Tuesday June 22nd 2010

I’m so excited today I can’t hardly stand it!!!!!  It’s going to be another HOT and MUGGY day!!!  Love it!!  I’m not looking forward to winter.  I would rather have this than cool humid or cold weather.  Guess dry cold wouldn’t be to bad.

This is Gene and Diana. I took my camera into work today and fortunately got a picture of them.  Gene has physical problems and he told Roger yesterday that he couldn’t handle the heat and work. Maybe he told them this morning, I think he did.  Glad I took my camera though, they were gone after lunch, hooked up their camper and were out of here.

I worked by myself today, Gene did laundry which helped and the laundry room has an air conditioner that keeps it, well, cooler than outside. I had a slightly easy day and Roger did the 5 arrivals so I didn’t have to travel both parks to do them.  I turned in Linda’s shirts this morning and figured I would talk to Roger or Heidi to see if I was still supposed to work. HMMMM, I saw Roger but didn’t get to talk to him.  At lunch Linda asked what was going on and I said I didn’t know yet and I would definitely talk to one of them before the day was over.  I finished early today so I called Roger over and asked him about my status, and to get ahead of the story, I told Linda when I got home that they “fired” me.  Wrong thing to say. She was ecstatic. Then I gave her the bad news, Roger said I had a job as long as I was happy working here, that did not make her day, she wanted to go home but by bed time she had accepted the fact we were stuck here for another two and a half months.  I’m getting used to the job and the heat doesn’t bother me so I am going to try to stick it out to the end.

I made reservations after work for the Tony Roi show.  Tony Roi is an Elvis impersonator and I hear he is very good.  We will try to take in a few more shows during our next two months.

We had a little jalapeno bread left so we made toasted cheese sandwiches with it.  I think I am losing my taste for the jalapeno bread for some reason. I need to make some more regular bread, maybe some cinnamon rolls or something. 

We watched a little TV and I even stayed up until the weather at 10PM!!  I amaze myself sometimes.  Nite Ya’ll…

Monday June 21st 2010

It’s going to be another hot and muggy day!!  They have heat warnings out through Wednesday.  I don’t mind the heat, nice if it was 72 degrees but I would much rather have it hot than cold.  Once I get cold I can’t hardly get warmed up again.

Well, another day at the Lodge.  I worked alone today and really there wasn’t a lot to do. I finished up the Lodge before lunch and then after lunch I had 2 cabins to clean.  Not bad.  I was done kind of early so I took stuff up to the closets on the 3rd and 2nd floor.  Not much but will help some tomorrow I hope.  I will be alone tomorrow, Wilbur and Bernie are off Tuesday and Wednesday.  I think they may have hired some more workers, but won’t know until later, they don’t confide in me for some reason!

Had laundry to do after my shower.  That took awhile and Linda made BLTs for supper without the L.  Really enjoyed them.

I had to take a couple of pictures.

These are the showers. They are so narrow you can’t hardly get in and once in there isn’t hardly enough room in there to take a shower, it is really narrow.

Not only are the showers narrow  the sites are really narrow. I had to move the dish, you can see it under the awning, because it was to close to the other camper. I worry when someone pulls in beside us especially if the awning is out.

So much for our exciting day, my back hurts and I think I may take it easy and watch some TV before going to bed.   Nite Ya’ll….

Sunday June 20th 2010

Father’s Day and it is going to be another hot and muggy day. I did my reading etc then walked over the the Main Campground to sign up for the “mandatory” pot luck Thursday, our day off. The potlucks are fine, mandatory, but fine. They just happen to fall on our day off.  We decided to go home last week because we knew we couldn’t this week.

There was a pancake breakfast this morning so I woke Linda up a half hour early to go over. Linda didn’t want to go over, she didn’t want to get up, she didn’t want to go into work. Not a surprise, I had tried to keep her interested since we only have about 75 days left.  I went back to the main park and talked to Robert, the owner and told him that she didn’t like the job and she was quitting.  I told him I would work until the end of August, but this is a 2 person job so I’m not sure if I will be working the rest of the week or not. I will probably find out tomorrow when Roger and Heidi are back from their day off.

I had a busy day at work, we had 12 check outs and 5 of them were turnarounds.  The turnarounds have to be done first. I finished 5 of the turnarounds before I went to lunch and the other turnaround was actually a walk in in the afternoon which I finished before time to go home. I think I actually finished 7 altogether with a few other rooms that weren’t checkouts.  Thought I did pretty good, takes almost an hour to do a room correctly.  Oh, Robert told me they were already shorthanded. I can’t remember working so hard on a job and getting so little.  Not the greatest job in the world. The other cleaning couple, Wilbur and Bernie, told me last night Bernie and fallen and hit her head plus banged herself up pretty good and when Robert came by Wilbur told him what had happened and he said they need to be a little more careful!!  Compassionate person isn’t he???

Went to Friendly Baptist last night, they had no electricity, so no lights or air conditioning.  The building was cool until about half way through the service and by the end it was pretty warm. The song leader, Bob, was back and he led the singing.  He likes the real old time songs and likes to sing them fast.  The sermon, or bible study, was good but was getting dark and I have a hard time seeing anyway.  I need the “Light”!!! He was preaching out of Genesis about Abraham being called and answering, “Here I Am” or in my bible it says “Here Am I”. Thinking about it, we usually answer “what”?  After working all day and sitting in a warm room, I tend to start drifting, mainly to sleep, fortunately I didn’t fall off the chair!!  I didn’t really go to sleep but my eyes sure got heavy for awhile.

No pictures today…

Well, maybe one, this is back in Sikeston in the back yard, have some bushes that really have beautiful flowers on them.  We have some Hollyhock too.

Here is another, this is the hollyhock in the back yard next to the flowering bush, and some other tree that is growing which I didn’t get cut out. To much to do and to little time.  I may have one more picture….Oh, I think the field in the above picture is cotton, I will keep an eye on it when we get home and take some more pictures of it, beautiful when it is in full bloom.

This is for you LaVon, the tree is only half dead but… I had a picture of the Mimosa tree the other day but thought I would put this one in also.

Time to take it easy tonight and rest up.  I am sure tomorrow will be another hard day. Nite Ya’ll…

Saturday June 19th 2010

Back to work today, but I have some pictures I want to add to yesterday…

Our pecan tree is getting some pecans on it!!  Had a bad winter last winter and the winter before it lost some big branches.  Last year it didn’t have any nuts on it at all.  We don’t use them but it is nice to have it anyway, the squirrels like them.

The little one in the center is the pecan tree, it is kind of misshapen but ice tends to do bad things to trees.

Some of our prettier flowers at home and the big tree in the background with the sucker branches that I didn’t get cut off.  I think those big trees are going to have to go.  They are big but not good for much, may plant a fruit tree or two or maybe more pecan trees.  They don’t get the sucker branches like the big ones do.

Back to Branson!  Linda got me a retractable key chain for my belt for Father’s Day.  Don’t know how she ever thought of that.  Maybe I suggested it?  I used it today and it works like a charm, if I could remember I have it on.  It is hard to see but it is on my belt and I have the keys in my hand.

Here is another moth.  I would imagine that is is probably some sort of crusader moth.  I have seen more moths that are really unique here than anywhere I’ve even been, flowers to that are strange.

This is a pan of sweetened baking powder biscuits for what else???

Our version of strawberry short cake.  It wasn’t to bad, we didn’t throw any away!!  We have enough left for another day, oh yeah….

Well, I have put pictures in now from yesterday and today and probably the day before.  Tomorrow being Father’s Day they are serving free pancakes to the fathers.  We will go over and indulge, then check out the shows that are coming up…free….I think…..may take one or two in, we will see.

Going to go to bed tonight probably a little early.  Work is always tiring and we had another couple helping us today.  We are still tired.  Nite Ya’ll

Friday June 18th 2010

I didn’t sleep well but Linda is still sleeping, hopefully this will help her get over whatever she has, cold, flu or whatever!!

Let me see, I couldn’t add pictures yesterday and today I have about 90 so I will have to pick and chose and then add more tomorrow.

This is Bobby and Maggie, she works in the office and Bobby does the maintenance thing, can’t tell maybe he is smiling, I don’t think he likes having his picture taken, I think she smiles all the time.

This is Roger and Heidi our managers, nice “kids” to work for, they do their jobs well.  Don’t see them together very often and took this opportunity to snap a picture of them.

“Star Trek” Trike!! They still have this going on. Now, today is Saturday and I think this is the last day, will see what happens, This blog is for Friday though.  I will be mixed up for awhile until I get back on schedule and pictures posted.

OK, this is back home in Sikeston. The beautiful green field across the road is now black.  They harvested the wheat and burnt the stubble.  Now LaVon you might like the tree on the left. It is our Mimosa Tree and it is half dead, not a good picture of it but most of the branches are dead but a few still have leaves and flowers, probably will come down this Fall, or at least part of it.

  This is Chloe, or neighbors 10 week old Rat Terrier. Vicious isn’t she??? I haven’t heard her bark yet.

BIG Dawg!!

We had a lot of things to do at home and got some of them done but didn’t have near enough time to get all done.  Linda slept a lot which when she finally did get up she felt a lot better, not a good 2 days off for her. We had a pretty nice drive back to Branson, long, but nice.

These are our “pork patties”.  We have found that the ground pork actually tastes better than hamburger! These are quarter pounders and they don’t shrink much at all. I’m not real good at charcoal grilling but they did get done and tasted great!   We went to Wal Mart and Linda got me a retractable key chain for work.  I have a terrible time getting keys out of my pocket to open the doors and I think this will work just hunky dory!!  Wonder where “hunky dory” came from, hear it a lot but I don’t know where the word originated.  I’m sure someone will tell me….  We are tired and will have to go back to work tomorrow so I am going to try to get this posted and then get some sleep…Nite Ya’ll

Thursday June 17th 2010

Well, I guess I made a mistake on the dates on yesterday’s blog, can’t believe I would do something like that, more than once!!  I was really tired last night and Linda is getting sicker!!  I went to the store last night and she took some Nyquil and that knocked her out.  She slept all night and I got up this morning did all stuff then walked over to the main park and took pictures talked to people etc.  When I got back Linda was still asleep. She finally woke up about 10AM.  She looked better and she decided she could try to go home today.   Not sure that was a good thing, she slept most of the way.  When we got home she went to bed and it is now 8PM and she is still sleeping.  Hopefully the sleep will help.

I got the lawn mowed, got gas, trimmed some suckers from the trees and did a little weed eating.  I am listening to 50s and 60s music that Neil gave me.  Neal is a school friend that I hadn’t seen for probably 40 years and he happened to do the lawn mowing for my sister in Rockford.  I haven’t gotten a picture of him but will do so the next time we are in Rockford.  I think he made 20 CDs and it takes an hour for each one…lots of music.

I took lots of pictures and guess what?  I didn’t bring my cable to put them on the computer. I  have 2 of them and they are both in the camper I think. Now what am I going to do, this will make 3 days or so without pictures, what a bummer!.

Well, I will post this in the morning probably and then put pictures on tomorrows blog.  Ya’ll have a good night ya hear?

Tuesday & Wednesday 6-15 & 6-16 2010

I almost forgot to do the blog for yesterday!!  Really wouldn’t have missed much.  It was pretty much an ordinary day.  We had to work and we kept busy the whole day.  Today, Wednesday, was another day that was ordinary.  Work went pretty well both days.  I am coming to the conclusion that it doesn’t matter where you work, whether a multi million dollar outfit or a small outfit, you never have the tools or supplies you need. Today I made about 5 or 6 trips down to the first floor for mattress pads, they have lots of mattress pads, unfortunately I tried 4 or 5 before I found 2 that fit.  Now I have to give credit to Roger and Heidi, they will bend over backwards to help get you what you need.  Some of the mattress pads we will have to try on different beds to see which ones they fit, then, we will mark them for the size bed they fit.

Last night I wanted to fix potato soup. It is hot and humid but I had some potatoes that needed to be used so I did it. I didn’t take a picture of it, it really didn’t look very good but tasted quite good!  Linda liked it but she started getting sick before we got off work yesterday, think it is like the flu but I’m not sure, hope it wasn’t the soup.  When we got off work tonight I ran (in the car) to Wal Mart for some Nyquil and some other stuff for her.

I went to church tonight at Friendly Baptist again. Had a good Bible Study on the last chapter of Philippians. The song leader, Bob, was gone tonight and the poor guy that took his place had a hard time, great voice, but couldn’t read music.

 

When I got back from church Linda was in bed sleeping.  Hopefully she can sleep this off.  The work is really hard, well, it really keeps us moving. I have been sore from all the running up and down stairs.  I hope I am losing some weight!!  I am going to take it easy tonight. We may go back to Sikeston tomorrow if Linda feels OK.  We will sleep on it..Nite Ya’ll….