Our RV Adventures

We got our walk in this morning, but since we haven’t walked in about a week, we keep the distance to about 1-1/4 miles, but at 24:46 we set a new speed record so there is that. We’ll probably bump it up tomorrow, working toward a full two miles later in the week.

After goofing off for a while with Internet stuff, I took care of a few small chores that were hanging around, just waiting for my attention. Outside, the shore water faucet was leaking at the connection, so I replaced the washer and added some Teflon tape to the threads.

That fixed my part of the leak, but the faucet is still leaking a little around the handle, but that’s the park’s problem. I’ve reported it, but based on past performance, it won’t get repaired until it’s spurting in the air like a geyser.

This afternoon I bit the bullet and started downloading Windows 10. There’s some talk about Microsoft dropping the free upgrade to 10, so since I’d been thinking about it anyway, I decided to go for it.

One thing I’m doing different is that I’m downloading Win10 as an ISO file, and not directly upgrading one of my computers. By doing it as an ISO file, I can burn it to a DVD and then use it over and over, no matter how many computers I want to upgrade with it.

It’s somewhere over 3GB in size, so it will take a while. I’ve got it downloading in the background so I’ll just let it run until it’s done.

For dinner tonight we had our leftover Chicken Fried Chicken from our visit to the Potatoe Patch with Janice and Dave Evans the other day.  Then I got to work on our granddaughter’s laptop.

Like Janice’s laptop the other day, I ran my standard cleanup routine, SuperAntiSpyware, Malwarebytes AntiMalware, CCleaner, and Glary Utilities. Finishing up I updated AVG Virus Protection and ran a full deep scan, which is still going on, and might go for another 12 hours.

Karma, our new kitty, has pretty much settled right in and made herself at home.

The one thing we were worried about, her learning to the use the litter box, was taken care of during the night. We spent yesterday afternoon putting her in the box about once an hour, and apparently she figured out what it was for. And as far as we can tell, she never went anywhere else before she used the little box.

Her favorite place to lay seems to be on Jan’s moose footstool, whether Jan’s using it or not.

Everyone is always amazed when they see the moose footstool. We bought it when Jan fell in love with it right before we started RV’ing in 2007. We were visiting Fredericksburg right before Christmas, and Jan just had to have it.

It’s 3 feet long and over 2 feet high. Built on a wooden frame, it’s very sturdy and has held up to all our traveling, even Landon riding it when he visits.

As I said yesterday, I wanted to call her Adolf, but Jan said NO. And today Jan said she didn’t like Hitler, either.

So I guess we’re stuck with Karma.

Thought for the Day:

If necessity is the mother of invention, why are so many unnecessary things invented?

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We were up early this morning for a family get-together. Our son Chris was on his Yamaha bike traveling by here on his way up to Burnet to help a friend work on his house on Inks Lake.

He was stopping to drop off our granddaughter Piper’s laptop for a thorough de-lousing and de-gunking, and called about 7:30 saying he was about 30 minutes out, so a little later Jan and I drove down to the park office to meet him

While he was there, Bonnie Clegg, our next door neighbor came by while she was walking with some friends. She admired Chris’ bike, saying she used to ride too.

Before he left we asked Chris if he wanted to go back into Columbus for Schobel’s Breakfast Buffet, but he wanted to get back on the road. But since we were already up, after Chris left, we drove into Columbus by ourselves. On the way we both decided that we didn’t want a big breakfast, so we ended up at Whataburger.

Along the way we passed the Colorado County Oil lot. When were here two weeks ago we watch the diesel price drop from $1.85⁹ to $1.75⁹. And in the last two weeks it’s dropped another 10 cents a gallon down to $1.65⁹.

I thought about waiting to get here to fill-up Sunday, but I didn’t want to push it.

Then getting back to the rig, everything changed.

Bonnie was back from her walk when we got back to the rig, and she and Jan started talking about cats, and suddenly we had a new cat . . . maybe.

A couple about 50 yards away had been feeding a semi-feral kitten after the mother was killed a couple of months ago. They would bring her in occasionally, but mostly she stayed outside.

In fact our first attempt to get her into our RV resulted in Jan getting scratched and the cat heading back home across the park. But finally we got her corralled again and in the rig.

Although she panicked for a while and kept bumping her head against the windshield, eventually she settled down on the sofa next to Jan. And as the day went on, she made herself more and more at home.

The only question right now is the litter box. She’s never used one, so we keep regularly putting her in it, hoping she’ll get the idea. We’ll see.

The only question is whether she’s going to try and make break for it the first time we open the door.

I wanted to name her Adolf, but Jan said NO!

She said she had dreamed a couple of days ago that we would be getting a new cat soon, and that it would be black and white.

So we named her Karma.

We’ll see how it goes.

Our daughter Brandi is out in Scottsdale AZ for a business meeting and sent over these photos from her room’s balcony.

Must be nice!

For all you drone owners, check out how Danish police are handling rogue drones.

I guess the props don’t hurt their feet.

A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.

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