Our granddaughter is getting ready to take her drivers test, so Papa offered to show her how to parallel park. I picked her up and met him at the former assisted living location that recently closed. He parked our truck, then set cones out behind it, to make an area for her to park my car in. After a few tries, Papa decided he should try it once. He figured out the problem was the size of my car and how difficult it was for her - you couldn't see the front of the car at all as you are trying to maneuver into the spot so it was hard for either of them to see how close they were to the truck as they backed in. So he adjusted a few things he had told her and the next few times were much, much better. It just takes a lot of practice.
After I took her home I had several other tasks waiting for me at Bentley, then it was time to make lunch.
When Dean left to go to the garage, I logged on to Camping World. My friend Drena sent me a message yesterday that CW had some globe lighting on their clearance page. About a year ago, one of our globe lights over the kitchen galley area broke and I've been looking for new globes ever since. Unfortunately, what you find in lighting stores are not the same size as those for RV's. The hole at the top of the globe is much different and is too big for the fixture to hold them in place. I ordered 3 of them. They should be here by the weekend, and if for any reason - I don't like them, or they don't fit, etc. I can return them to a Camping World for a refund.
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| Where the globes will go. I took one down so we could compare it to what we found in various stores - but nothing ever worked out. Hopefully, we'll have new globes up soon. Thanks Drena!!! |
When I was at the grocery store yesterday they had chicken breasts on sale, so I bought a package. Tonight Dean grilled them. I made a lettuce salad and threw in everything I could find, along with a small chicken breast (cut up) for each of us. We have missed our salads. I froze the remainder that I can use for two or three other meals.
While I was out today, I stopped at our library to see if they had a movie we've been wanting to watch. They didn't have it but I found we have a great resource through our library that allows us to download 4 movies a month at no cost. It is through an app called Hoopladigital.com. You have to input your library card number and a personal pin the library provides for you in order to use it, but once you download the app and include the info, you can select from their many movies, soundtracks, audiobooks, etc. We have three more movies we can download this month - if we have time to watch them! Lol!
For this particular movie, we found it was not on hoopladigital - it directed us to HBO Now, where we could try it FREE for seven days - same thing I found when I tried to watch it on Amazon and Netflix, so that's what we ended up doing. I've made a note to cancel it later if that's what we decide. I really doubt we would get our money's worth out of it as we don't watch a lot of movies - but once a week free with Hoopla might be nice.
We watched, "An Old Man with A Gun" based on a true story about Forrest Tucker. Robert Redford played the part of Forrest Tucker. It wasn't quite what I thought it would be but we enjoyed it and it was something different from our routine "at home" evenings of Dean watching TV and me on the computer.
Our actuator was delivered this afternoon!!!!! Yea!!!! I let Michael know it was here and he will reach out to our RV Dealer with details. I'm not sure yet when the work will occur but Daryl indicated to us yesterday he could install it before August 3.
What a wonderful day we had!
Good luck with your new lights. we seldom watch movies maybe 2-3 a year, but is handy to have a few around.
ReplyDeleteGood to see things are moving along with your light replacement and brake issue.
ReplyDeleteWe are closing on the house August 26 so will be moving the RV to a monthly spot the week before to live out of while I finish up at work. Then on the rally in Carthage for a two week stay and going east to Tennessee and Mississippi. Wondering when we should start looking for a winter spot in Texas? We plan to travel to Livingston Texas to establish domicile before heading south. That's what's going on in our world.
Mark
Yes the lights are working well - maybe not what I would have picked if I'd had a selection to choose from but I like them well enough to have bought them. Now it appears we need to replace the light bulbs. One went out. Dean had one extra - now it's bright and the other two don't look quite as good. Always something - but that's a small thing.
DeleteI am so excited about the sale of your home - it seems like time has flown by since I first started following your blog - now here you are within weeks of living the RV life!
I'd say start looking around now for a place in Texas. Mostly because there are so many with many different options. It might help if you have a list of things you want from a park, and then you can check specific ones out online. There is a Rio Grande Valley group that has a listing of all of the parks. The park we are in is small but we love it. They have a pool, activities in the clubhouse, meals, music type things, etc. It's small in comparison to a couple down the road from us, but we prefer the smaller group size ourselves.
We stay at Val's Kountry Corral - take a look if you have interest in it. Others nearby are Golden Gate Grove (we have friends there), Mission West - people talk highly about it, but I'm not into pickleball and that kind of thing - but a bunch from our park go to their Sunday morning service there. We like the Mission area but we have friends in Alamo, LaFeria, Harlingen, and probably some other areas that I can't think of right now.
Here's a list of several - but there are many more than this.
https://rvtexasyall.com/region-texas-valley/rv-parks-in-the-texas-rio-grande-valley
One thing our park recently added was an area to race those high dollar remote control race cars. Dean thinks he needs one - haha!
We are changing our mailing address to Escapees. I'm waiting for my packet. UPS has not worked out very well for us. It's better than family having to do it, but too many mess ups and I can't get them to answer the phone. I called last week and no one has yet to call me back. We are looking forward to seeing you all in October. I think we will come in on Sunday and leave the following Sunday.