Last Day of High School for our Caboose and Moved Sites Today

Thursday,
May 7, 2009

I just read Kevin & Arlene’s blog and I have to agree with her that it does get hard to write an entry in our blog when you basically do the same thing every day. But I still try my best to make it interesting without talking about politics...LOL I could write daily about that but then they would only be my opinions and who cares what I think. This morning was the same, I woke up early had my cup of coffee and finished putting the last few items away. So, if by chance I can move our home today, it will be ready. I gave Gina her wakeup call and then she called me back when she was pouring her first cup of coffee. We may be apart but we still like talking in the morning while we enjoy our coffee together. She didn’t have any plans and this was Thomas’ last day of high school.

Our Caboose (You think he's happy???)

We talked a couple of times during the day but I was focused on work so I could get away from there early. I called the RV park and they said I could move. That was good news, since I really didn’t want to change sites on Friday. It would have just made Friday longer than what it will be since I’m driving back to our house in Louisiana after I work a full day. It’s very rare for me to work on Friday's but I have a meeting in the afternoon. Now that’s extremely rare to have a meeting on Friday and then even more so on Friday afternoon. But the vessel that I have been working on is arriving in Ingleside, Texas on Saturday and time is critical to discuss a few details. Since it doesn't happen very often I guess that I can handle it on this occasion.

Gina went back down to my sister’s house and did a little more landscaping work and Thomas was working on extending the culvert for our driveway.

The Culvert Extension

This was an issue when I first brought our new truck and fifth wheel to our house. It was wet and I got stuck because I did want to drag our new home through the ditch. Well, we’re bringing our home back to Louisiana in a couple of weeks and I really don’t want a repeat of getting stuck or possibly damaging our home either. So he was doing that for me without me asking him to. There was a reason he took the initiative to do this. He wanted some money so he could go out to a party and celebrate with other seniors since none of them had to wake up in the morning for school. He figured I would be kind to him since he was doing something for me. Children, will they ever learn that we were there age at one time too?? Anyway we’re proud of him and rejoice that he is the caboose, so no more wake ups for school, home work, school functions and so on…. Can you say empty nest is right around the corner!!!!!!

I left work at 3:30 and got our home moved and set up by 5:15. I could have been done quicker but I always get stopped by people when I start up the truck and pull the slides in on our home. We have become friends with so many other RV’ers here that they think we’re leaving and they want to say good bye. Here is our new site at Rayford Crossing RV Resort.

Site #41

A Little Better View

That was about it for the day. There wasn't anything good on TV and I didn’t feel like watching a movie. I wrote a few emails before I finally called Gina and told her good night. It was another good day and that is always something to be thankful for.

Until tomorrow, Gina & I hope everyone has a pleasant and wonderful day, enjoying what our Father has so graciously blessed us with.

It's Hot and Pictures for Joe

Wednesday
May 6, 2009

What a day yesterday was. The morning was good even though I had to work. Gina & I did the normal routine of me waking her up with a phone call and then she calls me back and we talk on the phone together enjoying our coffee together. She was back out in her garden pulling more grass in the morning and I had another meeting to go to which took up all of my morning. By noon time Gina went down to my sister’s house and decided to help her and my brother-in-law with some of their landscaping. I’m not sure what all she did but Thomas went down there in the afternoon and cut down a dead maple tree them. Gina finally finished up with what she was doing down there around 7 o’clock and then went over to my sister-in-law’s house to pick up Thomas’ senior pictures. She said they all look great. When I got in from work I took some pictures of our new leather seats that I installed in the truck and the AC unit that my dad and I have been working on the last two weekends so I could show you all what we have done. I generally do not take pictures when Gina is not here with me since there is not much to photograph. Well Joe said he likes to read what people are doing but really enjoys pictures so he can see what we’re doing instead of just reading about it. I think he referred back to that old saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” well Joe these pictures are for you Joe!!

Driver's Seat

Passenger Seat

Inside AC Unit (Evaporator)

Outside AC Unit (Condenser/compressor)

After I took the pictures I started packing up our home. I am moving sites tomorrow or Friday and I don’t want any of Gina’s stuff to get broken. This would only give her another reason to go shopping for things. She seems to find enough reasons for shopping than for me to give her more reasons. Anyway, I got it all put away but I’ll tell you I sure wished she was here to do it because I don’t know how she gets all this stuff put away. If it was me I wouldn’t have near that much pretty stuff displayed but then again I probably wouldn’t have the fifth wheel that we have either. I admire all you ladies that get those pink jobs done before us men hook up and move down the road.

American Idol was over and I talked to Gina for a few minutes before calling it a day. We still had a blessed day and looking forward to tomorrow as we rejoice and celebrate Thomas’ last day of high school. We are very proud of him and look forward to his graduation on May 15th.

On a separate note, I don’t know about you all, but, I would like to know what happened to spring here in Texas. It seems to me that winter stuck around longer than normal and now summer is here earlier than normal. This morning I woke up to 75oF (23.8oC that’s Celsius is for you Brenda!!) and the high today is forecast to be 92oF (33oC) with 80 percent humidity. This is just too hot for being the first part of May. When I walked outside it felt like a sauna and it was only 5:30 in the morning. I know I’m whining so I’ll leave it alone since I cannot do anything about it. I just wanted to complain a little bit, you know us men if we’re complaining then you know we are happy. Not really but I used to hear that saying all the time.

Now about the picture below, this was the picture JB took back in March when a bunch of us RV-Dreamers had our gathering. I was just missing everyone so I decided to post this picture here for Joe since he likes them pictures!!LOL

Until tomorrow, Gina & I hope everyone has a pleasant and wonderful day, enjoying what our Father has so graciously blessed us with.

A Maintenance Day

Tuesday
May 5, 2009

Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! It was another normal day for me and Gina. I went to work and she went outside to work (play) in her garden. I went by the Volvo dealer and picked up the part I needed along with an air filter for the rear AC unit. The filter that was in there didn’t look like it had ever been replaced. I finally made it home at 5:30 and cooked some dirty rice for dinner. While dinner was cooking I decided to go outside and re-caulk two areas on our home that needed it. I talked to Gina and she was finishing up her re-staining job. She decided to re-stain both swings outside along with a few other items since the weather over the last year had taken it’s toll. I guess you could call this a maintenance day for us.

After dinner I watched American Idol and Gina and Thomas put a movie on. After American Idol went off I went to bed to watch Fringe and ended up falling asleep. Not an exciting day but Gina and I got some needed tasks accomplished.

Until tomorrow, Gina & I hope everyone has a pleasant and wonderful day, enjoying what our Father has so graciously blessed us with.