Monday June 14th 2010

This morning when I got up I figured it was just another hot and humid morning but when I finally opened the door I found out that it was actually a beautiful mild day!!  SURPRISE!!  I opened up the camper and let the air flow through, and it was kind of breezy.  I decided to leave the air conditioner off and when we came back at noon it was quite hot in the camper.  I didn’t leave any windows open and it was warm by noon.  I put the awning out to keep the sunny side shaded and left the air run when we went back to work.

We had a pretty decent day, for work, there was less to do than yesterday. We stopped for lunch so we had to work until 5PM.  When I stop for lunch I sure don’t want to go back to work again.  Would be a lot nicer to work right straight through and quit an hour early.  The work and the heat makes or takes away our appetite so working straight through is no problem in that respect..

Got the laundry done tonight, decided to go back to Sikeston Thursday to pick up mail, mow the lawn and check see if everything is OK.  I called Jim and let him know he didn’t have to  mow the lawn this week which may be nice, he has to go to the Dr tomorrow for scheduling surgery. He has been having a lot of problems with his prostrate and the VA, well, in my opinion, doesn’t want to do much for him.

I have no pictures today, I could probably put in some more 3 wheelers but I don’t think I will. We had leftovers for supper, still good, one of my favorites, then relaxed the rest of the night.  Nite Ya’ll…

Sunday June 13th 2010

 

Well, this is getting boring, it’s going to be another sunny, hot and humid day.  Why can’t we get a dash of snow???  Not really, I don’t mind the heat.  I don’t mind the snow either, if it is warm!! Last winter I was wishing for some of this.  I kind of like it.

We went into work today, Linda didn’t really want to but I said it would be better than yesterday and I was right, it was better, not much, but better. We had lots of rooms to clean and Linda said we can’t get all of these done and I told her I had no plan on getting them all done. There are other people coming into work and what we can’t get I’m sure they will.  We worked through lunch again today and by the time we quit for the day we had the top two floors finished.  That surprised me!!  I didn’t think we would get that much done.  We kept busy all day and we really got tired.  We were glad when 4PM rolled around. I needed a shower and Linda needed a nap.

I got ready and went to church at Friendly Baptist and the music was great.

I had to walk over to the main part to take pictures.  I will try to make a collage of pictures, never tried that before.

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   I tried to put a collage in with 12 pictures in it and I couldn’t get it to publish, so I put in a few singles.  I still don’t know if this will publish but I am going to try again.

Linda is watching the Tony Awards and I would just as soon write in our blog and try something different.  If anyone can’t get all the pictures and would like to see them I would be glad to either email or post more!!  Love it!!

Time to say good night.  I will try to post this tonight and see if it will work.  Nothing ventured, nothing gained….Nite Ya’ll….

Trying to put some more pics on here…

Some of the people aren’t real young!!

This one has a 1.6 liter Ford engine in it, beautiful workmanship…

This is the Pink Elephant…

These pictures are really not good since I emailed them to myself. They are cut from 3 megapixels down to about 55 kb or what ever they call it. I haven’t tried enlarging them so not sure what they look like.  Getting close to time to go to work……  Morning Ya’ll…

Saturday June 12th 2010

Would you believe that it is nice again today?  It is going to be sunny and warm, actually hot and muggy.  I decided to make bread this morning, again, and try to see if I can get it to turn out, but, I took my camera over to the Lodge and was going to take some pictures and you know what?? I left it there in the store room!!  I went into the store room a couple of times after work and still forgot it.  Now I have to wait until 8AM to get it (this is Sunday morning).

I will jump ahead a little and say that this is one of the worst days we have had.  They had wood carvers in and they really made a mess. One old guy had a German Shepherd, which wasn’t a very nice dog, and he did a lot of whittling in his room, on the carpeting!  I really felt sorry for the dog, the old guy couldn’t hardly walk so the dog got almost no exercise.  Maybe the dog was just frustrated or something. His room took us about 2 hours to clean and it didn’t smell very good. All in all, things just didn’t go good. To many things to even mention and some I wouldn’t mention anyway.

OK I went and picked up my camera, it is hot and muggy already and not even 8AM (Sunday morning).  Back to yesterday.  I had to take a comparison picture, the left picture above, was this morning and the right was a couple days ago, can’t figure out why it didn’t rise, probably a combination of things.  I haven’t tasted the new loaf, Linda likes it.

Here is another little comparison.  The little loaf doesn’t taste bad but it sure is dense!

This is Diana, she is the new office person at the Lodge. I want to get a picture of her and her husband Gene sometime but I think I will forget taking the camera over to the Lodge, I can’t remember it.

We worked through our lunch hour today.  Neither of us were hungry and we had soooooo much to do.  We felt bad at the end of the day that we left so much for Johnny Mac to do but we can only do so much.

We are going to take it easy tonight, we are really tired, Linda told Heidi that if we were going to quit, today would have been the day, but we are real troopers and going to stick around for awhile longer.   Going to watch some TV, DVR recordings then go to bed.  Had a light supper, I had cheerios and Linda had egg salad sandwiches.  Not really very hungry but there is always room for ice cream….Nite Ya’ll

Friday June 11th 2010

Ohhhh it’s raining!!  Thunder and lightning etc… Going to be a wet one. Going to be a lazy one, Oh Yah!!  Probably won’t do anything today. I did my reading and worked on the computer and played games.  Linda is sleeping in and getting caught up for tomorrow.  Back to work tomorrow.

Well it quit raining about noon and the sun is starting to break through. I just don’t know if I should put the awning out or not.  These “little” thunder storms they have here could do major damage to an awning but the sun shining on the camper really gets the inside warmed up.  The air conditioner just has to work a lot harder since we moved into a place where there is no shade in the afternoon, but the satellite works.

I walked around the campground a couple of times for something to do. I took the camera and didn’t see anything worth taking pictures of so I just walked.

We had the flopped bread that I thought would be good for spaghetti and Linda made egg salad so we had egg salad sandwiches with jalapeno bread. It was OK but the bread was pretty tough.

This is the start of the spaghetti!!  I love smoked sausage and onions fried together.  Some garlic pepper salt and Italian seasonings and olive oil (not Popeye’s girl) on spaghetti is scrumptious!! We don’t use much spaghetti sauce, it bothers Linda’s stomach, this is just fattening, Love it!!  The jalapeno bread ring I made will go well with this.  I think we will have plenty left over for tomorrow

I had two comments on one of my blogs from anonymous. I think it was Cindy but am not sure.  I don’t know very many people that would read our blog from MS and that would go to Fortenberry’s, now I’m not sure I’m even spelling it right.  But thank you for the comments! I enjoy writing the blog even though it may not interest most people but it is something that I may want to go back over and reminisce what we have done and who we have seen in the past.  That is enjoyable.

Well, not much more to ramble on about, guess I will go to bed, maybe I will dream of more things to write about, good idea..Nite Ya’ll….

Thursday June 10th 2010

Oh Boy!!  Got the day off, the sun is shining and I think it is going to be hot! I tried to bake bread this morning, what a bummer, something happened, not sure what but it didn’t work, didn’t rise and didn’t get cooked all the way through.

I know this picture doesn’t look very nice but I took it while the ring (bread) was baking.  You can see the red hot coils in the back left center.  I like the convection oven.  Not quite big enough but does a great job.

This turned out pretty good but the loaves were a disaster.  I made this a little different, I added garlic pepper salt and onion flakes, thought we could use it with spaghetti or something.  The bread tastes good but is really heavy.

Our new friends, James and Janice left us a couple days after David and Marian, wonder is I have bad breath???  The job was a little to hard for James as he has a lot of physical problems and he said if he couldn’t do the job to his satisfaction he may as well go home. Linda and I will try to stick it out. I met Diana, her husbands name is Gene, I haven’t met him yet, and they parked in James’ and Janice’s spot.  They started today I think, I’m not working so not sure what is going on there.

We did a lot of things today, laundry, went to Wal Mart and got a tiny little light that was burnt out and it cost almost $5!!!  We have twelve of those lights and that means if they all have to be replaced it would cost about $60!!!  I think we may stay in the dark.  Really I think I may start replacing them with LED lights or something.  These are halogen and after they have been on for awhile you can almost burn yourself if you touch the light, not the bulb, but the light.  They are only 10 watts! 

This is our satellite dish, stupid dish!!  I had it set up working great and one day it quit!!  Can you believe that?  Just quit!  I stood out in the sun for about 2 hours trying to get it aimed right and finally gave up.  I picked up an coax connector and put my satellite finder in line and I found a satellite! Still took me about 2 hours in the hot sun to get it right, I even moved it back so people wouldn’t accidently bump it.  I should have brought my large tripod, This one is just to small.

WOW!!!  What an exciting day!!!  Glad they aren’t all this exciting!  I think all this excitement really made me tired!!  Think I will relax then go to bed and maybe tomorrow will be boring!!   Nite Ya’ll….

Wednesday June 9th 2010

Sunny and going to get pretty warm today!  Guess summer is about here so it is normal.

We went into work today and Margaret, I call her Maggie, and Linda are getting the schedule ready for us.  Lots of rooms to do today. Almost all of them.  Almost all the rooms need to be refreshed and I think eleven or thirteen need sheet changes. Still could be worse, like it probably will be Saturday when they all check out.  We will have help on Saturday though, there should be at least six working so we should be able to knock them all out very fast.

This is Johnny Mac and Ginny Lee.  They come on duty here at North Park at 2:30PM and work until 10PM.  She works at the desk and he finishes up all that we leave for him.  With the help of Bobby, Maggie’s husband we finished up the Lodge at 4:30PM and left most of the laundry for Johnny Mac.  He also did the laundry at Main Park.  He is from Coffeyville, KS,  hummmmmm sounds familiar.  His sister works at Amazon.com and has been there for over ten years!!  This is almost 10 years longer than I could take it!!

Linda and I had a pretty good day, actually, I felt good and for all the steps we climb I was surprised that my legs didn’t really hurt and I didn’t have to stop to catch my breath.  I think we must be getting used to it.  Linda thinks that I hadn’t been taking my iron supplement until last night and she thinks maybe that is why I may not be quite so tired.  Maybe it is because I know I have the next two days off.  We will see Saturday what we feel like.

This is Miss Harley!  Our neighbor here walks Miss Harley around the park and I think she has a great disposition just like our Oscar did, they love everybody.

Well tomorrow is another day, going to make some more jalapeno bread, do the wash, go to he bank and get David and Marian’s mail sent off if we can find the PO.   I still feel pretty good at 9:45PM  I am amazed!! going to go to bed though…..Nite Ya’ll……

Tuesday June 8th 2010

Beautiful day again today.  Sunny and cool, so far.  We left the windows open last night and was cool enough but very humid.  I think it was foggy this morning and it felt like everything was damp in the camper.  Don’t think I will leave it open again.  I’m sure it’s going to get hot today, I left the awning up and turned on the air when we left for work.

I was right, it’s getting hot today.  It feels hot, I think it only made it to 89 but was very humid, didn’t take long at all to start sweating.

We got our list at work today and almost every room was checked but fortunately it wasn’t a hard day.  We had help from Bobby in the morning and then at lunch time Daniel and Rachael helped us. Roger and Heidi took care of the Main Park Motel and that really saved us, the motel would have taken an hour at least and with the help we had we had the last load of sheets and towels in the dryer. They will be there in the morning for us.

Heidi thanked us for getting everything done but yesterday she said we were “normal people” and I had to go on that one…I whispered out loud that she called us “normal people” and I think I may have embarrassed her. She tried to explain that is was a compliment. I knew what she meant, we are the only cleaning team on today and she meant we were the normal ones to be working that day.

After work and after getting cleaned up I grilled out.  I told Linda I would like to try grilling some pork patties, should have gotten a picture.  I made square patties and put them on the grill.  They browned nicely (Linda put the seasonings on them) and they didn’t shrink up much at all. So we actually had “ham” burgers and potato salad for our supper, or dinner if you are so inclined.  They were excellent, I was surprised, I think I expected them to taste like pork sausage but they were mild and tasted, in my opinion, better than hamburger!!  Isn’t that exciting???

We aren’t going to do anything tonight, we have laundry to do but going to wait until tomorrow night or Thursday our day off.  Well the blog today is kind of bare without pictures but we didn’t go anywhere and didn’t see anything worthy of pictures.  May take my camera with me tomorrow and see if there is anything worth snapping… Nite Ya’ll…..