Cookin’ in the Heat

First I’d like to say I’m sorry I haven‘t posted in so long but I don’t want this here Blog to become my cryin’ towel or my soapbox. It’s supposed to be an upbeat RV/travel related story I’m tryin’ to tell here and it’s hard to write sometimes when you don’t have any RV related stuff to write about.

We been doin’ a whole lot a nothin’ for the past few months. Did take our annual trip to the Florida State Clogging Convention, this year in Winter Haven. Stayed at Lakeshore Palms RV Park, a Passport America park, with some friends and had a great time there. The convention was OK and I think this may be our last one for a while. I’m not dancin’ anymore and that’s what holds us here, while the summer heat builds. Maybe next year we can ‘Get Outa Dodge’ earlier so we can enjoy the spring elsewhere.

A long time back I spoke of improvin’ the road to our place, well I decided to take some of that material and put in an RV pad for the 5’ver and the Lance. Where they sit now seems a little to low when we get our tropical downpours during Hurricane season and they wind up sittin’ in water till the ground soaks it up. Sometimes that takes a while, last year we had just a Tropical Storm that dropped 19.5 inches of water on us in 2 days. So I created an ‘L’ shaped pad in a higher spot in our backyard that won’t pond water.

 

 

   New RV Pads

 

 

 

 

Now I’ve been up every mornin’ near the crack of dawn to beat the heat (somewhat, it’s still 78-80 at that time), while I dig a 110 feet of trench from the existing power to the new location. I have 50 amp service at present and I’m extending it to include 50, 30 and 20 amp services at the new locale. While I’m at it I figured to run water at the same time. So I work a couple of hours each morning and then quit. I have all but 3 feet of trench between pedestals dug, pipe installed and backfilled, with my ‘Georgia Backhoe’. That leaves about 30 feet of water line trench left to dig, to get to the house. I’m not pullin’ wire till we get back from our trip this summer.

 

 

No diesel needed for this Backhoe, but it does require fuel and determination.

 

 

 

 

“Did I say Trip?” Yeah we are headed up to the mountains,in Bryson City, for about a week. We’re headed out July 10th & taking our granddaughter with us. Our daughter and grandson are comin’ up as well. Haven’t worked out the route after that week in the mountains, but our granddaughter is coming with us. I’ll let ya’ll know when we know.

Until the next time, hope to see ya down the road as we’re Dancin’ on the Wind.

Spendin’ Time at the Rancho

Since we got run out of Lake Rosalie last month we been chillaxin’ at home. Barb and Noel came home with us for a couple o’ days, then started headin’ towards home in Wisconsin…Brrrrr. Also spoke with Della & George who were just startin’ out for home in Indiana, they’re plannin’ on takin’ they’re time to avoid the bad weather.

I looked back at my last two posts and everything had gone askew. The text was over the top o’ the pictures and the pictures were over the top o’ the text. I straightened out everything and re-published time after time, after time, only to find it all screwed up every time. I figured maybe it was a problem with my blog writer communicating with the blog posting software. Then I decided it had to do with the position of the photos, so I moved all the pics back to center on the page. That worked but the pages seemed to blah. Finally I realized that recently I had changed the page formatting from left alignment to justified so it would look uniform down the page. So I tried changin’ it back to left alignment and left the photo placement formatting spread all of the page, like it was. Viola! It did the trick and all seems normal again. Boy I was burnin’ up brain cells tryin’ to figure that one out.

I been doin’ a lot of nothin’ lately around here. It seems that I injured myself while we were over to Lake Rosalie. I have fluid on my right elbow that doesn't seem to want to go away. The Doc drained it on Monday but said it would probably return, which it has. I’ve got to go back and see him on the 23rd, maybe he’ll drain it again. The next step is surgery, not if I don’t have to it aint!! Must have been all that heavy duty eatin’ we were doin that overworked my elbow. I’ve been restin, keepin’ it elevated, icein’ it and so far it hasn’t swelled too bad, but I can’t sit here forever doin’ nothin’. This is the first good finger tappin’ I’ve done since I got home and I got lots o’ other things that need doin’.

Our friends Colleen & Wayne from Brantford, Ontario are here for ten days tryin’ to get defrosted or tryin’ to rush the spring, I’m not sure which. We had supper here last night and we went out to Applebee’s tonight. Tommorrow is Easter and they’re taking his mother out for dinner then comin’ by here afterward. We’ll have all the kids & grandkids for the day, for the egg hunt and supper. So A “Happy Easter” to all.

Seems like ole Mother Nature has turned on summer here as the temps are startin’ to reach into the ninety’s and it just the beginnin’ o’ April. It’s way too hot for this early in the year. Our night time temps are dippin’ down to the high 60’s, that’s ridiculous! Got a fella thinkin’ on gettin movin’ north where it’s cooler.

Well I’ll see ya’ another day, maybe on down the road as we’re

Dancin’ on the Wind