Watching the Mariners

Tonight is the Opening Game of the regular season for the Seattle Mariners. They are playing in Oakland against the Athletics.

One of the things I really like about having satellite TV with a waiver that allows us to get stations from both the East and West Coasts is that we can plan our evening so that we can watch some shows like Castle on the West Coast feed later tonight. We watched Dancing With the Stars early on the East Coast feed. Kind of the best of both worlds...

Except, it would be a whole lot better if the Direct TV guy had been able to install the new satellite receiver with a built-in recorder. Then we wouldn't have to worry about juggling times in order to make sure we get to watch everything we want...

This was an expensive day for us! We went over to the office and paid to stay another two weeks here. Unfortunately, you can now only stay for seven nights with the 50% Passport America discount. We were able to use the Good Sam 10% discount for the second week. We also paid the March electrical bill which was $91.

While we were at the headquarters building, we went to the Post Office and picked up the mail Daughter MM had sent. In the box was the bill from our accountant's office for doing the ranch taxes and the lovely package of personal property tax bills from the Adams County Treasurer (the county the ranch is located in). By the time I wrote checks for the accountant's office and the first 1/2 of the Property Taxes, we were feeling pretty poor. And to add insult to injury, the wheat price dropped over sixty cents per bushel today!

An Absolutely Lazy Boring Day...

I was sitting here trying to remember what we had done today. It was an absolutely blah day with nothing to make it memorable. We have been wanting to make a trip over to Desert Gardens to take a look at the spring desert flowers, but Forry thought tomorrow might be a better day, so we didn't do it this afternoon.

I did wash a couple of loads of laundry. One was the bathroom rugs and the other was a load of shirts. When I went to hang a couple of shirts to dry, I got rather frustrated. I can usually hang two hangers on the cabinets in the front of the RV, one on each side. Forry had not replaced the doors on the right hand side that he had removed for the DirectTV guy's abortive attempt to replace our receiver with one that could also record. I must have made my annoyance palpable as by this afternoon, the doors are now back in place...

My run of luck with Words With Friends on my iPad is definitely over. I think I have been beaten by everyone I am playing with the last few days! I need to ramp up my collection of two letter words and of words of more than four letters -- I'd do a lot better. Playing with four or five different people of all ages is quite interesting. The selection of words is sometimes surprising and unexpected.

We did have a nice telephone visit with our eldest daughter this noon. We are in the process of re-writing the ranch lease and had emailed each of the girls a copy in order to keep them in the loop. After all, the next time the lease is up for negotiation, they will most likely be the ones doing it.

Another pair of Alpine Coach owners stopped by for a visit this evening. Sounds like there's an informal Alpine get-together happening at the Happy Hour each evening. We may have to check it out.

Sometimes, Things Are Frustrating...

We have a High Definition Receiver in the right hand front cupboard of Auntie Violet for our DirectTV reception from our Winegard Satellite dish.

I had called DirectTV last week and talked with their Customer Service about getting a recorder for our receiver like they've been advertising so heavily on TV. (Our friends Tom and Juni, have one in their coach and they record many shows so that they could watch them at a more convenient time.) The lady I talked to said that since we had been DirectTV customers for so many years, we were eligible for an upgrade (which would cost us $10 per month more...) to a recording receiver.  We were on the phone with her for almost an hour as we talked with her and then with a verification person (who recorded our order), then with another lady to make the installation appointment. We talked with them about how we were fulltime RVers with "the waiver" (which allows us to receive TV feeds from both the east and west coasts), and that our RV was parked in an RV resort.

The installation was scheduled for today between Noon and 4 PM. The tech arrived in his panel truck at 1:26 and the first thing he said when we walked in was that "they weren't supposed to work in RVs." !!!

He was surprised to see the satellite receiver on our roof -- said he'd never seen one that folded down like that...

He had Forry take the doors off the front cabinet so that he could see how many wires were connected to the receiver, then said there was no way he could work on it. After much discussion, we finally decided to cancel the attempted installation.

Maybe when we get back up to Oregon, we'll have the fellows at Kustom Coachworks take a look at the setup and see what we can do...

On the other hand, we did have an absolutely gorgeous sunset tonight. I don't like to see clouds instead of sunny skies, but they do make for pretty!