Sunday May 30th 2010

The day is supposed to be nice with a chance of rain???  Well, we will see. We had our schedule changed from 8AM to 9AM and they took and half hour off the day so we get off at 4:30PM, at least 3 days a week.  The other 2 days we work 11:30AM to 6:30PM.

The day started off nice.  Not to much to do (right now) but in an hour or so we will have more work than what we know what to do with.  We had 3 turn around rooms to do in about 3 hours and we aren’t fast.  We finished them in plenty of time but the people were sitting outside the room waiting. They were about an hour early and they didn’t mind waiting and we had it done before check in time.  I think we did OK.  We got pretty tired cleaning though and now we are kind of sore.

We were supposed to meet James & Janice for a birthday party for David who just turned 65.  James got to work over 45 minutes later than he was scheduled.  Made us a little late for dinner but was still fun.

Linda picked out a funny card for him.

Linda picked out a bottle of age reversal pills.  The directions are to take 2 pills “before” your birthday and when you blow out the candles you are supposed to “inhale” and if you survive this you will be younger, if not, you won’t get any older.

Pizza Hut time.  This Pizza Hut has very good pizza and I’m not a Pizza Hut fan.  I could be wrong but I think I’m the oldest one in the crowd.  Not sure how old James is but I think he is under 65.

This is the cake that Marian baked for David.

David got to cut his birthday cake, it was good, even if he did cut it.

Well, by the time we got done with the cake it was after 9:PM and time to get home. To late to watch TV but will try to catch the weather….Nite Ya’ll..

Saturday May 29th 2010

I was sore from yesterday.  I think the weed eating for a couple hours hurt my shoulders and back.  After I got moving around it wasn’t to bad.  Linda was in pretty good shape except for a headache and I won’t go away!

We started work and had some rooms to check to make sure they were ready for people to occupy.  We received word later that 2 cabins were ready to be cleaned for more people who will come in today.  We started on that after a lot of chasing after a golf cart, radio, etc.  After we got started on the cabin it wasn’t bad except for some of the drapes in the loft and the  linens.  The three cabins had to be cleaned and ready by 2PM.  We skipped our lunch to finish the third cabin.  We were pleasantly surprised while cleaning the first cabin, we had visitors!!  Don and LaVon Baker pulled up to the cabin and it took us awhile to figure out who in the world would be coming to the cabin to see us.  They really surprised us.

They took us to Fall Creek Restaurant for a really good meal.  I took my camera but we had started eating before I took a picture of the food.

 

They all had catfish, I had to be different and have chicken fried steak.  I had a taste of Linda’s fish and it was excellent, my chicken fried steak was really good too.

This is a restaurant like Lambert’s, they even throw the rolls.  Had a very good meal.

The Blues Brothers of course.  I didn’t take a picture of the cowboy but it was different, it kind of stared at you while you were eating, fortunately I had my back turned to it.  After eating we came back to our camper and played a couple of games of Zilch or “stupid game” as it is called by some people.  Had a great evening. They shared their experiences of how the Lord is blessing them and their Ministry “Christian Resort Ministries”.  Many great things are taking place with the Lord’s help, very exciting. 

We will watch a little TV and go  to bed.  Our schedule has changed and we won’t have to go to work until 9AM which is nice.  Should sleep good tonight…..Bye Ya’ll…..

Friday May 28th 2010

This is our first full day at work.  We will be on our own and will see how our work goes for the first day.  Went into work at 8AM and had a few rooms to get ready and one to clean.  It went real good, no problems to speak of.  We cleaned a room (refresh) and Linda found the “Do Not Disturb” sign on the other door.   Oh well, hope they didn’t mind to much.  We won’t do it again I guess.  We got 4 cabins ready to rent and by that time it was lunch time.  This afternoon, Linda worked in the office learning the computer and I got to go “weed eat”.  The time really went fast, seemed to go faster than the 4 hour days.

Marian made soup and brought it over.  She brought it over because we have bowls!!!  We do have quite a few bowls.  The tried our jalapeno bread and they like it but was a little to hot for them.

This is the soup she made.  It was very good, don’t remember having soup with almonds in it but it tasted good.

We went to the “store”  Wal Mart to get a few things.  Sunday is David’s birthday and we are going out for pizza.  I think that sounds like fun.

I am really tired today, I think the 2 hours of weed eating really tired me out. I will probably go to bed early tonight, hopefully I will get used to working, at least this kind of work.  Night Ya’ll ….

Thursday May 27th 2010

Looks like a nice day today, had to take a picture from the kitchen window. Funny how things change so fast.

The last time we were home the field across the road was short and very green.  Now it is turning a golden ripe color.  If we come home next month the farmer will have harvested the wheat and planted soybeans.

This doesn’t look very nice, and it isn’t.  The moles in the yard are terrible.  I don’t mind them eating the grubs but they push up the dirt into mounds and it looks bad!!!

This doesn’t show up very well but the moles burrow crooked trails with the ground pushed up where ever they go.  I need to spread grub killer all over the lawn, very thick but didn’t have time.  Just managed to get the lawn mowed yesterday.

This is Lambert’s in Ozark, MO.  Linda wanted to stop and get some rolls. Got a half dozen and took them back to the camper.

The above picture is our new convection/microwave oven.  I was surprised when the boss said it was in and in the shop.  I had David help me get it, he used his truck and we loaded it up and brought it back to the camper, took out the old one and put the new one back in.  It looks exactly like the old one but it works, for now anyway.  It didn’t take long to put it in but it sure was hot.  Now have to get the other one back to the manufacturer and we should be good to go. 

I think I need to rest.  The 5 hour trip back was kind of tiring and then the microwave and the heat, need to take it easy.  Tomorrow is a FULL day so I am going to say g’nite Ya’ll….

Wednesday May 26th 2010

Well today is very warm, stuck my head out the door at 6AM and it is already hot and muggy.  Good day to run the air conditioner.

I have a lot of things that I want to get done and really need to get done.  I was getting ready to take my shower and was trying to get the shower to work right (water coming out of the shower head etc) but while doing that the pump quit working.  I went out and was messing around with the pump and finally got it working.  Got in the shower and got all soaped up and wouldn’t you know, the pump quit working again, NOOOOO!! So I toweled off all the soap and got dressed and started on the pump again.  I know the pump runs so it has to be the pressure switch.  Figured out the points weren’t making good contact so I got an emery board and filed the points, and yes, I disconnected the power first:-)  That seemed to do the trick.

Our back yard light has been acting up for about a year now, so, we go to town to get some things, including a new yard light.  I left Linda at Wal Mart and I went to Lowes, found a light that is energy efficient!  Fluorescent!  Went back to Wal Mart and Linda wasn’t finished yet. I finally told her that it might rain and I had things to do so she got the things she needed and we boogied on home.

 

This is our new light and my switch blade knife, got to have the right tools for the right job, right?  Well before I climbed up on the garage I opened the box and put the light together and it started raining and it was a good thing, cooled the air a little and gave me time to put the light together, and it wasn’t easy, 6 screws and they didn’t line up.  By the time I got it together it quit raining (still the same day) and I went up to tackle the job. Looks like a pretty day doesn’t it?  Altogether today I would guess we got about 2 inches of rain.  Most of it came later though.

It works!!  Praise the Lord!!!  The light is actually brighter than the Mercury Vapor Light.  Supposed to use a lot less electricity too!

I also mowed the lawn between rain storms.  I did finish it after church tonight.  It was a little soggy but it looks better.  Jim stopped over this morning and he was going to mow it.  He didn't know we were coming home.  I will have to call him next time  Oh, the ugly freezer at the bottom left of the picture above, contains 1 each well pump.  If I ever have to change the pump I will replace the old freezer and build a new building for the new pump and hopefully it will look nicer than this.  I wanted to get a lot of weed eating done and spray Round Up but with the rain and lack of time I'm not going to get a lot of that done, maybe next month.

Been a long day and it's time to relax.  Linda bought a new Wii game. We tried that out tonight.  It was fun, different, but fun.  Nite Ya'll....

Tuesday May 25th 2010

Here is another sunny warm day.  We are going to go back to Sikeston today for two nights.

I called Apollo, the manufacturer of our convection oven, they were very nice and said they would Fed Ex one out right away and I could change it myself.  COOL.  Hope it works!  Shouldn’t be here until we get back.

We stopped here for a little break, it is on Highway 60 going back to Sikeston.  Got a bag of popcorn.  Really wanted to eat but I really get tired after eating and I was tired already so we waited until we got home to eat.

We made it home about 4PM and turned on the air conditioner and the refrigerator, it is hot here, close to 90 I think.  The house cooled off faster than the refrigerator!

Don’t she look happy??   I think she is posing!!

Our dinner.  Not bad for not having much on hand.

Guess what I’m going to do?

Yes, I found 10 pounds of flour in the freezer and had almost all the ingredients here!!  They turned out great except I didn’t get them done. BUMMER!!!  Still taste good though.

We had a couple problems here at home, a little problem with the drain in the bathroom, one of the large nuts had cracked and leaked a little, that was a pretty easy fix.  Our yard light is another problem.  I think I will buy a new one, this has been doing weird things for about a year now.  Will try to fix it tomorrow, think I will wait until it gets hot though.  Wouldn’t want to try to change it while it is comfortable out.  I will have to climb up on the garage to get to it, that is the easiest way.

Linda and I played some Wii games since we have no TV here this time.  To much work to bring it back for 2 nights.

Time for bed…..Goodnight Ya’ll….

Monday May 24th 2010

I am so messed up on the days I had to check for sure to see what day it is!  My watch said March 21st and that didn’t help any!! 

It is already muggy and warm outside so it is going to be hot today.  Our air conditioner does a fair job but we are in the direct sun and it is having a hard time keeping up.  It feels nice inside, it takes out the humidity. This is the camper we are living in-).

We didn’t have a lot to do at work today but kept busy with James and Janice and then after lunch David and Marian helped us.  We have 8 cabins that will all be occupied this weekend and we took inventory of the supplies that are supposed to be in them.  Our list of utensils and dishes etc is not a very good list.  We started taking things out that weren’t on the list only to find out they were supposed to be in there.  I think we need a new list.

I have been taking pictures with my phone and figured I would just download them onto the computer.  WRONG!  Well, I can’t do it anyway. My computer says there are no pictures on the card.  Maybe I will try Linda’s.  Hers has a card reader!!!  Doesn’t work either.  Maybe I don’t have the pictures on the card??? Will take more.

We went to the grocery store, Country Mart, after doing laundry etc.  I took pictures in there but they are on the phone. We had some strawberries that Linda had cut up but she wanted ice cream (I didn’t object) so that is why we went to the store.  We invited David and Marian over to share.

We had a lot of ice cream and strawberries.  It was very refreshing. 

After we finished I figured I should put the awning up before it rained.  To late, it already sprinkled and the awning was wet, had to put it up anyway, there seemed to be a storm brewing.  Wind started blowing and it thundered some.  Wasn’t a real storm, but it sure cooled off nice.

David came over later and he was having trouble with his plug.  It was arcing and was wondering if I had a 30 amp extension.  We made his fit and it worked.  There wasn’t any cord to spare.  He needs to get an electrician down to fix the 30 amp receptacle.

 

Had a great evening, will head for Sikeston around noon tomorrow I think.  I don’t want to drive into the sun, not comfortable at all for me.  Good night Ya’ll