Wednesday June 22nd 2011

Looks like it is going to be another great day!  The sun is shining and it is going to get pretty warm, no record breaker though.

I won’t have time to do anything this morning, I go to work at 9AM so will kind of hang out until time to go into work.

Mark made a list of things that need to be done and it is enough I know that we will not finish them.  Roundup time this morning.  The weeds are starting to grow again in the camp sites and under the fence.  At lunch time I walked over to Ag-Mart and picked up a bottle of oil for the chain saw.  Checked also to see if my part had come in for the lawn mower and it hadn’t. Not really in any hurry though.

This afternoon Grant and I went to Russell Street, and Grant mowed and I started trimming trees in one lot.  Three hours and I didn’t finish but loaded the truck up and still have at least two more loads ready to go and a lot of trees(?) to trim.  I don’t think they are really trees but what ever they are they are really thick.  One place was almost impossible to mow the tree limbs were almost to the ground. Got that part cleared out and worked on more of the bushes(?).  They have to be at least twenty feet tall, I think they may be mulberry trees but not sure.

Grant and I had a couple other piles of limbs in the mobile home park to pick up then some trash from a mobile home that is being repossessed. There was more trash there than I figured but we still got done just a little after 5:30PM.

By the time I get done with this blog I probably won’t be able to read it.  I just sent a paragraph into cyber space.  Try to remember what I said. I had lent out the tow dolly to someone and it came back bent (the tongue) and I am going to try to be a shade tree mechanic.  I tied the dolly to the tree and hooked up the tongue to the camper and pulled it straight.  Not sure how it got bent but was really hard to straighten out!

Linda had pork burgers ready for me to grill.  Had a good supper.

Well, I started another Wednesday blog!!  Forgot I had already done this one but I did it.

Shower time….Sparky and I took a shower.  First time for Sparky in the shower with me.  He didn’t like it very well but I got him cleaned up.   After Linda got him dried off he went crazy running around.  That shower must have perked him up because he was hyper until bed time, then he finally settled down.  I was ready for bed!!  Long hard day!

Pretty sunset and the little square light at the bottom left is our mail box.  Well it’s time….Night Y’all…

PS..   Hope  this makes sense, I changed it a couple of times trying to get  in things I had forgotten!

Tuesday June 21st 2011

It seems like it is going to be nice out today.  Probably get kind of warm but nice.

I picked a couple more zucchinis and cooked them for lunch…

I think I over cooked them a little but I still liked them.

I had a few odds and ends to check out.  Our sewer sometimes has an odor, not sure why or where it is from.  Thought maybe our septic was full but it seems to be working alright.

Well, I thought about the camper and figured I would hook up a battery to the twelve volt wire and see if I get power from that but I didn’t!!  OK I am going to put stuff up and take it to an electrician.  Well, maybe one more look, not sure what I’m looking for but this is what I looked at…

The box with the wires and “things” is what I looked at.  I even put my glasses on and guess what????  I saw something!!  Actually those things are breakers.  I’ve never seen anything like this before and I got close and saw that there is a little lever hanging down from each one so I pushed the little levers back up and checked inside and….I HAVE TWELVE VOLTS!!  I tripped the breakers I guess, they are like GFCIs.  The little red button I pushed made them trip, oh well, I didn’t have to take it to the electrician and I even started the generator and AC for awhile!!

Well I went to work this afternoon and things went pretty well, really a quiet day.  I asked Mark about tomorrow and Grant and I are going to Russell Street and I will take the chain saw and do some more trimming.

Got off work at the right time and went on home.  Linda watched the Bachelor and the Voice.  Not real interested in either one but she likes them.

Will probably stay up and watch the news then go to bed….Night Y’all…

Monday June 20th 2011

Lots of things I want to do today.  I want to take the camper in to check see if I can get the twelve volt system working.  I took off about 8:30AM and when I got there I was fifth in line so I waited for about two hours and decided to leave because they hadn’t finished the first one yet.

Linda and I went to town to do a few things, banking, picking up prescriptions and then we made appointments for next Monday for our physicals.  Been a long time, over two years for both of us.  We are going to see a nurse practitioner for our physicals.  After that we stopped at Wal Mart for a few things.  I decided to get the parts for the camper and fix it myself and we picked up a new mailbox!

That was probably the easiest job I will have today. Then I decided to fix the camper…

I wire tied the “fixed” part to the frame to keep it off the drive shaft.  That wasn’t to bad, not much room under here to work. Unfortunately, I still don’t have twelve  volts in the camper.  I tried to figure out why but there are things on this camper I have never seen before and don’t know what they do.  I will take it back to the electric place and let them look at it.  Can’t go camping without twelve volt power.

I picked our first fruit (vegetable) from the garden…

Now that looks a lot bigger than it actually is but it is nice, I will probably have another one or two by tonight. (Zucchini) .  May fix them tomorrow for our lunch.

Linda’s carnation plant I got her for Mother’s Day is looking pretty good..

There are a lot of buds that look like they are going to bloom!  There for awhile it looked like it was about dead, I’m happy!

I planted another row of corn in the garden.  Ran the tiller through it first to get rid of any grass that may be starting to grow.  I also see a little jalapeno  starting and the bell peppers are getting bigger, the plants don’t look very good but the peppers look good.

Well, I worked on the camper off and on until dark and didn’t come to any conclusion except that I don’t know what I’m doing, but I knew that already.

Time to call it a night….Night Yall…

Sunday June 19th 2011

Today is Sunday and I think we are going to go to Essex to church this morning.  We saw Wayne and Glenda at Wal Mart and they invited us to visit their church.  Very small church but we wanted to see it. It is a long drive from here, well about 14 miles I guess but we will make the trek.

The church service was good, Joe is a lay preacher but brought a very good message and in an interesting way.  He did a very good job.

We went out to eat with Wayne and Glenda to a place out in the “boonies” called Cow Town.  It is actually in a pasture I think but there are fences so the animals can’t get out..

Looks pretty rustic but was nice, definitely not fancy!

Here are Wayne and Glenda, we’ve know them for quite a few years…

Glenda leads the singing and they are with “Campers on Mission”.  They are going to start working on the church in about a week to do some kind of minor repairs.  There will be four more couples coming in to help.

I went to church at Fellowship tonight.  Cory preached, I didn’t get a picture but he just graduated from college and just announced he is going to be a interim pastor in a church in…well, a small town about 5 miles from here, can’t remember the name of it now…(so what’s new??)

There are things I am itching to do but will wait until tomorrow.  Don’t want to work today just taking it easy..Night Y’all…

Saturday June 18th 2011

Nice and warm today, hope I have time to mow the lawn, well, I know I will have time but didn’t want to start at 6:30AM, might not go well with the neighbors.  I watered the garden and pulled weeds while Sparky watched.  I think he enjoyed it.

At around 8:45AM I started mowing our lawn and by the time I finished and started on Daniels the clouds were really rolling in fast so I mowed as fast as I could and finished just as it started sprinkling.  I got Sparky out and the wind switched out of the North about forty MPH and the temp dropped from 80 down to about 66 in a few minutes!  When Sparky finished we made it inside and the rain came down like crazy.  The garden probably appreciated the fresh rain and I appreciated the fact I won’t have to water it again for a few days….yessss.

We made pizza, I made the crust and Linda made the toppings, well, cooked them anyway.  We put them together and took one over to Daniel and Kiley’s.  We cooked ours because it was cool and we had the windows open.  It will probably get warm again though.

Work was really slow today. I took my book and almost finished it but a young fellow came  and talked for quite awhile. Kind of spooky. The kid really liked to tell stories which in my opinion couldn’t have been true, period.  Anyway, I made it all the way to the end of the shift with no real problems.

I had leftover chicken parmesan for supper.  Still good.  Not much going on tonight, just some TV and relaxation….Night Y’all…

Friday June 17th 2011

OK now I have to remember what we did on Friday!! Today is Sunday and I didn’t write the blog yesterday.  I thought about mowing the lawn today but I think it still looks pretty good so I will wait until tomorrow.  I remember now, I took Stanley to Poplar Bluff to pick up Jim.  Jim drove himself down to se the Doctor and they admitted him to the hospital.  Now he is supposed to get released and can’t drive.  This will work out pretty good because I have to go in to work at one PM so I will have time to drive down and back again and still have plenty of time to go to work.  The trip was smooth and Stanley and I talked about hunting and land and whatever happened to come up, had a pretty good conversation.

There wasn’t enough time to mow the lawn anyway so I just took it easy until time to go to work.

Work went well, kind of busy but not bad.  I forgot my book so I didn’t have anything to read.  Mark and I talked about eating and he said Food Giant, a grocery store, had great chicken.  I had to stop and pick up some on the way home.  It was good and also picked up some mushrooms (cooked) which were also good.

Got a couple pictures of the garden..

Just this side of the zucchini is the latest row of sweet corn.  Not very tall but will grow pretty fast, still have a pretty good size piece of garden yet and will probably plant another row of sweet corn there.

Lots of blooms on the zucchini and will probably only be a couple of days before some is big enough to use.

Taking it easy tonight, we had some chicken parmesan (frozen) cooked in the microwave which turned out quite nicely!!  Well, time for bed…Night Y’all…

Thursday June 16th 2011

I think it is going to be warm today but that is OK, I’ll take plenty of water to work with me.

Our curious plant that came with a tomato plant is weird. The thing will blossom and the (?) will get about two inches long and quit growing….

I guess it looks like a yellow squash but they don’t grow over two inches then quit growing.  Well, we have some flowers that are blooming and they are the  cheap annuals that I bought…

I think they look kind of neat. 

Grant and I worked on a trailer “cool coating” the roof.  Mark helped with the tree that was touching the roof.  Trimmed it up right nicely!

The white roof is the one that Grant did and it looked a lot like the other one with all the rust on it.  I think Mark said he has fifteen more to do.  Keep us busy for awhile.  He only plans on doing one a week or every other week.  Sure makes a big change in the looks.

The day was long and I was pretty tired when 5:30pm rolled around.  When I got home I asked Linda to give me a haircut. Weird little dog jumped up in my lap as soon as I sat down and stayed until Lind was finished with my hair…

The hole in the knee of my pants let in the sun.  Got a sunburn that kind of looks like a pink smile!

After my shower I decided to take it easy and before 10PM I was falling asleep on the sofa.  Guess it is time for bed…Night Y’all….