Played golf yesterday

Yesterday was Kris's day. We planned on doing something just for him. Sherri found a Putt-Putt golf center in town and we found out that it would be open so we planned to take him there. The day was perfect for outdoor entertainment. The temps were in the upper 60's lower 70's.
Kris won the match...he had the most strokes...He is still learning the game. But what the heck it was his day and he had a lot of fun...who was I to tell him.
After the golf match we headed over to do some things for Sherri. Can you guess what she wanted to do? Shopping had something to do with it. Yes we found the nearest home store and then we found a Micheal's and after that a Walmart! That rounded out our day. My feet are still hurting from all the shopping. 
Why is it that women were given the stamina to shop all day long but a man ends up sitting on a chair in the corner of the store? I have bad legs anyway and standing in one place for long periods of time makes my legs cry out in pain.
She got her some new pillows for the couch and a few outfits for our new baby boy due in May. Yes in May we will be blessed with our 8th Great Grandchild. It is a boy we found out. Ellie our second oldest Grandchild lives in California. She is the one with child and we plan on going out there next May to see the new little person. 
We will be planning our trip...

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Warm days are teasing me

Yesterday was a nice warm spring day...wait it is not spring? I guess El Nino strikes again!
El Nino is teasing us with this warm temps every once in a while. When we think it is going to be so cold it gets warm. When we think it is going to be warm it gets cold. I don't know how to dress in the morning until I venture outside and see what the temps are.
I know there are places that you can bet on the temps to be one way or the other. Not here in North Texas. No we don't ever know what it is going to be so we have two sets of clothes we have to carry with us just in case it is one way or the other.
Today is Saturday and I plan on doing some painting. I had started a painting last week that I have yet to finish. I have several paintings back at the studio that I have not completed but then I just don't want to go back there so I guess I will have to retrieve them and bring them with me.
Yesterday we drove all the way to Canton Texas to pay our land taxes. When we got to the office of Tax Rip Off...we found the line to be in yards not feet. I do not like to stand in line! We decided to mail it in and do our homestead later next month. I should have known the line would be long this  time of the month.
We went ahead and drove by the post office and picked up our mail and mailed our taxes then went to visit Sherri's brother and his wife. Rodney is a diabetic and has had a lot of trouble with his legs. They have ordered him a lift chair so that he can stand up without having to have assistance. He has nurses several times a week show up to check on him and help him exercise his legs. We enjoyed our visit and then went on out to the lake property to check on things. 
Everything was good there. You know after I complained about them not fixing the roads out there...low and behold they had put some gravel on the road and smoothed it out!!! Shame on me for speaking out like that.
Not much more going on than that so I will fade to black...

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We are going to pay our taxes

Yes...It is time to pay the taxes again. We pay our county taxes every year at this time so the county can keep on going. I don't know where they are going or where they have been but it certainly not fixing the roads around our neck of the woods. I guess I wont have to worry about it after this year...I am selling our property and pulling out. We plan on being cared for by the RV parks we stay at. We are turning over all the responsibilities of caring for our habitat to individual parks that have people hired to do so.
The park we are at now is a new one and they come and sweep around our area and keep things nice. They planted trees the other day and fixed the pot holes in the road....I did not even have to ask them!! 
We will not miss our lake property with all the upkeep that we had to do. I won't have to mow anymore nor will I have to repair the fences and the other items that break. I will just have to take care of my home which I pull down to the dealership and have them fix it. We got an extended warranty on our home that is renewable so we will have someone else fix the problems that come up. 
Also have to stop by my accountants office and get some info on Sherri's health insurance. You know with this "Affordable Health Care" you have to work it into you tax returns now. 
We haven't picked up our mail in over a month! Guess I better work that into our list of things to get done...

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WOW...I got a rise out of one reader

Yesterday I commented on my retirement income. I mentioned that the current administration has let me down three times on getting an increase in Social Security. I'm not asking for much just a COL that will help me pay for health insurance and grocery cost.
Buy me asking for this I am hateful and right wing rabid radical that has ruined this country. I think these are the same people that spit on me and wrap their arms around criminals that come across our borders illegally. 
I really don't have to apologize for the way I believe so I will leave it at that...

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What the...

You know I don't spend a lot of my journal writing about our government but today I have to say this. With no disrespect to our President we...the retired folks on SS have been shafted by this administration.
For the last 8 years of his term of office we have had three years of no increase in our wages. What is it with that. They say that the cost of living has not gone up enough to afford us any increase but then they must have been checking out someone else increase.
Our health insurance alone has increased...thanks to the "Affordable Care Act" and I use that term loosely. Next year it will even go up higher. 
Now we are going to take some of the US budget and spend it on illegals and refugees from other countries. How is it I don't get a raise but we have the $ to help out all these other folks? 

This is the COLA that we have received over the last 8 years... 

January 2009 -- 5.8%
January 2010 -- 0.0%
January 2011 -- 0.0%
January 2012 -- 3.6%
January 2013 -- 1.7%
January 2014 -- 1.5%
January 2015 -- 1.7% 
January 2016 -- 0.0%

Before this SS always got an increase in living.

I have voted for the best man for all my voting life. I have not claimed to be a Republican or Democrat...I have been an Independent. I never vote a straight ticket nor will I this time. It is time for us to get rid of these morons who give our money away like it grows on trees! I am not a white supremacists nor am I a racist...I am an American citizen who now wants equal rights for me and my family. I am tired of taking care of the world and all its problems. I think it is time for us to start taking care of ourselves! 
I worked for over 50 years of my life...payed my taxes...followed all the laws of this country...served overseas in one of the most unpopular wars of our time...was spit on and called every name in the book...came back as a disabled vet and I can't get what some illegals get by trotting across our border. And yes they are criminals I don't care how much your heart bleeds for them! 
This time I am with the new movement to seal up our borders and get these hate crazed maniacs out of our country! You know it is funny to me when one or two jars of peanut butter makes some people sick they close down the factory and ban the product from the shelves so they can clean up the problem. They wont do that when a certain group of people start killing US citizens they just want to keep them all on the shelf and maybe over time people will stop being killed. And while they are doing that they keep making the problem...What moron in our government thinks this is the way to do it.
I'm sorry for taking up your time with this but I have just about had a gut full of this Political Correctness these Liberal bone heads are spewing out. I just wanted you to know how I feel about this...

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Taking a look at Camping World

Yesterday Sherri and I took a trip across the street to look at the new Camping World. They are still stocking the shelves and building the front check out counters. 
The plan is to open next Monday and not yesterday as I was told last week. Well I can live with that but I still need to get me some supplies. I guess I will have to go elsewhere to find them. I'm still excited about having this store across from the RV park we are staying in. This will be idea for us to return here to have anything done and we can park across the street! How great is that?
The weather was great yesterday. We had a 70 degree day with little wind. This was a good opportunity for me to do some painting. I got the water colors out and started a new painting which I will be working on this week...if the nice weather holds up.
Now if that was the way it was going to stay all the time here I'd move. I know it will not be so I will still be looking for a wintering place for us. I'm torn between Florida and Arizona. I just can't make up my mind. Florida seems so expensive and I don't know enough about Arizona to make a decision. 
I have this year to think about it and research all the possibilities...

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Laundry is now open

After our coffee hour Sherri rounded up a load of laundry and headed over to the new laundry. Our daughter Jennifer was already there and had all but one washer taken up. She had been putting off washing until they were through installing all the washers and dryers. 
Sherri loaded all her dirty clothes in the washer and then we went exploring the new facilities. This is going to be quite the RV park. The front desk is coming along and they hope to have it all open by the beginning of Spring. The bath house is going to have the private stalls for toilets and showers. 
They have there own water system there and it is pressure regulated so you will not have to use a pressure adapter on your RV. I think the owner here has thought this all out pretty good. 
The only thing right now that is a little bit of a problem is the rain and the new construction. We have a lot of mud here and with El Nino it just drys up enough to be comfortable and then more rain! I know once it gets completed it will be great.
I checked across the street and the new Camping World will be open for parts and service Monday. That is what they told me last week so I will be checking on that today.
We had a great day and the temps were real warm here...

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What a moon rise we had

Last night before we all sat down for dinner Sherri spotted the moon coming up over the horizon. WOW it was full and had an orange color. It was so beautiful I just had to get some pictures of it. Our camera is not the best in the world but it takes decent pictures. These turned out rather grainy but I guess you get the idea.
I had a load of Internet problems yesterday. For some reason our WIFI was not working. I had to switch over to my Hot Spot from AT&T to work off the Internet. When the Park WIFI came back on I could not get hooked up to it. Everyone else said it was working but mine...for what ever the reason...would not come up. Finally I reset up my computer and I finally got back on it. Some days are just that way.
I have been looking up RV parks in Florida that will take children. You know with more and more people retiring early and those that work on the road you would think that they would have more parks in the retirement world that accept children. I'll have to say my child is less annoying than some of these folks dogs that bark all the time. Having to watch a dog out my window take a poo and then its owner picking it up in a clear bag is not my favorite thing. At least some pick it up! 
My child does not poo in public and I don't have to pick it up. Kris for the most part is very quiet and hangs out in his room when not in school. He loves X-Box Nintendo and the WII. He has an electric scooter that he rides around the park for entertainment and for the most part does it very quietly. 
Let me digress...I have been looking for parks that will allow children to partake in full time RVing. So far I have located a few that will allow children. Yes I know for a fact that children can be annoying...I have ran into some over my life on the road. For the most part children now days spend more time on the computer than out disturbing the parks. 
I think if all goes well we will be spending next winter in Florida...

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Did I tell you how cold it is?

I woke up this morning to the heater coming on. Believe it or not our heater hardly ever comes on at night. Last night I would wake up every time it would come on. I finally took a look at my outside temp. console and read where it was 37 degrees. Now that is not all that cold but we had a 25 mph wind going on and that made it much colder.
We stayed warm I have to say but it took a lot of propane to keep us that way. We use our fireplace and our small heater all the time and this cuts down on the propane heat you have to use.
They have the laundry open! They moved all the machines in yesterday and hooked them up. That will give us the opportunity to wash our heavier things. Sherri washes all our lighter things in her new washer but the heavy genes she likes to wash in a larger machine. The laundry is close so we will have to try it out...

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Rain Rain Rain

Once again we got up at our usual time and prepared our coffee...sat down and the patter of rain on the roof started. You have to love this El Nino. We are studying water vapor in the atmosphere and I use this as an example in my class. This warm El Nino is full of water and all it takes is a little cool weather to cause it to condense back into rain.
I suppose this will be another inside day here. We have had plenty so far this year. I sat outside yesterday for a short period of time and worked on a watercolor that I have had in my mind for some time. I maybe lasted 2 hours before the cool wind drove me back indoors.
I can't complain too much we have had some great weather. The temps have been bearable for the most part. There has been many times I have worked outside with shorts on. I look up north and see that the weather we are having is nothing compared to the weather up there!
Gosh! I can't believe that we have been here almost a month. If next month goes this fast we will be on the road...

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Visiting yesterday

We were up early...as usual...had our coffee and while having our coffee our granddaughter called. She asked us to come over and visit with her. She lives full time in an RV but at another park closer to Longview Texas. We almost stayed at that park but Sherri was not too keen on the slopping sites.
We had a good time...I did some work on her new RV that needed to be done. Fixed a window seal and repaired the spare tire holder that was bent when they drove through a dip in the entrance drive to the park. Shallow Creek has a big dip when you come in and you can drag off any low hanging parts of your RV. I noticed this time that they were fixing the entrance when we arrived. Once they get this finished this will be a nice park to stay at...

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