Wednesday, October 31 - We've kept somewhat busy but not doing too much to blog about. I don't like to wait too long, so wanted to post an update.
Misti called this morning to see if I could print out files for her that she needed for the class she is taking at Labette Community College. She is in her first week of three weeks of clinical training during the program. Between Dean and I we finally got it printed, but since it was a large amount we didn't have it all done when she arrived. She took what she needed for the day and will pick up the rest later.
We are trying to get back into a daily walking mode, and this morning we got in 2.19 miles in our city park - which is absolutely gorgeous right now with all of the beautiful trees in their fall glory. I was disappointed we did not see more change in the leaves as we traveled, but Oswego's trees are truly amazing - we just lack the volume of trees in one area. You can go down almost every street and find at least one beautiful tree, and often many. We are blessed to have so much beauty in our town each fall!
After we returned from the park and having breakfast, Dean tried for quite awhile to link my Chromebook to our printer but was unsuccessful. I finally contacted Canon and found it is not compatible with my Chromebook as far as linking directly to the printer itself. We are going to try the Google Cloud Print and see if that will work - if not, I think we will be looking for a different printer. Fortunately we didn't pay much for this one and I know someone who could use a printer 👩..... so, we'll see how that turns out for us.
By the way I love my new little Chromebook. It's so much smaller than my old laptop. It's so light I actually carry it in my "Travel Bag". I keep my log book, my notebook that I use to write everything in - list of todo's, research notes for anything I am thinking of buying (recently both the computer and a printer), grocery lists, menus, notes about pictures I take while we are traveling, sayings I run across, etc. (a little diary of day to day things), -and now my Chromebook. I have even prepared blogs on the road with it. The only negative with the Chromebook is there is not a 10 key pad on it, but I have found a solution to that and I'll share that with you in a few days.
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| My new Chromebook |
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| My old laptop - it takes up the entire portion of my arm desk (attached to our new chairs). |
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| My Travel Bag - my log book (notations for each campground we stay at) |
Other than doing a few things around Bentley, for the rest of the day I spent most of it planning a trip on the RV Parky app for our 2019 summer/fall travels. Thanks to our friends who planned and took this trip last year, and to Nancy for providing a copy of the itinerary they used which helped me tremendously. We wanted to include a few other stops and I also wanted to research each of the campsites along the way, hoping to utilize Passport America locations as much as possible. It saved us hundreds of dollars on our trip to New England. In addition, I also input (separately) both our Colorado trip and Southeast trip in RV Parky as well. I like to print these out as it lists the address for each stop, which is great to keep in the truck. Each day that we move to a new site, we have the address readily available to plug into the GPS, and if something comes up and we need the phone number of the campground (I note it on the sheet), it is readily available.
By the time I finished this up, it was time to make dinner - meatloaf, mac & cheese (thanks for your "recipe" Drena) and a veggie. It was so good! It seems like forever since I've cooked. While it's nice not having to cook everyday, most of the time we actually prefer the control we have over what we eat at home.
After dinner and cleaning up, I set down to spend some time on my phone, going first to Facebook. I had not been on it all day - and of course, I immediately started seeing pictures of all the kids in costume. Gosh, we entirely forgot it was Halloween today. I'm glad no one came to the RV Park, or we would have been embarrassed.....we had no candy!
I had not scrolled too far when I started seeing Halloween pictures from the CIty of Oswego crew. Several years ago they started holding a "Trunk or Treat" downtown for kids to attend. Many of the businesses or organizations participate, as well as individuals. The City crew have had some of the most amazing costumes over the years but I think this was by far their best yet. Of course I am a little prejudiced since I worked with several of these folks for many years, but they truly do an awesome job (both at work.... and having fun).
Click HERE to see what they did!
As I have worked on this blog post, I guess we did more than I thought! It didn't seem like much at the time.
That was our day, and what a great one it was!
Nice to see you are keeping busy and having fun. The smaller computer is much nice easier to carry and store. Good luck with you printing.
ReplyDeleteGetting the printer figured out was a challenge for Dean. It would probably have been more like a nightmare for me. HAHA I am thankful he's great at doing things like this and he enjoys doing it.
DeleteSounds like a great day, little things add up to a full day before you know it!
ReplyDeleteHallowe'en does creep up on you when you aren't in a sticks and bricks house. We didn't need to worry in Graceland about trick or treaters either.
I think your fall pictures from your walk (good for you!) are quite lovely. :)
Thank you for the comment on the pictures. We sure enjoy walking in our park.
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