Monday May 30th 2011

Memorial Day!!  Sunny and warm today probably get into the 90s but that is OK, we need some warm weather.  The farmers around here are really bustling around trying to make up for lost time.  There are still farmers that haven’t gotten their crops in yet.  We had quite a big setback with the flooding and rain.  Last night on the news they said they are putting the flood gates back up on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers because the water is coming back up again from all the rain up north.  Guess this is the  spring rains.  To bad they can’t get some in Texas and where ever else they need it.  We sure had our share but the farmers are getting the irrigation ready, it is dry already in spots and some spots are to wet to get into the fields.

I have lots to do today, I need to clean the deck of the mower, plant some flowers, weed the garden do some cleaning and try to fix our security light. Welllll, I cleaned the deck (somewhat) and got a five gallon bucket of moldy grass from underneath!  Really packed in tight!  I chopped around the tomatoes, which to us northerners is “hoeing” and got a lot of the grass cleaned up but sure have a lot more to do, I may wait until I get home from work to do more because this is sure a good way to work up a sweat!  I was telling Linda that I can’t figure out how someone could do that all day in 95 degree weather (and hotter) and humid!  Have to be a better man than me!  Fifteen minutes was about all I could take but it does look better.

Daniel called me over and was explaining that one of the….ok, now I can’t remember what they call the thing that holds the blade, whatever it is it’s broken, no bearings in it at all, wore out, that’s why I have streaks all over my yard.  Doesn’t look to bad but it isn’t nice.  He is ordering a new part for it and maybe we will get it fixed Wednesday or Thursday.

The Sunflowers that I planted are up and it is really funny, the little plants even face the sun, funny to see them bent towards the sun.

I planted a few more seeds around the last stump that I burnt.  Hope they grow, it will mask the stump or what’s left of it.

We went into town and ate at a Mexican restaurant that was OK but we probably won’t go back.  We have other Mexican restaurants here that are a lot better than this one.  We also went to Wal Mart.  I was looking for an air compressor and I went to Lowe’s looking there also but couldn’t find what I wanted so I went back to Wal Mart and got a cheap one there.  Linda bought some new clothes and I bought another  package of green beans  which I walked out of the store without paying for them.  Not on purpose though, I had Linda go back in and pay for them for me while I took our treasures out to the car.

I am charging the battery for our camper, we have a problem somewhere and now the battery is overflowing so I unplugged it.  I will have to clean up the battery acid soon so it doesn’t do something I don’t want it to do.

I put a new bulb in the security light and when it got dark it didn’t come on so I need to get up there while there is enough light to get around and try something else….a new bulb!  That is a FORD idea!  Put in a new bulb and it works great.  The old bulb must have been getting bad because when I put it back in it didn’t work at all, the new one is fine, glad I bought some new ones at the store.

I guess I’m about done rambling so I will say “night Y’all…

Sunday May 29th 2011

Church today!  Sunday School was pretty good as was the main service.

Linda made tacos for lunch.  Good stuff…

There isn’t any church service tonight so I took a nap this afternoon. Wasn’t the greatest idea.  I did sleep for about an hour but I didn’t feel real good when I woke up.

Watched a couple hours of AFV tonight.  One of my favorite shows.  Good for some laughs.  My appetite is kind of gone I think.  Can’t remember if I ate anything tonight except for an ice cream bar.  I like them!

I think this is probably the shortest blog I have written.  There are things I would like to have done today but it’s Sunday and I will wait until tomorrow.

Guess that’s all for today…Night Y’all….

Saturday May 28th 2011

I have a lot to do today, wasn’t planned that way but when I do something and see something else I usually start on another job then another job, I think I had four different things going on at once, well, not at once but leave one and start another.  It was to early to mow the lawn or start the chain saw to work on the stump so I started fixing two lawn chairs but the batteries were almost dead on the drill so while charging a battery I cleaned a corner of the garage and have the ramp to take apart that I had made for Bruno but the battery still isn’t charged so I did some other things until the battery was charged, then I fixed the chairs and took the ramp apart.  Then I got the chain saw started and worked on the stump that was already loose but I couldn’t knock it over so I sawed more on it and put a rope and tackle on it but I finally pushed it over…

Wasn’t much holding it but was enough to make it hard to push over.

I sawed up the last log at the last stump I burned and got it over to this one so one of these days I will be able to burn it!

Started mowing the lawn and the mower is making a really bad streak in the grass, One blade is closer to the ground than the other.  Figured it out, had a tire that was almost flat.  Didn’t have time to finish the lawn, maybe when I get home from work.

Didn’t do to bad finishing some of the jobs I started and I know I have a lot more jobs to do.

Work again this afternoon.  It was real quiet, only had three camper come in.  I picked up a pizza from Pizza Hunt on the way home.  That hit the spot.  This is a good Pizza Hut.

I am finishing the lawn tonight.  One of the bearings smokes and Daniel called his Dad to find out if he had this problem also.  He said under the deck the build up of dirt and grass has to be cleaned every so often to keep it cool.

I’m falling asleep so guess it’s time to say night Y’all….

Friday May 27th 2011

Still cool out and cloudy and it sure looks like it could rain!  Our garden is still kind of muddy and the string beans got drowned I think.  There are only five plants up!!  Going to have to replant probably.  The okra is doing good and so is the zucchini, tomatoes aren’t doing to bad either, some of them have blooms on them.

Linda had to go to the hearing aid doctor to get her hearing aids checked again.  They still haven’t taken any money, guess they are really trusting.

We stopped at Wal Mart and got some flash light batteries but nothing else!!

Have to go to work this afternoon.  Should be a pretty easy day.  Have a few campers that came in and some paid for more time.  Pretty easy day!

Not much going on tonight either, not much on TV so will take it easy, take a nap before going to bed, just can’t hardly make it after ten PM. Time for bed….Night Y’all…

Thursday May 26th 2011

It is pretty cool out this morning!  After Sparky and I got done playing  I thought I may try to make some cinnamon raison bread.  I hadn’t tried it like this before but thought it would be different!

HMMMM…almost looks like cookie dough!  I made three loaves and it turned out like my date bread.  Really heavy and it will not raise.  I let it sit for about two hours then baked it.  It raised a little while baking.  I didn’t take a picture after it was done, it didn’t look real good but tastes good.  We tried a piece and will toast some tomorrow.

I planted flowers this morning.  We bought some Lily bulbs and some other things so I needed to get them planted.  The bulbs were easy to plant but the roots were something else.  One package had three roots but they were growing out of a piece of wood and I didn’t want to break them apart so I planted them all together, not sure that is what I was supposed to do or not!  We will see.

Yesterday at work it was really slow but today was a little better. Not much but a little better.  Today Grant graduates from high school and I got a picture of him as his dad was taking him to the school….

He looks pretty good!  I think his dad is proud of him!  I asked Kim if she may have empty nest syndrome when he goes to college this fall and she said “no” she will miss him but doesn’t or wouldn’t want another and Mark said that he was so special that they didn’t need another!!

I made a little mistake at work, not going to say what it was but I called Mark after I got home and told him what I had forgotten to do.  Hopefully it was no big deal.  I do get forgetful at times.

When I got home I thought I would fry up the rest of the stuff I had left from the kabobs yesterday.  It didn’t make a lot so I thought that I would cook up some noodles we had gotten at one of our favorite stores, Aldi.  These were German noodles called “Deutsche Kuche” and I guess that means German Noodles???  Anyway it was the first time to try them….turned out pretty good I thought…

This was on our expensive dinner ware!!

I had taken a picture of some of our wild flowers, well, I didn’t plant them and them come up every year…

They bloom every year and stay most of the summer.  You can’t see him but Sparky is in the flowers somewhere looking for something.

I think I did pretty good tonight, I stayed awake until 10PM!!!  Missed most of the news and weather though.  Sparky and I took a nap on the sofa before going to bed, I must be getting old, it seems that I am tired everyday! Time for bed I guess….Night Y’all..

Wednesday May 26th 2011

Sparky and I went out early to check on the stump burning.  Well, it’s still there, most of the wood I had piled up against it burnt so I loaded it up again and it was still really hot so it started burning right away.  We went back inside and did a few other things and when I looked at it again the whole pile was on fire, unfortunately it wasn’t near the stump!  I think I posted a picture yesterday and this is what it looks like today…

There is still plenty of wood left but all that I had split is now gone, I was going to burn it anyway.  I will have to get the chain saw out again and do a little more cutting on the stump.  I thought it was cut completely through but I guess it has a little spot left.  Has to cool off a little first, it’s still pretty hot.

I wanted to try something a little different for lunch, will be a new experience for me… kabobs…

Let me see, I used red onion, pablano peppers, baby portabella mushrooms, yellow squash, polish sausage, Anaheim peppers, zucchini squash and garlic salt.  What we thought were pablano peppers are really hot!!  Not pablano peppers!  They did turn out quite well, at least I liked them.

Got a picture of our Petunias.

I planted two other planters and hopefully they will do well, they look good right now!!

Weather report says we are going to have a some really bad storms this afternoon and I have to go to work.  Daniel called and said if things get bad he will come and get Linda and Sparky and go to Larry Tucker’s house, they have a basement.  About 6:30PM it got bad so Mark let me go on home.  Rained like crazy and the wind blew, probably about 60 miles per hour.  By the time I got home it had quit raining.  Power was out so not sure how long it will be before it is fixed.

Linda was over at Tucker’s and was wet and had fallen down going up the front steps and scraped her knee, I didn’t have to carry her home, she could walk!

Here’s a picture after the first round of storms…

I think the power was out about a half hour, maybe a little longer but looked like it was going to be a nice evening, wrong..got another round of rain about an hour later.  My garden is a mud puddle now, wonder what all will make it through all this??

I stayed up until 10PM and had to take a shower and go to bed I just couldn’t stay awake.

Tuesday May 24th 2011

Decisions, decisions!!  What should I do today?  Well, the chainsaw is supposed to be finished today so I will go pick that up!  I planted a few flowers while I waited.  Planted some perennials around the stump in the front yard and also planted some sunflowers around the light pole in the front yard.  I was getting kind of antsy and I decided to go on into town to see if they had the chain saw done.  I tried calling  but just got voicemail and it was already 2PM.  Figured I would stop at Lowe’s and get some things there.  Found what I wanted and went to check out and guess what…I didn’t have my wallet.  I changed into work clothes and didn’t put my billfold in it.  The lady said she was feeling good today and she took $5 out of her pocket and paid for it and she said I could have it or pay her back later (my purchase came to $3.44).  Don’t find people like that anymore!

I went and picked up the chainsaw and he started it and kept tuning it because it kept quitting but at least it runs again.  I took it home and looked for my billfold, uh oh, it isn’t in my other pants either so I looked around Daniels yard because I mowed his lawn and thought it may have fell out of my pocket somewhere!  Couldn’t find it so I checked the car and thought that I remembered NOT putting in it my work pants, I don’t need it while working in the yard but hadn’t planned on going to town and buying anything.  I was about to pull my hair out, not a lot of money but my drivers license (so I can remember who I am) and my credit card, not something I want in someone else’s hand.  I thought I may have to drive back to Lowe’s and check the parking lot.  One more time I’ll check my pants and guess what???  It wasn’t there but it was laying on the bed, can’t figure out why I couldn’t see it before and why was it out of my pocket???  Figure, I guess I do things automatically and sure can’t remember those things.

I went back to Lowe’s and gave her the money back she let me use… with a little interest.  Should have gotten her picture but I didn’t have my camera.

Well, time to try the chain saw.  I put a new chain on it and had a few  problems, couldn’t keep the chain on it and it didn’t seem to be any sharper than the old one.  Finally I put the old one back on and it worked pretty good.  Doesn’t run like it used to but it does run.  I cut on the big stump and think I have it cut most of the way through, I can rock it back and forth but don’t want it to fall over, then I started the fire…

Looking good…

I want to get all this wood burnt up and have plenty of time…

Sparky enjoyed being outside and minded pretty good until a neighbor came home or something like that…

He is actually laying down relaxing.

We stayed outside until 9PM when I figured it was OK to go in but I did pile up a lot of wood on it so it would keep on burning.

I took a shower and stayed up for awhile, had a bowl of ice cream with strawberries, not to bad, I am really thirsty though.  I should sleep good tonight, I am pretty tired.  Oh, I planted some Petunias in planters in front of the garage.  Been a few years since I’ve done that.  Well, time for bed I think….Night Y’all…

Monday May 23rd 2011

We have quite a bit to do today, at least I do.  Daniel called and he is taking the chain saw to the chain saw clinic to get it running right again. I said if it costs more than $50 I will take it apart again myself and see what damage I can do.  Unless I cut another tree down I only need to cut on the stumps.  I used Might Mac the other day and it still runs great but the chain needs sharpening again.

He called later and said the people would buy the Troy Built lawn mower so I had to get it started.  Took awhile but while I have it running I figure I may as well mow the lawn with it.  Even though I don’t really like the mower it has done a pretty good job, when I can get it started!  The lawn looks pretty good! It actually does a pretty good job, I still don’t like it much.

Linda and I went to town, of course to Wal Mart.  I still have a lot of room in the garden and I think I need to plant some sweet potatoes.  I picked up nine plants, they come in nines, and I also picked up a cucumber plant. We picked up some other things also.  It was an expensive day at Wal Mart.  They have these little rocking (?) chairs and one was loose so I put it on the floor and sat in it, not an easy thing to do, it was kind of comfortable except for my head, it just wasn’t tall enough and then getting up was another story, should have had a movie camera for this, I kind of had to roll on the floor so I could get on my hands and knees, not good if you are in a hurry to get the phone or go to the bathroom!!!  I didn’t get one. They also had a rocker recliner that I thought about but couldn’t get it in our little car, maybe some day.

It was getting later in the afternoon, about 3PM, so I thought I had a little time to plant the plants.  Got them all planted and I also planted some sun flower seeds around the telephone pole in the front yard!  Still had a little time so I planted some flower seeds around the stump in the front yard. It is now getting dark, not night but rain clouds are coming.  Sparky and I went in the house and in about 15 minutes it rained and blew like crazy. Glad I got all the plants planted!

I was hungry for “hot dogs” and we had just picked some up from Wal Mart. Got Nathan’s hot dogs, I think they are probably the best tasting hot dogs made.  I really like hot dogs!

Linda saw the sun setting tonight so I had to get a picture of it..Quite colorful…

I got to watch the finale of “The Event” tonight.  I was good, not sure if it is coming back or not but it kind of left you hanging…

Guess it is time to go to bed….Night Y’all…

Sunday May 22nd 2011

Now I think that I will be able to remember what happened today even though I’ve slept since then (this is actually Monday).

Got up early and let Sparky out, he seems to be doing fine! Everything was pretty normal.  We even played when we got back in the house, not much but some.

I got ready for church and left about 9AM and left Sparky in bed with Linda, he seemed quite happy, he wasn’t smiling but he did lay down and didn’t try to get up when I was leaving.

Got a picture of Bonnie and Cuma, Cuma is in red and she is the lady we bought our place from, very nice lady, Bonnie is very nice also and they come to church together

They service was nice but a lot of people didn’t make it to church today for some reason.

When I got home I just had time to take Sparky out and relax for a couple minutes then off to work.  This is unusual for me to work on Sunday but Bits is on vacation this week so I am filling in for her today.

Work started off kind of busy which isn’t unusual.  I had thought about taking a book in for me to read and I’m glad I didn’t, I was busy all day.  The flatbed truck was gone so maybe he was telling the truth about working today and paying when he gets back.  The campers kept coming in and the phone kept ringing!  To get to the good part, about 5:30PM a guy comes into the office and asks if there is a reason the laundry room door is locked!!!  No it isn’t supposed to be locked so I get out all the keys and finally find the right one for the door.  It doesn’t open!  It turns but the door won’t open and there is only one way in to the laundry room and it is this door!  Now what do I do?? Mary Lou, Mark’s mother, came over with her key, yep, the lock turns and it won’t open, I think it’s broke.  Mary Lou texted Mark and he called and just before he called I got the door open, he couldn’t figure out how I got the handle off!  I think he thought I broke it.  Tiny little hole that released the handle then with some tugging, pulling (no cussing) it finally opened and sure enough it’s broke!  Mark has had this happen before and it is the latch that’s broken, so I used duct tape to tape it open, the rest seems to be OK!  That took about forty five minutes.  At 6:20PM I went to check on the progress of the ones that owed money.  He was supposed to get off work at 5PM and the 20 mile trip he should have been there by at least 5:30PM. I kind of lost my cool, not real bad, but bad enough.  I had to let them know that I think I’m being taken advantage of and I don’t mind working with them but this really isn’t acceptable.  I’m pretty lenient, but I know Mark won’t be and he really hates being lied to and will make them leave. I hate to see that happen since they lost their home but business is business and I’m sure they can’t go into a grocery store and leave without paying, business is business.  I told Mark about it and he said he would take care of it first thing tomorrow. Almost all campers are nice, respectable and honest, but these aren’t campers and I won’t go into what I think of them, even though they are very polite (?).

The rest of the night at work went fine. Got out at about 7:10PM which was really fast for me.

Sparky did fine all day and he seems to be his old normal self.  Linda wanted to know what I wanted for supper and I thought that a grilled cheese sandwich and soup sounded great and I would make it if she would slice the cheese.  It doesn’t look real appetizing but it sure tasted good..

I think home made bread for grilled cheese is great, notice I tasted it before I took the picture.. Yes LaVon I forgot the milk and I think this is the lightest bread I’ve made and it also tastes good. I have to commend you on your diet, you are doing great!!!  Not sure I could go without bread.

There was a two hour movie on tonight “Jessie Stone” and I really wanted to watch it.  I did.  Well, it was a very slow movie, not nearly as good as the other “Jessie Stone”  movies but it was OK, I would have wondered about it if I hadn’t watched it.

Time for bed, oh, Linda made some rice pudding tonight..YUMMMY I love rice pudding…..Night Y’all…

Saturday May 21st 2011

Looks like another nice day today, I am writing this on Monday so I am going to have to strain my brain to remember what happened today!! Now this is going to be hard…I don’t have any pictures from today!  Got a feeling it isn’t going to be a great day but I’ll try anyway.

I don’t think I did a lot this morning, I finished putting the chain saw together or maybe that was yesterday, anyway the chain saw is back together and ready to go to the chainsaw doctor.

Work this afternoon.  had a really slow day, had a problem towards the end of the day.  Had a camper come in pulled by an old Ford flatbed truck that wasn’t made for pulling a camper and they had a big hole in the front of the camper where they turned to sharp. (These are some of the flood victims).  They needed to park right away so I let them park then they could come up and pay.  When I walked down to where they were a young man was laying on the flatbed and he said “hi” which was kind of surprising because I didn’t see him in the truck when they came in, oh well I do miss things sometimes.  I went back to the office and an older lady came in and I asked how I could help her and she wanted to check in, I hadn’t seen her before and there wasn’t a camper in the driveway so I asked her if she was with the one that just parked and she said she was, I hadn’t seen her in the truck either!   I had to ask if she had been riding inside the camper????  Yes she rode inside the camper along with the other young man.  I am beginning to see that I may have a problem here.  They have cell phones and were trying to get ahold of a cousin to come get them so they could go get some money to pay for camping.  Now I am pretty sure I am going to have a problem.  They don’t have a penny to their name and I am pretty sure some of the stories they are telling me aren’t quite true.  They finally got ahold of their father and he was going to  bring some money!!  I kept going back to see what was going on and they said he was on his way about 5PM.  OK he will be here in about a half hour….he finally made it about 7:20PM, guess he ran out of gas, he had a long trip, about twenty miles!!  The story doesn’t get any better, he was five dollars short but the kid was going to work for him tomorrow so they could pay the rest tomorrow and pay for another day. OK I have to go home, I’m not in a real good mood, hate to tell Mark what is going on, maybe it will all work out tomorrow….right…

Still doesn’t get any better.  When I got home Sparky had been getting sick and has had diarrhea which started this morning, well tonight he can’t hardly walk, his back legs keep giving out and he falls down so we call the vet, and of course this is Saturday night!  We got the number for the Emergency Vet Clinic in Cape, thirty miles away and made an appointment, which would have been fine but they wanted me to call if we were going to bring him in and guess what???  I forgot to call and I also forgot my phone and when I remembered we were already on the road and a couple miles from home!!  I stopped at Hinton Park and made the call and found out where the clinic was.  We made it and waited for almost an hour for the Vet to look at Sparky.  Guess what??  Couldn’t find any signs of anything wrong, they walked him up and down the isle to see what was happening and he walked fine.  Seventy five dollars for that but the Vet stuck his finger up Sparky’s “you know what” and I think that was the incentive for Sparky to get better so he wouldn’t do that again…. Teach you a good lesson Sparky, we will threaten to take you to see the finger doctor if you don’t shape up!!!

So, we got home about 11PM and Sparky was feeling pretty good and I was ready for bed.  Hopefully he will feel better tomorrow.  Night Y’all….

Friday May 20th 2011

I think we are going to have a pretty nice day today!  The sun is shining and it is going to get warm.  We could use a little warm weather.  I took another picture of the fields and they are drying up…

The field on the other side of this corn field is dry now but before it looked like a lake!  Lots of farmers have to replant because of the flooding.

Well I have a big decision this morning….should I work on the chain saw or make some bread???? Think I will make some bread..

I forgot one ingredient but the bread still tastes good.  I forgot the milk.  I had it out sitting right next to the bowl, figure…

Well, I still have some time so I guess I will work on the chain saw…

OK I recognize the screw driver wonder what the rest of this mess is?  I got it put back together and then had to take it apart again, didn’t have some pieces in the right place.  It still doesn’t run and I can’t figure out how to the the gas tank off.  The place with the hole and string coming out of it is the gas tank.  I think I will take it to someone who knows what they are doing and let them fix it.  Daniel says he knows someone, but if it is to expensive I think that I will just leave it and some day when I’m bored I will take the whole thing apart and see what makes it tick, or not tick..

Linda’s flowers from Brenna still look nice…

Well they are getting pretty old and they have lasted a long time.  I was surprised!  We bought some bulbs to plant, all we have to do is find a place to plant them.

Work went pretty good this afternoon. Didn’t get much business so tomorrow I think I will take a book to read, maybe that will make the time go faster.

We had a quiet night at home, watched some TV and played with Sparky until he was ready for bed and I was also ready for bed. Think we will call it a day….Night Y’all…

Thursday May 19th 2011

Looks like rain today in fact it has sprinkled a little already.  It is a little cool this morning, not bad, but cool.

I go in to work at 9AM this morning, wonder what I will be doing???  We have the park to mow yet, it doesn’t look to bad but some of the sites towards the South end are growing pretty fast, that is where the good ground is.  The trees we planted down there about six years ago are really growing fast, looks to me like some are around twenty feet tall!  The ones up at the North end in the rocks and sand are about 12 feet tall and kind of spindly.  For Pin Oaks they look pretty good.

Well, I got the job of putting the shroud back on the golf cart (motor). The shroud was hard to get off and hopefully it won’t be that hard to put back on.  Wrong.  I spent almost three hours trying to get it back on.  Tiny spaces and big hands don’t work.  I dropped bolts and washers so many times, and they don’t fall down on the floor, they fall in a little spot that is like a small box, full of greasy dirt, and it terrible hard to get them out.  Finally got it back together and have one bolt left over.  NOOOOOO! I can’t see a spot where it goes and it took Mark awhile to find it and guess what???  I had to take it apart again.  Oh me!  Finally got it done and running at noon.

This afternoon I am mowing.  I got most of the sites done before Grant got out of school.  He is going to use the push mower!!  I am finishing the front of the park and the other sites that I can mow with the rider.  I finished about 4:30 and decided to do some weed eating before going home.  I noticed that where I sprayed Roundup last week, it doesn’t look to bad!  Now I have to wait another week to see how the job went that I did yesterday.  Takes awhile to see the results.

Well, when I got home I decided to try to fix the “new” chain saw. Not a good idea, just like the golf cart, tiny spaces and big hands don’t go well together.  I got it torn apart!  Now I can’t get it back together.  Maybe tomorrow I will try again, it was very frustrating.

Going to be a nice quiet night tonight, I am tired and kind of sore, probably won’t take anything though.  Maybe a good nights sleep will see my through the aches and pains…Night Y’all…

Wednesday May 18th 2011

It is beautiful out this morning, the sun is shining and it is pretty cool but it is supposed to warm up to about 70 today.  Sure hope so. We could use some nice warm weather.

I go into work at 9AM today and will probably be mowing.  I sprayed a little Roundup this morning in a couple of places, want to see if it is actually Roundup.  Got to work and the wind isn’t blowing very hard so I guess I will spray Roundup in some of the places I missed the last time.  I think it will probably take a month or more to get it all, especially the places that I miss.  It takes about a week for the weeds and grass to change color so you know what has been sprayed.

After spraying for about an hour and getting a lot of missed spots I started mowing again and I mowed until 4PM when Grant was going to take over but I had most of it done already so he used the weed eater and I went to spraying Roundup again.  I will have to wait a week or two now before I can see where I missed.  I know I skipped some places because the people in the campers have dogs and I didn’t want to spray while the were there. It was 5:30PM when I finished and decided to go home, got my eight hours in so it is time to quit.

Daniel got another mower, the one from his Dad so I thought I would try it out to see how it does on my lawn.  I think it will take a little while to get used to it.  It has a hydrostat transmission that is hand controlled which is hard to get used to.  Mine I have to shift from forward to reverse but speed is controlled by foot.  At work the mower is all controlled by foot, that is what I prefer but guess I can learn something new!!   The mower actually worked great.  It has a steering knob on it and that is hard to get used to. The bolts that hold it on really scrape my fingers.  The mower works great though and I think it is going to be a keeper until we get a brand new one.

Linda fixed a big pot of chili for supper and it is “hot”.  Cleans out the sinuses that’s for sure.  Not much going on tonight, Daniel was heading for church and it has been so long since I’ve gone to Wednesday night services I had forgotten about it completely.  I don’t smell very good and look worse so not a good time to be going to church I guess.

Well, that is about it for today, have a great night Y’all….

Tuesday May 17th 2011

Today I have to go back to the dentist, she wants to make sure my tooth isn’t growing back I guess.  She did a great job pulling it and I have had no problems since.  She gave me an OK!  She wants me to continue with the anti biotic until it is gone.  She thinks I still have an infection.  It doesn’t hurt which I am glad about.

I stopped and got a few groceries on the way home.  Linda didn’t come with me, she is still tired from the trip.

My neighbor brought home another riding lawn mower.  This was his Dad’s mower and it is a two cylinder with three blades.  I drove it just a little and mowed just a little and I think I am going to like it.  It is a little loud and could use a new muffler but other than that it seems like a keeper.

Work this afternoon.  I will work the office today.  I think things are getting slower.  In fact I thought that we wouldn’t even get a camper in today.  Went for a long time before the first one came in and only ended up with five for the day.  Mark’s worried that with the price of gas so high the bottom will just fall out of the camping.  He could be right, I know I don’t want to drive my camper anywhere, it is just to expensive to go any distance.  The day kind of drug by and at closing time the last one came in. Had all the book work done already but won’t be hard to change.  Seems funny though that when it’s time for me to leave people want to stand and talk!!! I got out of the office at 7:15PM which wasn’t to bad, all in all I had a pretty good day.

By the time I get home there isn’t time to do much of anything.  I used the hoe in the garden for a little while (very little), but broke up some of the dirt. To early yet for the weeds.  Next week maybe.  None of the plants (seeds) have come up yet and one of the tomato plants died, probably have to bury it tomorrow.

TV tonight should be pretty good, season finale for “Chuck” and “The Event” will only have one more show I think.  Maybe Chuck was last night, it had a great ending but left a door open in case they come back again.

Went to bed after the weather, supposed to be nice tomorrow so I will mow the lawn when I get home.  I only take a half hour for lunch so I get off at 5:30PM which gives me plenty of time to mow.

OK, enough for now,,,,night Y’all….

Monday May 16th 2011

Time to head back “home” to Sikeston.  This has been an excellent weekend!  We visited more people than we even hoped for!  All my family came to lunch in Franklin Grove and we had a great visit. We got to see people at Harvest Time that we hadn’t seen in a long time and they always ask if we were back to stay for good.  Well, we are home in Sikeston now so unless the Lord intervenes we won’t be back to stay".  We sure miss all our friends back in Illinois and the church.

We got on the road about 8:30AM…really early for us!  It is very cool this morning with a North wind which is kind of good, it helps us while we are driving south.  I had filled up with gas at Wal Mart in Dixon and we drove all the way home and then back to Sikeston before filling up!  I was very happy, we averaged over 42 MPG on the way home.  I think our average for the whole trip was probably about 38-39MPG.  Took 10 gallons to fill up with almost 430 miles since the last fill up.

We got the car unloaded and tried to get things back to normal (?) before taking it easy for the night.  Linda is really tired.  She has been falling asleep almost since we left Rock Falls!  Tonight is no different.  Will be nice to sleep in our own bed again.

Sparky did very good at the vet’s.  He acted like he wanted to go back to the kennel again!!  Glad he did good.  Won’t be so bad leaving him again.

Guess that is about all for today so adios….Night Y’all..

Sunday May 15th 2011

The sun isn’t shining this morning, at least not here, what I’m trying to say is it is cloudy and raining.  The air is very chilly, I think it is in the forties this morning.

We got ready and went to church at Harvest Time.  We miss the “home” church but I believe that Sikeston is now our home.  It seems funny that when we go to church we spend the first ten minutes saying “hi” to all the people we knew from years ago.  The couple we saw at the “Pizza Ranch” were in church so I got a picture of them.  Kris and his wife.  Now I’m not sure if it is Kris or Chris, think maybe Chris,  I don’t really know…

Can’t understand why he likes the Pizza Ranch so well???  He says he goes there mainly for the chicken which is excellent.

We have to go to Franklin Grove to see my brothers and my sister and I just happen to have a picture!!

This is a very small restaurant and the waitress took our picture.  We should have stood on the other side, the light from the windows doesn’t help any.  I was very surprised though that all of them made it.  We don’t get together all that often.  From left to right, Ed and Lorena, Fred and Joan, Sr Margaret Anne (Betty), Dennis and Joan, Sr Lois Anne and Linda and me.  Sr Lois Anne and my sister live together in Rockford IL.  They have a convent up there.

From the restaurant we went to see Marian. Well, we got to see our step sister Jean Louise from San Francisco, who came back to see her mother and spend a little time with her….

Marian isn’t a happy camper.  She is so used to doing everything for herself and now she can’t do much of anything.  It is sad because she was so active.  I have a picture of Marian and her sister Betty…

We actually had a very nice visit with everyone.  Marian was really tired and I think she just wanted to go to bed and rest.  She had so much company that I think it was very tiring for her.

Well, we had time to “crash” a birthday party for Frank.  We have gotten together with Frank and Maggie quite a few times down in the Valley.  He had some heart problems this year and couldn’t go to Florida with Dave and Judy, their daughter.  Had to stay at home in the house because it was so cold he couldn’t go outside…

Seventy Five today!!  Happy Birthday Frank!!

They had music there also and a lot of it was impromptu from band members etc.  Dalmus and I even got to sing a song together which was kind of sad, his brother Cloyd and Cloyd’s son, Dalmus and I sang in a quartet and Cloyd passed away quite a few years back and it just brought back memories for Dalmus..

Dalmus and I singing I’ll Fly Away, one of our first quartet songs.  On the guitar and Bass are Don and Marilyn, good friends, and on the guitar in the left of us is Maggie’s brother and the young fella in the yellow shirt is Jerry.

I also have a picture of Maggie singing and I think this is the first time I’ve heard her sing!!

Maggie is Frank’s wife and a very neat lady and good singer.  On the guitar in the back is Les and I don’t usually put last names but his is Pastor Les Funderburg.  He is a great musician and singer.  I kind of envy people that can remember words to songs because I have to go over songs everyday after I learn them to keep them in the old noggin!  This singing makes me want to start again.  God gave me a voice and I sure haven’t been using it, need to change that.

After leaving the birthday party I took Linda to Marilyn’s for another visit and I went to church to see the children’s program.  Kids have the greatest memories!!  They don’t need books they can remember the words to most of the songs!!

After church I went back to pick Linda up and then went back to the Rock Falls Motel, which used to be the Ramada then the Holiday Inn.  Hope they can keep this name for awhile, it is a pretty nice motel and cheaper than the Super 8!!!  Anyway, I’m tired and I need to get some sleep.  Tomorrow is going to be another long day..Night Y’all…

Saturday May 14th 2011

It is a dark dreary morning here in Rock Falls.  We hit Illinois at just the right time.  The first of the week was in the 90s and now it is struggling to get into the 50s.  Guess it could be worse, we have hit blizzards here before and now it is just cold and rainy.

We had to stop at Wal Mart and get a couple pillows.  The pillows here at the  motel are just to big and solid.  I need one that is soft and cuddly. We also got some popcorn chicken there for our lunch on the drive to Dixon to see Marian.  We think she is still in the hospital.  They have really changed KSB hospital!  Took us awhile just to find the parking lot then the short walk to the entrance was a little different also.  We made it!  Marian is still in the hospital but we made it at the right time because she was being released to go back to Franklin Grove to the nursing home.  We got to talk to her for awhile and pray with her.  She really doesn’t look well, I think she is depressed because she has always been able to do for herself and now she can’t do much.

We were there probably a half hour when they came to get her.  Glad we got to visit.

On the way back we had time so we stopped to see Mike and Cindy. Cindy is off her pain medicine and really looks a lot better than she did the last time we saw her.  We had a pretty good visit and Mike was at a movie with the boys, Marc and Gabe, so we only got to see him for a few minutes before we had to leave for Morrison to see Tim and Connie.

We got to Morrison about 4:30PM, rained most of the way.  Tim had just gotten home and we decided to go to the Pizza Ranch in Clinton IA.  We like that place, good food and plenty of it…

This place is really popular! We waited in line for about fifteen minutes before we got up to pay then a few more minutes before being seated.  Their pizza is good but their fried chicken is really good!  We ate our fill that is for sure.  We saw Kris and his family there, that is Kathy and Loyd’s son.  He is a big fellow.  He really likes Pizza Ranch.  Guess I should have taken their picture.

We went back to Tim and Connie’s place and visited for about an hour or so and I showed Connie how to get our blog on their computer.  Showed them pictures of Sparky and our place in Missouri.  I think it is just incredible that I can use their computer to show them our pictures, of course anyone can see them but I still think it is amazing!

We got back to the motel and it is almost bedtime.  We put pillow cases on our new pillows and tried them out.  They are nice and comfortable so I think it is time to go to bed….Night Y’all…

Friday May 13th 2011

Friday the 13th!!  It rained last night and it is cloudy and cool out today.  We have a lot of stuff to pack up and Sparky just can’t figure out what is going on.  He gets to go on a vacation today.  We are boarding him for the weekend.  We are heading back to Illinois for the weekend.  Time to reunite with the family, it has been about seven months since we have been back.  I really don’t like the drive.  It takes seven hours and by the time we get there we are both kind of tired but we did go out to eat and had a great meal at Angelo’ Pizzeria.

I think the last time we were here we ate here also.  We really like Angelo’s they have excellent food and actually these are sandwiches.  Linda has an Italian Hamburger and I have a sub sandwich.  The hamburger is a lot better.  The whole meal was under ten dollars, not including tip.

On the way up here we stopped at a little rest area and I had to take a picture of a wind turbine.  I think this is the closest I have ever been to a wind turbine….

The turbine is still probably a quarter mile away.

We had a pretty decent trip up here, no traffic jams etc.  Hit a little rain but not bad.

We went to see Linda’s sister Marilyn and visit with her.  We will get together with Linda’s other sister, Connie, tomorrow and will probably go see my step Mother, Marian tomorrow also.  There are lots of people we want to see but a very short time to do it.

Time to watch a little TV and then go to bed.  Night Y’all….

Thursday May 12th 2011

Another beautiful day, it is nice and cool out but will probably get pretty warm.  I go into work again at 9AM today.

The wind is blowing pretty hard so I won’t spray any more Roundup today, just mow.  Mark wants the sites mowed so it will be done, there is still rain in the forecast.

I mowed until Grant go out of school at 3:30PM then I turned the rider over to Grant and he didn’t have a lot to do so I asked if he wanted to use the push mower…..no thank you….HMMMM, guess he has soccer practice tonight.  I finished up the park with the push mower.  Got done around 5PM and decided to walk on over to Ag Mart to get some oil for the weed eater. I got the gas and oil mixed up but by the time I got cleaned up it was time to go home.  Maybe next time.

Well, I still have green peppers and ???? well, I just drew a blank.  I know I planted two things, I will remember soon,  oh, it was zucchini squash.  I planted those two rows and still have quite a bit of room left in the garden. Not sure what else I will plant, one of the twins, Keaton I think, came over and was talking to me and suggested subtly that I make some more cinnamon rolls.  Then he suggested I make some pizza with the cinnamon roll dough.  He got onto the subject of pizza when he asked if I could grow mushrooms.  I told him one of these days I will make both and make sure he gets some.  He is funny, for the twins birthday, they had a sleep over, not sure how many kids there were but I made a whole pan of cinnamon rolls and took over and I asked him about them and he said he didn’t get any that his dad ate the WHOLE thing!!  Imagine that.  He said next time I need to bring them over in a box with a lock and to give HIM the key!!  Oh well, he is a character.

I watered the garden  with the garden hose for a little bit then went inside to take it easy for the night.  I was really tired today, that push mower is really hard to use for a couple of hours.  I was really thirsty tonight.  Think I may have gotten a little dehydrated.  I sure drank a lot of water.  It rained tonight.  Got about a half inch of rain, perfect for the garden!

Anyway, I am taking it easy tonight, we have a really big day tomorrow. Night Y’all….

Wednesday May 11th 2011

Today I go into work at 9AM so won’t have much time this morning to do anything.  It is already a beautiful day and hopefully it will stay that way.

At work Mark had me spray Roundup.  The grass and weeds are really growing fast.  The wind blows so much here that we seldom have a day without wind.  Today the wind is really light so it is roundup time.  Mark showed me all the places he wanted sprayed and the sites, which have weeds and grass growing up in them, need to be sprayed so that the sites are somewhat straight.  The golf cart is set up with a tank that holds about twenty five gallons and I ended up filling it up three times.  I am anxious to see what I did.  It takes about a week to see the results.  About 11AM the wind picked up enough that I figured I better quit spraying and do some mowing.  I mowed until Grant got back from school and I started spraying Roundup again over in the mobile home park.  I didn’t get it finished but I did a lot.  By the time I finished over there it was about time to head home.

When I got home I figured I better mow the lawn because there is rain in the forecast and it is looking kind of shaggy even though it has only been four days since I mowed.  The fertilizer must be doing it’s thing.

After I mowed I got the tiller out and tilled the garden again and planted a row of Okra, a row of green beans and a row of sweet corn.  I had to stop, it was dark and the mosquitos and bugs were trying to carry me away.  I didn’t even get to cover the last row and mark the row.  Going to have to wait until morning.

May not seem like much but I am really tired and I think it is about time to go to bed…Night Y’all….

Tuesday May 10th 2011

OK, it is going to be sunny and kind of hot today.  That is good!  We have had enough rain for a little while.  The flood waters are drying up quite fast now that it is sunny, windy and hot!

My tooth feels great today, no problem, still kind of careful about brushing my teeth and what I eat.  Linda fixed me some soup for lunch and I put some oyster crackers in it and, well, they get kind of soggy so they aren’t hard to eat.

I have so much I want to do this morning, I just don’t know where to start. The garden has to be planted and I wanted to work on the wood pile.  Well, garden first.  I got the tiller out and tilled up some of the garden and planted ten tomato plants and four jalapeno plants.  We bought an “Heirloom” tomato plant that our daughter, Kim, said was the best she had ever eaten so we are planting one.  It needed a little water I think, looks a little droopy. I got them all planted and then split one big piece of wood that about wore me out, hardest splitting wood I have ever split! Got all my wedges stuck again but I finally got it. The fire is still burning so guess maybe it may all burn up, hopefully.  Not much left of the wood pile!

Work this afternoon wasn’t to bad.  Had something happen I never had happen before.  There were a group of nine “big” rigs coming in and when the first two got there they paid for the whole group and they said they would park them and have them fill out the registration forms.  I had the spots marked already so I said “OK”.  That was the easiest nine rigs I ever checked in and parked, well, I didn’t park them.  Very nice people but they really wanted a place, meeting room, to have their “happy hour”.  We don’t have one unless they give us a really long prior notice.  I guess they weren’t to upset.

Another end to a beautiful day, Linda fixed spaghetti, which I had requested, for supper.  It was really good.  I had eaten some crackers at work and that didn’t bother me at all.  Guess I am healing nicely.

Well, I am still behind on writing my blog and I haven’t even checked my emails.  Time sure is flying by fast!!  Night Y’all…

Monday May 9th 2011

Today is the day!!  I’m not looking forward to getting my tooth pulled but I guess it is better than getting stepped on by an elephant!

I went in to the dentist by myself, I always get nervous when they start sticking me with needles.  Not real fond of getting shots, well, not fond of getting teeth pulled either but she did it…

I had Erin, which I think I put her name in earlier as Amanda, took the picture of me and my tooth.   I didn’t know Dr. Elizabeth was behind me but I just want to say that this was probably the easiest tooth to come out I have ever had extracted.  Starting at the beginning, she still wanted me to go to an oral surgeon and I didn’t want to do that.  She put medicine in my mouth, not sure what kind, but then she started pushing on my tooth trying to see if it hurt me, which to her surprise, it didn’t.  Then she started with the nova Caine (sp) shots which I didn’t feel any of them but I knew she was doing it because she kept jiggling my cheek to get all the stuff in there.  It didn’t hurt at all but I was sure nervous.  I think it all took about a half hour to deaden the nerves or what ever you call it, then she said she was going to be putting some pressure on it, then she said it’s done!!  Didn’t even know she was pulling!  Well, she finally told me why she didn’t want to pull it, seems she had a lady that had the same problem I did and she wouldn’t to  the oral surgeon either.  Guess she cried through the whole extraction it hurt so bad.  Thank the Lord this didn’t hurt at all.

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Well, this kind of ruined the rest of the day, she said I needed to take it easy and not do anything, especially anything strenuous. So I couldn’t till the garden, Jim returned my tiller and it is in running condition.  Can’t split wood, can’t lift the big pieces to put on the fire so I carried some from the pile and put on the fire to keep it burning.  Took it easy the rest of the day and all I ate today was a container of cottage cheese and a yogurt.  I was full!

Well, so much for Monday. Oh, the weather has been sunny, hot and beautiful!  Drying up the water and getting back to normal.  The bugs are terrible though.  Little flies that bite like crazy!  Gnats that like to fly into your ears and eyes, just very annoying.

Time to call it a day…Night Y’all….

Sunday May 8th 2011

Well, I know I went to church this morning. I am enjoying the church.  Guess that I would probably join this church.  Will wait for awhile before joining though, want to be certain.

Today is going to be a relaxing day, tomorrow I go in to have one of my teeth pulled.  Dr. Elizabeth really doesn’t want to do it and I’m not sure why.

I sat out in the yard today with Sparky.  We watched the fire burn and I may have dozed a little…

For some reason Sparky thinks that when I sit in a lawn chair outside his place is in my lap.  We spent a couple hours out there watching the fire burn and smolder.  Guess he enjoyed it also.

Went back to church tonight, almost missed it.  It was almost time for church to start when I came back in the house.  Guess I need to start wearing my watch.

We had a nice quiet evening, nothing exciting happened so guess I will stop with this one…I’m getting caught up!!!  Night Y’all…

Saturday May 7th 2011

WOW!! I sure have been procrastinating!!!  Actually this is Wednesday so I haven’t posted my blog for five days, give or take…  Now I have to try to remember what happened today.  I know I went to work this afternoon but what I did this morning  not real sure about that.  I did take a picture of the neighbor boy Jackson.  He is about three years old, maybe four and he is a character.  He befriended Linda first, he wasn’t real sure about me but now he is very neighborly!

He is really a cute kid, likes to visit.  He likes Linda and he comes over to visit with her so she gives him little treats like crackers, iced tea etc.  I think his parents have a hard time keeping track of him because he likes to go visit.

I got a picture of the fields, they look a little different, they aren’t flooded anymore but look kind of like mud!

The field in the background is still pretty muddy but the front field still looks good, it didn’t really flood.

Well, work went well, the books at the end of the day have come out perfect which for me is amazing.  I get a little careless and make mistakes which takes a lot of time trying to figure out where I made the mistake.

I’m going to close this blog and get ready to write tomorrows…Night Y’all..

Friday May 6th 2011

 

Well, this morning I get to go to the dentist.  Elizabeth Priggel is her name. I’ve been to her before, actually for the same tooth about two years ago. I wanted it pulled then but she said that it was OK and I just needed an anti biotic to  get rid of the infection.  Well, same tooth and it is hurting, not bad but hurting.  I have taken the anti biotic she prescribed and feel great now. I wonder if she likes pulling teeth??? This is Dr Priggel..

 

She didn’t really want me to take her picture especially after I told her I was going to put it in my blog.  Oops… To late…

This is Amanda her assistant.

They are very nice but Dr Priggel sure doesn’t seem like she wants to pull my tooth.  She wants me to go to an oral surgeon and I asked what he would do different and she said maybe put me to sleep and I said no thank you.  I will let you do it.  Have an appointment for Monday morning.

Spring is here and I have seen this little bird twice now.  I sure doesn’t move very much…

It is kind of a cute little bird, not sure what kind it is but I think it is just getting used to life on the outside!

Well, to work today. The rush season is over and things have quieted down. It wasn’t all that bad anyway but it is slow now.

The water is starting to recede and I saw a dove with an olive branch in its mouth!!   Not really, just kidding but the water is receding quite nicely.  If I had plants I could probably plant my garden.  I don’t have my tiller either. Oh well, maybe next week.

When I got home from work I had supper with Linda and then figured it was time to start a fire.  Have lots of wood to burn…

Not a real good picture but it is burning, not like I would like it, but it is burning.  I spent a couple hours out here loading up the wood as high as I could get it.  Hope it is still burning in the morning….I’m tired to guess I will go to bed…..Night Y’all…

Thursday May 5th 2011

Here comes another beautiful day, a little cool again but the sun is shining and I think it may get warmer.

Today at work I am mowing again.  I will mow all the RV sites (58) and around the outside of the campground.  This is a pretty good job, all the picnic tables have to be moved so I don’t get tired of sitting.  Well, I couldn’t mow all 58 sites the last seven sites are still to wet to mow.  Maybe next week.  Eight of the sites I mow with a push mower.  Takes a lot of energy to do that.  Got done pretty early so I thought that I would try to weed eat the sites I didn’t get last time besides I still have an hour and a half before quitting time.  The weeds and grass are so wet it sure makes a mess of my pants and boots.  Guess that will be OK until we can spray “Roundup”.  A lot of places we can’t weed eat because of the fence being white and the grass green and the green stains the white so Roundup is the answer in those areas.  The wind has been blowing to hard to spray though.  Makes a mess when the wind blows the spray where you don’t want it.

Linda fixed pork burgers last night, excellent, and tonight hamburgers, very good but I think I like the pork burgers better.

Got my new computer today, spent about two hours getting it set up and trying to download Skype, that has to be the hardest program to download that I’ve ever tried downloading!  It was almost bed time before I finished.  I did get to talk to Bren, and Linda thanked her for the flowers she sent her for mother’s day.  I will take a picture of them…

I have no idea what kind they are but they sure are pretty.  I will take more pictures when they open up…..Night Y’all…

Wednesday May 4th 2011

The sun is shining and a little cool but it is going to be a gorgeous day!  I go into work at 9AM this morning and supposedly will be mowing.  Not sure because it is still very wet.

Well, I am mowing and I am mowing the spots I can get through without sinking in.  Well, I tried to anyway, I got stuck in the mud twice!  First time wasn’t to bad but the second time I had to go get a 2x4 and kind of lift the tractor out.  The front end sank up to the axle and the rear just spins so I had to pry and lift and try to move it out of the muck and mire.  I got it but it took about an hour of prying to get it out.  I moved on to dryer areas, most are still pretty wet but I did get a lot mowed.  When Grant got there he didn’t have a lot left to do but he mowed for awhile.

Got this picture of one of the chicks up on the bar.  First time I’ve seen one up there.  They are growing fast!  He hasn’t built a coup for them yet, he keeps saying he has to get one built!

Well, not a lot going on tonight, I am dirty and tired so will take it easy.  Got a picture of the sunset.  Thought it looked very pretty…

Looks nice, kind of like an ocean or lake sunset, to bad it is flooded farm land.

Good night Y’all….

OK my computer isn’t scrolling so if I made some mistakes in what I’ve written I can’t read it to see what I’ve done wrong….

Tuesday May 3rd 2011

Well, it is still cloudy but not raining and looks like over in the West that it may be clearing off!!  Sure hope so, we could use a little sunshine to pick up our spirits.

The longer the day rolls on the more blue sky we see and the sun has even peaked out a couple of times.  The wind is still blowing out of the North and it is pretty chilly but may warm up somewhat today. 

I go into work today at 1PM and I haven’t really done much of anything this morning except Linda gave me a haircut, not like the last one, but a really nice one.  She didn’t make any mistakes this time, well, not that I can see anyway and that’s what counts right???

Work will probably be pretty easy today, the exit ramp on I55 Northbound is closed, flooded, and will probably discourage a lot of people from stopping.  I know that I had to go a couple of miles out of the way to get to work.

I had checked out the price of cement for a shed or garage for the camper. I don’t think I will be cementing the floor.  I figured it would take about sixty four yards of cement and at about $90 a yard I think I may gravel it or maybe keep it as a garden!!  I do need a spot to park the camper though and may changed my mind this Fall.

Not a lot going on tonight, had a good supper and going to relax and take it easy.  My computer is kind of giving me fits, not sure if I’m touching a wrong key or what buy in the middle of a sentence it goes somewhere else then I have to correct the mistakes.   I have ordered a new computer so maybe this one is getting even.  The new one will be used mainly for Skype and this will still be used for everything else. Sound like a plan?  Well hopefully everything will work out OK…Night Y’all…

Monday May 2ns 2011

Guess I don’t have to say it, it has rained most of the night and is still raining, not hard right now but raining.  It is very cool with the wind out of the North about ten MPH.  I thought about going out to the garage to straighten things up a bit but when I went out it was just a little to chilly and Sparky didn’t really want to be out there.  The roof hasn’t leaked yet and I guess this has been a pretty good test, we’ve had about six inches of rain since I fixed it.  There is a little leak, just a few drops, just enough to make a little wet spot, better than before though.

I decided as long as I couldn’t go outside I may as well bake some bread. I was getting hungry for regular white bread…

They turned out pretty good.  We tried a slice, and that ended up being our lunch, well, we had two slices.  I sure like home made bread!  To bad it isn’t very good for you.

We didn’t do anything the rest of the day, it just rained all day, then rained some more. 

On the news tonight they decided to blow a levee to relieve the pressure on some other spots around Cairo IL and Wycliffe KY.  They were supposed to do it between 10PM and Midnight.  We were watching the news and they had the camera at the spot where it was supposed to go and with no announcement it went.  I think they said they were going to use nine thousand pounds of explosives!  About a minute later our trailer started shaking and the noise hit us.  It was louder here than on the TV and we are about 20 – 25 miles away!!  Couldn’t tell it it did the job but with that kind of explosion it must have done the job, maybe that is what an earthquake feels like.  I was amazed at the shaking it did here.

I figured that I would be shaken awake during the second one sometime in the early morning hours but I slept through the night.  Guess I’m getting a little ahead of myself.  Guess that is about all for now, Night Y’all…