Saturday August 6th 2011

Well I had a good day at work yesterday and hopefully it will be as good today.

Didn’t do to much this morning.  A guy from a metal building came to see us (about a metal building). This is what I would like to have…

Yep! This is pretty much what I would like to have.  I have to wait though to see about what kind of neighbor moves in next to us because I would need to use their driveway to park our camper.  I took this picture down in Mississippi when we were there last year.  The ones the guy was trying to sell was different looking with sides on it and that is the only way it comes. The ends can be open but the sides are part of the wall structure.  They did come up with one that was sixteen feet by forty feet which would work and the price wasn’t to bad but we can’t do it right now not knowing about the neighbors!

Well work was pretty easy until I made a mistake!!  Can’t believe I made a mistake!  I was about to pull my hair out until the people came in that I was worried about.  It all worked out but I was about a half hour late getting home, had to stop for gas though so that didn’t help.

Well, I need to relax tonight and let the stress go!!  Going to watch some TV and relax…..Night Y’all….

Friday August 5th 2011

We got a little more rain last night but I think part of the garden has already bitten the dust!!  The tomatoes are still doing pretty good and hopefully they will perk up and give us a few more tomatoes.

Got the lawn mowed just in time (yesterday) for it to rain and now it will probably turn green again and do a little growing.  It is still hot out and the grass needs some cool weather.

Work went OK today, kind of slow but when I parked one of the campers I just happened to notice the golf cart, it looked like it was camouflaged, looked just like a dirt ball sitting there so I decided to was time to wash some of the dirt off.  Doesn’t look to bad now.

Got a call from a place I called about a steel building for the camper. They are coming tomorrow about ten in the morning to show me what they have. It would be nice to be able to park the camper under a roof. We will see what they have to offer and of course the price.

Well, this was an OK day, not exciting for sure but it was pretty easy.. Think that is about all for now….Night Y’all…

Thursday August 4th 2011

We got some rain yesterday!!  It rained pretty hard and the wind blew a lot. We really needed the rain but I don’t think it will help the garden a lot, it is pretty well over heated now and the corn is dying. The tomatoes should be OK and the Okra also.

Well, Mark looked for the needle valve that I dropped somewhere and he couldn’t find it either.  I called the golf cart place in Neelyville and the guy there said he would send us a couple needle valves free.  The whole carburetor  would cost $186.  We will try the free parts first.

Mark and I drove through the park to get a few things for me to do today because I will be on my own again.  He will work at the cell phone store again for C.W. who took another vacation day.

Throughout the day I think I got every job done that he had listed plus a couple extra ones.  I kept busy all day and the temperature is only about ninety today so it isn’t to bad.

When I got home the electric bill was in the mailbox.  Not looking forward to this.  We’ve had to run the air conditioner all month because the heat and humidity were so high.  I figured $250, our home is all electric, and Linda of course made me guess. it was only $126!!!!  That is amazing!!!  We do run our air a little different than most other people though. During the day if it is really hot we set it on 81 degrees and then at night we keep turning it down until we get to 77 degrees.  May sound a little warm but for some reason we are both very comfortable.

Well, I had picked some sweet corn the other day and tonight I had a couple of ears.  It tastes good but it is getting pretty tough.  I think I should have picked it sooner.  We still have corn coming on but I planted it later. Hope it will be OK.

Mowed the lawn tonight.  There are only a few places that need mowing. I mowed Daniel’s back yard, for some reason it is really green and growing like crazy.  I mowed our front yard and part of the back yard under a tree where the roots are starting to sprout little trees, lots of little trees!

Well, another night to sit back and relax, did enough today I feel like I need the rest.  Oh, Bits made some goodies and I brought them home, not good for Linda’s diet but they were excellent.  I had to ask what was in them because I couldn’t tell.  They were made from crescent rolls, cream cheese, sugar and cinnamon.  I love cream cheese!  These were excellent for adding inches to your waist line!

I missed the weather forecast tonight, guess I had my eyes closed!  Night Y’all…..

Wednesday August 3rd 2011

Today is supposed to be one of the hottest days of the year! A little water on the garden won’t hurt anything. Not sure it will help either though.

Wonder what I will be doing today at work.  It is almost to hot to do anything outside.  I worked on the golf cart again this morning.  I know it is leaking gas so I have to figure out where it is leaking from and you can’t see the engine and run it at the same time.  The only way is to lift the back tires off the ground so that is what I did.  It took a little while but I can see the leak now.  HMMMM, I’m not a mechanic but I figure the carburetor  has a little problem so I take it apart, again. Yes there is a problem.  I lost the float valve. I lost that the last time I took it apart. I also lost the float and the pin that holds the float.  I found the pin and the float the last time and replaced them but I guess there was a valve that goes in there also.  I took another carburetor apart and saw what the missing part looks like and tried to find it but that has been a week ago and no telling where it could be. I think maybe it landed on the chassis which you can’t get at and it has a valley in it that is a catch all and really hard to get things out of it.  Well, we need to order the valve I guess, we will see what Mark says.

This afternoon I did some odd jobs, used the leaf blower for awhile, pulled weeds and picked up trash. Almost to hot to be working outside.

When I got home and watched the weather, the weather forecaster said Cape got up to 103 and it seems we are always warmer than Cape. I drank a lot of water today!

Going to take it easy and rest up tonight.  Just to tired to do much of anything else.  Night Y’all….

Linda made some bacon and tomato sandwiches for supper!  Tomatoes are from our garden, they are starting to come on a little faster now but not real fast.  Hopefully we will get enough for us to give some away…

Tuesday August 2nd 2011

OK I’m a day late on this one, I was to tired yesterday to do it but now I will try to remember what all happened today??

I know I got up this morning, let me think now, I’m sure that it is really going to be warm today, it’s been warm every day.  I have to go to work this afternoon but I am going to do a few things around here.  I got the tiller out and went down a row of grass (in the garden) and tried to get most of it tilled under. It wasn’t hard to do. I got the weed eater out next and got some of the grass that is way out of control.  Out by our mailbox, where I can’t get with the mower, it is almost as tall as I am, well, not quite but it sure doesn’t look good.  I got that done and a few other spots that really are not looking good.

Work this afternoon went pretty good, very slow in terms of campers coming in for the night.  Got a few but not many.  I think it is just to hot to travel.  I’m still amazed that most campers are very friendly, some, well, maybe they just had a rough day.

Got out of work on time and headed home.  I thought that I should water the garden, it’s look really parched.

We didn’t do anything special tonight.  Guess that’s about it!!  Night Y’all…

Monday August 1st 2011

Got the day off today and will probably do a few things around here like water the garden.  I figured it would rain but it didn’t, at least not here. We have a little running around to do, I want to get the oil changed in the car, it’s about that time.  Getting close to fifty thousand on it now.  Got new tires for it before going to Illinois so that is taken care of.  Got the car washed to, that is part of the oil change here.  Now I have to clean the inside and make it look presentable.  I had dropped Linda off at Wal Mart while I went to the Quick Lube place.  I also had to stop at the bank.

We didn’t get much at Wal Mart, I wanted to go to Lowe’s to check out a tank for the well and just look around.  Things are sure expensive!  Found a nice twenty gallon tank for $150 but didn’t buy it, just looking!

When we finished at Lowe’s then we went back to Wal Mart to get a few groceries.  We spent quite a little bit of time in Wal Mart and we didn’t get home until after 3PM.  Sparky was ready to go out but he sure was good. Nothing torn up and no accidents!!  I think that he is pretty well trained now.

Linda keeps losing weight, but she gains a little when she fudges on her diet.  I just don’t like the Nutri-System food, I think it tastes terrible. I guess she is OK with most of it.

Nothing going on tonight, taking it easy….Night Y’all..

Sunday July 31st 2011

Nice sunny day today, thought it might rain last night but it didn’t.

Went to Friendship Baptist again this morning.  Sunday School was good and so was church.

After church I stopped at Food Giant and bought some chicken. They really have good chicken!  Lunch was good. Had some tater puffs and sweet corn.  The sweet corn is small but still very good.

I got to take a nap this afternoon!  Not a long one but it helped.

Tonight at church they had a 5th Sunday Sing.  Well, they had a group in called “Golden Street”…

I had to take a picture of this because I couldn’t remember the name of the quartet.  I like Ps 100, even have a song from it!

Here they are…..

I don’t know their names but from L to R..Bass, Baritone, Lead and Tenor..

They were very good.  The tenor was especially good, even though they were all good but he had a really high voice and he didn’t try to out sound the rest like some tenors I have heard.  They were a compliment to each other.

We got to talk to the kids in SD (San Diego) tonight on the phone.  They are making preparations to go camping at Big Bear next week.  Sounds like fun.

Well that’s about all for today….Night Y’all…