Monthly Archives: August 2010
How Much is that Doggie in the Window?
This morning started out with a pot of SnickerNut Cookie coffee and a pineapple-orange muffin, and a nice quiet time was had by all.
We have been on the road almost continuously since the 15th of February, and have put a little over 10,000 miles on the coach, with another 1200 to go before we get back to Houston.
It’s really nice to just sit around and do pretty much nothing, except for going out to dinner with Nick and Terry.
Since we’d had coffee late in the morning and knew we were going to have an early dinner at Ryan’s (Hmmmm ! Fried Chicken !), we just had chips and dip for lunch.
The dip was made with one of the dip flavor packets we bought from Dip’n Good Dips at The Rally in Louisville, KY last month. This flavor was Jalapeno Veracruz and it was really good. We’ve still got Hot Habanero left to try, and I predict we’ll be ordering more when these are gone.
Jan spent the afternoon working on a craft project gluing seashells on some things and I caught up on some orders and straighten out a problem with our MyDakotaAddress mail service.
About 4:30 Nick called and said he and Terry were ready for supper, so we headed out a few minutes later, stopping off at the park office to pick up our mail, and then it was off to Ryan’s.
Getting back to the rig we noticed this “doggie in the window” in a rig back behind Nick and Terry’s. When we first saw him he was standing up in the window just about filling up the entire dashboard.
Tomorrow Nick and I are going to a gun show in Shipshewana and Terry and Jan are going to check out an Amish Farmer’s Market.
More later…
Quote of the Day:
"In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him."
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Pretty Toes and Pizza…
Today started out with Jan heading out about 10 to get a pedicure at the nearby WalMart. I got up about 10:30 and started removing the 3 cargo bay doors that I’m going to take over to Michele at Phoenix Commercial Paint this afternoon.
The doors came unbolted with no problems, but they were still attached to the coach by the hinge area. After fooling with it for a while I finally went next door to get Nick. That just shows how desperate I was.
Nick and I wiggled, pulled, and tugged on the doors and eventually got one of them off. But we were stuck on the last one. Finally we went and got Nick’s wife, Terry to come and help us.
And Terry is so good that she just had to stand there and watch us and the door came right off. Just one of the many reasons Nick is lucky to have Terry around.
Jan got back a little after 11 and fixed us sandwiches from the leftover pork loin from Lunker’s the other night.
About 2 pm I loaded up the doors and drove over to Michigan to drop them off with Michele.
The rest of the afternoon we pretty much just goofed off around the rig. Then, about 5 pm, Nick, Terry, Jan, and I headed over to Mancino’s for a great meal of pizza and garlic breadsticks. On the way we made a quick detour to drop some letters off at the Post Office, and then it was on to supper.
Getting back to the park about 7:15 we again drove around the park checking out all the new rigs that have arrived.
Tonight is the first night for the Perseid Meteor Shower sometime after midnight. I’ll try to take a look later, but with the lights in the the park, and possible clouds, don’t know what I will be able to see.
More tomorrow…
Quote of the Day:
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian."
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