Monday July 30th 2012

It is going to be a long day today.  Got Linda up kind of early and we tried to get everything in order and back in place and packed into the car so we could get on the road.  Turned off the water and electricity and covered up furniture.

We were packed and on the road by 8AM  I think that is quite a feet!  We stopped at the gas station down the road to get a breakfast burrito and get some air in the tires.  Cost a dollar for air but we didn’t get any, there wasn’t an air chuck on the hose!  We stopped at another station and I checked the air and it was OK. 

I am going to put a couple pictures in here..This is the Starling bird house and I guess these are Starlings???

This is a different view of our home…Our orange tree is loaded with oranges, they are really green though.

Getting ready to load the car.  It is pretty warm out already and I really worked up a sweat loading the car even though we brought back a lot less that we took down.

Our trip back to Nacogdoches went pretty good.  Texas sure is a big state!  We made it to Nacogdoches around 5PM which I thought was pretty good.  We have a Tom Tom that said it was around 550 miles and about eleven hours. I told Linda to turn it off.  I copied the route to take from Mapquest and it seemed to work good for us.  The rest of the trip tomorrow should be pretty easy, once we get back on Route 59.  Should be home tomorrow evening.

We are staying at the same motel that we stayed at on the way down.  The Victorian Inn and it is a lot cheaper tonight.  I know better now than to try to get it off the internet!!! 
Have a great one….Night Y’all….

PS.  I don’t have my glasses so I’m not even checking the spelling because I can’t see the worts!!

Sunday July 29th 2012

This is Sunday and it is going to be another very warm day.  I went to church at Mission First Baptist Church and the Sunday School class was very small, the teacher Rosalie, Dick and Mary and me.  It was interesting though.  Rosalie is very knowledgeable in the Bible.  She has been a Missionary in Mexico and must have a very interesting past.

Church was very different.  They had a bunch of kids that went to camp and they did the singing, and the one leader was an excellent singer!  They gave testimonies about the camp.

Even though the picture is blurry it is a lot better than what I figured it would be.  I sat almost to the rear of the church.

The church was really crowded! That reminds me of Friday night when we came into town, the expressway was almost bumper to bumper!  This is supposed to be the off season!!!

After church I went to Wal Mart and got some keys made and filled up with gas then I stopped at Leo’s (gas station) and got some burritos.  They were excellent.  That wasn’t what I wanted, I wanted a half chicken but they don’t have chicken on Sunday!  Oh well, this Fall I will have to stop and get some chicken.  The beans hit the spot, very spicy Ranch Beans.

Linda liked them…

This is the inside of our home in Texas.  It is very comfortable and the air conditioners work really well or swell…

Well, we aren’t going to do much the rest of the day, guess I will have to sign off…Night Y’all…

Saturday July 28th 2012

Sparky and I got up early this morning, well, just like every morning, but here it is still dark at 6AM!  I was surprised that it doesn’t get light until around 6:30 and it is almost seven before the sun finally comes up.

I want to add a picture of Linda and the park model here…

I had taken the dead bolt out of the door and we needed to go to Wal Mart to get another one.  I would have gone to Lowe’s but they are to far away and I was sure that Wal Mart would have what I wanted.  They did, in fact I got a set, the dead bolt and the door handle.  We also got a few other things

This morning when I was walking Sparky in the dark, we were heading back from the entrance and Sparky saw something and I could see a dark spot in the road and I thought “Oh no” I hope it isn’t a skunk or something like that.  We tried to walk around it  and then it started to run and Sparky started to chase it!  It was a dog!  Whew!  When we got into the light I saw that it had a collar and tag on and the dog looked like Shadow!  He didn’t really like Sparky so we just walked on and it followed us and when we got home he kind of waited outside, I wondered if he had been dumped???

Getting back from Wal Mart Linda said, “who is that”??  Someone was looking at our electric meter, an old man!  When he stood up and walked out from under the orange tree I could see it was someone we knew.  It was Dan, I couldn’t remember his name but he asked if we knew there was and air conditioner running in the house and I said “yes, there are two of them running”.  He introduced himself and told him we met Shadow this morning out by himself.  He said his back hurt so bad he just couldn’t walk the dog so the dog got to go on his own.

Well, I changed the deadbolt and it wasn’t bad at all, just had to have the  door open and it is about100 degrees outside so that made the air conditioner work all that much more. They do a good job though.  I will wait until later for the door handle.  Would be nice to have one key to fit both locks!

I did something this afternoon, or evening that I haven’t done in many years!  I went swimming!  The water was about 90 degrees, very warm, and I was there by myself.  I didn’t stay long, to much exercise for me.

I tried changing the door handle tonight.  To much work, I will wait until this winter when it is cooler.  Everything works fine now but putting in the door handle is going to be a job and I’m not sure it will even fit, good project for this winter, sometime!

We are all getting settled in and it is pretty comfortable,  We have no regrets about purchasing this park model.  It will be a great winter get away!

Time to say  Night Y’all..

Friday July 27th 2012

We got to Nacogdoches yesterday as I said.  We did sleep pretty well and by morning the room had cooled off pretty good.  We got ready to leave and the time wasn’t to bad probably around 8AM.  Their hot breakfast was waffles, I’m not a waffle fan, love pan cakes but waffles I’m not that fond of, I do and will eat them but not my choice for breakfast.  We had a couple of pastries.

We got gas before leaving Nacogdoches and got on the road.  We called Bernie and Elinore to ask about the door lock and wondered if it had a latch on the inside, well it doesn’t, it is a key lock on both sides!  That isn’t good.  We called Bob, the park owner and he said he would take his keys down and give them a try and would call us back later.

We drove on praying for a miracle and sure enough about an hour later Bob called back and said we were in!!!!  He had the key for the door handle and the deadbolt wasn’t locked!  Now that is a miracle!

We stopped in Alice for gas, not a great place to stop, it was about four miles from the interstate but we needed the gas, we had driven over four hundred miles on this tank and the car has a small tank.  We only have another hundred plus miles to go to get to Palmview, home!

I’m guessing the temperature right now at 5:30 is around 95 degrees and the house has been closed up for a couple of months.  We started unloading the car and I plugged in the electricity and turned the water on.  Looks like everything is OK.  The temperature inside in 98 degrees.  I turned the air on in the bedroom and let it cool off, I know we won’t be able to sleep with this kind of heat.

I took a shower, Linda was going to until she found she couldn’t get into the tub!  It will be one of the first projects that we do.  I think the tub is regular height but is set on a platform.  I can’t stand up in it so something is going to have to change.

The air conditioner in the bedroom works great.  What a difference in temperature!  We have it set on 75 and it is almost cold!  I’m sure it will be to cold for me to sleep well.

I have some pictures but I’m going to have to find the cord so I can down load them…We are really tired and the bed is soooooo comfortable!!!   Night Y’all….

Thursday July 26th 2012

Well I got Linda up early this morning, actually 6AM!!!  Unheard of for sure!

We packed up things in the car and tried to get everything done in the house but usually we forget something!

We were almost to Little Rock before I asked her if she was sure she had the keys…she thought that she did but after going through her purse she couldn’t find it, what a bummer.  Not going back home.  Bernie’s son in San Antonio has one but I don’t want to drive over there for a key.  I think we can get in and hopefully won’t have to break a window to do it!

We had a really nice day of travel, it has been in the 90s almost since we left Missouri.  Not any hotter here than there but it is very warm.  The AC in the car works great, not to cold not to warm.

We made it to Nacogdoches about 4:30PM which is a lot earlier than I figured we would get here.  Had a little problem with the motel, the Victorian Inn…

This is the motel and the outside looks very nice, actually the room isn’t to bad either, the AC doesn’t work that great though.

The problem we had is I made reservations online and I guess it was through Price Line and I found out I paid about $15 more than if I had just called and made a reservation.  I will have to make a comment on line about it.

Not going to do much of anything tonight just cool off and watch TV.  The big problem with the room was actually Sparky. The motel is pet friendly but I still had to pay extra for him.  This is his first night in a motel, well a human motel.  So far he is doing great…

Going to cool off and say Night Y’all…

Wednesday July 25th 2012

Well, here is another day that isn’t going to be very  cool and I work again today.   I’m sure that I won’t be working past noon.  I started pulling weeds that Roundup won’t kill and I worked until almost 11’30AM and I’m soaked. The temperature is about 95 and there is a pretty good breeze but it is still to hot to be pulling weeds!  I am going home at noon.

Linda cut my hair this afternoon.  I really needed it.  It was getting way to long and to hot.  She did a good job and I feel a lot better.  I laid down for awhile, didn’t sleep but rested and I do feel a lot better.  Linda is also feeling better.  Doesn’t take much for her back to start hurting though.  Her breathing sounds a lot better now and that is also good.

We are getting stuff put away and straightening things up.

Not much else going on so I am really going to make this short….Night Y’all..

Tuesday July 24th 2012

Well, probably won’t have to much to write today.  I will go to work later and probably won’t stay to long, it is supposed to get very warm today.

Went into work at 9AM and it was already warm.  I sprayed Roundup for a few hours, dumped trash, mowed a little section where we moved a tree and blew the rocks off the driveway.  I left work at noon.  This afternoon would be way to warm to work outside.

I took a nap when I got home, couldn’t stay awake in my recliner.  Didn’t feel real good after the nap but I imagine I will wake up later.

We didn’t do much of anything this afternoon, lounged and stared at the TV!

Guess that is about all for today, very boring huh?  Night Y’all…..