Here is the New Year

With the new year we received some cold weather. Have not been outside much so not much going on. I have spent a lot of time in my studio painting warm pictures and feeling warmer doing it. I know that soon I will run out of warm ideas and will have to get into some fall pictures. Then you know what comes next...Winter!
AHH school yes I still have to teach school. Kris is doing real well with all passing grades. I am surprised that he retains so much. He corrects me on so many things that I wonder who is teaching who.
My sister, June has been in rehab for a couple of weeks. She has been weak for some time and is getting some needed PT. She is doing real well and look for her to be back at home soon.
Sherri and I have been doing well. We have hitch itch so bad. We will be planning a get a way...

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Happy New Year to all

Well we had a cold New Years Eve! I think with the wind chill it got down to 9 degrees. You just have to love Texas weather...when I decide to stay at the lake cabin for the winter it does this. Winter storm Franki blows down out of the north and we freeze here!
Kris and I bought some fireworks to light up last night but with the wind and the cold temps we decided to hold off for some warmer weather. 
Got word on my truck. It will not be totaled but it will cost a pretty penny getting it back on the street. The guy at the body shop said it would be 3 weeks before it would be done. So I guess I drive around in the this Hamster mobile for a while. Sure will be glad to get my truck back. I just hope that it will pull my home around safely! One thing you don't want is an unsafe vehicle pulling your home around...especially in the mountains!
We had planned on having a barn sale this fall but the fall got past us and we have yet to have one. I did put a couple of items on Craig's list and sold one of them yesterday. We have a lot of stuff that we plan on selling every year and time just gets by us and we end up selling bits and pieces. OK I need to head on out and get some things done. It has warmed up a bit and I need to take advantage of it before the temps dip back down in  the teens...

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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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I have totally neglected my journal!

Gosh... I cannot get my Blogger to work anymore. I guess I am going to have to find another way to write my life story. This has been months of fighting this thing.
Sherri and I have just about finished our cabin out here on the lake. We have installed the kitchenette and hope to have it plumed by this time next year. We have everything run to it but we do not have the financing to buy all the things we need to complete it. We are on a fixed income if you had missed that fact in my past writings. Things have to be prioritized these days and a sink in the cabin is not on that list this year.
I will try and get some pictures to post next time I am able to make this Blogger work...

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We had a real nice rain last night

Yes, we had a real good rain with lots of thunder and very little wind. I always worry when those storms out of the west come blowing through that we will be blown away!
Last year we had tornadoes one right after the other and we packed it up and went in the other direction. This place can be replaced but my family cannot.
Yesterday I spent all day burning the hay I harvested out of my overgrown lawn. I must have burned 50 loads of grass before I called it quits. I was going to finish up today but with the rain and all the grass will be too wet to light.
We have a few things to finish around here and then we are headed back to Jason's to complete our projects up there. He is getting his new carpet this week and the painter are coming next week.
Kris will be at his grandma's and we are homeschooling Franki. All in all we should be finished and back at the lake for the long stretch in two weeks. 
I hope to do some paintings when we come back...

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We are back at the Lake

I am trying out our Internet to see if it works better on this program. We got back Thursday and I had sooo much to do that I did not think I would ever get it all done. 
The yard was close to 5 feet tall when we arrived! Yes 5 feet and all I had was our little mower. I had to purchase another mower for back-up so that if one died I would have another to continue on with. 
It took me two full days to complete the yard mowing but I finally got it all done and then I had to rake all the grass up. That has been a three day job...this being the third day. I hope to get it all wheeled to the back yard so I can start burning it all.
I had to set up the Direct TV and that took some doing. We still don't have our local channels because our address is still in Colorado. I hope to get that done sometime this week.
My Internet was not working when they said they had it back on so I have been working on it for the past three days. Finally I found out what the problem was. After inspecting the phone lines from the main box I located a spot in the line where a varmint had been chewing on the insulation. The wires had shorted out and therefor no Internet. 
The next problem was the bathroom light in the cabin. When we got back we turned all the breakers back on and the bathroom breaker sparked and would not come on. So I had to trace down that problem and found that the breaker was worn out. I exchanged that circuit breaker with another circuit and it worked so now I have to get another breaker for the other circuit that I am borrowing. What fun this has all been.
We will be leaving tomorrow for Jason's home. He is having some remodeling done and his Mom and I are going to be overseeing it while he is at work. Always something to do here...

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We had rain yesterday?

I could not believe it! Yesterday we had a rain storm and it cooled off. Will wonders ever cease? It has been in the upper 90's ever since we arrived here in Texas. It actually lowered the temperature down to the upper 90's! I was amazed...as I stood out in the rain soaking wet.
The wind was blowing so hard that I had to hold the awning down. We had rain and wind in Colorado but not like Texas. I had to hold our side curtain to keep it from blowing down the road. It did not last long and soon the sun was back out and the temps reached 90 plus...all was back to normal.
I keep thinking it might be my browser that is causing this program to act so crazy. I am going to try another one as soon as we get back on our Internet...

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Still having problems with Blogger

Still having trouble with Blogger and I don't know what to do?? I have not posted in forever but I just can't get this thing to stabilize. My curser keeps going crazy and everything changes around without me doing anything? I think it might be my browser but not real sure. 
We have moved back to Texas and I am about to melt. I knew I should have come back the last of October. Maybe then it might have been cooler than it is now.
Kris is back in school so I am having to bone up on my Algebra. Still trying to think when I used Algebra the last time in my life? I guess he needs to know it just like all the other kids do. He will  be going back into public school in his senior year and they will require him to have had Algebra.
Seems to be working a little bit better now. I don't want to push it so better sign off for now...

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Must be the Internet

I have not been posting on this journal due to the crazy things that have been happening to the software?
I have tried to do all I know to do to keep this curser from flying off on it's on and nothing at all has worked.
OK so I am on here today to let all the family and friends out there that all is OK and we are doing fine. We have made some trips to other places and seen many things that have been fun and exciting. 
Kris is back in school and doing real well with his studies. He has mentioned that he would like to go back to public school in the 8th grade. I have assured him that if he does well between now and then he would get to go but that his grades would have to stay up as they are now.
Well the software here is starting to go crazy once more so I must cut this short before I pull all my hair out! Hope that all is well in Texas and also hope that the temps fall into the lower digits before we have to return...

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