Runnin' Around

Today was a day of running errands. When Auntie Violet had her oil changed last week at Cummins NW we discovered we were short one gallon of oil. Forry likes to use Schaeffer Oil (which he gets in Moses Lake) in his vehicles and had brought a case of six gallons to the appointment with him. He didn't realize she needed seven gallons!

Acting on a hunch that maybe there might be somewhere in Spokane to pick up the needed gallon, Forry called his dealer in Moses Lake and found out that the Napa stores were now carrying Schaeffer products. We went out to the store on Freya and sure enough they had the oil we needed --

Our next stop was at the new Camping World store in Liberty Lake. The picture murals on the lower windows are new since we were there last week. Forry needed to check with them about the tow bar set-up we had ordered for the new Suzuki (of course, the one that we had for the Liberty doesn't fit...).

Next we went to Home Depot where we purchased some 1 1/2 inch pipe to use to put up the new antenna at the ranch. It comes in 10 foot lengths. We had them cut two of them into five foot lengths and then put new threads on the ends so that we can couple them all together. We thought the five foot sections would be easier to handle when putting them up and down -- as well as hauling them.

By this time it was getting late in the afternoon, so we stopped at a nearby Dairy Queen and got shrimp baskets for supper. But we needed to have Blizzards as well. We got back to Peaceful Pines RV Park just as the sun was setting. What a gorgeous sight!

Gelatin Plans & Old Age?

There's a saying among RVers about plans -- the idea is that they should only be made in gelatin as they seem to get changed so often. That's exactly what happened to us today. We had stayed last night at one of the Cummins NW's RV spaces as it had gotten late. We just didn't want to continue on down to the ranch.

Then this morning, we had a couple of errands to run in downtown Spokane. The folks at Cummins NW told us we were welcome to leave Auntie Violet there while we did our running around. So that's what we did. When we headed back, we discussed whether we really wanted to go down to the ranch today since we don't really need to be there until towards the end of next week. We talked about it a bit more than decided we would instead go to stay at an RV Park in Cheney where we had stayed back in 2007 when we first started full-timing.

Rather than hook up the Toad, I just followed Forry in Auntie Violet over to Peaceful Pines RV Park. By four PM, we were all settled in and just being lazy.

At a little before 7 PM, I got a phone call from friends wanting to know where we were and if we were on our way. I had totally spaced a dinner invitation! Of course, we were a good hour and a half away! I don't know when I've been so embarrassed and ashamed of myself...

I'd blame old age, but...