Another busy week

I know I know .. I haven't posted all week long .. Okay so your asking where has she been hiding? As you know I nursed my neck and shoulder last week and this week i have been busy trying to make up for lost time.

Monday .. i spent the entire day cleaning this huge home up! Wow, this is like cleaning a house!! Between doing 7 loads of laundry and cleaning our new home it took me all day long! Of course then there was dinner that still needed to be made and since hubby was craving hamburgers and fries i opted for that since it was easy to prepare .. What an exhausting day it’s been …..

Tuesday .. i helped Elaine with her computer .. Elaine is in the process of trying to get all of Andrew’s school work where it’s done on the computer. Awesome huh? I believe it will make life easier for Elaine and Andrew as they travel around our beautiful country as RV Volunteers. Later in the afternoon i had to go find my friend Pat and her wonderful hands .. she massaged and worked on my aching neck and shoulder. Since Pat has been working on me, it’s doing much better. Of course overdoing it doesn’t help. Dinner consisted of sausage patties and fried potatoes…

Wednesday.. i spent the morning finishing packing up the inside of Ms. Southwind and now all the cabinets have been emptied out and ready to be cleaned. After lunch i worked on Rudy and Elaine’s other computer and we got it going. Dinner was bacon, eggs and toast as time was an issue. Church services start at 6.30 pm. Rudy was our speaker and once again he did a good job speaking on Faith.

A Trip to Tyler

We got up early this morning and got ready for our trip to Tyler. Friends Rudy, Elaine & Andrew are going with us. Were excited as we have come to cherish the time we get to spend with this wonderful family.

Rudy and Elaine are very special people, they are older in life and have adopted a wonderful little boy that they are shaping to be a very special person. Rudy came from Germany years ago and has great knowledge to share. Were captivated anytime he shares with us.

Our first stop was Hobby Lobby! Yes, i love that store and have been needing to go for sometime. The guys seen a Ace Hardware so they dropped us off at the door, but soon rejoined us .. yes it had went out of business around the first of the year. Our next stop was Applebee’s for a wonderful lunch and excellent conversation and fellowship. I had a Philly Cheese that was excellent, hubby had the cowboy cheese burger he clams was very good. Thanks Rudy and Elaine, they bought lunch. Our next stop was best buy! Yes, one of my favorite places to shop. We spent hours in this store and we left with a new cordless mouse … Yes i finally splurged and got me one for my laptop .. i am tired of fighting this cord! We also purchased a Bible Secrets set of cd (hubby’s purchase and new TV for our bedroom .. the TV was missing in our bedroom and when we are traveling and the slides are in we can not get to the living room TV without putting out the slides so that was a must!

On our way home since it was such a gorgeous day we had to stop and get a Baum’s ice cream cone .. if you have never tried Baum’s you must, they are cheap and very good. I was excited as they still had Pumpkin … it was very yummy.

We finally got Andrew home with enough daylight time for him to play with his friends. it was a wonderful day but i think we older folks are wore out.

what a week!

As you all know a week ago today we got our new home and no .. still no name .. I have been very busy packing and unpacking all of our stuff (hubby calls it junk). I have also been nursing a aching neck and back. I over did it over the weekend and now my aching body is paying for it big time.

Today i can barely turn my neck, raise my right arm and from the right side of my back from my bra strap up to my neck i have horrible pain. Sleeping is almost none as i can not lay down as it hurts worse, even while resting on a heating pad.

We have almost 3/4 of the stuff from inside of Ms. Southwind packed and put away in our new home. We still have all the outside compartments but the rest will be done a bit here and there due to my back.

Once we get everything moved over and have a chance to rest and enjoy our spacious new home i think we will. Although i have to laugh as the other night hubby was sitting on the steps and looked around and said, you know this is more then we needed. I laughed and told him it was huge!

I do miss Ms. Southwind, everything was in such easy reach, now everything is spaced out. Our new shower is wonderful and it is really good to be able to take a long hot shower in our own shower that we do not share with anyone else. The bed is huge and very comfy. Hubby can actually stretch his legs out to sleep. He doesn’t have to curl them up to keep from blocking the door way. Hubby can actually sit in a recliner or on the couch and stretch out his leg. He is a tall man and in Ms. Southwind he wasn’t able to do this. So there are many things that we can do now that we couldn’t do inside of Ms. Southwind.

Until this past winter we were content inside of Ms. Southwind but both of us being stuck inside due to the cold weather Ms. Southwind got a little close. We had many long discussions about the decision to look for a new home. Ms. Southwind has several things that are going wrong with her and we’d like to travel to the mountains and other places that we would be limited with Ms. Southwind.

We believe that God has lead us to make this decision and he has something wonderful ahead of us in our new journey in life.

Hope you all have a great weekend … until next time

Look at this pet!

This morning we got up and went to church, then out to eat lunch with the gang, there were 10 of us. We all decided on Beijing and as always it was great and i ate way too much! I’m not losing any weight this winter which isn’t good, hopefully spring is here to stay and once i get settled in I'm planning to get back to watching it and walking.

On our way home today look what went past us. NO your eyes are not seeing things. This truck had this pig riding in the back of it’s truck with just a rope tied like you would a dog. Only in Texas? It was adorable and the pig didn’t seem to mind being there or the rain.

It’s been an exhausting weekend and moving is still being done. How does one acquire so much junk in such a small place?

My back has been really bothering me between all the pack, going up and down the stairs … ughhh did we do the right thing in getting a new home and one with all these stairs? I think it will be okay once we get all moved in and on a day to day basis. I have had great help with a couple of friends we’ve made here. I think hubby is right, i should stop trying to pack a few things put them away and then get more. We should just pack up what we have boxes to do and bring it to the new home and set them where i can. Unpack those and then get more. we spent this early evening packing up all we had boxes enough to do and hubby carried it all over here and he is right, much easier and not near the stairs. Now i can just work a bit and if i need something it should be here somewhere … LOL We tried to get everything that we use on a daily basis.

I have to tell you all, hubby and I both are really enjoying the large shower and the 12 gal water heater is wonderful! No more running out of hot water. The huge bed is wonderful as well. There are so many things that are nicer that we hadn’t realized we’d given up living in a smaller RV with no slides. The dogs are enjoying it as well. They have room to move around. They were so excited when we brought them in and right away made themselves at home.

I will tell you more about it later, i gotta run and do a bit more before taking a hot shower on this hurting back and I'm actually going to bed early tonight as I'm exhausted and everything we should need in now inside our new home .. somewhere … night all

We got our new home!

We got up around 5 am and was on the road around 6 am! We had to drive through Dallas and of course if you’ve ever been to Dallas you know how the traffic is. It started out a cloudy morning and then the sun came out and cleared up.

The bypass structure is really neat. I love how they put the stars in them. You know Texas is know as the Lone star state.

Around 8.15 am were finally seen the sign that said McKinney which is where our exit is. We purchased our new home in Princeton, TX. Our sales gal Terri was wonderful. We first began dealing with Mel when we interested in the Challenger, but because we arrived so late he had to leave and turned us over to Terri. I’d recommend them both to anyone who is interested in a new rig. Wonderful people to work with.

We arrived and Ryan the tech was waiting on us and had our new home opened and ready for our final go over. He was wonderful and had everything we had discussed fixed and then some. Our new home looked great other then the outside is dirty but we will give it a good scrub job soon.

Don’t they look great together? The beast road even better with our new home hooked on. Time will tell when we fill up with diesel if they get better mileage then Ms. Southwind and Ms. Mercury.

It was an exhausting day and we arrived to our destination around 3 pm and got set up. We had lots of help and unfortunately too much and we are just a bit unlevel but we are tired and decided to fix it tomorrow when we have day light. We’d had company all day with everyone wanting to check out new home. Of course we enjoyed visiting so it all worked out.

I just cleaned the bathroom, and made the bed up for tonight. Major job will start tomorrow.

Tomorrow is the Day!

Well … our new home isn’t ready because the outside shower had to be ordered. So tomorrow is the big day when we get to go get it. I’m excited, yet dreading all the work of moving from one to the other.

Hope your all having a great week, it’s been beautiful here in Texas with the temps in the mid 60’s … until next time …

We got the Beast

Tuesday late afternoon we got the call that the hitch arrived and had been installed and the truck was ready for us to come and get. So we headed out to get it a bit after 4 pm.

We had to stop and fill it up with diesel .. ouch! $66! It was just between 1/2 & 1/4 .. hmmm i sure hope this thing gets better mileage then Ms. Southwind.

Wednesday i needed to run to the post office and put some things in the mail so i decided to take the truck .. wow that sure is a lot of truck. I actually enjoyed the heated seat as my back was aching and it sure felt good to have that heat. It wasn’t that bad to drive, parking is another story! I got it parked at the post office and family dollar both without any bumps, bangs, or scratches .. whewwww

Although while driving this huge thing it reminded me of the old 4 x 4 truck hubby had years ago. The bottom of the door came to around my chest and it was big truck. We always called it the beast. We’ll i’ve decided to at this present time to call this truck the beast because it reminds me so much of the old beast truck that hubby and the boys loved. Of course it’s much easier to get into as it has nice running boards and doesn’t sit near as high as the old beast did. It’s a really nice truck although it’s not new, it’s used but new to us.

I spent the entire day getting Ms. Southwind ready to be moved, plus i washed all my laundry including bedding. I haven’t even began to pack as i have no place to put anything and i plan to just do a bit here and there. Ms. Southwind is going to be parked behind our new home until i get everything moved. Luckily for us she doesn’t have to be moved far with her bad front tires.

I did get the call today that her new tires have arrived and anytime we are ready she can be brought in to get new front tires and an alignment so that she will be road ready again. We took the truck to church last night and it was a nice ride.

We will not be getting the fifth wheel on Thursday as it’s not ready. The outside shower hose was missing and so they had to order a new one and it will not be in until around 3 pm and since it’s a several hours drive we opted to be there early Friday morning to get it. Driving through Dallas is a task it’s self let alone around rush hour.

Hope your all having a great week, temps have been in the 60’s here and by Friday in the 70’s! I’m so excited to finally get some warmth. It’s been one cold winter for the south.