Saturday October 29th 2011

Well, Linda gave me a haircut!!!  I had to take a picture, actually Linda took the pictures, before and after..

I’m not real sure why but Sparky gets in my lap as soon as I sit down. He doesn’t on the sofa or at the kitchen table, just when the chair is out in the middle or even outside.  As soon as one of us sits he gets in our lap!

Here is the after picture..

Not sure why but Sparky is still in my lap and he was there all during the haircut!  Weird dog!  I don’t know if anyone noticed but I’m sporting a mustache.  I started it about three or four weeks ago.  Not sure I like it but it is filling out and I may keep it for awhile.

I went into work this afternoon and it was quite a day.  Seems like when things happen they happen in spurts.  At the end of the shift a person complained of low water pressure.  I checked it and sure enough the pressure is low, well, the faucet is broke.  I got a little more pressure but couldn’t get it shut off.  I am going to leave it because it is 7PM and I haven’t even started to close the office yet.  I am going to be late.  Of course this is the night the books don’t balance, I found one mistake and am pretty sure of the other but I will let Mark figure it out.

Sparky is taking it easy and I think he thinks he is cute!

Doesn’t he look prissy?

Not much going on tonight, and being late getting home it is already time to turn in…Night Y’all…

Friday October 28th 2011

I think I’ve decided to go in early today to try to get the mowing done and hopefully all the staining that is left.  It is pretty cool this morning and cloudy and the wind in blowing a little so I know that it will be cool on the lawn mower.  Yes, I was right.  I almost froze mowing.  The sun didn’t come out and the wind kept blowing and I didn’t put my coat on so all I had on was my hoodie and it didn’t keep all the wind out but it could have been worse. I finished mowing about 10:30 I guess but before I started  had to go get gasoline. which took a little while.  Got $110 worth of gas.  Should last awhile.

When I started staining there were a lot more boards than I remembered.  I figured about sixty and I think there were about one hundred and twenty!  I didn’t get them all done, I still have about thirty to do yet.  What a bummer. Mark said I still have Russell Street to mow so maybe Monday I will come in and finish the staining and do Russell Street, maybe,but things have to work out right.

Mark said that yesterday Bits got in twenty one campers, that is a good day, I told Mark I hope that she didn’t get them all yesterday, I haven’t had any yet and I’ve been here a couple of hours!  Turns out I got nine, not near what she had yesterday but I can’t do anything about that.

I took a picture of a plant, one of the variety mix that I bought for a dollar…

I have no idea what kind of plant this is or if it will have flowers.  Hope it isn’t a marijuana plant…

Before Mark and Kim left they gave me another dozen eggs.  I took a picture of them and the color doesn’t do it justice….

Eleven brown and one green egg!  All we need now is some ham. Those are from the chicks he bought this summer…

This picture was from May when they started getting around a little better but they are laying a lot of eggs now!  Farm Fresh Eggs…

Got home tonight on time and Linda fixed egg salad so we had sandwiches for  our supper.  Very good  Didn’t use the green egg though.  Think we will save that and fix it with ham!!!

About 9PM I remembered I needed a haircut!  Linda said it was to late and maybe tomorrow morning she would cut my hair.  It is getting pretty shaggy and I really need one, hate to since it is cold out though.

Time to say….Night Y’all…

Thursday October 27th 2011

Today, actually this morning we go to see the Doctor for his explanation of our blood work.  Our appointment was at 8:30AM so we got there in plenty of time.  Well, he said we both have kind of high cholesterol and that he was going to prescribe medicine for it.  I told him about the little spell I had with my heart last week, nothing serious I guess but was a little scary when my heart was pounding for about five minutes.  It has pounded before but not that long.  They gave me and EKG and everything looked quite normal.  That is good!

We went to Randy’s RX for the prescriptions.  Well, they were expensive for Linda, even with the insurance, so we called the Doctor back so he could change a few things around.  After we paid for the medicine we went out to the car and she opened the bag and looked at all the bottles and we couldn’t figure out what all they were for.  Two of the bottles looked like aspirin!  So we went back in and asked about it.  He gave us a prescription for aspirin!  We’ve been taking aspirin for years!  We did get it straightened out though at least that part. 

Linda called back to the Doctor this afternoon to see what was going on with the other part of the prescription and they finally called in one that she could take.  Back to town again!  This one wasn’t nearly as expensive as the other in fact she got two for three months for less than the one for one month.  I’m not cheap I just don’t like to spend money where it doesn’t have to be spent, usually.  Won’t go into that any further.  I’ve made lots of mistakes!

I decided to make bread this evening.  Something a little different.  I had some bacon pieces left and some sour cream and some parmesan  cheese  so I decided to incorporate that into some bread.  That isn’t all I used though, to make it healthy I used oatmeal and whole wheat flour.  It was different!  Tastes pretty good but will wait until tomorrow to toast some and see what it is like toasted.  Hopefully it will be good.

I called a campground in Mississippi to check on the availability.  The lady that answered the phone didn’t know much about the campground so I asked if she was just recently hired and she said no that she had been there for quite awhile.  Funny, she didn’t know anything about the campground!  Every question I asked she had to ask someone else. She didn’t know the rates, didn’t know how far they were from a city but she did know that they had a swimming pool!  Wonder is she was blond?  No,  I take that back, that wasn’t nice at all..

The other call we made was to Rick and Connie, they are doing well, and I was wondering if Rick knew anything about the campground.  He didn’t but said if they were up that way he would swing by to check it out.  It is about twenty five miles from where they live so with what we would save, and the drive we would have to make, it would be better to stay in the campground that we know in Picayune.

OK time to go to bed, I may go into work early tomorrow, not sure yet, it is not supposed to rain but be very cool.  I could finish mowing tomorrow then wouldn’t have to worry about when I would get it done.  I have that staining to do also but not sure I would have enough time tomorrow with the mowing.  Well, it’s time to say….Night Y’all…

Wednesday October 26th 2011

October 26th already, this month is really going by fast.  I think I’ve said that before.  I’ve heard that the older you get the faster the time goes by and I have to believe it.  The neighbor boys weren’t in school yesterday and today they are in the fourth grade!!  We saw their names in the paper.  They were both on the Honor Roll!  Keaton and Wesley are quite the kids. Landon is to but I think he is into girls now, not sure if that is the reason. His Dad said he forgets to turn in his homework!  He definitely can get on the honor roll, guess he has been there quite often.

I have the day off today and I decided to work a little more on the dog house.  I put some carpeting on the floor and sealed some of the cracks.  It doesn’t leak and I put a little cover over the door to keep some of the wind and cold out.  They do use it, sometimes.

I also decided to stain, or seal the wood for the pump house.  I’m using OSB board for the shell and I wanted to put something on it to help keep the moisture out. I bought a gallon of sealant from Lowe’s and figured today was as good as any day!  It doesn’t look to bad on the OSB but on the treated lumber it doesn’t look good at all.  It has a Redwood color.  We won’t be able to see it anyway, the outside will be covered with steel and the inside with insulation.  Hopefully it will keep the boards from deteriorating quite so fast.

We went into town and did some shopping, not sure what for but we spent some money, I think a lot went for groceries which is kind of bad because we will be leaving for awhile and have a freezer full of frozen stuff that we can’t take with us, oh well, maybe we won’t have to buy groceries for the next month, you think???

Tonight is church night.  I almost forgot, so I got ready and headed into town.  I was going to ask Omalene  if I could sing a song with her and maybe Jane.  They sang one a while back called “What a Day that will be” and that is one of my favorites!  I have lots of favorites though.  Back to the story, when I got to church, Omalene and her husband got there at the same time so I asked here and she was very receptive to the idea and she asked if I would do a reading.  Sure!  I went over to their house after church and the reading is “The Old Apple Tree”.  Reminds me of the song “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree”  only this isn’t a song but has kind of the same theme.  Good reading, I think we will do it Sunday for the Fifth Sunday Sing.

Well, got home kind of late and Linda was on the phone talking to her sister who is supposed to get out of the hospital soon.  After all that surgery I would think she would be pretty sore but the prognosis sounds a lot better than before.  Time will tell…

Time to say Night Y’all…

Tuesday October 25th 2011

I decided to go into work this morning and do some more mowing.  I think if all goes right I will be able to do half of the mobile home park.  I got started on time and the weather was really nice for mowing.  The wind was a little strong but it was nice and cool so I wore my sweater the whole time.

I quit mowing about 12:30PM and wanted to dump the trash before opening the office.  After I got that done I went to the office and had to do some checking and posting notices for people that were due for their rent.  All went quite well, I was happy.  After checking in a few campers and doing the bookwork for them I cleaned the bathrooms and watered the flowers.  Whew!  It was almost three in the afternoon when I finally stopped to eat my lunch.  I was getting hungry!

The afternoon went by pretty fast. Had a pretty good day, not real busy but kept all things interesting.  I think I ended up with fourteen.  Doesn’t sound like many but for me that was a good day, not sure if was good for Mark though.

Got out right on time and when I got home Linda had made chicken fajitas!   They were great!  Love fajitas!

Taking it easy tonight, worked ten hours today and I’m ready!!! Night Y’all..

Monday October 24th 2011

The days are sure getting shorter!  I still get up at 6AM but it doesn’t get light until about 7AM and the sun doesn’t come up until 7:15AM give or take a few minutes.

I got a picture of Scruffy in the dog house.  I’m not sure but it doesn’t seem like Scruffy is feeling well…

Maybe he I sad because his owners don’t take care of him and the big black dog, Bud, doesn’t treat his well.  I wonder is they sleep together?  I think it will be good for them this winter when it is cold, rainy, snowy, icy etc.  I’m not done with it yet, still have to put a door on it, well, not a door but something to cover the entrance and fix the inside a little more.  I have some indoor outdoor carpeting I think I may use in it.

I didn’t get a picture of Sheila in here yesterday.  Sheila sang the special music last night at church.  I think she may have been a professional singer, she is really good…

OK back to today….I went to work at 9AM and I know I have to mow the RV Park and the mobile home park.  That takes two days to do.  Got started on time and the mowing went well.  This afternoon I had to stop a couple of time to help Bits with propane and parking.  Then her golf cart ran out of gas (again).   I told Mark that it has a gas leak but he says as long as it runs don’t mess with it!  OK..  My car gets better mileage than the golf cart!

Well, I think I have finished all the mowing in the RV Park and started on the mobile home park.  I will go in early tomorrow and work on it some more but still won’t get it finished.  I will only work about three hours on it tomorrow.

I’m not sure but I think “Bud” likes our new deck, especially the chair!

He does a lot of sleeping in the chair!

Well, tonight is another night to take it easy.  For some reason I have a hard time staying awake to watch TV.  Guess I am relaxed!!  Time to say Night Y’all…..

Sunday October 23rd 2011

Sunday morning, looks like it will be a nice day, cloudy and cool but it is supposed to warm up today, in fact, the next three days are supposed to be very nice, then we are supposed to get cold and rain.  Cold for me is high of 58 or 60 degrees and rain and wind.  Very cold for me.

I got Linda up and we went to church and Sunday School at Fellowship this morning.  Had a good Sunday School lesson and the church service was good too.  Pastor Joe had the special music this morning, his wife Debbie was supposed to sing but she had surgery about 2 weeks ago and still isn’t up to par yet.  He did a good job on a song I’ve heard before but don’t know the name of it.

We sat with Cuma in church, and I sang in the choir.  Cuma is the lady we bought our home from.  Very nice lady.  After church we took her to lunch at the DQ.  We don’t go there very often but she suggested it and it sounded good to us.  She told us that Bonnie, the lady she rides to church with, has cancer.  Guess she is handling it pretty well.  Cuma said that she is taking chemo therapy and radiation.  That part is kind of bad but from what Cuma says it doesn’t sound good for her.

Tonight I went back to church at Fellowship.  Pastor Joe is going through Revelation which is very interesting.  Tonight was on the release of Satan after the thousand years.  Now he brought up some points that I had never thought about.  When Satan is released he gets his army together to fight against Jesus.  The part I never thought about was where is he getting his army???  Jesus is ruling the earth with his saints but Satan’s army is like the sand of the sea.  That sounds like a lot of people to me!  The answer he had was that not all the people were at Armageddon. This is something I don’t understand but I guess it makes sense in a way and some day maybe I will understand….  I hope!

Well, tonight is going to be another TV night.  Check the emails on the phone but not do much of anything else.  Going to work tomorrow mowing grass at the park.  That is a two day job and I will have to figure out how to get the other days work done!  It will all come together…Night Y”all…

Saturday October 22nd 2011

I got a picture this morning, still dark, but a picture, well, two pictures in fact..

I call this dog Scruffy!  Not sure what his name is but he seemed to like it in the “dog house”!! The next picture is Bud, he looks a little different in the dog house….

We know he can get in and out of the dog house now and if it rains it may keep him dry and when I get finished I will have it sealed from the rain and the door will have a double layer of plastic to keep the rain and cold out. They probably won’t stay in it but it’s better than sleeping on the ground I think.

We have gotten a couple dozen eggs from Mark and his chickens and they are very good!  Had bacon and eggs for lunch.

Oh, we did go to town this morning and pick up the protector for the phone. Also went to the dollar tree for a couple of things. We didn’t get any dollars but left a few there!!

Work this afternoon was a little busier than yesterday but they were spread out over the afternoon so it wasn’t hectic at all.  I did have to stay late though because one camper came in just before seven and another just after seven so I had to park them then redo all my bookwork.  Was a little later getting home but not to bad.

I used the phone tonight to check emails etc.  Found out I can do my banking on the phone also.  Wonder if anyone knows what all these phones can do?  I know I will never figure out much, just what I need!

Well, time to call it a day and go to bed…Night Y’all…

Friday October 21st 2011

Back to work this afternoon.  We got rested up from the trip now and feeling pretty good!

I decided to do a little work this morning.  We have “bud” the neighborhood dog running around.  I feel sorry for him, don’t think anyone really wants him so we have been feeding him and I decided to build a little shelter (dog house) for him and the other little dog that belongs to the neighbor.  I have a lot of boards from the old deck that I’m going to use.  I’m not using any plans and like I said these are old boards from the old deck.

Well here is the start.  These are all from the old deck.  Not real good wood but will do I guess.

I got a lot of it done and got a couple pictures…

Haven’t figured out which is the top and which is the bottom, that will come later..

Well, it isn’t quite done.  I have to find a couple more pieces for the roof but if it doesn’t rain it will keep them dry…I know it looks lopsided and it is but with scrap pieces of wood I don’t’ think it looks to bad and it should really be solid.  I still have to figure out how I’m going to cover it so it doesn’t leak and I may just put a tarp over it and fasten it down.  Time will tell with that part of the construction.

Well work was a little busy this afternoon, not bad, I think filling motor homes with propane took up more time than registering guests.  I guess the afternoon went very nicely.  Didn’t get a lot of campers in except for one time I had the driveway fill up while filling a motorhome with propane.  That was a little different, glad they were all in a good mood.  Mark parked while I registered.  After that it was pretty quiet.

I called C.W at the phone store and they have the cover for the phone so I will probably go in Monday to get that.  Well, things change, Mark wants me to mow Monday.  Mowing takes two days here in the park so I will have to figure out how the get the other day in to mow.  Wednesday and Thursday are my days off and it is supposed to rain so I may go in to work early a couple of days to get it done.

Well, today went nicely, taking it easy tonight!  I did have something strange happen this afternoon, when I was dumping the trash, not working hard, my heart got to beating really hard for about five minutes and I started getting dizzy.  Going to the Doctor next week and I think I will mention that to him to see what he says.  Hope it isn’t anything.

Time to cut it off now, Y’all have a good night Ya hear????

Thursday October 20th 2011

Heading back to Sikeston this morning.  It is windy and very chilly.  The weather forecast is for a freeze tonight!  That is here in Sterling.  Hopefully Sikeston won’t be quite as cold.  Probably frost on the old pumpkin though.

We got on the road about 9AM which wasn’t to bad. The price of gas jumped here over night about ten cents  a gallon.  I’m going to wait and see if it is cheaper down the road.  Not much luck.  Got some gas in Peoria, actually filled up at the same price it was on the way up.  This will get us back to Missouri now.  Linda bought me a new “tool” at a Casey gas station.  It is a flashlight with many screw drivers on it.  The flashlight is an LED but the battery (one of them) leaked and rusted the terminal.  Well, when I get home I will see if I can get it to work.  She also bought me a billfold.  She had gotten one of those metal ones from Wal Mart.  Not good for me, I think it lasted about 2 months and the plastic latch broke.  I used a rubber band to keep it closed but I lost that too.  She is so nice to me!!!  I did get the flashlight to work and transferred all my stuff from the old billfold to the new one!!  Busy night!

We had a pretty good day of traveling.  I wanted to stop at Arby’s for a Philly Cheese Steak sandwich to see if it was any better than the Candlelight.  About the same.  So far I’m not a fan of Philly Cheese Steak. I think that I could make a better one.  Will go to Philadelphia one day and try a real one there.  That is sometime in the future though.

We made it back to Sikeston about 4:30pm picked up Sparky.  I think he was glad to be on the way home.  I think the big black dog may have been locked in the garage, not sure but he was in there when I raised the door.

I found a picture of Marilyn, Connie and Linda, and if I can I am going to post it right here…

I think this picture was taken in 2007 but I’m not real sure.  I had to get it off of the desk top, guess I didn’t have this laptop at that time…

Going to take it easy tonight, I’m kind of tired and need to get some rest. Today was a long day…..Night Y’all…..

Wednesday October 19th 2011

Today we are going to go to Sterling to see Linda’s sister and my Step Mother Marian.  We got up early, to get on the road.  It is very cool and still sprinkling, not a nice day.  I left the garage door open for the dogs so they could keep dry and they must have stayed in there, they came out this morning when I took Sparky out.

We dropped Sparky off at the Vets office and got on the road about 8:45AM which wasn’t to bad, should make it to Sterling about 4PM.  Most of the trip was cloudy and raining and I drank to much coffee this morning!  I hit every rest area on the way up and had to make a few pit stops at gas stations.  I think the really cool weather may have had something to do with that.  The trip went very well, Linda read some more of the book to me and that was pretty interesting.

I was right, we pulled into the Super 8 at 4PM and got checked in then went up to the hospital in Sterling to see Marilyn.  She looks pretty good for having a heart attack.  I took a couple of pictures…

She still faces more surgery to put in some more stints(sp?)

This is Sherry, Marilyn’s daughter and Marilyn…

Marilyn seemed to be pretty happy which surprised Linda and me!

After visiting with Marilyn we went to Franklin Grove to see Marian.  Her daughter-in-law, Sandy, has been with her almost every day to help feed her and to encourage her.  Marian even says without Sandy she wouldn’t have made it and I can believe it.  I think Sandy is getting tired though, it has been about five months she has been doing this and I think it has been every day!!  Amazing!!

Marian has resigned herself to the fact that she will never walk again and part of the reason is she is scared of falling again.  I think her muscles have relaxed so much now that she would have to go through rigorous rehabilitation to get her strong enough to get up.  Sandy said she had gained a pound this week so that means she is eating.  Didn’t look like it when we got there but I would imagine she doesn’t have much of an appetite!

We stopped at the Candlelight for supper.  Linda saw they had coconut shrimp so I took here there.  She got the coconut shrimp and I got a Philly Cheese steak sandwich.  I want to to to Philadelphia and have a real one to see if I think they are better.  One of these days!!

Got back to the room late and watched a little TV then to bed.  Tomorrow is another long day…Night Y’all……

Tuesday October 18th 2011

Boy, it’s cold this morning and it’s raining!  Guess the weather forecaster was right in the forcast!

It was cool enough this morning I thought I would bake a couple loaves of bread.  Haven’t baked for awhile.  We still had eight jalapenos left in the refrigerator so I used them and was going to use bacon but didn’t really feel like frying it so I just used the bacon grease, so this bread must really be good for y’all! I did use some whole wheat flour in it so that takes care of the cup of bacon grease.  Well it tastes good!  Linda is going to fix spaghetti tonight and will toast some of it and put some garlic powder on it, should be good!

I turned the heat up a little in the house cause it is only supposed to get up to the mid fifties!  This is the kind of weather I don’t like.  Cool, rainy and windy, makes for a really cold day.

Well, work was something else.  I get to dump the trash, remember, it’s raining, and I really got wet.  Doesn’t feel good when you are already cold! Work did go good though, kept pretty busy during the whole afternoon. The end of the shift wasn’t the greatest.  We have people staying here that work 7A to 7P so it is hard for them to get to the office.  They needed propane and the got there at 7PM, time for me to go home but I filled their tanks for them so was a little late getting out and a little late getting home.

Linda had the spaghetti ready and it didn’t take long to sit and partake!  YUMMMY!!!  The bread toasted wasn’t bad either.

Going to take it easy and try to keep warm until bed time.  I am going to do a little computer work and maybe find a motel for us for tomorrow night, so….Night Y’all…

Monday October 17th 2011

Well, today Mark has me scheduled to work all day.  Cole finished up with another mobile home so I get to go clean up the mess and then there is some staining to do after that.  I think I will have enough to do to keep busy for a whole day.

I started staining some boards and didn’t have enough stain to finish the job so I started cleaning.   There are a few spots that need staining in the mobile home so I will get on that after lunch.  I used the shop vacuum to do the floors because the regular vacuum cleaner just doesn’t get the job done on these floors.  After a remodeling job there is wood splinters and most everything else embedded in the carpeting so I sit on the floor with the hose and try to get all this stuff out of the carpet.  Not hard work but it takes about three hours to do two rooms and a hallway.  I got most everything cleaned up and then went back to the storage trailer and did a little more staining.  I didn’t finish everything but Cole is going to be gone for three weeks so I guess they won’t need the stained boards for awhile.

I think it is kind of funny, I checked to see how many minutes we used on the new phone and the “anytime” minutes, we haven’t used any!

We watched TV and Linda got a phone call from her sister Connie.  Not good news, Linda’s older sister Marilyn had a heart attack and is in the hospital having surgery.  Linda spent a lot of time on the phone and before we went to bed she found out that her situation isn’t good at all. The Doctor said she was really lucky to be alive.  She had had surgery a couple months ago and with the blockage in her heart she was lucky to have made it through that surgery.  Now, well, not sure how she is going to do but hopefully she will be able to make it through this.  They put a temporary  pace maker in to keep her heart beating!  That doesn’t sound to good either.  I think we will probably go up to Illinois to see her on Wednesday….found a picture of Linda and Marilyn…

Been a long day…Night Y’all…

Sunday October 16th 2011

I think it may be a nice day today, cool but I think it will warm up later.

I went to Fellowship Baptist again this morning, I wore a jacket, thought it was a little cool to go without one. I think people think I am a little wimpy wearing a jacket on a nice day.  I would rather be comfortable and look wimpy than to look normal and be cold!

Sunday School and church went very well today and when church was over and I went outside it was getting nice and warm.  This afternoon it got up around 78 I think. 

I stopped at Subway and got a sandwich for our lunch. It was a Buffalo Chicken and it wasn’t to bad, not our favorite by a long shot but it was OK.

After lunch I took a nap then went outside to sit on the deck and enjoy the beautiful weather.  Linda even came out and sat for awhile.  This is probably one of the last really nice days of the year.  No bugs except for some wasps that were looking for winter quarters or something.  There were some flies but they didn’t bother us for some reason.

Tonight at church Barbie sang the special music.  I think I have the picture…

I worked with her husband Ken at the police department for a couple of years.  Nice couple.

Not much interesting tonight.  Same thing, TV etc…Night Y’all…

Saturday October 15th 2011

It is cool this morning!!  I think it is supposed to warm up but right now it is cool.

I stared working on the pump house and I put together the front part of it, only because it was easiest to get to.  My drill ran out of battery and of course the other battery was dead to.  I think one of the batteries won’t hold a charge, well, maybe neither one will.  I’m not going to buy a new one though because this is good enough for what I do and if I have to take a break to charge the batteries, so be it.  It was almost noon before I finished the front side.  Had time to start another but I think I will wait for a day off.  I have to work Monday all day staining boards etc.  Cole finished with one of the trailers so I will probably clean it

Well, I get to work the office this afternoon.  Started off pretty slow but things picked up and I kept kind of busy the whole time and when I had a break I would do a little reading!  The people seemed to be especially friendly today and that was a good thing!

At the end of the shift I was surprised that the count turned out to the penny!  I don’t trust my counting so I am surprised when it balances.

Not much going on tonight, TV etc. so I guess I will say “Night Y’all…

Friday October 14th 2011

It is a very cool morning but for October I guess that is OK  It will warm up later, after the sun comes up!

Not sure what I want to do today, Linda made those waffles last night and found out that the waffle maker just doesn’t work right.  Almost an hour to make three waffles!  This morning we got out the food processor that she bought and I was going to cut up some potatoes for the soup she was going to make.  I did one small potato in it and it never ran again.  One of those days I guess.  I will return them when I go to work.

I started doing the cutting for the pump house.  First cut was almost perfect!  Second cut,, well, it was a long way from perfect. Third cut was even worse.  I just cannot get my saw to cut a straight line!   I know I’m mostly to blame but can’t figure out why I can’t at least come close to a straight line???  This is aggravating!  I have steel to cover it up but I have to cut the steel to and that will be out in the open!  The wood will be covered.

On the way to work I stopped at the store and returned the merchandise and they took it back with no hassle at all, none!  I was amazed!

Work wasn’t all that busy today, I did the cleaning and dumped the trash then waited for something else to do.  Well, I am reading a book that has gotten pretty interesting now, so that was pretty good and made the time go by faster.

I had a couple bowls of Linda’s soup tonight when I got home.  Very good, she did a good job, I call it chicken vegetable soup.  Guess that is probably what it is.  She made it creamy and that really hit the spot.

Well tonight I played with the telephone.  I got on YouTube and looked up carrier landings.  I was really surprised at how many there were there!  I think Linda got a little aggravated  with me and all the noise.  That telephone has pretty good speaker(s) on it.  Just amazing what it will do. On a trip you can find the places to get gas, food, motels, probably campgrounds, but I was amazed that you can find the places with gas and the prices of gas!  May be a couple cents off but it is close.  Wonder where or how they get the prices?  Just amazing!

Not sure what kind of flowers these are but they sure are pretty and they are from the $1 box of mixed seed I bought this spring.  Nice!  There is another plant that is really big at the bottom of the picture.  I don’t see any buds on it but maybe it will have flowers also.  This plant with the pretty flowers I thought was just like an asparagus fern or something but it has hundreds of buds on it so it will bloom for awhile.

Linda did get a picture of me waxing the camper…

Washing and waxing the camper is definitely not my favorite thing to do.  It went pretty fast but standing on the ladder trying to get the top of the front was just a little wobbly, not a fun place to work.

Well, going to watch TV and play with the phone tonight. Lots of good programs on so I will get off here…Night Y’all…

Thursday October 13th 2011

Glad I mowed the lawn yesterday, I also fertilized it and seeded it again, because it rained last night!  We had a really good rain, probably got a half inch or better.  Should make the grass grow.  I transplanted an oak tree but I think that it is going to die.  I dug it up from next to the house and I think I may have broken the main root, it doesn’t look real healthy now.

We are going into town today to pick up the steel roofing at Lowe’s.  I measured the car and there is no way I am going to get that steel in the car.  We took the camper in to get the steel.  Cole, the guy that is reworking the mobile homes for Mark, said that Lowe’s isn’t the place to get stuff if you are in a hurry.  He was right. The guy that took my order took all the dimensions and ordered what I needed.  Well, when I went to pick it up, they couldn’t find the roofing and all I had was some screws and two corner pieces!  I finally went back with one of the guys and found the steel roofing, which had a different name on it, and it also didn’t have enough pieces!  What a bummer!  Well, they said they would order the other two pieces and give me a ten percent discount on what I had already gotten even though it wasn’t cut to the right length.  OK, it took about an hour and a half to get all this done.  Was it worth $10???  I don’t have anything else going on so I guess it is OK and worth it to stick around.

Almost forgot, before we went to Lowe’s we went to Aldi’s and Linda kept picking up “stuff” that I wouldn’t buy and I don’t think we need but she does.

She picked up a waffle iron and a food processor and was going to get a blanket.  We have so many blankets and quilts I really don’t think we need another blanket, but she says “it’s so soft!”  She didn’t get that.

Got all the stuff home and unloaded. Will have to take the camper back into town to pick up the other two pieces they ordered but at least the camper gets a little use.

Now I’m try to figure out how I’m going to build the pump house and what we are going to do without water for awhile.  That part is kind of scary.  I would really like to put in another sand point or at least new pipe for our old sand point. Really don’t want to go to all this work and then find out our pipe is rusted through and needs to be replaced!  Like to get it all done before it happens.

Well, we are having waffles for supper.  Linda found a recipe and is going to try it.  After fixing the waffles I think she is going to take the waffle iron back.  She made three waffles and it took almost an hour to cook them!  Don’t think that is right!!  Instead of making the last one I got the frying pan out and made a pan cake out of it.  They tasted good but takes forever to cook and I like pan cakes better anyway.  I can spread peanut butter on pancakes better than waffles.

We are watching TV tonight, I did get a little nap during a couple of the shows though……Night Y’all..

Wednesday October 12th 2011

Another beautiful day!  Don’t have anything planned for today. We are supposed to get some rain and it is cloudy but doesn’t look much like rain.

We decided to go into town and get a cover for our new phone.  Mark didn’t have any in stock but he ordered one for us.  I’m just afraid that I will scratch the lens.  This cost to much to do something like that.  I’ve been practicing on it and it does a lot of stuff! A lot more that I will ever figure out how to use.  It does what I bought it for though.  I use it as a modem for my computer, use it for a phone and then all the other stuff like the GPS, weather, movies etc. etc. etc.  More that I will ever need or use but it is nice. I does take good picture too.

I sent my other phone, the Straight Talk Phone back to the manufacturer and I finally got a new one today.  Not sure what I am going to do with it, maybe sell it for $50.  It is still in the box, Wal Mart doesn’t want it.  My other Straight Talk phone was great.  Had no problem at all with that one.

We stopped at Grillz Diner for lunch.  Linda got a hamburger and I got a taco salad. Well, we weren’t real impressed with it. I think the $1 MacDouble is just as good if not better and a whole lot cheaper!

When we got home I finished waxing the camper.. Linda took a picture and I put it on the other computer so I won’t have that picture on here, well, I guess I could get it but I won’t.

I also mowed the lawn, the neighbor’s lawn and the other empty lot that the other neighbor takes care of.  He is a farmer and pretty busy. I wouldn’t mow his lawn but the empty lot next to ours needed it so I did it.

Got a call from Lowe’s and our steel roofing is in for the pump house.  Will probably go get it tomorrow.

All in all I had a pretty good day. I went to church tonight at Fellowship Baptist.  First time on Wednesday night. I had been working on Wednesday and was usually to tired to get home and go back in again. Brother Bob had a really short lesson on the Sunday School lesson about the four people that let the crippled man down inside the house for Jesus to heal.  He named the four people…Uh oh, my mind is blank… let me see  Love was one, unity was another, faith was another, I’m getting a headache, who was the fourth???  I think I should have written this down, I knew I was going to have a problem with this!  It was something like willingness even though that wasn’t it, maybe I will remember it later.  Love is the love for God, unity is working together for the end product, faith that it will work and willingness to go and do it.  In a nutshell that was what he had preached on, it only took about fifteen minutes but was very interesting, a whole lot better than an hour of boring!

OK time to call it a day..or night…Night Y’all…

Tuesday October 11th 2011

It is nice even though I have to go to work, I don’t have to go in until this afternoon!  Got the morning to do a few odds and ends  or do nothing. Well, I still had a few screws to put in the deck floor to finish up and that took all of twenty minutes.  Cleanup.  I have lots of pieces and old boards laying around so I am picking up and moving all the scrap over to the burn pile. I still have plenty of stumps to burn, not in any hurry, would be nice to have it all done but that is OK I will finish it someday.

I had two fires going today, one on a stump that I hadn’t started burning and the other was one that still needs burning.  Well, the fires went well and the scraps burn great.

I kept quite busy for awhile then this afternoon I went to work.  Had a pretty nice day at work but it sure does get boring when it is quiet.  Work did go well though.

Got out of work on time then on home. Not a spectacular day but was nice, the weather was great!

I started growing a mustache last week, not coming along to bad, it is starting to get a little itchy now but so far I’ve been able to handle it, nothing like letting my hair grow for the “Locks of Love” or what ever they call it.  I let mine grow to about four inches and it was driving me crazy, got to the point I couldn’t even get a comb through it!  I had to cut it off, besides, it has to much grey in it.  Don’t think I will ever try that again.

I will put a picture in here later when my mustache gets to the stage where you can see it.

Time to sign off for today….Night Y”all….

Monday October 10th 2011

Another beautiful day in the neighborhood!!  Cool this morning but it is going to be a great day.

I get to work on the deck again today because it is nice!  I usually get up around 6AM and it is dark so I play with Sparky for awhile and do some reading then I get to work on the deck.  I finished the deck part and started on the steps.  I put new wood on the stairs and then put up the hand rails. I wasn’t sure if I had enough of the spindles but will put them on until I run out.  WOW, I had enough, in fact I have about twelve left over!  Of course I got new screws for them and I wasn’t sure I would have enough screws but I still have about a half box left over!  I’m not sure but I think I have paid probably $90 for screws!  I have enough left over to make my pump house! I got a couple pictures of the deck now that it is finished, well, not quite finished, I ran out of screws and had to go to Wal Mart to get more and when I got home the battery in my cordless drill went dead and the other was dead too!   What a bummer, I have about twenty or thirty minutes work left.  Oh well, guess I will have to finish tomorrow…

Definitely not a professional job but it hasn’t fallen down yet so I guess it is OK!  I know Bud likes it!

He makes himself comfortable!

It was dark, well, it got dark before the battery was charged so I decided to wait until tomorrow to finish putting in the last 50 screws.

Well, tonight I’m tired and my shoulders are sore so Tylenol again and hopefully I won’t be to sore tomorrow!

A  little TV tonight and relax.  Night Y’all…

Sunday October 9th 2011

I decided this morning to go to the Shady Acres Church of Christ just to see what it is like.  The people are friendly and the Sunday School Teacher was very smart!  There was no discussion that I can remember, I don’t remember what the class was about though so that is probably why I can’t remember!  The church service was really different, singing with no instruments, songs I didn’t know either, but they had communion at the beginning of the service and I wonder if they do this every Sunday???  The rest of the service was also different. I guess the preacher preached on the “Good Samaritan” or maybe it was about the others that passed by, not real sure.  I guess this will probably be my last time  going there. I wasn’t impressed with any of it but the people were pretty friendly.

Lunch was pretty good, had chili mac!  We had some left over chili and I made some mac and cheese, really hit the spot!

I got to take a nap this afternoon which was great.  I don’t get to take naps very often and Sunday is a good day because I’m not going to do anything else and I don’t really want to watch TV.

I stopped on the way to church to take a picture of the cotton field down the road…I will try to find them…

The fields are really pretty, I didn’t touch the cotton but it sure looks soft!  They are starting to pick it and this year they are using different machines. Well, maybe a little different, instead of putting the cotton in large rectangular bales they are now making round bales that look like they are about twelve feet tall, takes a big tractor to move them.  I wonder now how they will transport them to the gin???

Went back to Fellowship Baptist this afternoon, went early enough for choir practice but it had been cancelled so I had time to do a little reading while waiting for church to start.

He is preaching out of Revelation chapter 20 about the first resurrection and it was very interesting!  He is doing a good job and I’m really enjoying this series!

Not a lot going on tonight, a little TV and to bed…Night Y’all…

Saturday October 8th 2011

Another splendid day, a little cool this morning but I think it is supposed to warm up.

Got back to work on the deck.  The three boards fit perfectly, actually I bought one that was bigger, a 2x8 so it would cover without having to split a board.  Got to work on the railing and sure enough, I made another mistake.  Not sure what I did wrong but the top rail is about an inch to short.  Doesn’t make a big difference but one end looks different that the rest of it.  I also had to use larger boards for the bottom rail, 2x6 instead of 2x4 because the posts are about an inch or two to tall.  I think it will turn out OK, not professional by any means but OK….

It’s coming along but this end looks funny.  I may have been able to fix it but with the way I do things it wouldn’t have worked. I would have messed something up.  I am also having a big problem with cutting the 45 degree angles for the top board.  I think I have another picture to put in here but it doesn’t show to much…

It looks a little nicer with the top rail on it and should look better when I get the spindles put on.

Back to work again this afternoon, beautiful day to be outside so I spend some time picking up, etc…

It is still nice to be able to talk to people and hear their stories.  Lots of people have funny stories, well, maybe to them they aren’t funny but I think they are funny.  Had some vegetarians come in and they wanted to eat at Lambert’s.  OK, I guess hog jowl isn’t something they would want, I thought maybe a chef salad but that has ham and turkey, wait a minute they have catfish and shrimp.  The lady says she can eat fish, not sure what the word was that she used for vegetarians that can eat fish but she said Steve Job was the same, and me, I had to say that he died at a young age!!  I did apologize but I was laughing when I said it, still not nice though.

It was an interesting day at work but always nice to get out and go home.  I was a little late getting home because of a problem parking one of the campers.  They came in with a humongous dump truck pulling a fifth wheel on a dolly.  He couldn’t back up and Mark wanted him in a back in spot, well, things just got worse, I took him the long way around to a spot and there was a truck parked right in the middle of the site and he was out for the night so the dump truck and camper had to come back to the campground and park in a pull through spot.  Some time things happen. They didn’t get to the office until 6:55PM, almost time to go home and I haven’t even started the bookwork yet.  Going to be a little late tonight.

On the news tonight there is a new weather lady from St Louis.  I feel sorry for her, she is so nervous!  She really has a hard time talking but she does get the job done, Linda said at the very end of the forecast and before the camera went off, her smile went off, her head hung down and her shoulders slumped.  I think this may be her first job.  Very young girl and very pretty but she sure is nervous in front of the camera, can’t blame her though.

Time to turn in and tune out…..Night Y’all..

Friday October 7th 2011

OK it’s Friday and I have to work this afternoon but I will get a little done on the deck before I have to go.

It is a beautiful day and a great day to be outside!  The floor on the deck is coming along nicely, I will probably finish it before I go to work.   Wrong, I got almost to the end and I still need three more boards!!  What a bummer, well, I didn’t do the math right or I would have had enough.  I called Daniel and he said he was going into town this afternoon and would stop and pick them up if I had them ready.  I told him I would stop, pick them out and pay for them then he could just drop them off for me.  Sure is nice to have friends, especially with a truck… Well I think I have a picture of where I had to stop today because of lack of material…

This is where I had to stop.  If I had had enough boards I would have been able to finish the floor before going to work.  Oh well, tomorrow is another day!  I just noticed in the picture the freezer on the right side, well, that is where the water pump is.  It doesn’t look nice but as long as I have a good light bulb in there it never freezes.  It looks terrible and I have the material now to build a new one but this makes me nervous because I have to take the old freezer apart, take the water pump out, build the new enclosure and put the pump back in again.  Unfortunately we won’t have water during the time.  That is scary….

Work, haven’t worked in the office for over a month now so I will have to get used to that again.  It didn’t take long to get back on track and feel comfortable.  Actually work went quite well,

Daniel dropped off the boards off at home but by the time I got home it was dark so tomorrow I will resume work on the project.

Going to take it easy again tonight.  Linda made breakfast burritos for supper.  Love egg burritos!  These were made from the eggs that Mark gave us, farm fresh and oh so good!

Well, going to quit for tonight and say, yep, Night Y’all…

Thursday October 6th 2011

I’ve a project started that I would really like to work on…the deck… I can’t start early, it is to dark, wet, cold, etc…

Sparky is getting a little more used to “Bud”? the big black dog.  I think Bud is OK as far as I can tell.  Sure is sad though when people dump dogs. We feel sorry for Bud and have been feeding him.  He is sticking around.  When we finally went out and I started working on the deck, well, I was pulling nails etc, don’t want boards with nails laying around I have stepped on a couple of nails and it isn’t fun.  Anyway, Sparky and Bud got to playing, tag I think, and Sparky likes to run so Bud chases him and when he get catches up to him, Sparky rolls, unfortunately it is usually in the dirt and not the grass.  I will have to give him a bath tonight because the grass is still wet and the dirt sticks pretty good to him.

Finally got to work on the deck.  Mind you, this is the first deck I’ve built.  I don’t have plans to work by I just know that I wanted a 10x16 foot deck. Well, the old one is 10x9 feet so I want to extend it to have some room to put chairs or what ever. I think I have a picture of where I started this morning…

This is one of the hardest parts I had to do was get the frame up and level. Well, I messed up on the level a couple of times so I messed up on cutting the 4x4 right and had to do some readjusting…

The treated boards are heavy and just this part took a long time to get up to this height.

This picture is when I finally finished, it was getting dark and I would like to have gotten more done but tomorrow is another day…

I think I did OK for my first time and got this much done in one day. Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to get enough boards on so we can use the back door.  We don’t like using the front door.  Where the bucket is sitting in the picture above is about where the old deck ended so we will have quite a bit more room.  The steps are the old ones but they fit almost perfectly and I will have to get more wood for the steps but they will last until I can do that.  I forgot the ten foot 2x4  that goes on the end and I hope that I can get a couple in the car tomorrow when I get off work.  I need to look at one of Cole’s decks to see how he did the top rail and spindles, then I should be able to finish it!

Well, tonight is another night I am going to take it easy. My shoulders hurt again so I took another pill.  Maybe I will get used to this, nah, I don’t think so…

I have had a very productive day, the camper didn’t get waxed but tomorrow is another day!!  Night Y’all…

Wednesday October 5th 2011

Another beautiful day, supposed to be a great week, no rain so the farmers can harvest their crops and I can do some things here at home.

I went into town early, made sure that Daniel remembered that it was wood day today.  He remembered, but he had an appointment for therapy, he has had shoulder surgery and is recuperating.

I went to Lowe’s and started picking up lumber.  One of the employees started helping me.  I used three carts to put the lumber on and they were heavy!

I kept thinking of things that I needed so before I finally paid for the lumber I had gotten stain for the pump house (sealer) and ordered steel roofing for it. More than I wanted to spend but I think if I get it done right it will look nice.  Now I have to figure out if I want to sink another sand point or not.  Deck first.

After I paid for all the stuff I had to wait awhile for Daniel.  It took him a little longer he expected.  That was OK, I got to have a couple of cups of coffee which was much, much better than the coffee from Barnes and Noble.

We got the trailer loaded and headed home with no problem.  We unloaded all the stuff in the garage, hopefully all the stuff I need first will be on top!

I decided to start taking the old deck down, it was getting a little late but I have tomorrow.  I didn’t get a lot done, I broke my hammer!  Back to Wal Mart to get a few things.  Since we will be using the front door I had to buy a new lockset.  Bought two new hammers and two pry bars.  Got the lockset installed and then back to the deck.  Here are a couple of pictures..

This didn’t come apart as easy as I thought it would!!

Linda is inside taking pictures.  Got the deck torn apart but I may use the steps if they aren’t in to bad a shape.

It was starting to get dark so it’s time to quit.  I checked the email on my phone….not really used to doing that.  I like to delete my junk mail before opening it but haven’t figured out how to do that on the phone.  It also take me awhile to hook the computer up to the phone so I can use the internet but I think the longer I use it and the more I use it the easier it will be to hook it up.

Another night to watch TV and I did take some Tylenol to keep from getting a back ache… Night Y’all…..

Tuesday October 4th 2011

Got today off!!  I think that I will mostly be working three days a week now and that will be in the office.  I will have to mow one more time I would imagine in a couple of weeks but for now I am off.

I called (texted) Daniel and asked if he could haul some wood for me.  I thought as long as I had time I would try to replace the back deck.  The deck hasn’t look very good since we moved in..

It has pretty much looked like this since we moved here but the boards have started to get a little warped and rotten so I figure it is about time even though I really don’t want to spend the money on it.  We use the back door all the time in fact we don’t even have a key for the front door, isn’t that strange???

We went into town today and did some things that really needed to be done.  Daniel was in town also and he said that he would do it but I said we would need the big trailer to get all the stuff on it.

I was going to finish the camper (waxing) but just didn’t have the time so I washed off some of the dirt so I could do it later…right….later…

I was looking out the window and it looked like fog was starting to come in but this wasn’t really the weather for fog.  I went outside with Sparky and was looking and I decided to take a picture….

I’m not talking about the clouds but the ground fog, well, it isn’t fog, it is dust!  They are picking corn and the dust and dirt just hang in the air right at ground level.  There is no wind and a very small breeze to carry the dust along the ground for miles!!

Not much else going on today. I will meet Daniel in town tomorrow to load up wood for the deck and pump house.  I have a list and hopefully, for the first time, I will get all the stuff that I need.

Well, time to sign off, catch you tomorrow…Night Y’all…

Monday October 3rd 2011

It is cool this morning but supposed to warm up nicely today, sure hope so, I don’t care for the cool weather, seventy two is pretty nice and I think it is supposed to get there today..

Mark is going to have me mow Russell Street today but I am going to wait until this afternoon to do it because it takes more than two hours to mow and by the time I get loaded and get over there, then do the mowing it isn’t enough time to mow and get back by noon.

This morning I am cleaning up around the site that they moved the deck from.  Have a bunch of cleanup to do here.  I didn’t get it all done by noon but tomorrow is another day.

This afternoon I mowed Russell Street, it was pretty bad.  I also pulled up six anchors for mobile homes that really aren’t fun to run over with the mower.  There were a couple that I couldn’t get because they were just to tight in the ground.  O did get the ones though that were in the open and not easy to see when the grass gets tall.

It was kind of late when I got back to the campground, but I unloaded everything and was finishing up when Mark said that the next couple of days there probably wouldn’t be much to do and I could take tomorrow off and probably the next day seeing as how I had caught up on everything, guess I worked myself out of a job!!

Here is a picture of a stray dog, the neighbors call him Bud and we feed him too, so I guess he is going to stick around.  Sparky is kind of afraid of him.  Bud has knocked him down a couple of times, showing his authority I guess.

Well, not much going on tonight, just another night.  Didn’t hook up the computer because the telephone had all the emails etc.  I played with it for awhile but not to long.  Guess it’s time to say Night Y’all…

Sunday October 2nd 2011

Church today!  Becky taught Sunday School and she doesn’t think she does a very good job but she’s wrong, she does a very good job.

Church was good, Pastor Joe preached on the Armor of God and I didn’t really realize that none of the armor protects the back!  The back should never be turned towards the enemy.  He had a lot of really good points about the armor.

Linda fixed tacos for lunch and they really hit the spot.  She put in a couple of jalapenos from the RV Park and they really made the eyes water.

I got to take a nap this afternoon, I was tired, actually I’ve been tired for a couple of days.

Church tonight was the Lord’s Supper.  I think that this is one of the best churches for the Lord’s Supper.  It is very reverent but not morose where you leave feeling depressed.

Tonight will be a nice quiet night, will try to get a couple of days of the blog posted “using the new phone”!!!  Night Y’all…

Saturday October 1st 2011

Saturday already!  We don’t have anything planned for today, may take a ride to Cape to look at Lowe’s and Barnes and Noble.

We left home about 11AM and went to Lowe’s first to look at some stuff to build a deck.  Larry said they had Cedar wood for decks so I thought it may be a good deal if it is pretty cheap.  Well, it wasn’t cheap and they really didn’t have a lot that could be used for building a deck.  If I finally do build one it will probably be out of green wood, I don’t know where they sell “Yella Wood”.  I like the Sikeston Lowe’s, guess I know where most everything is at at that one.

We stopped at Steak and Shake for lunch.  We were going to eat at Fizoli’s but couldn’t find it.  I think they closed the one that we ate at before so Steak and Shake was the next choice.  The food was good, hamburger and fries.

Linda wanted to go to Barnes and Noble so we went there and she checked on the books for the Nook.  I bought a large coffee which was actually terrible!  I couldn’t drink all of it because it was so bad, like Starbuck’s coffee, that stuff is terrible.  I couldn’t get the taste out of my mouth for a couple of hours.

After we got home I got the mower out and mowed the two lawns.  I really like the mower.

I wasn’t feeling real good, not sure if it was the coffee or what but I sure felt queasy.  I couldn’t eat much for supper, had a bowl of soup and a little of Linda’s nutri system mashed potatoes, gravy and beef.  I think that stuff is unfit for human consumption!!!  They add rutabaga so it tastes really, really bad.  I think I really dislike rutabaga!

I wasn’t feeling good but I did some work on the computer and the new phone, which is working out quite well, and I cancelled the wifi because I can use the phone now for a modem and it works just as fast as the wifi!!  Love it when a plan comes together!!

Well, since I’m not feeling to good I’m going to bed…Night Y’all…..

Friday September 30th 2011

Going to take today off!!  It is cool again this morning so I decided to bake some bread!  Been awhile.  I made enough to make two loaves and one was jalapeno and I picked the jalapenos from the RV Park.  They are nice, big and pretty warm.

After Linda got up we were going to go into town and look at telephones. I need a new one! I’m tired of talking to someone in the Philippines and not getting any satisfaction.  We got to the store and C.W. knew the phone we wanted and he started to get all the work done.  Now, to change, or keep my phone number I needed the old phone and a bunch of other stuff.  Had to go back home and go back into town again.

I dropped Linda off at Wal Mart so she could shop around.

I was in the cell phone store for about another two hours while C.W. was on the phone getting all the stuff changed and then trying to explain to me how it works.  Well, the big thing was setting up the phone to use as a modem.  He got it working but then it wouldn’t work the second time.  He was really getting busy and had a lot of customers in the store so I said I would take it home and play with it there.

OK, back home, I started playing with the computer, well, the phone, and I hooked it up to the new computer to see if I could get it working.  Guess what???  I got it working!!!  After shutting it off I had a hard time getting it started again but I did and it worked quite well.  I think the phone as a modem works as good as the wifi does, sometimes better!

Well, not much else going on so I will say Night Y’all…

Thursday September 29th 2011

Another beautiful day, it is pretty cool this morning and that is nice, I will be working outside today probably.

Yep!  I got to spray Roundup! I sprayed eight gallons of Roundup and it was all carrying it around.  I sprayed everything I could find that looked like a weed and what didn’t belong where it was.  Also sprayed grass, where it didn’t belong.

My shoulders are starting to get sore from carrying this two gallon container around.  Well, this afternoon I get to carry the leaf blower. I’m blowing stuff off the blacktop road in the mobile home park. I’m not sure how much blacktop there is but seems like a hundred miles!  I did finish it though and now I’m really sore.  Tomorrow is another day!

I finished about five  and asked Mark what was on the agenda for tomorrow and he said he was going to Springfield, probably to see Grant. I told him I think I will take tomorrow off too!  He said that sounds like a plan.  I need the rest.

I didn’t do anything when I got home except take a shower and relax.  Took some stuff to help my sore shoulders and by bed time I felt pretty good. Not much else to say, so…..Night Y’all.