Fall is in the Air

 

The past couple of days you wouldn’t know Fall is in the air.  Temps have been beautiful and in the 70’s.  I’ve enjoyed having my door and windows open.  Unfortunately it’s not going to last.

   

As you can see the trees are all losing their leaves and the evidence that Mr. Winter is approaching.  Hopefully we will be long gone before he officially arrives. 

 

 

It’s 10 pm and the wind has picked up, temps are dropping and rain has found us.  Tomorrow is suppose to be a dreary day with a chance of snow showers!  Temps are to be a predicted high of 46!  Can you say brrrrrrr!!!!! 

 

My poor flowers don’t know if it’s summer or winter.  I have brought them back inside to keep them from the weather.  The middle flower is succulents and a couple of them don’t know what to do.  A couple have lost a lot of it’s petals.  I was worried it might die but today i found this.

 

See the stick looking that is bright .. it has a new leaf growing on it.  There is still hope.  My rose bush leaves are turning colors and falling off but as you see the other is still blooming.

Not really much going on were just sticking around until it’s time to head home for the holiday.  Tomorrow may be a indoor and cuddle on the couch day.

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!  It's hard to beleive today is the last day of October!  Wow it's went fast.  Here is our afternoon view.  When the kids get out of school they head to practice (if they don't have a game)

I love being able to look out my window and watch the kids practice football and track.  We have a great view for this.

   
We’ve had great weather for enjoying the outdoors and i love having a blacktop track next to me as it’s great for walking.  Well it was until i fell again and re-injured my ankle/foot. Several weeks back, I was sitting outside and got up to get something and didn’t use my cane and stepped on rock and lost my balance and down i went and so I’ve been doctoring a badly bruised foot/ankle for some time and this week i did something silly again. 

A couple days ago I climbed on a chair to reach something and lost my balance and went to grab a hold of the molding on the slide out and me and the molding both came tumbling down.  I hung on to the molding so it wouldn’t break but my ankle/foot didn’t fair as well.  yes it is my good foot.  So it looks like i will once again be spending several weeks limping around and nursing a ankle/foot when i walk causes me lots of pain.  Hubby put the molding back up and so sometime this week we need to run to Lowe’s to get some finish nails so he can secure it better.  Unfortunately he couldn’t fix me, but he did growl at me for doing something silly and not waiting him for him to get it for me.  He told me that the slide outs are not my own personal monkey bars :)) 

That is one of things with MS and a back injury.  My right side is my week side and I have no balance anymore and it doesn’t take anything to make me fall like a weeble only this weeble ends up falling down!

Decisions

The past couple of days have been much better.  The sun has come out and it’s been in the mid 60’s.  I like those temps better.  Of course their not my favorite temps as mid 70’s are but hey .. i will take them.


We’ve been tossing around some decision about what our Winter plans should be.  We have been asked to return to Texas and thought that was where  we were heading but things in life sometimes make you re-think those plans.  This will be the 3 rd year in a row we’ve been to this same area.  We’d be stopping about a Month or 2 at each place.  I find that after a month in one place I'm ready to move on.  The hitch itch really takes over on me.  My traveling partner enjoys settling in and staying in one place for like 3 months! 


Then there is AZ and i have been wanting to experience the Quartzsite and Slabs for sometime.   I read about Salvation Mountain built by Leonard and would love to some day see it.  I would love to try the boon docking experiences of living off our own and away from the crazy of being around people all the time.  My traveling partner on the other hand doesn’t like to go without the power from the grid.  He enjoys his TV and all the things electricity provide him.  Yet, he enjoys the solitude and i really believe if he would give it a try he would enjoy it.  Just getting him to say YES.   I do not want to force him to do something he doesn’t want to do.  Yet, i earn for a AZ winter.  We made a deal last year if i could go 6 months without returning home to the grands we’d do the AZ trip and my faithful travel half would honor that but ….  I don’t want to do it and he isn’t happy with it.  I don’t have any real stops planned as we’d spend most of time just stopping for a week or 2 and then packing up camp and moving on.  We’d most likely spend most of time on BLM.  We would stop and visit some RV Parks and friends along our way. 

 
So last night we were discussing what we wanted to do this winter.  Last winter we had decided to leave Mississippi and head toward the Keys!  I have always wanted to see the Keys since i was a little girl.  I’m not sure what it is about that area but when i see pictures of it .. i drool!!  Things occurred and our plans changed and we headed back to Texas for almost 3 months.

We spent some time looking at RV Parks and prices online tonight .. wow … but as hubby has said we live once and why not splurge once in awhile.  The state parks are booked of course you can take your chances on arriving early and getting a first come first serve park .. but .. yes that word again .. you may not get a site.  I have seen the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf but I’ve never seen the Atlantic Ocean and one of my goals before i die is to see all 3.  So if we decided to do our initial plans last year here is what we would be doing.  I would be knocking several states of my map of seeing the entire USA. I would get to see Georgia, South and North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.  That would add 5 more states to my list of States I’ve seen so far.   Plus we would not be staying more 3 weeks in place, most our stops would be around a 2 week stay.  Plus we’d get to see friends we haven’t seen in several years along the way.

We are still pondering and have plenty of time to decide what we want to do.  We do have a place in Miami we can stay at and drive to the Keys each day if we want and for us getting up early and driving a few hundred miles seems to be nothing anymore for us.  Although i would rather have a place to park but I'm not going there as my faithful partner reminds if we didn’t have dogs we could just rent a motel which i despise!!  So for now we have agreed to think about it and be honest with the other what we want to do.  As you can see the fuel difference is about $400 if we don’t go to AZ but if we only went to Texas there is a much bigger savings.

Decisions decisions .. hmm what will we do?  Either way AZ and FL out weigh Texas as both parts are warmer then where we’ve been in Texas!!  Guess you’ll have to stay turned and see where we end up for the winter. 

A Dreary Chilly Day

Well the beautiful weather has left us and today has been a dreary and chilly day.

 

Today the high temp has been a high mid 50’s.  Oh well I'm not complaining because it’s much better then the 40’s.  Plus the rain is needed in the area as they’ve had a bit of a drought this summer.  It really hasn’t rained a lot, just at times it’s been like spitting and other times like a drizzle. 

 

I snapped these photo’s of Lexi.  She brings you the food bowl when it’s empty and if you don’t pay attention she scratches it and then barks at you.

I’ve done 2 loads of laundry today since I couldn’t be outside.  A day like to today i enjoy having my own washer/dryer in my home.  I did get out several quilt projects i have started and plan to get the needed material to finish them up so that i can begin quilting them and get them finished up.  I repaired a couple pairs of jeans for hubby.  Then i curled up on the couch to do some reading.

I have the heater on and it’s nice and cozy inside.  All the comforts of home.

Where ever you are i hope your comfy and warm.

Wonderful Temps

We’ve had beautiful, wonderful weather!  If it would only stay this way until after Thanksgiving.  I know wishful thinking.  Our weekend was wonderful well most of it.  Going grocery shopping wasn’t but the rest was.  I spent lots of time sitting outside basking in the sun like a turtle.

Friends Ron and Dorothy pulled in last night and it was great to see them.  I’m looking forward to visiting with them. 

I am so enjoying our wonderful weather and by the end of the week they are predicting cooler temps again :(

   I really haven’t had anything to blog about .. we are just living life and hanging around until Thanksgiving.

In the 60’s today!

We started off with a very chilly morning and of course that meant me sleeping in.  I’m catching up on some very needed rest this week.

Oh What a treat it was today.  By afternoon the temps were back in the upper 60’s and i went for a walk and found this tree with beautiful color!

I enjoyed the afternoon of sunshine and being outside.  Yes, i was still dressed in my sweats but hey I'm not complaining.  Better then having to be stuck inside.

Busy Squirrels

The past few days have been so chilly that all i am able to do is look outside.  Before the 2 really cool days the squirrels were busy little fellows.
    
I put some bird feed out in the rocks for them but their more interested in colleting nuts.

 
I enjoyed watching them find the nuts, chew on them and then go find a place to bury them.


This electrical box seem to be a prime source for hiding.  There were a total of 6 squirrels.


The past few days the squirrels have been MIA, i’m guessing it’s too cold for them as well.

My days have been spent being lazy and mostly taking pain pills and sleeping.  I’m looking forward to warmer temps.