It’s official we have a new family member! I’d like to announce our newest arrival. About a 45 lb bouncing baby girl Roo!! We made it official today. We have adopted Roo and she now proudly wears a official name tag with her name and our phone numbers. Thursday afternoon she goes to the vet and gets a check up and needed shots (oh i hope she likes her new doctor)
This morning started out as a non productive day. Hubby left to go do some work and returned home. No one showed up today, guess the cold kept them away. So we decided it would be a good day to run into town and get his driver licenses renewed. NOOO it’s not near his birthday but since we are not planning on returning until June of next year his licenses do expire in April so we needed to get him legal so we didn’t have to return sooner then we have planned. Plus we needed to get our propane tanks filled up before heading out. Well .. the local DMV couldn’t renew CDL license so that was a strike out ..next to get propane .. can you believe we just missed the last of the 4 guys that could fill our tanks until after lunch. Another strike out!! Back to the camper for some lunch. I made a few phone calls and behold we found a DMV that can do it!
We loaded up and headed back into town stopped at the propane place, finally someone who could fill our tanks .. we needed one of 30 lb and our 20 lb gas grill tanks filled .. $35 for both. I didn’t think that was bad being they were both empty! That is off the ta do list. Next we headed to Jerseyville to the DMV and after a bit of a wait .. hubby now proudly has another 4 1/2 years on his licenses. I got mine renewed in July so we both are good to go for several years. While we were there we went ahead and renewed our camper sticker another one knocked off the ta do list! It’s due the end of December and we always get it before heading out on our winter journey. Illinois is our home base state. We have lived here all of our lives and no plans to change that. We spend more time then anywhere else here in Illinois, we vote, we pay taxes, we do all the stuff that anyone with a permanent resident doe. PlUS it’s where our grand kids are!!
After leaving the DMV we headed to Wal-mart to see if they have the dog tag machine, i looked in Litchfield yesterday and it was a no go .. no luck they don’t have one any more either .. ughhh so i had a brilliant idea. Let’s head to Alton to Petco! I love Petco and my babies love it when i go to Petco :)) So off to Alton we headed first stop was Petco and they had the name tags. Wow .. they have gone up in price. I remember buying them for 5 bucks! Now their $11 a piece and some were even $20!!! Guess they know we love our babies and we are suckers :))
After leaving Petco we headed to Big Lots as i hadn’t been to one in a longggg time .. I love Big Lots! Wow they had some good deals too .. even better yet. I got a new rug for 5 bucks, several new table cloths in colors that I've been looking for and they were only 2 bucks each, i got 3 different colors! I love being able to change things around and since i can not move my furniture it’s change table clothes and such :) I replaced a small baking pan that i have missed since leaving it in the motor home, i got a expandable spring rod that will hopefully hold my printer in place while traveling (another off the ta do list) and of course i got the babies some doggie treats! Roo has gotten to where she knows that when we bring bags of stuff into the camper she starts inspecting them as she knows some where in one of them is something for her and the other 2 babies. YESSS they are spoiled!
Next it was Home Depot to look for several things. 1st on the list was to get a new area rug for outdoors. I haven’t needed one here as we are on a very nice concrete slab. We tossed our old one when we got here as Lucy had way too many accidents on it during her last week of life. Poor thing couldn’t walk very far with out potting and she felt so bad, of course mommy and daddy told her it was okay we could replace it. So we did today. I was looking for a black or maroon but they only had gray or green. I got a gray one instead of the standard green. It will match our home better. 2nd on the ta do list was to look for some trim to trim our refrigerator in with but we couldn’t find anything that i was happy with. I do not like the fake stuff. In fact i want to replace the trim around our door frame with the same thing we put around the refrigerator so we decided since there was no way in this cold weather we could stain and gloss new trim we’d wait until this winter to finish that project. Hubby looked at some new toys but decided to wait on getting what he was looking for (some kind of tool gun). We did run into an old friend we hadn’t seen in 6 yrs or more. We visited and got caught up on with each and then it was time to head to get some thing to eat.
I wanted Chinese but hubby wanted Woody’s fried chicken, since we can not get Woody’s fried chicken on the road it won out. Oh it was so good .. great choice hubby!! We met the kids and visited for a while and before we knew it, time had flown by and it was time to say good bye. We headed home with barely enough time to relax a bit before we say good nite.
