A Beautiful Day

We woke up to a beautiful day .. temps were in the mid 70’s and i had to turn on the AC this afternoon.  We got up and got ready for church this morning.  I was actually ready a half hour before time to leave.  Very rare for me :)  Of course we didn’t have far to go.  Walk out our door and around the corner and were at church. 

We had a nice service and everyone was really friendly.  After church we had to hurry home as the satellite guy is coming this afternoon.  YES you read that correctly.  I was shocked when i called yesterday afternoon to set up an appointment.  Sure enough we were not home 2 mins when the phone rang to see if we were out of church as they were almost here.

The guys showed up and come to find out our problems we are having were not our fault.  Our dish is the wrong dish for this area.  They have changed back to the old satellite of 110 &119 because of all the problems the new south east dish was causing.  So once they exchanged our dish, changed some settings inside we were all setup.  I had to call later as they still had not turned on our local channels but all is well now.  We’d like to stay on the old system as it’s much easier to hit then the new south east.  Time will only tell.

After we got all setup on our satellite we needed to run to get something to fix our sewer .. i have tons of laundry to do and so we found a Lowes over in Gautier about 10 miles away.  We also decided to go ahead and stop by Save A Lot and Wal-mart and get some needed groceries.  We didn’t get home until 4.30 PM.  We decided dinner was going to be something easy as neither of us were in any mood to stop and eat or cook.  I had cereal and hubby had mushroom soup.

I spent my evening working on setting up hubby’s computer as i had to restore it.  It kept freezing up and i think he got some spam or a virus and i didn’t want to take the time to figure it out and he doesn’t really keep much other then his favorites on his computer.  I did have to download and upgrade his browser, anti-virus and weather bug.

The rest of my evening is going to be spent curled up in bed watching the Lifetime Christmas shows.  I’m exhausted and looking forward to a few days of nothing but doing laundry .. NOT but i have already done 3 loads and have at least another 4 or more to go.  So glad i can do it inside of my home and not have to go anywhere.

Everyone is finally Moved!

Pascagoula, MS

Oh what a stressful few days it’s been .. Friday nothing went right for us and when we got to Steve’s to move him they had the only road out tore up and we barely fit through with our truck.  NO way could we pull a 32’ travel trailer through there.  Since we wasn’t able to move Steve we all decided to head to Hard Rock to eat lunch.  They have a discount buffet on Wednesday and Friday’s.  After we ate lunch Steve still needed us to help him get several things done.  So off we went to finish up his to do list.  What a day it was and we didn’t get home until after 8 pm and we still had to pack and get ready for our move in the morning.  We finally got finished and after showering it was almost 11 PM before getting to bed.  At least all we have to do in the morning is unhook the electric, put the slides in and put hubby’s coffee pot up.

We were up early and on the road to moving by 8 AM!  Our morning did not start off good.  One of our slides did not want to go in and no it wasn’t the one that i crushed the printer in.  We needed to stop and dump our tanks before heading on the road.  For the just in case.  It was a very tight squeeze getting our big rig in to dump.  With time and good maneuvering on hubby’s part we finally got that dirty deed done.

One good thing about the morning was it was really nice by 8 AM it was already 58 degrees and reaching the low 70’s :)We didn’t go far only about 35 miles.  We will be staying in Pascagoula, MS for around 2 weeks or so. 
 
Once again it was tight maneuvering on hubby’s part as city streets are not built for big rigs.  Hubby did good and we just took our time.  Once we got to where we were going they didn’t have the van moved for us to park and no one was around to move it.  Luckily for us it was unlocked so we took it out of gear, while hubby pushed on it i ran the break.  We got it out of the way enough we could park where we could reach the hookups. 

We got backed in where they told us to park and got setup.  YES, we are parked in a parking lot.  Not the pretty site we just left.  But hey i have full hookups here and 2 weeks worth of laundry that needs to be done!  I’m not going to complain about our view.  I do not have any other rigs on top of me and i have a full view on our door side, our back side is not pretty but as i said I'm not complaining.  Instead I’m thankful i do not have to go to a laundry mat and most of all it’s free rent! 

Uh Oh .. our water hose has a leak, our sewer is running up hill.  Ughh we decided we wouldn’t worry about either until later. So we headed to Biloxi to Steve’s place and i tried calling several times to let him know we were on our way.  Of course he wasn’t answering.  We barely missed the Christmas parade on our way over.  (of course i wouldn’t of minded seeing it but we just didn’t have time)
 
Steve finally returned my call when were about 5 mins from his place.  His new phone and him are not working out too well as it only has 1 ring tone and he can not hear it very good.  We arrived and backed in to hook up to Steve’s trailer and it took some doing as his battery was dead and his electric jack wouldn’t work.  We ended up hooking back up to the electric to get hooked up.  Finally we were on our way and then we got stopped for the draw bridge.  In all the times we have crossed this bridge we’ve never seen it raised up.  Of all days.  We had to wait almost 30 mins!  Finally we arrived at the Armed Forces Retirement home.  Instead of letting us go through an open clear gate they had us go through the front gate.  Guess you can imagine what happened when you don’t have enough clearance.  Hubby told the guard he didn’t think we had enough clearance we should go through the side gate and he insisted we did and he’d watch us.  Yes, we got stuck!  Hubby had to unhook the trailer from our truck to lower it enough.  Then he had to work on his receiver and set the ball lower so that he could get the camper backed out.  Finally about an hour later he had the camper unstuck and we were on our way again.  Then the area that they gave us to park was so little and there were trailer’s everywhere and with our big beast barely enough room to get swung around and backed in.  Another over an hour and lots of barely moving forward, going backwards and Steve and I directing hubby we had the trailer parked .. So relieved that was over.  We were so frustrated and just wanted to get out i didn’t even take any pictures.  There was no damage to the building but did put a scrap on Steve’s camper on the side where it caught a light pole.  Of course we were all thankful that is all it was as it could have been so much worse.  I bet from now on they will let the campers use the side gate .. snicker
 
It was after 3 PM but Steve wanted to give us a tour of his new home.  We took the tour and it’s really nice and I'm so thankful he finally got in as i won’t have to worry about him near as much when were gone.  They will take care of all of his needs.  We were all starving so we headed a few blocks away to Kentucky Fried Chicken.  It was really good and after eating we were all exhausted and we decided to say good bye for now.

We still had about a 35 min drive home and we needed to stop by Lowe’s to get a new hose so we could have water and an adapter for sewer hose.  I guess one out of two isn't bad.  They didn’t have one of the white hoses we like to use for our water but they did have the end hubby needed to fix our hose.  They didn’t have the sewer adapter either.  We got home and it was starting to get dusk as you can see by the pictures. 

We finally got home and hubby fixed it so we could have water.  For now we will have to leave the tanks all closed and when we dump we will have to hand move the hose to get the water to go out until we can get what we need.

Hubby tried working on the satellite but couldn’t get it and he was so frustrated he said forget it and i called and set up an appointment for someone else to come work on it.  He decided to get him a good long hot shower and just relax.  You won’t believe what happened to him next.  He went to get on his computer and now it’s locking up.  I tried working on it but i fear he had a virus on it and when he shut his computer down this morning when we left it got it good.  I will try restoring it tomorrow. 
So for now he is lying on the couch watching Georgia and LSU play football.  At least we get several channels on regular TV for him.

It’s been 2 very long days of nothing going right and we pray tomorrow will be a better day for us.  I pray the satellite guy doesn’t come while were at church in the morning.  I’m going to put my phone on vibrate in case he tries to call.

I have a load of laundry going and the rest of the evening is going to be spent just relaxing as we are both mentally and physically exhausted.  Were glad we are parked and pray that the next few weeks go good for us.  Tomorrow is suppose to be another day with mid 70’s temps.  I plan to spend our afternoon outside enjoying the sunshine.

Busy 1st Day of December!

We got up late this morning as i was moving fairly slow.  Wasn’t long our 1st day of December turned into a very busy day.  Our morning started off with a phone call from friends (Jimbo and Becca) .. uh oh .. car trouble.  Once we got ourselves (yes me) around we headed to help them out.  We were done around noon and then it was time to head over to finish packing up our friend Steve.  We got that done and got home around 4 PM, long enough to let the dogs out to go potty and then we headed to Hurley, MS to see friends there.

Hugh and Audrey invited us to dinner (we were starving as we hadn't had time to even stop to eat today).  We had a wonderful time together.  We hadn’t seen them for a few months.  Audrey (well Hugh helped, he pealed the potatoes, washed the carrots and stirred it time to time) Beef stew, Cole slaw, corn bread and bread pudding.  It was wonderful!  After visiting and stuffing ourselves we played a couple games of Skip Bo and before we knew it was 9 PM!  We decided we better call it a night as we’d been gone all day and they are heading back to their home in SC tomorrow.

We got home and let the doggies go do their business.  Lexi was not happy as she didn’t get a walk at all today.  We received a phone call earlier in the day and we will be packing up and heading to Pascagoula, MS on Saturday.  Tomorrow will be another busy day of moving our friend to his new home.

Today was another beautiful sun shine filled day!  I'm loving this weather.  We are having cool nights but once the sun comes out it turns into a beautiful day!

Exploring

We woke up to another beautiful morning.  We actually got to moving a bit earlier this morning as we had several things to do on our list.  Here is a picture of where we are nestled in for a short stay.  I really like this corner spot as we do not have anyone in front of us.  I can walk the dogs across the road and they get to potty in the woods.

First on our list was to go pay for another 3 days as we’ve got some moving to do and decided we’d stay here while doing it. 

The picture above is of the ranger station.  They are so nice here.  This is quiet little park and we’ve really enjoyed our few days here so far.

 

The top picture is of the area for smaller campers, the bottom picture is for the bigger rigs like us and it makes a loop.  We love being in the woods although so far no satellite for hubby.

 

After taking Lexi for her morning walk, it was time to head to Biloxi to meet Steve for lunch and do a few errands.

Once we got finished with Steve we knew today would be our only time to go check out where we may be heading on Saturday.  So we headed over to Pascagoula, MS .

 

   

another big bridge … i don’t mind going over these bridges they are not too big.

 

We sure was glad we did some checking before hauling our rig over as the directions we got were not big rig friendly!  We finally found the place and had to do a circle and then we stopped to see where the hookups were.  Hmmm this is going to be fun.

   

On our way there we didn’t hit much traffic but on our way back we sure did.  The shipyards let out and man on man there was lots of traffic.

  

We got home in time to take Lexi on an afternoon walk before dark arrived.  I forgot my camera but we walked back to the primitive and picnic area and it’s very nice.  I am not sure i will have time to go back and get pictures this round.

 

If not i will get them when we come back right before Christmas.  We are planning to return before Christmas and spend Christmas here. 

We got back from our walk and it was time to get some dinner together.  I had chips & salsa (my mother in law made the salsa for me) and it was sooo good!  Hubby had left over baked potato and pork steak with gravy.

We are spending our evening relaxing and just enjoying a quiet evening together.  We are both exhausted from another busy day and the next few days are going to be even more busy. 

To the Beach

We started off to a lazy start.  We woke to a beautiful morning.  The sun is shining and it feels good to have my blinds up and let the warmth in.

Hubby fiddled with the satellite dish but couldn’t find a signal .. were not sure if it’s the area or if something happened to our receive in the travel.  While traveling down 49 in Mississippi, the beginning of the road is pretty ruff and we did lots of bouncing causing my printer to fall off and several things got misplaced including our receiver.  It just slide forward thanks to the cords holding it in place. 

Around 1 PM we decided to head to the beach.  As you can see in the pictures.  The road coming out of where we are is winding at times and a beautiful drive.  It’s about 1.5 miles from the highway.

   

We spent several hours just relaxing and wondering around the beach.  It appears to be low tide or the Gulf is going dry.

  

This family was having fun feeding the birds bread and as you can see the birds were enjoying being feed. 

  

This Crane had something in his mouth but we couldn’t get close enough to tell exactly what he had.

We had fun writing in the sand on the beach.  My honey wrote me love notes :))  I love you too honey!  It’s a beautiful day.  We had to wear long sleeves but no coat or jacket.  I prefer it a bit warmer but I'm so happy to see the sun and feel it’s warmth.

The traffic has gotten worse since we were here almost a year ago.  After spending a wonderful afternoon at the beach we needed to make a Wal-mart run as we were out of milk, bread and chips.

The campground is marked really well and i love it when we have good road signs. 

As you can see the sun was going down when we pulled in and we were starving.  I had put some pork steaks with gravy mix in the crock pot to cook while we were gone.  So all hubby had to do was throw us a couple of baked potatoes in the micro and dinner was done.  We spent the rest of the evening resting as we were both exhausted.  It was an early night to bed as my back and legs were hurting from too much fun. 

We arrived and so has the cold!

Davis Bayou, Ocean Springs, MS

We were back on the road by 8.45 AM.  We woke to misting rain and heavier rain at times but nothing we couldn’t handle.  We traveled 227 miles today and have reached our destination for a few days.  (This is the only picture that i took yesterday).

When we arrived there were several spots available and it wasn’t long they were filling up.  Looks like all the northerners have arrived and brought their cold with them :((

I had a mishap again today with the slides .. grrr .. remember my new printer?  Well i didn’t check and it fell off and i crushed it with the slide :((   Needless to say it wasn’t a good time to be here and i was ready to give away our 5th wheel and it’s slides.  Of course it wasn’t my fault, hubby drove to fast and shook everything out of place, if he would drive right I  wouldn’t  crush things. (sounds good to me :)  It’s official i am no longer allowed to touch the slide outs anymore.

Once that mishap was over and we got the printer out of the slide out, there was no damage to the slide out just the printer.  We finished getting setup and i decided to call my friend Steve and let him know we were in town.

Well prefect timing as Steve had tried to call me earlier in the week to let me know he was getting a new phone number.  He told me to call him back later on his new phone.  Well later came and i tried calling but the new phone wasn’t working and the old number was done cut off.  Guess you can imagine what we did next?  Yep we drove over to his place to check on him. 

He said he tried to get the new phone to work and it wouldn’t and forgot to ask where we was as we never stay at the same place :))  He hadn’t charged the new phone and it was dead so i got it going for him and then he told us .. God sent you just in time, believe it or not my friend Steve was actually glad to see me .. well okay if you insist, he was glad to see hubby :)  Steve had tried calling to let us know he needed our help.  He finally is getting to move into the VA Retirement home in Biloxi and so Wed – Sat we will be spending our days packing moving and cleaning to get  him moved to his new place.  Of course he has some Mr. Fix it projects as well for hubby that will start on Tuesday.   So now our plans have changed from moving to a new place on Wednesday to staying here at least until Sunday or Monday.  Well that is if they will let me stay :))

After leaving Steve’s place we headed to Wendy’s for some quick sandwiches as neither of us felt like stopping to eat in anywhere.  Were both are tired from 2 days of traveling.  I’m looking forward to upper 60’s in a few days as I'm so tired of the cold.  My bones and body have been cold since before leaving Illinois and I haven’t warmed up yet.  Come on sunshine and warmth .. I'm waiting for you to get here.  I didn’t get any pictures of our campsite but will try to tomorrow if it warms up so i can go outside.

It’s time for this aching and tired gal to hit the hay .. good night everyone

On the Road Again!

Hubby was up early and had me out of bed at 7 AM!  By 8.09 AM we were on the road heading south!  It’s a wet, cold morning .. temps were 37 degrees when we pull out. 

Were almost in Missouri once we cross the bridge.

 

Welcome to Missouri, we stopped for fuel in Perryville .. diesel was $3.69 .. 30 cents a gallon cheaper then Illinois .. Yeppi

We run into a bit of rain, we were happy it was just a drizzle and nothing heavy

     

traffic isn’t bad on South bound on I – 55 but north bound is pretty heavy .. cops are out everywhere

   

Welcome to Arkansas, our 3rd state in one day.

As you can see the rain cleared up a bit and we only hit spots of drizzle or sprinkle

Tennessee is close approaching .. here we go across the bridge that puts us in Memphis

    

As you can see we hit rain again as we approached Tennessee.

 

Welcome to Tennessee our 4th state of the day … hmmm i feel Graceland calling

It’s too cold to visit Graceland, now if we had been in our old car it would have automatically went to Elvis Presley Blvd .. hehe

Welcome to Mississippi our 5th state in one day .. WOW

 

I love this welcome center in Mississippi .. i was thrilled to see they still had their fall decorations up as almost everyone else has Christmas already.  I love Fall colors and decorations and i feel that it gets cut short due to Christmas.  I love Christmas decorations and Christmas has always been my favorite time of the year due to it’s Jesus Christ birthday.  but, i do enjoy fall as well.

Here we are parked in the visitor center .. it’s drizzling rain and only 42 degrees!

 

we couldn’t even get the dogs to budge on going potty.  We asked if anyone needed to go and not one head raised to go .. hmmm

    

As you can see we ran into more rain in Mississippi

   

It’s been a long day and I finally told hubby we had to stop for the night .. between all the riding, cold and rain my legs and feet were going numb, muscle spasms were getting worse and my behind was stinging and burning.  I know my body and it’s telling me time to head to bed!  So we found a Pilot in Canton, MS and found the only spot left.  Hubby got us backed in, turned on the generator and went and got us a bite to eat for dinner.  After 531 miles we finally chillin, hubby is watching Pittsburg and KC football game and I’m laying in bed. 

Life is so great .. I love having my home where ever i go.  When i get to feeling bad we can stop at any time and i can go to bed until i feel better.  The dogs are all nestled in for the night.  There is one other RV parked behind us.