Thursday, January 18, 2018 - Breakfast Toast; Laundry; Grilled Cheese; Financial Update; Blogger Contact

Thursday, January 18, 2018 - Breakfast Toast; Laundry; Grilled Cheese; Financial Update; Blogger Contact

The last two mornings I woke up early again - around 5 am.  I don't mind this at all as I actually prefer this to begin my daily routine.  

When Dean got up about an hour later we drank our coffee and then we had breakfast.  Along with his cereal and my yogurt, we decided we try out the Harvest Farm bread we bought yesterday by making a piece of toast, and I added blackberry jam to mine - THANKS AGAIN BETSY!!!  Oh, wow it was delicious.

We didn't get around early enough to go to the laundromat at 7am like I mentioned I'd like to do in yesterday's post, but we left the RV park about 10:15 or so with 2 loads of clothes.  I had to end up using three washers to keep them from being overloaded, but the dryers were nice and big and we only needed two of them.  The dryers work well here.  They only run 12 minutes on .50, so we did have to run them twice to get everything dry - or at least to my satisfaction.  I prefer my clothes be slightly damp when I hang them up and allow them to finish air drying back at our rig.  I just hang them in the bathroom shower and around the bedroom.  By the end of the day they are dry and I can put them away.  

By the time we returned to Bentley, Dean was hungry so we tried some more of the Harvest Farm bread and made grilled cheese sandwiches.  We used slices of Muenster and American.  First time I've tried that and we both loved the flavor of the two - and it won't be the last time we have it. 

While Dean takes the truck to have the oil changed at a Chevy dealership nearby, I will be posting our expenses for the first half of the month to our monthly budget report.  It will be interesting to see how we have done so far. 

Well, now that I've updated the report, overall we've done pretty good - we've used a good part of  the "Dining Out" catgegory, but we are still under budget.  I don't think there is any doubt we'll be over budget in this line item by the end of the month.  We are way under in some other categories though so hopefully our bottom line will still be okay. We will be keeping a closer eye on the "Dining" category next month though.  One thing for sure we have to get back to our walks, or all of this food is going to be taking a toll on us.....or maybe it will be "making a roll on us"!  We must keep that from happening!

We had some hamburger left over from the meatloaf I made a couple of nights ago so I made good old fashioned hamburgers in my frying pan.  I hate the greasy mess it makes, but they taste so good!  In a little while we'll have a piece of our coffee cake, warmed up with a little butter.  

Last Saturday while we were at Bentsen RGV State Park, the ranger we talked to was telling us about a bobcat that caught one of the birds near the feeding area earlier in the day. I kind of forgot about it and didn't even think to mention it in the blog, but the morning after I blogged about visiting the park and purchasing our park pass, I opened one of the blogs, Where's Weaver, that I read regularly and the Weaver's were there in the park when the bobcat captured the bird, a dove.  Of course, I had to comment on their post, letting them know we were there later in the day and while talking with the ranger, she had relayed the bobcat/bird story to us.  Marsha was very nice and commented back.  I love being able to have a connection with the bloggers that I follow.  Hopefully, our paths will cross at some point in our travels, and we have the opportunity to meet in person.  

We just had that piece of wonderful coffee cake and that's it for today folks.  I'm going to get my laundry put away, do my dishes and then set down and watch TV with my dear, sweet husband!  Hopefully, we can get out and do something tomorrow.  We need to find somewhere to walk inside and I need to take some pictures!