Happy Monday

Happy Monday 

Monday March 18, 2024

I was awake early enough this morning to almost see the sunrise. And then see about eight teenagers get on the school bus out front.

 Jim was up shortly after that. What a great first night we had in our spot.

 It's a very busy area here in Port Richey, but it's so amazing how quiet it is right here at the house, under this carport.

As we drank our coffee and had breakfast, we tried to make plans for the day. Go here, go there, we ended up staying home all day.

 At one point Rick stopped in and was doing work around the property. He had a friend that helps him out here and works in the shop. 

While they were here, Jim and I did offload the Smart car.

 All that went well. Later

We had a nice chat with them. Apparently Rick invited us to their house for dinner next week, that part of the conversation I missed.

 After Rick left his friend continued to work in the shop for a while. We could hear some grinding noises in there.

We didn't do much else today,  R and R was needed. 

Jim did get the Ninja out. Didn't even need an extension cord. We grilled and smoked, some boneless pork ribs for dinner.

I think they were the best we ever had them. You have to be very careful not to over cook them. I made spaghetti squash, 

 cole slaw and air fried French fries. 

Jim will not let the Ninja sit outside overnight. I think he should. He always worries about security, that's good, but here under roof, it's gated too.

He did find a new spot for it. There was an empty spot for it inside, as we sit here, where the air compressor was, that we sold. It's definitely more convenient and easier on his back to keep it there.

After dinner Jim was going to watch hockey outside :)

 So I thought it would be a good time for me to finally vacuum. I have been procrastinating something terrible on that job. So I pulled the Rainbow out, started to.

 But the power nozzle wasn't working. He came in and said the game was tomorrow night :(

 I told him about the power nozzle, so he took it out to fix it. He said he had to order parts, but he got it working for now, and stayed outside till I finished, it was just after 7:30 and I had a NOBS accountability group Zoom call. So I did that upstairs. He came back in when we finished. 

We continued to watch the new season of The Voice that just started. Stayed up way later than I wanted to, BUT oh well.....

Tuesday March 19, 2024

This morning we got up and had breakfast and then left around 11:00 a.m. and our first stop was Harbor Freight. Found a few things that we thought we needed. Big heavy rubber Duty chalks for behind the HDT tires. Jim had to get some sockets and some plastic puddy knifes, to remove caulk, so he can redo it. 

He has been looking for a better ladder than what we already have. He found one, but said we can't get it now ?? WHAT, why..... OH the car.. it won't fit, LOL,  guess we have to get that with the Volvo.

Then we went to Sam's Club. First time in a long time Jim says we were in there for over 2 and 1/2 hours, but I don't believe him. I really wanted a couple rotisserie chickens, but those things fly off the shelves, here in this busy area. LOL. 

We went to Hooters for lunch, I know weird, but the food was really good.

We had a lovely view of the water.

There is a casino boat ride, that leaves from here.

Then we found a great park close by.

Took a picture of porta potty. Some Price made a name for himself, lol.

Jim said must have been a shitty cousin. Oh my...

These are the top 2 locations to view the sunset here and Hooters.

 We got home and put everything away which took a while. Nothing really that was cold. We have to go back another day you look at the cold section and try to get rotisserie chickens. 

Later in the day we talked to Richard and his cute puppy Mazey. He said he was a tech guy,  and I asked him if he would help Jim with some tech, mainly getting the GPS in the truck to work. 

 I could make us dinner sometime for the three of us. He said that he could do that and I told him he's the one that works, so whatever work for his schedule. 

He said, Thursday night would work well for him. I said okay I will plan a menu, he said he didn't hate anything but liver.

Jim watched hockey outside.

I watched some TV shows that Jim doesn't really like.

Had dinner later since we had a late lunch.

Wednesday March 20, 2024

This morning I was up for a couple hours before Jim woke up. After we had coffee and breakfast. We got ready went to Camping World first today. There's one pretty close by, we needed two pieces of carpet for our steps. They were so worn out, we were going to get rid of it, but we kind of missed it. Then we left and went to

 Dollar General and right next door was Aldi's. I went in by myself. Needed a few things for our dinner party tomorrow night for 3.

 Then we went to Wendy's for a quick lunch, can't say cheap anymore, because it really isn't. 

Then we came home put everything away. I put the corn beef Jim won at meat bingo in TTO in the Instant pot outside. Put it in for 2 hours.

I first gave the fridge a good deep cleaning. Jim helped me get 2 of the shelves out. I had the rubber shelf lining on the glass. It worked great to keep help keep things put on travel days. But it sticks and comes off on the glass. So hard to get it off. Jim scraped it off with new plastic puddy knife, not even what we needed it for, found a second use. It took awhile to, clean, dry and put everything back in the fridge.

When I was done I ended up giving the car a little wash and and spot cleaning the Volvo a little bit too.

 After all that we had leftovers from last night's dinner and Jim had some corn beef too, it was very tender.

After we went to Brasher Park,

 1.1 mile from where we have the RV. 

 Great place to view the sunset,

 so beautiful.

We got home Jim washed the dishes, and we realized Survivor has been on for weeks already. 

We hardly watched any TV the weeks were in TTO 

We have a little catching up to do.