Need some feed back

Sherri is working this week and I am here alone. I have plenty to keep me busy with the screened in porch project and the biggest of all tasks cleaning out my shop.
I got up this morning and made coffee went in the bath room and took my shower. Ready to face the day and get to work in the shop. WOW! what a daunting task this is. Upon opening the door to the shop I realized that there was more to this than I had imagined.
I use to have a 16 by 32 foot shop with all the power tools in it that a guy could want. Now I am down to 14 foot by 14 foot and no room to walk. Much of this is my fault...I should of got a larger building but with my budget at the time it did not allow that. OK WAWAWA I need to get to work and get some room out here so I can work with out tripping over something.
I talked to my good friend Mark Hall the other day. http://rvingwithpoppa.blogspot.com/ He had called me in response to my post about the new Jeep. Seems he and Dortha had purchased a new Jeep sometime back and he was calling to find out about mine. Mark and Dortha have been our good friends for almost 13 years now. We have shared many good times together and look forward to many good times to come. Mark has been my adviser on MH...Jeeps...and much more over time. Now he and Dortha are into target shooting and motorcycle riding... so I guess I will have to get with him on what type of pistol to buy. I will have to draw the line on motorcycles. I had too many misses when I owned mine...so I will have to just stick with the Jeep.
We are still tossing plans around on where to go when we leave here. Not even sure what the date will be when we pull out but it will be in February for sure. I know that time of year we will be moving south but where is still a question mark.
I guess I better get to work out in the shop and get it in order. I hope that it stays cool today...I have no AC in the shop and depend on cool weather to keep me from melting out there.
I will check back in with everyone as soon as I get caught up on all that I have to do here...

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A dream fulfilled

I know it is dirty but it has been raining 

When the rain stops I will get some pictures taken outside 

For the longest time I have been wanting a real Jeep. You know like the ones we had overseas in the war. The ones that had no top no doors and the windshield laid down! Well I found one...not quite. Sherri did have some input and she drew the line at the small Jeep but did compromise for the larger Sahara model.






Yes I went and bought a new Jeep Sahara Wrangler. The top and doors do come off and the windshield lays down but we have room inside for Kris and some supplies.She let me test drive the two door but told me that I would not have one of those in this lifetime. I settled for the other and still think it is the coolest thing since sliced bread.
It has the navigation system built in with plenty of speakers for the radio and telephone. MP3 player hook up and DVD player. What more could a guy ask for. I guess I could ask for an Inverter but it has one of those built in too. OK life is good.




I am biting at the bit to strip her down and head to the mountains for my first road trip. It will be just me and Kris in the mountains. Sherri says it is too cold up there with no roof doors and windshield. I could not talk her into riding with us if we ran the heater and she wrapped up in a blanket. Oh well I think she will give in when we get there. Maybe we will stay down in lower elevations until she gets use to it.
I already have some trails picked out up around Creede Colorado that look interesting. There are some lakes up in the mountains that are calling me and my fly rod. Stream too that want me to try them out. Kris and I will be spending a lot of time looking for the next fishing hole...

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Lining up some projects for the week

Sherri and I are planning on taking the week off from work to get some things done around the MH and also some doctor appointments that Sherri needs to make. We have three months left to get things done so we can leave on our first journey. Seems like a long time until you start listing all the things that you have to get done before you can leave and then you realize that there is not that much time to work it all in.
I have an electrical project for the back screened in porch. I am putting in some lights wall plugs and a ceiling fan. I will have to do a take off on all the material that I need so I can go pick it up at the first of the week. Looks like the weather will be cooperating with me. Weather man says the temps should be cooling off for the next few days and that is good.
I am sitting out here in the barn/office/laundry room reading journals and listening to my Native American music that I love so much. I can't wait to head out to the desert and crank up my music as I discover new places that I have never seen before. No music is as peaceful as this.
While out here I managed to type out this post. I have been slow in posting here of late due to the work schedule that we have been working under. I know it is for the short term and I will be free to roam before long and when that time comes I will be able to write more. It is hard to relay the day to day drudgery of working. Who in their right mind would want to sit down and read about that. I can promise you this my adventures will be worth reading about and maybe some day my kids can follow in our footsteps as we travel this wonderful land.
Until then I will continue to sit here and listen to the heavenly sounds of the Sioux and Comanche flutes as they fill the air with the mystical sounds of long ago...

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Off for the week

Sherri and I made it back home last night. We arrived here about 7:00 pm and unloaded the Jeep. It sure was good to be back in the MH. Hotel rooms are not my favorite place to be but we spend so much of our time in them that when we get home it is so sweet.
Our company let us know upon leaving our last assignment that they did not have any sets coming up so they would have to assigns us some merchandising jobs close to home if we needed the hours. I let them know that I did not need the hours and I would take the next week off. Sherri is still pondering the idea of working.
It is never hard for me to turn down work. I enjoy the time at home doing my projects that are getting me ready to leave next January.
January is not that far off! October is here so that means I only have November and December to go. Sherri will be signing up for her retirement this month and then we can settle on our budget and get ready for the maiden voyage out and about.
We have not made any decision on where we will be heading but it should be fun no matter where our plans take us...

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Freeloader?? Who me

I have been listening to many of the candidates speeches and and the commentaries on the News programs and I am just a little upset that our reps in government are now saying that we are too dependent on government programs. I suppose they are speaking about Welfare...Social Security...Food Stamps... Medicare and all the other programs these nincompoops created years ago. I don't remember asking for any of these to be set up I just know they decided we needed them.
Now that folks are using them they think we are freeloading the system. These are the same bunch that are running for re-election right now as I type this.
You don't hear the first one say anything about the money we are sending overseas to those ungrateful lunatics that are burning down our embassies and killing our people on a daily basis. They begrudge the money we get for our betterment and want us to ween ourselves off of these benefits...which we pay for every time we pay taxes. No lets save that money and give it to the illegals and the foreign countries that hate our guts so that they...one day may like us.
I would like for all those deadbeats in Washington to stop complaining about my "Benefits" and start giving theirs back  Why do they deserve theirs and we don't? I paid for all of mine. If I had had one adult in
Washington investing my Social Security funds properly...and not stealing them from my account I might not be as big a burden on society as they think I am.
Have you ever noticed all the problems that these Polecats want to fix are the ones they created! Now they want to take care of my health care. Good God haven't they done enough damage for one lifetime? In ten years there will be some politician back flushed from the sewer of government that wants us to elect him or her so they can save us from the government health care system that is eating us alive.
I am going to vote for everyone on my ballet that has not run before and will continue to do so until I have flushed all the unsavory slim balls out of Washington. Give them 4 years to do something and then if they have not produced fire them!
No I earned my entitlements. My VA disability was not handed to me....I earned that by putting myself in harms way because my government told me I had to do so. I get Social Security not because I am a dead beat but because I paid into the system for 50 years. When someone tells us that we should not be dependent on the government...lets keep in mind that all that government money belongs to us!
I will be getting what is due me...

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Last Day

We have been up early every day this week. Off to work at 6:30 and hard at it by 7:00. This is the last day for this week and we can only work a few hours and stay under our 40 hours. At first they had approved us working the overtime so we could get the job done but then the guys that get the bonuses found out and cancelled all that.
You know I remember those days. Working my people harder for shorter hours so I could bring down a bonus at the end of the year. If I could figure out how to get the job done with fewer people then the bonus got better. That is what it is all about. You need to keep those $$$ going upstairs to line the pockets of the BIG DOGS. Yes that is what I did for more than 35 years of my life and now the worm has turned and I see what it is like on the other end.
I am just glad that I only have a few more months to be used and abused and then I can sit on my patio and gaze off in the distance admiring the scenery. This will surely come to pass...

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Time Flies

This weekend just flew by so fast! I got all my chores done but then it was time to go on the road again. We have to work just a little while longer and then we will have plenty of time to get things done.
We woke up Saturday morning with Kris climbing in bed with us wanting to know if it was morning yet. It was dark outside and he was not sure if he should be up or in bed. With him in school now he automatically gets up early and wants to get the day started. We needed to get up too. We have things that need to be done while at base camp. I am moving the 120v plug under the dining room table to the side of the buffet so that all the electrical cords are not hanging down around your feet when you sit down to eat.
Once we all got up showered and ate breakfast Sherri and Kris headed out to Wally World to get some things we needed for the short weekend at home. I stayed at home and started on the plug relocation project.
I first had to remove the old plug and disassemble it to get all the wires loose. Then I had to re-route the wires through the cabinet to the side so I could attach them to the new plug. I had to cut a new opening for the plug and that created a good bit of saw dust that Sherri was not too pleased with when she returned. Oh well it all cleaned up nicely and she was satisfied with the new location so the mess was soon forgotten...

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Hope Arkansas

Sherri and I are in Hope Arkansas for the week. We have worked here many times in the past but never really got to get out and see the city. This time we have managed to drive around some and see what there was to see down town.
Not a bad town at all. There is much history here in Hope and we both love the down town area where there is much to see. This is where we came across Tailgaters restaurant. We stopped there last night for a burger and a cold drink. It is located right across the street from the old train station which is also the community center and museum.
The down town area is really clean and quaint. Old buildings have always been something I like to explore and take pictures of. I hope when I get on the road I have time to visit many towns and take pictures of their old buildings and visit their museums.
We put in a long day today and I am rather give out. Not much more for me to write about so I guess I will sign off for now and get horizonal in the bed. Watch a little TV and soon fall asleep...

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Days like today

It is days like today that make me long for the last working day.
I was up at 5:00 am and took my shower then headed out the door to the hotel breakfast bar across the street from our room.
I had eggs, sausage and toast with a glasss of milk. It was so good and got me going for the day.
The store we are working at is just down the street from where we are staying so it only takes us about 5 minutes to get there. It is so much better than the stores located 30 to 40 minutes away from where we have stayed.
Sherri got sick at work today and had to go back to the hotel room. I found a clinic that would take her insurance and took her there when I got off.
She got a steriod shot and I think she will be OK.
We stopped by Tailgaters on the way home and had a hamburger. I don't know if this is a chain or not but the burgers were good and we will go back...

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Computer is still up and running

Up at 5:00 am this morning. Took my shower and got ready for work. Sat down at the computer and she is still up and running so I thought I might ought to send out a message this morning to those of you free spirits.
Gee...looks like many of you have found you a job out there. This makes me feel better seeing as how I am still amoung the working class. We really don't work that much and the company does pay us for milage and food...not to mention a place to stay.
We will be here the rest of the week so there may or may not be anything to report to you. I did think about going over and seeing Bill Clinton's birth place but then maybe not. I will have to say he was one of out most interesting presidents since JFK.
Just to let you know my two favorite Presidents were...
1. JFK
2. Ronald Reagon.
Now for plain excitement...
1. Bill Clinton
2. Richard Nixon.
Believability...
1. Jimmy Carter
2. There will never be another one like him. Now days who would ever get elected telling the truth?
And that is all I have to say about that...

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I shocked it back to life.

It was touch and go for a while but the old computer came back to life. I have no idea how long it will last but I will give it a try tonight and see how she does. The big test will be when I shut it down later and then try to bring it back on line in the morning.
Sherri and I are on the road once more working. We are in Arkansas this week for four days and then back to the lake for a rest. Time is growing short...and we will soon be amoung the unemployed...not looking for a job just unemployed.
We had a nice visit with Jim and Dee Walter...well it was two weeks ago...My computer has been holding it's breath for that long. I really need to get me another one but I just hate to spend the money. I have had this one for about four years and it has been going down hill for some time.
If I buy another it will be very inexpensive. I have found out one thing about computers is the more expensive is not always the best. I buy the extended warranties and end up putting them in the shop the day after the warranty goes out!
OK back to our visit with Jim and Dee. They came out to our place at the lake and we visited and then went to eat BBQ at Soul Mans BBQ.
Thanks Jim and Dee for coming to see us. We miss you guys and can't wait to get on the road with all our friends out there.
Until then I will try to be more faithful on my post. I need to get a reliable computer...so I will have to get out and see what there is out there...

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