44 degrees! I'm still COLD! My lungs got really cruddy Monday -- I'm doing an extra breathing treatment every day. Temp hasn't made it to 50 digress for nearly a week. At least it isn't going below freezing at nite anymore. But I'm really running thru the propane! Been setting the furnace at 50 degrees during the nite -- then up to about 60-65 during the day. Even Holly & Li'lBit are staying huddled up under all of the covers on the bed.
It’s Salvation Army and laundry day. Each bag of stuff going to the Salvation Army is one less that I have to find a place for!
A crock pot of soup has been a staple in this place for several days! I made plenty of chicken soup - in fact, while I was out, I bought a can of biscuits and a bag of green peas and put the soup in a casserole dish with the peas and biscuits on top (the soup got kinda thick from too many noodles!!!) and made a reasonable facsimile of a chicken pot pie.
Mary, the park owner, sent a bunch of pics of the arrival of the RV -- I should have known she was somewhere with her camera!
Brenda, my fried in Texas, called to say that Ellen, her younger sister, is in the hospital with blood clots in the lungs....that's not good! Will have to check again tomorrow and see how things are going.
Still planning on hitching up on Sunday and leaving Monday if the weather cooperates.
You would not believe this comedy of errors trying to get this RV back to Texas!
After setting on the paperwork for the title/license for nearly 2 weeks, my sister called a friend of hers that works at the court house (not in the title/license department) and asked her to walk down the hall and see what she could find out. I don't have an Iowa Drivers License and I wasn't getting one! Wonder how long it would have set there if she hadn't walked down the hall!
So -- yesterday, all of the paperwork was sent back to the dealer -- when they get it, they will call - I'll pick up the paperwork, take it to TX, file for title/license there -- then have the title sent back to the credit union holding the lien.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
TUE, Oct 13 -- Another Stumbling Block
I had to go to Newton(about 30 miles away)to the credit union that gave me the loan. Need to get some insurance on the loan in case I croak. My sister doesn't want to have to pay for an RV! And, I really should join the Credit Union!
Need to stop at WalMart. I'm running out of cat & dog food, pee pads for Li'lBit and kitty litter. I had planned on being back in TX by now!
Got a call from Twin Anchors -- can't get Iowa plates. I don't have an Iowa Driver's License. Now, I'm all for state's rights and all that other political state stuff -- but what the hell! If my Texas license is good enough to drive on - if my Texas ID is good enough to cash a check and spend money here - what's the crap about license plates. I can come to Iowa from Texas -- find a man (or in Iowa, I can find a woman) get married and drag them back to Texas with less trouble than I can an RV! GEEZ! The paper work on the title/plates is being sent back to Twin Anchors. I can pick it up from them and take it to TX! Are we happy campers, yet??
Hopefully the paperworks will arrive before the end of the week. They are to give me some sort of In-Transit Tag/paper license to get it back to TX -- get plates/title and have the title sent to the credit union in Newton. Sure hope it all flies!
Bea's friend is coming to hitch me up Sunday afternoon and I'll leave Monday AM. So....keep your fingers crossed that the paperwork doesn't get "lost in the mail!" I just wanna head south and get warm again!
Need to stop at WalMart. I'm running out of cat & dog food, pee pads for Li'lBit and kitty litter. I had planned on being back in TX by now!
Got a call from Twin Anchors -- can't get Iowa plates. I don't have an Iowa Driver's License. Now, I'm all for state's rights and all that other political state stuff -- but what the hell! If my Texas license is good enough to drive on - if my Texas ID is good enough to cash a check and spend money here - what's the crap about license plates. I can come to Iowa from Texas -- find a man (or in Iowa, I can find a woman) get married and drag them back to Texas with less trouble than I can an RV! GEEZ! The paper work on the title/plates is being sent back to Twin Anchors. I can pick it up from them and take it to TX! Are we happy campers, yet??
Hopefully the paperworks will arrive before the end of the week. They are to give me some sort of In-Transit Tag/paper license to get it back to TX -- get plates/title and have the title sent to the credit union in Newton. Sure hope it all flies!
Bea's friend is coming to hitch me up Sunday afternoon and I'll leave Monday AM. So....keep your fingers crossed that the paperwork doesn't get "lost in the mail!" I just wanna head south and get warm again!
MON, Oct 12 -- The Warm Up Starts - I Hope!
Have no idea why Holly ran out this AM when I took Li’lBit out -- at least she didn't wander from the RV -- mostly stayed UNDER it. I actually think she was 'lost' -- she kept looking UP like 'where do I go back in!' I sat on the steps with her food bowl and she finally figured out that I was at the steps -- she ran right in past the food bowl, over top of me! She's such a good girl!! I don’t think she has ever been out in anything that cold – except for the Christmas she spent in the refrigerator!! Maybe this trip outside brought back some horrible kitty memories of her hours in the fridge!
My lungs are starting to crud up. I'm doing breathing treatments and have my "emergency' meds, but I gotta get out of here! I was holding my own until yesterday outside in the damp and cloudy. I was chilled to the bone when I came in. I haven't warmed up since! But watch...Once I get out of here they will have Indian Summer with nice warm balmy temps!
Just got home from a place called Legends. It is a sports bar (and restaurant) -- I think they are pricey but Bea likes them. They do have some really good "Legend Fries" -- just a different type of french fry. I had a Reuben -- Bea had a prime rib sandwich. I ate my fries and drank my coke and brought the sandwich home. Been having trouble breathing and it is hard to eat and breathe. You'd think I would loose some weight!
Bea thinks I can be on the road by the first of next week. I hope so. Even my nebulizer treatments don't seem to be doing too much good -- and I'm really wheezing. I can't get warm. I don't want to have to fill propane tanks so I keep the furnace at 50 degrees at nite and 60 during the day -- then try to use the electric space heater for the room I'm working in -- but I am not sure I will ever get WARM!
My lungs are starting to crud up. I'm doing breathing treatments and have my "emergency' meds, but I gotta get out of here! I was holding my own until yesterday outside in the damp and cloudy. I was chilled to the bone when I came in. I haven't warmed up since! But watch...Once I get out of here they will have Indian Summer with nice warm balmy temps!
Just got home from a place called Legends. It is a sports bar (and restaurant) -- I think they are pricey but Bea likes them. They do have some really good "Legend Fries" -- just a different type of french fry. I had a Reuben -- Bea had a prime rib sandwich. I ate my fries and drank my coke and brought the sandwich home. Been having trouble breathing and it is hard to eat and breathe. You'd think I would loose some weight!
Bea thinks I can be on the road by the first of next week. I hope so. Even my nebulizer treatments don't seem to be doing too much good -- and I'm really wheezing. I can't get warm. I don't want to have to fill propane tanks so I keep the furnace at 50 degrees at nite and 60 during the day -- then try to use the electric space heater for the room I'm working in -- but I am not sure I will ever get WARM!
SUN, Oct 11 -- DO I REALLY HAVE TO GO OUTSIDE!
26 degrees at 8 AM and the water is still running! No frozen pipes! The
low was 24 degrees last nite so I guess I made it thru this cold snap.
Supposed to get into the 50s for most of the week. One more nite of
"possible frost or freeze" so I'm not worried about that.
My sister was here all afternoon -- we unloaded some of the stuff I've been carrying around in the truck since I didn't have much under compartment storage in the old RV. Got most of that stuff and the stuff I've boxed for the undercompartment -- my books, holiday decorations, etc etc etc repacked and organized -- even got the boxes labeled!
So that job is done -- and I actually have a back seat now.
I just about froze my @$$ off -- never got above 40 degrees -- cloudy and damp but not raining -- Every joint in my body is frozen! It's been a long time since I've been in this kind of weather! I'm walking like an old lday -- every joint in my body is frozen!
I made two trips to the Salvation Army last week -- and have another bag of stuff to take this week -- will probably have more when I get to these last few boxes.
My crock pot has been a soup pot for nearly a week -- first it was cream of wild rice and mushroom -- then it was a cabbage/vegetable with chicken broth and V8 juice (I love that soup!) -- then yesterday it was sausage chili -- quite good. Think tomorrow will be chicken noodle! I mix it all up - turn it on low and let it go -- takes about 2 days for me to go thru it -- that includes eating it for breakfast!!! Wonder if I’ll ever get food poisoning from letting that stuff cook on low! I’m sure somewhere in the directions it says I’m not supposed to do that!
I'm still waiting on the license plates -- they should be here one of these days.
Bea and I went out to Long John Silvers for supper -- she had a coupon for "two can dine for $9.99" so we pigged out on greasy fish and fries!! Bea doesn't eat the hush puppies so I brought them home for Tinga - but she was already in her sleeping hut when I got back -- she can have one for breakfast!
Critters are adjusting fine -- I've finally got my old recliner (Li'l Bit thinks it's hers!) cleaned off enough that she can get to it. Found the foot stool to put at the end of the bed so she can get up on the bed! She is having a hard time with the steps to go outside -- they are steeper and further apart than the old RV. She has tumbled off the top step a couple of times so takes it really slow. But she is getting used to them. Of course, it doesn't help that she has a cataract over one eye and can't see out of it. I tell her we are just two ol' fat ladies each with one bad eye!
Holly has found her hiding places - I leave the closet door cracked just enough that she can get in the back corner of the closet. I think the shower will be the permanent kitty litter place. I don't need the shower for brooms and mops in this RV so I can put the kitty litter in there and it is much easier to move out to shower than all the other things I had stored in the old RV tub area!
I do need to find a place for food and water dishes -- right now I have them in front of the stove -- but I'm not using the stove much anyway -- been eating out crock potting and microwaving.
36 degrees 7:30 PM -- I'm glad I have extra blankets! When I was in WalMart the other day I almost bought me an electric blanket -- then figured I'd never use it again once I left here!
Weather man says "gradual warming" this week! I just want my license plates for the new rig to get here so I can get on the road! I need to head SOUTH so I can Thaw Out!
low was 24 degrees last nite so I guess I made it thru this cold snap.
Supposed to get into the 50s for most of the week. One more nite of
"possible frost or freeze" so I'm not worried about that.
My sister was here all afternoon -- we unloaded some of the stuff I've been carrying around in the truck since I didn't have much under compartment storage in the old RV. Got most of that stuff and the stuff I've boxed for the undercompartment -- my books, holiday decorations, etc etc etc repacked and organized -- even got the boxes labeled!
So that job is done -- and I actually have a back seat now.
I just about froze my @$$ off -- never got above 40 degrees -- cloudy and damp but not raining -- Every joint in my body is frozen! It's been a long time since I've been in this kind of weather! I'm walking like an old lday -- every joint in my body is frozen!
I made two trips to the Salvation Army last week -- and have another bag of stuff to take this week -- will probably have more when I get to these last few boxes.
My crock pot has been a soup pot for nearly a week -- first it was cream of wild rice and mushroom -- then it was a cabbage/vegetable with chicken broth and V8 juice (I love that soup!) -- then yesterday it was sausage chili -- quite good. Think tomorrow will be chicken noodle! I mix it all up - turn it on low and let it go -- takes about 2 days for me to go thru it -- that includes eating it for breakfast!!! Wonder if I’ll ever get food poisoning from letting that stuff cook on low! I’m sure somewhere in the directions it says I’m not supposed to do that!
I'm still waiting on the license plates -- they should be here one of these days.
Bea and I went out to Long John Silvers for supper -- she had a coupon for "two can dine for $9.99" so we pigged out on greasy fish and fries!! Bea doesn't eat the hush puppies so I brought them home for Tinga - but she was already in her sleeping hut when I got back -- she can have one for breakfast!
Critters are adjusting fine -- I've finally got my old recliner (Li'l Bit thinks it's hers!) cleaned off enough that she can get to it. Found the foot stool to put at the end of the bed so she can get up on the bed! She is having a hard time with the steps to go outside -- they are steeper and further apart than the old RV. She has tumbled off the top step a couple of times so takes it really slow. But she is getting used to them. Of course, it doesn't help that she has a cataract over one eye and can't see out of it. I tell her we are just two ol' fat ladies each with one bad eye!
Holly has found her hiding places - I leave the closet door cracked just enough that she can get in the back corner of the closet. I think the shower will be the permanent kitty litter place. I don't need the shower for brooms and mops in this RV so I can put the kitty litter in there and it is much easier to move out to shower than all the other things I had stored in the old RV tub area!
I do need to find a place for food and water dishes -- right now I have them in front of the stove -- but I'm not using the stove much anyway -- been eating out crock potting and microwaving.
36 degrees 7:30 PM -- I'm glad I have extra blankets! When I was in WalMart the other day I almost bought me an electric blanket -- then figured I'd never use it again once I left here!
Weather man says "gradual warming" this week! I just want my license plates for the new rig to get here so I can get on the road! I need to head SOUTH so I can Thaw Out!
SAT, Oct 10 - THE COLD CONTINUES
High today was 41 degrees -- predicting 17 degrees tonite. I didn't go
outside much today --even tho the sun was out. The cold air and my lungs just don’t get along! It may be cold air, but when I inhale it feels like someone is shooting a flame thrower down into my lungs!
30 degrees outside when I got up -- water still running so I guess the 'cold weather precautions' I took worked. Let's hope they work again tonite and then we are supposed to warm up.
Oh, things are rough here -- I can't find my coffee grinder and I'm
having to drink decaffeinated coffee -- the only ground coffe I have in the house! I should have bought a small bag of ground coffee when I was in town the other day but I just knew I’d find that coffee grinder! I do like my coffee in the morning! I buy coffee beans and grind a few at a time -- my coffee grinder is small and I've packed it away somewhere! I thought I had gone thru all of my kitchen boxes - but it must be hiding somewhere.
How can I stay warm when I can't even get the caffeinated coffee jitters!!
outside much today --even tho the sun was out. The cold air and my lungs just don’t get along! It may be cold air, but when I inhale it feels like someone is shooting a flame thrower down into my lungs!
30 degrees outside when I got up -- water still running so I guess the 'cold weather precautions' I took worked. Let's hope they work again tonite and then we are supposed to warm up.
Oh, things are rough here -- I can't find my coffee grinder and I'm
having to drink decaffeinated coffee -- the only ground coffe I have in the house! I should have bought a small bag of ground coffee when I was in town the other day but I just knew I’d find that coffee grinder! I do like my coffee in the morning! I buy coffee beans and grind a few at a time -- my coffee grinder is small and I've packed it away somewhere! I thought I had gone thru all of my kitchen boxes - but it must be hiding somewhere.
How can I stay warm when I can't even get the caffeinated coffee jitters!!
FRI, Oct 9 – THE COLD WEATHER IS ONE IT’S WAY!
Freeze warnings for tonite and tomorrow nite -- then the sun is to be back on Sunday afternoon -- then rain! Just can't get ahead of the weather!
Went into town and dropped a bunch of stuff off at Salvation Army. Couldn't find the sewer hose -- it's probably in there somewhere but I couldn't see it or get to the boxes to move things around -- so stopped at WalMart and got a new one with connections -- you can never have too many sewer hoses -- not the way they spring leaks!
Put a pot of chili on the stove. YIPPEE - WARMTH. The damn temp went down 3 degrees in just the time I was outside emptying tanks! Didn't have any hamburger for the chili -- had a pound of pork sausage -- so sausage chili it is! Actually it is going to be sausage chili soup 'cuz I added some extra water so it wasn't so 'spicy.'
Mary or Judy or someone came around and put a rose cone over the water pipe --- I think I'll just leave the water hose hooked up. I put some insulation foam on it and covered that on the ground with some old rugs.
Bea called to say that we would be going out to eat with her secretary and her husband -- went to That Place -- I had their special -- fried cat fish -- it was really good -- came with soup or salad (I had the pasta salad), hash browns, a whole catfish, Texas toast, and a bowl of fried mushrooms, cheese sticks, onion rings, cauliflower. It was really good.....way too much food to eat! I brought home the hash brown, the Texas toast, the pasta salad!! Will have that tomorrow.
10PM and the temp is 36 degrees and going DOWN!
Went into town and dropped a bunch of stuff off at Salvation Army. Couldn't find the sewer hose -- it's probably in there somewhere but I couldn't see it or get to the boxes to move things around -- so stopped at WalMart and got a new one with connections -- you can never have too many sewer hoses -- not the way they spring leaks!
Put a pot of chili on the stove. YIPPEE - WARMTH. The damn temp went down 3 degrees in just the time I was outside emptying tanks! Didn't have any hamburger for the chili -- had a pound of pork sausage -- so sausage chili it is! Actually it is going to be sausage chili soup 'cuz I added some extra water so it wasn't so 'spicy.'
Mary or Judy or someone came around and put a rose cone over the water pipe --- I think I'll just leave the water hose hooked up. I put some insulation foam on it and covered that on the ground with some old rugs.
Bea called to say that we would be going out to eat with her secretary and her husband -- went to That Place -- I had their special -- fried cat fish -- it was really good -- came with soup or salad (I had the pasta salad), hash browns, a whole catfish, Texas toast, and a bowl of fried mushrooms, cheese sticks, onion rings, cauliflower. It was really good.....way too much food to eat! I brought home the hash brown, the Texas toast, the pasta salad!! Will have that tomorrow.
10PM and the temp is 36 degrees and going DOWN!
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Stimulate the Economy
My sister and I have done our share to stimulate the central Iowa economy – I came up from Texas in the spring in a 1994 RV and will be heading back to Texas sometime this month in a 2008 RV.
Bea called the other nite to say she would pick me up and we could go get a sandwich – and there it was -- a metallic steel blue Ford Escape Hybrid! She had mentioned that she had ordered one but wasn’t sure when it would be in – well – IT’S IN! What a looker! Nice car with all the bells and whistles – I’d have to carry the manual with me to figure out what all that stuff was! Back up camera – routing map on screen – satellite radio, ambient lighting – etc etc etc! WHEW!!
So Folks! Helen Niblock’s Daughters have done their share to stimulate the economy – what are you doing?????
Bea called the other nite to say she would pick me up and we could go get a sandwich – and there it was -- a metallic steel blue Ford Escape Hybrid! She had mentioned that she had ordered one but wasn’t sure when it would be in – well – IT’S IN! What a looker! Nice car with all the bells and whistles – I’d have to carry the manual with me to figure out what all that stuff was! Back up camera – routing map on screen – satellite radio, ambient lighting – etc etc etc! WHEW!!
So Folks! Helen Niblock’s Daughters have done their share to stimulate the economy – what are you doing?????
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