports group. I remember my Saturdays when school was out…Spent lots of time at the lake…I was running around but not for the same reason.

OK so we watched the kids get in shape while we sipped coffee and talked about how we should be down there walking and getting in shape. I am in shape…even if it is bad shape I am in shape. Shape as in FROG shape…you know skinny legs and a large upper torso. I will have to work on that later.

Today is going to be spent indoors until the heat goes away. Yesterday the heat about did me in. I did some chores outside and the humidity took all my strength away. I have decided to take it easy until 7:00 pm and then I will venture back outside to finish up some chores I started this am. I will have to tell Mark Hall that I got the tags off all my awnings. He had pointed that out to me several weeks ago when he came to see us at the lake. I just have not had the time to do much to the Motorhome having to work on all the building projects that Sherri had lined out for me. I have most all of them done so I will have more time to spend on fixing up the house on wheels.

I had thought about getting my boat out and spending some time out on the lake paddling around. Being that it is soooo hot I just could not bring myself to get the thing out and put it in the water. How lazy is that? I should be ashamed but this heat and humidity is unbearable! It does not take much to make me sweat when the humidity is up this high. Maybe I will wait until this afternoon and get it out and make a few rounds on the lake…

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What a Wonderful Weekend

Sherri and I woke up this morning…late for us. We normally get up around 5:00 am and head down to the lobby of the Hotel around 6:00 am to eat breakfast. This happens about 3 to 4 days a week and then we have a long weekend to work at the lake or like this weekend do nothing for 4 days! Now we really like weekends like this one and hope that we have more of them in our future for the next 18 months.

Sherri got out of bed and headed to get dressed and I went to the kitchen to make coffee. While at the kitchen sink I looked out the window and could see the lake and the pines reflecting in it. No wind was blowing and the lake was like a mirror! I could not wait to go outside. Sherri was dressed and the coffee was made and we went to sit at the back of the Motorhome which was facing the lake. We sat there for some time and watched the squirrels and the birds and many folks walking on the path that followed the shoreline all the way around the lake. How peaceful…I would love to spend more time doing this.

We finished two cups of coffee and then decided it was time to get some chores done inside. It did not take long to do them and soon we were sitting at the computers reading about some of our friends and where they are and what they were up to. I don’t mind reading about folks having fun traveling if I am doing the same so today I am pleased with all that is going on in the journals I am reading. I know that next week I have to return to the old grind but then having our house with us and being able to come home to it and being parked next to a beautiful lake as we are makes working so much easier to do.

Later in the day we decided to walk around the lake and see what all we could see. It is such a beautiful place and the scenery is so easy on the eyes. There is a concrete sidewalk all the way around the shoreline of the lake. We just went down the hill to the walkway and headed on our adventure walk. It was about 6:00 pm when we started out…the sun was down far enough not to make us too hot. Not much breeze was blowing but as we walked briskly along we created our own breeze which was really nice. I am not sure how far it is around the lake but the time past fast and before we knew it we were back at our campsite.

This is our campsite from across the lake

Looking back toward the swimming area

Sherri took the lead

This is the swimming area with a sandy beach

This is the boat launch…maybe I will use this tomorrow

We got back to the Motorhome and made some pork chops outside. They sure were good…Sherri put some special sauce on them she got back when we all went to the spice shop last Thanksgiving. Needless to say I ate all of my share and can’t wait for our next outside feast…

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All is Well With Writer

AHHHH…It worked. I have got to catch up now on all that I have been doing since I have been away from the keyboard. I miss typing out my journal everyday…and having to gather my thoughts and write about things that happened a week ago…I can hardly remember yesterday much less a week ago.

Sherri and I have been busy not only working our job but we have been making improvements to our home base at the lake. We put a deck on the barn…built an RV port…put a fence up and then a porch was built under the RV Port. This porch will soon be screened in but we have to get the money for that addition. We will be putting in a rock walkway and many other improvements while we have a job to pay for them.

We have been busy for the last two weeks traveling all over. Last week we traveled to Louisiana and took the Motorhome. We found a real nice park just outside of Ruston LA that is located on a small lake. We backed up to it and are really enjoying the view. We will be here for two weeks and then we move on further East where we will be for two more weeks. Our travels will then take us North from there into Arkansas. We are not sure but we might be there for a month. I guess we will survive being on the road that long. We are practicing to see how we will do when we really get to go where we want to. 

Well it is so good to be back on the journal again. I hope that you follow along while we travel from job to job…

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I Have Writer Back

Alas! I have retrieved Writer from the WEB and I can download much faster and I don’t have to worry about using Blogger again! It has been over 2 months since I lost it and now that I have it back I feel like writing again. I had lost it when I caught a bug a while back and I rebooted and reloaded all my software but Writer was not in the batch I downloaded. SOOOO I tried to reload it from the WEB and found out that I was now lacking some Windows updates and it would not load. I worked for the last month downloading and messing around with it until I finally got the right stuff loaded and here I am back in business.

OK I don’t want to get too cocky here. I need to down load this post and see what kind of trouble I might have doing it. This is the new version and I have not ever used it so it might not work at all.

I am cutting this post off here just so I can check it out. If it does not come out right on my blog page I will have to work on it…and if that is the case then I will be back….

 

This is just a test picture to see how it comes out.

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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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