More Departure’s

This is the 3rd morning in a row that i have gotten up early so that i could bid farewell to good friends. 

Today’s departing couple is Tom and Betty .. Safe travels …

After doing a few things, hubby wanted to take a trip town to get a new battery for our generator.  Yep, it’s getting close to time we may need it.  On the way to town i asked if he got the old battery … ughh .. nope … that chore is marked off until the next trip.

We went to Tractor Supply and that was a bust .. on to the Dollar Tree .. got what i needed and then on to Wal-mart .. I got what i needed .. another bust for hubby.  He just wasn’t having a good day.

We got home and had lunch and then the dreaded task of washing the trailer.  Oh it was so dirty .. you wouldn’t believe the yuck that came off.  I forgot to mention hubby washed his truck yesterday.

After all that work i needed a break and so i went over and spent the evening sitting outside working on my embroidery quilt I'm making (so did Dorothy)  see we just don’t gossip .. we work as were doing it .. hehe

April Fool's Day!!

Today another RV couple pulled out to head to a new location.  I do not like saying Good Bye .. it’s hard to do with friendships that you have created.  Since we tend to stay longer periods in one spot we get attached to the new friendships that we make.

Today very special friends pulled out.  It was so hard to see them go, yet we know that our winter is coming to an end and it won’t be long before all the RVer’s are gone including us.

Rudy, Andrew and Elaine pulled out today .. our thoughts and prayers are with you. 

It wasn’t long and it was time to get on the phone and decide what we were going to do about our living room AC.  I spent my entire day on the phone with different RV suppliers and the Insurance.
I am getting Insurance quotes from other companies and still not really happy with our current insurance company.

Finally by the end of the day and being on the phone all day we made our decision and ordered the unit we need and we’ve decided to fight it out with the insurance at a later date.   It’s getting warm here and it’s not good on the bedroom AC having to try to cool they entire place.

Hopefully Wednesday or Thursday our new unit will be here and hubby will replace it out the old one and then we will decide on a departure date.  I’m glad the decision is made, not happy with the loss of bank account. 

Of course i can not let the day go by without letting you all know it's April Fool's Day!!  I didn't have time to think up any tricks on hubby or anyone else.  But from what i understand my husband was involved in one on a couple here at the home.

Aparently a couple of the guys spent lots of time taking parts off junk cars and packaged them up as they were a shipment to another couple as new decorations for their recenly make over home .. No it's not an April Fool .. honestly i was a good girl this year and did not play one joke .. i didn't have time :((

I spent my evening sitting outside with good friends and enjoying one of the last time we will get to do that with some.

Yes, it’s warm again!

We woke up to a chilly morning, but the sunshine appeared and it turned into a gorgeous day with warm temps!  I got up early enough to go say good by to Lois and Frank who pulled out today.

I started a load of laundry and spent my morning with a long bible study.  It seems lately i haven’t gotten to spend the time i have wanted for a deep bible study and so this morning i took advantage of the time.
Before i knew it was time for lunch and then after lunch we ladies were invited to Anita’s home for snacks and tea.  We had a wonderful time with a wonderful testimony of how a son came to Jesus Christ and other discussions of our daily walk.  Time went by so fast and before long it was time to part.
After dinner I sat outside with the other RVer’s we had a wonderful evening and a look at this sunset .. breath taking!!

Then it was time to come inside and get ready for bed .

Davey Dogwood Park

Another morning of getting up early.  We had devotions with the staff and afterwards the ladies headed out on our day out.  Jayne drove since her SUV held 7 of us. 
Our first place to head was ……


 

My pictures are not the best as it was another day without sunshine.  It’s a chilly day with temps in the low 50’s

 

The park is beautiful and a wonderful peaceful drive

 

If the weather would have been it would have been nice to have gotten out of the car and walked around and across the walk bridges.  It was just too cool for any of the ladies liking.

   
    

I snapped pictures of the ladies in the car

  
 
 
 
I thought these bricks were neat they had Texas wrote in them with stars




I loved the brick side walk .. i love how things were in the old days

 

I wanted a group picture L-R back row .. Lois, Anita, Jayne, Betty .. Front .. Pat and Dorothy

   

We had lunch at the Old magnolia Sandwich Shop, which is also like a gift/flea market type store as well.



Most of us had the half sandwich with broc & cheese soup that was excellent.  I had chicken salad and soup .. it was very good.



This was a neat place it also has a type of coffee place where they had places to sit and relax and read.  This man was studying his bible which i admired


It was a great day with wonderful fellowship and a wonderful way for the ladies to have one last gathering before several RVer’s pull out.  Winter is fast coming to end.

After dinner we went to Chapel service and then it was long before our night came to an end.   

Is it going to rain?

It was a bit on the nippy side this morning.  I was up by a little after 8 am today.  I guess going to bed early got me rested back up.  So I got up this morning and picked up .. got my dishes done and then it was bath day for my fur babies.

This is Dixie, she wasn’t in a mood for her picture to be taken last time it was bath day but today she seemed to not mind it.  After giving my babies a bath i needed to do a load of towels and then it was time to get lunch going.

It’s a bit on the chilly side this morning.  Hmmm and then i heard them say back in the 90’s by Saturday .. grrr .. what happened to just enjoying high 70’s?  That is my preferred temperature of course it seems it’s hard for me to get that these days.

By late afternoon the temp did get up to 69!  I was glad for the warmer weather .. yet not to hot to need AC (that is not a good subject at this point) and it looked like it could rain at any time.  I spent my afternoon visiting with my friend Betty and we worked on getting her cards made.  After she left it wasn’t long and the insurance called and they still are not sure if they are going to cover the brown out.  I am suppose to go forward and either get ours fixed or replace it with a new one and keep all my receipts till they decide.  Hmmmm  .. not sure i am liking this.

After my talk with the insurance i called the repair guy and he is waiting for a call back but it’s looking like we will be replacing the entire unit because all he could find right now is a reconditioned compressor and hubby doesn’t like that ideal.  So it’s still no AC in the living room. 

We had  planned to been discussing pulling out on Friday or Saturday this week, but since the brown out, plan’s have changed and for now our departure has been delayed until sometime next week (AC pending)

Around 5 pm the rain finally arrived, although it was very light and barely enough to get the ground wet. 
After dinner around 7 pm i went over and visited with Dorothy and stayed until almost 10 pm.  Then it was home to shower and get ready for bed.

Good night all

Texas Chilly Day

Today was a lazy day .. it’s been cool and barely got to 60 degrees!  I spent my morning being lazy and then i finally got around and picked up my dirty home.  Swept and scrubbed the kitchen floor, did a few loads of laundry.

I had company this afternoon .. my friend Dorothy came to visit and we had a nice time.

It was a early night for me as i stayed up until 2 am last night .. so off to the shower and i was in bed by 9 pm!

Changes …

Wow .. what a change in temps today.  We have gone from 89 degrees to a high of 62 degrees!  It’s been one chilly day!  Yes, I am cold at 62 degrees!

We went to church this morning and then to Ryan’s for lunch.  Today was a farewell lunch as 3 couples are pulling out either Friday or Saturday and our plans are to pull out a week from Tuesday!  It’s hard to believe winter is coming to an end.  Esp when I talked to my boys and Illinois got snow over the weekend and a high of 35 .. brrrr

I’m ready to go home and see my family, but i’m not ready for cold weather!  Come ole man winter  .. leave Illinois and let spring be in the air.

Since the weather was so cool, i spent my late afternoon on the phone talking to friends and my evening has been spent making changes to add to my blog.  I hope you enjoy the new changes.