I'm feeling like I got a lot accomplished today! Forry went over early to the mail box, then to the office with the pink slip to pick up our box of mail that Daughter MM had sent last Friday. While he was gone, I stuck the first load of clothes in the washing machine.
When Forry got back, I sorted the mail, then turned on both computers to pay bills. The stuff for our personal bills at the credit union are all on my computer, while the ones for the ranch are on Forry's. There are a couple of bills that Forry liked to pay by telephone, so we got those taken care of as well.
All the while we were doing the financial stuff, I was continuing to work on the laundry. It was a good day to be doing it as it was warm with a bit of a breeze. The clothes I hung dried very quickly.
This afternoon was the first of the season TV broadcast of a Mariner's Spring Training game. And what a game it was! The Mariners got quite bat-happy and ended up beating the Colorado Rockies 16-6. It was a fun game to watch. We have tickets for the Oakland Athletics game with the Mariners at the Peoria Sports Complex on Friday. I can hardly wait!
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Monday, December 3, 2012
A Busy Day
We spent today taking care of details. When we arrived on Saturday, the office was closed and we were unable to check in. So that was the first item on today's agenda. Since this was the first business day of the month, the office was a VERY busy place. The office staff was pretty efficient and it didn't take too long for us to be at the head of the line and relieved of our money. In return, we received our name tags and a large packet of materials. There was a map of the park (with a map of the Mesa area on the reverse); a newsletter of December activities; a telephone directory of the park's annual residents; a brochure with all of the acts and performances schedules this winter; the internet code; the garbage pickup schedule; etc.
Then a trip next door to pick up the key to our post office box here at the park and to pick up the package of mail from Daughter MM that had already arrived. It turns out that we will get our mail at an annex closer to our portion of the park, so we drove over to check that out as well.
Since it is the first of the month, it is also time to pay bills. I pay all of our personal bills with our credit union's on-line bill pay. Forry pays part of the ranch ones by phone and another on-line. That left a few that I had to write checks for to put in the snail mail. Then a couple of phone calls -- one to order more ranch checks and one to figure out why the bill from AAA didn't correspond to the expiration date on our cards.
Forry also made a phone call to one of the advertisers in the resort newsletter to make arrangements for their mobile unit to come and reseal the leaks on Auntie Violet's roof. They called back with a bid which he accepted. They will be here early on Thursday morning to do the work.
And while all that was going on, I was doing laundry. I think I am now caught up with all that had been stacked up while we were traveling. It's so nice to know that all of the long-sleeved shirts and the socks I washed today can be put away for a good long while.
We went over to Juni and Tom's for a bit before supper and got our doggie fix. Then it was back to Auntie Violet to make a meal of the rest of last night's rack of ribs.
Then a trip next door to pick up the key to our post office box here at the park and to pick up the package of mail from Daughter MM that had already arrived. It turns out that we will get our mail at an annex closer to our portion of the park, so we drove over to check that out as well.
Since it is the first of the month, it is also time to pay bills. I pay all of our personal bills with our credit union's on-line bill pay. Forry pays part of the ranch ones by phone and another on-line. That left a few that I had to write checks for to put in the snail mail. Then a couple of phone calls -- one to order more ranch checks and one to figure out why the bill from AAA didn't correspond to the expiration date on our cards.
Forry also made a phone call to one of the advertisers in the resort newsletter to make arrangements for their mobile unit to come and reseal the leaks on Auntie Violet's roof. They called back with a bid which he accepted. They will be here early on Thursday morning to do the work.
And while all that was going on, I was doing laundry. I think I am now caught up with all that had been stacked up while we were traveling. It's so nice to know that all of the long-sleeved shirts and the socks I washed today can be put away for a good long while.
We went over to Juni and Tom's for a bit before supper and got our doggie fix. Then it was back to Auntie Violet to make a meal of the rest of last night's rack of ribs.
Friday, March 2, 2012
Mail and a Costco Run
We got a HUGE box of mail from Daughter MM today. She was not only forwarding magazines, newspapers and mail, but several filled prescriptions that were 90 day supplies. There was also a surprise package of coffee from Guatemala that Daughter Dawn had sent along (she had been there on a ten-day medical mission last month). I had planned to ride my trike up to the office when Bill called me to tell me the mail flag was out, but Leslie was nice and just brought it down.
I spent a good share of the afternoon catching up on the laundry which I hadn't done for over a week. I had three big loads that ended up strung all over Auntie Violet. At least it was cooler today so that we could have the windows open with a breeze to help dry the clothes.
A little after four we went with Bill and Leslie over to make a Costco run. Neither one of us needed a lot of stuff, so we just took one vehicle. I could NOT believe that this Costco had NO blueberries! That and Vitamin D were my reason for going. That left the main purpose of the trip be to have Costco Polish Dogs for supper... Which, of course, made Forry very happy.
As a friend commented on Facebook, you certainly can't beat the price. After all of these years, a Polish Dog and a refillable soft drink is still $1.50! (I always have to chuckle when we are there at noon-time and you see all the businessmen in their white shirts, ties and suits coming in to eat their hot-dog for lunch.)
I spent a good share of the afternoon catching up on the laundry which I hadn't done for over a week. I had three big loads that ended up strung all over Auntie Violet. At least it was cooler today so that we could have the windows open with a breeze to help dry the clothes.
A little after four we went with Bill and Leslie over to make a Costco run. Neither one of us needed a lot of stuff, so we just took one vehicle. I could NOT believe that this Costco had NO blueberries! That and Vitamin D were my reason for going. That left the main purpose of the trip be to have Costco Polish Dogs for supper... Which, of course, made Forry very happy.
As a friend commented on Facebook, you certainly can't beat the price. After all of these years, a Polish Dog and a refillable soft drink is still $1.50! (I always have to chuckle when we are there at noon-time and you see all the businessmen in their white shirts, ties and suits coming in to eat their hot-dog for lunch.)
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Mail Call
It's always a good day when the mail comes. When you don't get your mail every day, it seems like a real treat on the day it does arrive. We have been very fortunate that our eldest daughter Mary Mae has continued to receive and forward our mail for the last almost five years that we have been on the road. She mainly uses the Priority Mail Flat Rate boxes. Almost every time we pick up a box at the local post office, we get a comment about "getting our money's worth!" MM can pack more stuff into one of those boxes.
Today there were two boxes. One was the usual fat heavy one, while the second was a bit thinner and quite a bit lighter. What a delight when we got home to open the lighter one and find that Grandson Varick and Granddaughter Claire had decorated an evergreen swag to hang from Auntie Violet's outside mirror. This has been a tradition every Christmas at their house to decorate swags for family and friends and it was neat to get one in the mail!
We spent a good share of the afternoon reading through the mail and enjoying Christmas cards and letters. A special treat was getting the school pictures of Varick and Claire and a nice card with pictures of my Nephew Jared and Becky and my darling grand-niece Ellie. Pictures aren't as good as actually seeing them, but they help.
Later this afternoon our friends Leslie and Bill came over bearing shrimp for supper. I made us each a salad with green onions, avocados, cucumbers, orange peppers, palm hearts, artichoke quarters lettuce and tomatoes topped off with peppered toasted almonds. Bill stir-fried the shrimp with some special seasoning he had and we once more had a feast.
Today there were two boxes. One was the usual fat heavy one, while the second was a bit thinner and quite a bit lighter. What a delight when we got home to open the lighter one and find that Grandson Varick and Granddaughter Claire had decorated an evergreen swag to hang from Auntie Violet's outside mirror. This has been a tradition every Christmas at their house to decorate swags for family and friends and it was neat to get one in the mail!
We spent a good share of the afternoon reading through the mail and enjoying Christmas cards and letters. A special treat was getting the school pictures of Varick and Claire and a nice card with pictures of my Nephew Jared and Becky and my darling grand-niece Ellie. Pictures aren't as good as actually seeing them, but they help.
Later this afternoon our friends Leslie and Bill came over bearing shrimp for supper. I made us each a salad with green onions, avocados, cucumbers, orange peppers, palm hearts, artichoke quarters lettuce and tomatoes topped off with peppered toasted almonds. Bill stir-fried the shrimp with some special seasoning he had and we once more had a feast.
Monday, December 5, 2011
We're In the Bible Belt!
It's the first week in December, and there are still flowers in bloom!
The row of azaleas was probably prettier before the rain today knocked so many of the blossoms off --
Without a doubt we are in the so-called "Bible Belt" of the United States. Or maybe it should be called the Church Belt... Or maybe the belt of churches with unusual names. These are just some of the ones we saw today when we drove to Robertsdale to get our mail:
* Church of God of Prophecy
* Bible Deliverance Church
* Harvest Church
* Liberty Church
* Abiding Love Fellowship
* New Covenant Church
* Lifepoint Church
* Bible Way Assembly
* The Dwelling Place
* Church of the Harvesters
* House of Prayer
* God's Place
* Church of the Celebration
In addition to these, we saw two Churches of God; three Churches of Christ; two Catholic Churches complete with attached schools; one Greek Orthodox Church; three United Methodist Churches; half a dozen Community Churches; and at least twenty Baptist churches! And that was in a thirty-five mile or so drive.
We mailed our stack of Christmas letters today and I sent a digital meat thermometer to Son Sean as well .(I realized when he was talking about his Thanksgiving turkey that he didn't have one!) We had two packages waiting for us at General Delivery. One was a packed box of our forwarded mail from Daughter MM. The other was a wonderful box from Sister Sherry. She had sent four kinds of homemade chutney -- two different kinds of apricot, one of cranberry and one curried apple; two different kinds of pepper jelly and one jar of quince jelly. There were two jars of ground pepper flakes -- one of which is Brother Pat's VERY HOT batch (I'll definitely be sharing that one with our friends Tom and Juni.). But the very best part was a plastic box filled with a variety of her homemade biscotti! You can bet I will be rationing those to have with my evening cup of decaf coffee.
While we were out and about this afternoon, we went looking for an Alabama key chain for Granddaughter Havela's collection. We realized that we had been in this state for two weeks and hadn't yet found one for her. After fruitlessly checking several stores, we finally stopped at a Love's Truck Stop. We should have gone to a truck stop in the first place -- they had a whole bunch of them.
The row of azaleas was probably prettier before the rain today knocked so many of the blossoms off --
Without a doubt we are in the so-called "Bible Belt" of the United States. Or maybe it should be called the Church Belt... Or maybe the belt of churches with unusual names. These are just some of the ones we saw today when we drove to Robertsdale to get our mail:
* Church of God of Prophecy
* Bible Deliverance Church
* Harvest Church
* Liberty Church
* Abiding Love Fellowship
* New Covenant Church
* Lifepoint Church
* Bible Way Assembly
* The Dwelling Place
* Church of the Harvesters
* House of Prayer
* God's Place
* Church of the Celebration
In addition to these, we saw two Churches of God; three Churches of Christ; two Catholic Churches complete with attached schools; one Greek Orthodox Church; three United Methodist Churches; half a dozen Community Churches; and at least twenty Baptist churches! And that was in a thirty-five mile or so drive.
We mailed our stack of Christmas letters today and I sent a digital meat thermometer to Son Sean as well .(I realized when he was talking about his Thanksgiving turkey that he didn't have one!) We had two packages waiting for us at General Delivery. One was a packed box of our forwarded mail from Daughter MM. The other was a wonderful box from Sister Sherry. She had sent four kinds of homemade chutney -- two different kinds of apricot, one of cranberry and one curried apple; two different kinds of pepper jelly and one jar of quince jelly. There were two jars of ground pepper flakes -- one of which is Brother Pat's VERY HOT batch (I'll definitely be sharing that one with our friends Tom and Juni.). But the very best part was a plastic box filled with a variety of her homemade biscotti! You can bet I will be rationing those to have with my evening cup of decaf coffee.
While we were out and about this afternoon, we went looking for an Alabama key chain for Granddaughter Havela's collection. We realized that we had been in this state for two weeks and hadn't yet found one for her. After fruitlessly checking several stores, we finally stopped at a Love's Truck Stop. We should have gone to a truck stop in the first place -- they had a whole bunch of them.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
A Drizzly Day
We woke up to overcast skies this morning and we've had off and on drizzly showers all day. A couple of times I thought it was going to settle in and rain, but it never did. At least that awful gusty wind has stopped.
It was a warm rain. I was in and out a couple of times to take out garbage and get things out of the car and I never did put my shoes on...
Juni decided it was a good day to wash their RV. She started out just cleaning the bugs off the front and the windshield, but before we knew it, she was washing the whole rig. Tom tried to assist, but she definitely wanted to do it her way! She even gave their Toad a bath. Then went inside and gave the two dogs a bath and trim. We were giving her a bad time about her hyperactivity, but Tom says she just doesn't know how to sit still!.
I spent part of the day sorting the mail Daughter MM had sent, filing papers, shredding stuff, and paying a couple of bills. With that all out of the way, I didn't feel guilty about sitting down to read the magazines and Mennonite Weekly Reviews that were in the box. I also gave the Mid-South RV Park office a call and extended our stay here a couple of more days. It's hard to beat $15 a night.
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It was a warm rain. I was in and out a couple of times to take out garbage and get things out of the car and I never did put my shoes on...
Juni decided it was a good day to wash their RV. She started out just cleaning the bugs off the front and the windshield, but before we knew it, she was washing the whole rig. Tom tried to assist, but she definitely wanted to do it her way! She even gave their Toad a bath. Then went inside and gave the two dogs a bath and trim. We were giving her a bad time about her hyperactivity, but Tom says she just doesn't know how to sit still!.
I spent part of the day sorting the mail Daughter MM had sent, filing papers, shredding stuff, and paying a couple of bills. With that all out of the way, I didn't feel guilty about sitting down to read the magazines and Mennonite Weekly Reviews that were in the box. I also gave the Mid-South RV Park office a call and extended our stay here a couple of more days. It's hard to beat $15 a night.
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
Another Recovery Day
One of the things we've begun to notice more and more is how long it takes us to recuperate from a busy, active day. It seems like we get busy and do a couple of days of sight-seeing, then need a day to rest up. Today was definitely one of those days.
We had slept in and had a late breakfast (more like brunch!) and were just sitting around enjoying a second cup of coffee when there came a knock on the door. One of the campground staff was delivering our box of mail which had come yesterday while we were gone. Forry had to very quickly slip on his jeans so that he could answer the door... ;-)
Daughter Mary Mae had sent along our mail along with some prescriptions that I had been waiting for. We spent the next few hours opening mail, paying the one ranch bill that came, and reading magazines.
I was pleased to see that in the new Good Sam Club magazine Highways, life members will no longer have to pay dues for the President's Club membership at Camping World -- they have waived all future President's Club dues! While we have always appreciated the President's Club discounts, it will be nice to save a little money by not paying for annual dues.
Since we are leaving Sun Valley Campground tomorrow (we had stayed an extra day waiting for the mail), Forry wanted to get gas for Toad. We made a quick trip into Chillecothe; mailed some letters; bought some orange juice, blueberries, yogurt and mouthwash; and gassed Toad ($3.07 a gallon with the 30 cent Kroger's discount) before coming home for dinner.
We had slept in and had a late breakfast (more like brunch!) and were just sitting around enjoying a second cup of coffee when there came a knock on the door. One of the campground staff was delivering our box of mail which had come yesterday while we were gone. Forry had to very quickly slip on his jeans so that he could answer the door... ;-)
Daughter Mary Mae had sent along our mail along with some prescriptions that I had been waiting for. We spent the next few hours opening mail, paying the one ranch bill that came, and reading magazines.
I was pleased to see that in the new Good Sam Club magazine Highways, life members will no longer have to pay dues for the President's Club membership at Camping World -- they have waived all future President's Club dues! While we have always appreciated the President's Club discounts, it will be nice to save a little money by not paying for annual dues.
Since we are leaving Sun Valley Campground tomorrow (we had stayed an extra day waiting for the mail), Forry wanted to get gas for Toad. We made a quick trip into Chillecothe; mailed some letters; bought some orange juice, blueberries, yogurt and mouthwash; and gassed Toad ($3.07 a gallon with the 30 cent Kroger's discount) before coming home for dinner.
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