Wal Mart

I sure don't like this New Blogger! Why did they improve it by making it harder?
Went to Wal Mart today, got a late start in the first place. Had to park a zillion miles from the entrance, then couldn't get a electric cart, so I had to walk the store. I had to go, miss Kandi needed her dog food, dry and canned. I also bought her a Denta Stick. I thought she would chew on it for hours. NO, she inhaled it in a few minutes! So, what good is that. Supposed to clean their teeth. I don't think it even touched her teeth. She gets a "treat" every night at nine anyway. Guess we both are spoiled. She sleeps with me, she lets me have the very edge of the bed, the rest is hers. I try to talk to her about her snoring, but she says its me. She really does snore, maybe we both are getting too fat! When I got back to the apartment complex I had to park a hundred miles from the entrance, and really work to get that big truck in a space. I try to park where there is no car parked on the passenger side, so I can get my big doors open without hitting their car. I have those suicide doors, have to get between them to unload my grocery's into my little cart. Couldn't fit them all in there this time, so had to stand there and "sort" out what to leave in the truck and what to wheel in. I just wasn't able to make two trips today. One good thing I noticed, diesel has gone down to $3.89 gal. I haven't bought diesel since Feb. yes, Feb. The gauge is just below the half mark, so I will be looking for a fill up soon. A full day, and I am tired!    

Slow Sunday

A really slow Sunday. I am getting really good at doing nothing! I would say, I am an expert.
Stuffed my bag of winter clothes until I thought it would burst, all the way to the "fill to here" line. Well, I still have more to go. Thinking I may start a Goodwill Bag too. Nobody needs this much junk. It is really too old and worn, but I just keep on keeping it. You know, you like a pair of jeans and you seem to pull that same pair out of the closet every time. Really hard for me to dump clothes. Maybe it is because of being poor when I was a kid. I remember my daddy putting cardboard in my shoes, over the hole in the sole, so I could walk to school! Funny how you remember things like that. Even when I had my own kids, I never threw away a pair of jeans that was too short, just cut them off and made shorts out of them. When the girls dresses were too worn, I always cut the buttons off before sending them to the "rag" pile. My husbands undershirts made the very best "rags" to be had. Great for removing makeup, blowing your nose on or dusting, or whatever. Yep, I save empty jars, tie wraps off the bread, reuse plastic bags, jelly jars (love the ones with handles). I lived in the "good ole days", when everybody was hungry! But, remember "A Country Boy (or girl) can survive!

Another day watching tornadoes

More tornadoes! I don't think the people that were hit last time have recovered yet! I know they are still trying to salvage their belongings, and here it comes again.

 Saturday is chore day! You know the drill. Shave, shower and whatever! Managed to do all that, and wash a load of clothes. 

Started "color coding" my closet. Pulling out the winter stuff, and putting my summer shirts on hangers. I bought some of those "space bags "at Big Lots right after I moved in here. Put all my summer stuff in, then hooked up the vacuum and sucked out all the air. They work great! I just got so much stuff packed in there I could barely lift it. Now I found I have two more bags in the back of my closet, so I can pack more!! What I need is a suit bag like that to put my winter coat in, pretty sure I won't use it for a long time. What I really need is to get rid of about half of that stuff.

I read if you don't use it for a year, then get rid of it. Not talking about Christmas stuff. Another good one to do, is if you buy a new one, throw out one old one. I can't seem to throw away any thing. I have kitchen gadgets I just had to have, maybe use once, and now don't remember why I needed them. I will keep trying to purge, in case I do find the perfect rig!

Aftermath of tornados

I feel so sorry for all the people that lost their homes in the tornadoes. I haven't heard of any deaths, so maybe there won't be. Everyone seemed to know just what to do. I guess all that good training in schools, done by weathermen, teachers, and parents paid off.  However, I am getting tired of hearing it, 4,5,6,and 10 pm. 
I was asked why Arizona? Why not make my home in New Mexico?
I have visited New Mexico many times, as the LoW Hi Ranch is in Deming, NM. I can tell you there are not many stores there for shopping. Wal Mart, K-Mart is about it. There have been some new Dollar Stores, and I think a shoe store. You better not get sick either. For any real problems, you go to Las Cruces, about 60 miles away. For problems not serious, they do have a Minor Emergency clinic, and where I had to go was the E.R. and they messed up big time! My Doctor at home couldn't believe it. According to them, I was dead. Or close to it. Another patients records were attached to mine! If you remember it was just last Feb. when I was there, at the LoW Hi Ranch when all that freezing weather hit, and I ran out of LP. I really and truly thought I would freeze to death. NO ONE in that park would come and help me. The whole state had no elec. the park's water froze, so I had no water, they were out of water at Wal Mart. The winds were over 60 miles hour, and it was below 0!
Now, I have been there many many times and never had that happen, but it just takes one time to freeze.
Arizona? They do get high winds, and dust storms, and it does get cold. Where I want to go is in Cottonwood. It is sorta behind a mountain, sheilded from a lot of the wind and dust. Yep, gets cold, sometimes a dusting of snow. But, no ice like we get here in TX, and I have never heard of a Tornado in AZ. It is close to Sedona,a beautiful place. Not far from Phoenix, and Flagstaff. It doesn't get as cold as Flagstaff, and doesn't get as hot as Phoenix. Plus there is a Thousand Trails park I can use. And I have a friend that lives in Prescott! Now, why not?Life is short. I feel I need to go and see, try it out before I say no. It is about halfway from Texas, and Quartzsite, Las Vegas, and Southern California. All my favorites!

Waiting

I don't do "waiting" very well! I still have not heard form the insurance adjuster. I will call the agent again tomorrow. I hate dealing with him, he is so rude. I am thinking of calling AARP Foremost home office and see if I can learn anything that way.
The wind is very high here today. Steady at 28 mph with gusts up to 37 mph. I am just holding my breath the window in the truck doesn't fall out. It looks very "iffy".
I am running out of groceries, rather than chance driving to the store, I drug out the old bread maker. Make a fine loaf of home style white bread. There goes my diet! It is better than store bought anyway. I gave in and turned my a/c on about 6:30 pm. couldn't take the heat and the wind. Hope tomorrow is better.

STILL WAITING

I am still waiting for the Insurance company to send their adjuster out! All of this happened April 21 st and still no one has shown up from AARP Foremost Insurance to look at the damage. I did as the Insurance agent asked, got estimates for the glass. Had them faxed to the Ins. company. Their agent is so rude to me. They act like it is my fault! My neighbors are too. I told them several times I need to get the glass in my truck fixed in a hurry, because I need to go to Wal Mart to get my meds. They sure didn't offer to take me to Wal Mart! They are the ones that caused the damage, and they act like it's no big deal. I am the one dealing with the Insurance Co, and finding someone to repair the glass. It is my diesel at $3.00 a gal that will be used to go to get it put in! The glass in the truck is falling out into the back seat! The Ranger here came again and tapped it up for me. I am really sick and tired of dealing with all of this "stuff". I can't seem to get any help. I am a diabetic, and heart patient. I think stress is the one thing I can't handle! If I EVER get my rig ready to move, I will get out of this Park, and try to do some travelling. That is what I set out to do, not sit in an RV Park! My Lone Star Single Sams club is meeting at a park just down the road from me, I want to go and visit, but afraid my back glass will fall out! We are expecting more stormy weather here this week end. I was so hoping to get it repaired before then. The back glass in the trailer is tapped up and may hold, I wasn't moving right now anyway, so it should be OK. I would like to make some travel plans for the summer!
I was considering changing my Insurance to AARP, but for sure I will not now. They have been so rude to me. That is not necessary.

Windy Sunday

A very windy day again today. After seeing the storm damage in Mississippi I am so grateful to be alive. I feel sorry for those people. I used to live in MS many years ago and it is one of my favorite states.
Today is Sunday, the Lord says to rest! So I really did! Just watched TV, and did my "phone calls" while I have free minutes.

THE STORMS MISSED ME! SORTA

We had storms across Central Texas last night. I kept watching the storms/tornado watch on TV and they looked like they were about 30 miles south of me around the Waco area. The weather man warned of winds up to 70 mile per hour with soft ball size hale. I think everyone should have a Midland Weather Radio, especially RV'rs. I have one but had turned it off because it drives me nuts with the loud alarms. I knew by the TV that the weather was not coming thru Whitney. We did get rain and what sounded like hale. Some wind, and I worried about my back glass falling out. What I didn't expect was my roof leak right on the foot of my bed! I had worked so hard cleaning the bedroom, washing my sheets. My bed is so hard to make up. Nice clean sheets felt soo good. So in the middle of the night, I am up trying to stop the water coming in from around my TV antenna! Finally put a rag around it with a rubber band to hold it. Maybe at least it won't drip on my bed until I can find someone to caulk around it. I cannot get on the roof, it is a simple job, finding someone to do it is the problem! TV showing towns about 40 mils east of me really got hit hard. So guess I am lucky after all. The storms seem to follow I35 north, I am a little west, so they missed me. Thank goodness. Another reason to get out of Texas!

TORNADOS!!

Well you sure knew it was Texas today. We had tornado warnings all day. I get very nervous when the warning get close to Central Texas. I would not want to be in this RV if one should hit. In fact just winds of 30mph is enough to turn over this rig. The only storm shelter here is, to go to the restrooms. If a tornado was coming, I doubt I would have the presence of mind to do that.
I thought the insurance adjuster would come, don't know why I thought that, maybe because THEY TOLD ME SO!
Spent most of the day keeping busy, cleaning, watching for the insurance man. Oh well, tomorrow is another day! I am tired and ready for bed. Enjoyed Ancestry's show tonight. I do Genealogy, and I know it's not quite as easy as they portray it.

OOPS!! A BOO BOO

I had such a trying day yesterday. First of all I didn't sleep well the night before, Kandi kept me up until about 5:30 am. Finally went to sleep and quarter to 10 my neighbor is mowing! He has a little "plot" of ground between us, really no grass, just rocks and weeds! I was really pissed he was mowing and all that stuff was hitting the side of my RV. I did take all my meds. run my blood sugar etc. When I raised the shade on my back window, I just about had a heart attack! My big picture window glass was shattered! I was so mad, just couldn't handle talking to him. I took a nerve pill, and put a nitro under my tongue, and called the Ranger. I told him I need help, and about the window. He said he would be right down. The Rangers and other workers here are just great. I threw on some clothes, and sure enough he was right here. He went to get some tape, to put across it so it wouldn't fall out. Meanwhile I went out to dump my black tank, something I had put off, but really had to take care of. Well there was my neighbor sitting and talking just like nothing had happened. So I asked her, are you not even going to say anything about breaking my back glass? She said she didn't know anything about it! Her husband did the mowing, so I guess she really didn't. Well Warren the Ranger came back, he and another fella tapped up the window. As we walked down the drive, that fella says to me, what about your truck? Sure enough, he had broken out my back glass of my F350.

They never did come over to look at the damage, so I marched over to their rig. I told them, their insurance would need to take care of it, after all it wasn't my fault. She got kind of "huffy" , but I didn't back down. She did come over with her insurance information, and her insurance co. did call me. Of course I am the one that has to call around (on my Ceil phone time) and get estimates, etc. So that is what I did. As of yet, no one has called me back. The window in the truck is pretty sturdy, but the window in the rig is real "squishy" very unstable. We are expecting rough weather here Friday, maybe even tornadoes. If it blows out, I may have to go to motel.

Blue Bonnets Galore!

Yesterday was beautiful and sun shining. I got some great pictures of Blue Bonnets and Indian Paintbrush flower on the way out of the RV park here at Thousand Trails Lake Whitney,TX

APRIL SHOWERS

Well, they say April showers bring May flowers, we will have an abundance of flowers this year! Been raining for two days. It is chilly too. Keep putting my little electric heater away, and then getting it back out again. Bluebonnets are in full bloom here at the Park. Tried to take more pictures, but the sky was just too cloudy and dark. Tomorrow will be better and I will try again, they are well worth the effort.
My big day was going to the Dollar store for dog food and cleaning supplies. Then the grocery store. Seems it is impossible to buy any fresh veggies and fruit, simply too much $$.
Took Kandi to the Vet Friday. She was scratching her ears, shaking her head. I thought she might have ear mites, but she didn't, just "poodle" ears. He gave her a shot in the butt, which she didn't like. So while I was busy paying him, she left him a little surprise on his nice clean floor!! Ha! Ha! Serves him right!

SNAKES A LIVE!!

Beautiful days here in Texas, Blue Bonnets blooming, also brings out the "critters". The newscasters are warning we have an abundance of Rattle Snakes this year! So the Vets in Central Texas are warning not to let your pets out without supervision. There have been two dogs bitten by snakes this past week. I am assuming that goes for children too! I am not in the habit of letting Kandi go out off her leash, but I will certainly be more watchful!
Wonderful warm days, with cool temps. It was 36 last night. Had to drag out my little electric heater. Not much doing today, just listed some computer software on e-bay. This park is always full on the week ends. I am sure tomorrow will have a slew of kids, and parents enjoying the nice weather and the games offered here at Thousand Trails Whitney,TX