Tampa RV show

Tampa RV show 

Friday January 15, 2021

We got up, I packed a lunch to take along. We arrived at about 10:30 am. It definitely did not seem as busy as it has in the past.

The show has fun festive atmosphere.

These guys were funny, I asked the cop to pose for a picture for me, the western guy said I was flirting with officer Ramirez, he found out his name and was making a lot of jokes,

We didn't go into alot of RV'S, didn't want to touch alot of High touch surfaces.

RV made from a container. 

Saturday January 16, 2021 

Saturday we left to go for lunch at Panda Express. Then we went to Camping World stopped at Lowe's and Save-A-Lot came home for dinner and had our leftovers.

Sunday January 17, 2021

Today I was cleaning inside, and doing laundry, Jim was working outside. He fixed the leak in our -15 foot Dominator sewer hose. Put in new batteries we just got at Lowe's for the tire pressure monitor system, replaced all four. Added air to all four tires at 120 PSI and torqued  the wheels.

We went for a nice long walk. Then we took a golf cart ride to take the trash out, and saw a huge flock of turkeys. 

Made Homemade ham and bean soup.

Jim found the taco truck. He was looking for, was supposed to be here Saturday too. He had huge burrito oh, and we finished our golf cart ride.

Monday January 18, 2021

This morning when I open the blinds I woke up to this lovely sight.

Went line dancing today did not go anywhere.

Tuesday January 19, 2021

We left this morning to go do errands.

Jim wash the truck I found clock working so he could fix my grape and wine bottle clock. We found mud flaps at a store he ordered to pick up later. Looking for a few other things with no luck. Went to Chili's for lunch we weren't finished until 3.

Did not make line dancing today sadly.

Wednesday January 20, 2021

I was up first again I was watching inauguration coverage, Jim went outside. I saw him wash the hot hoes, I call it the electric one for winter time use. And put it away. I went line dancing today after lunch from 1 to 3. We made a decision to dance starting at 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday cuz it's way too hot down in the Sun at 3.

I took Joan home in the golf cart, Jim and I sat outside, it was so beautiful and chatted. He had started drinking margaritas by then. He talked to his mom, she's getting excited about her trip here, we were trying to make plans and how we were going to do a few things with her.

We took a long golf cart ride, I drove. He held his margarita. We saw our flock of turkeys again. And a lady with the big McCall we talked to.

 Never know what you're going to see in a campground. Came home Jim grilled Burger and him a steak and made a fire for the night.

Back to real life. A Summer review and catching up

As we prepare to leave for our winter trip to Florida, thought this would be a good time to do some catching up.

Jim received his first haircut since we've been back in April.

Have to find someone to work on the fridge again still not working properly oh, but the freezer is fine. Called Home Advisor. Had an appointment with them before I was going to work. Asked how punctual they are, after 15 minutes past our appointment time I called them. She said oh he's not coming he had an emergency. So now what, back on the hunt to find someone who will work on a Samsung refrigerator. Ended up calling Mr. Appliance. He came out assess the situation, I think he was more amazed by looking around at the camper. Ordered the parts came back a week later. It's worked perfect ever since. Highly recommend them. Was all frozen on the inside.

We had a family dinner with everyone at Esther's Restaurant in Fredericksburg, we all were able to be together for a lovely meal.

The people who bought Brigittes house got married. We had to move RV and get her to the wedding by 2.

I decided I wanted to remove our shower doors. So sick of cleaning the track always look dirty. I was so curious what they weighed. I made Jim get on the scale with them 75 lb gone. I love the after picture.

We got rid of our storage shed finally. $130 a month.

 Talked my brother into taking the drums finally, thank you Drew, we made a trip upstate with them and some other junk I couldn't part with yet.

Love picture of this church.

 On the way back stopped with our oldest and dearest friends Pam and John.

We had a hard time making reservations at our two Thousand Trails we bounce back and forth in over the summer. We ended up staying two months with Steve and Katrina they're beautiful property they were also getting ready to sell and go full time. This is a picture of our site there, they had a full hookup in-law site they had, and the use of the storage shed,  we used while we got rid of our climate controlled storage shed.

We had a few yard sales with them. Few early morning.

They had huge 3 car garage FULL.

Travis found a great apartment to rent this year close to his work.

This is  a few old cars his landlord keeps in the garage apartment under him.

Travis on the right. We all went to see the apartment Thomas Kerri and Sarah 

Stayed home, HOT, a few things Accomplished

Sunday March 28, 2021

This am I was up first and then I made coffee. 

When Jim  got up I made him bacon and egg sandwiches with the nice little yeast rolls from Cody's, I had one at lunch time. I ate my oatmeal. Watched the news. I started doing the rest of the laundry. I started it last night, and forgot about it. Only did one load put in dryer and went to bed last night Jim likes to hear it running. 

I did a load of  wash cloths, put in the dryer, then towels put outside. Very hot and windy today. I did sheets and put behind the towels on the line.

A few RV'S around us left this am. 

We had lunch at 1. I heated up the last of the bbq pork, he made half radishe sandwich Also small bowl of beef noodle soup I made. He loves it. I Had my egg sandwich and we shared the last of the broccoli salad. We had half cookie each. Then I froze 2 containers of soup, the rye bread and some of the sweets including the carrot cake. Jim was outside for awhile in the afternoon.  He came in for lunch. 

Somewhere in there Jim took a shower and I made the bed  nice clean sheets dried outside, Love that.

I changed the polish on my nails. Then he texted me just after I finished that Barbara and Tony were here on there scooters. 

They went over to the winery next door for there weekend fun, tasting whatever they do over there. 

We chatted outside for quite a while very nice. We all enjoyed the view and watched the golfers. If the MH that was three sites away from us  wouldn't have left today he would have gotten hit by one guy. 

When they left was around 5 we had dinner. I made Jim a quesadillas  with onions peppers and fresh corn and black beans. I had my half burger and we shared the fries. 

Then we went for our nightly golf cart ride. When we got back, another RV backed in a few sites down. We put the orange fabric on the seat of the golf cart,  looks nice hope it stays on. 

I vacuumed and mopped the bathroom floor,  put rest of the laundry away, then took shower. Did blog watched some TV I had recorded. Was almost 10 pm by then.

Another Hot Day

Another Hot Day, Jim loves it.

I woke up early today, but Jim got up first. We made the coffee together and enjoyed it as I watch the news, he looks at his phone. 

Later I made him breakfast of cream cheese and blueberry stuffed French toast and two eggs. I made a batch of oatmeal.

 It was really foggy first thing this morning and totally dark out when we got up. 

Later Jim heard lawn mowers off in the distance. Seems like they cut the golf course every day. But later they were coming over here, so he was outside for a while moving our stuff in as our grass really need to be  cut. He even moved the truck  to make it easier for them to do a nicer job. He stayed outside for a while, and he loves it in the heat.

I took off the grease as it was now cold from the pot roast last night, I'm going to make soup for him with most of it, I don't eat beef, also I cut up a pineapple. Jim got all the trash together since we had a nice bagful and he took it up to the dumpster in the golf cart as I was doing my blogging.

He started to prep the kitchen sink to re-caulk it. I got really to go up to line dance from 12 to 2. Jim said he could wait till 2 to eat lunch. I told him what we were having, the grilled boneless pork ribs and the salads I made yesterday. Told him if he can't wait eat the salad first. 

I left in plenty of time as not to be late, as Jim was still working on the sink. When I arrived at the Hearth a sign on the door said LD Canceled for today, hope to see you the last one on Wednesday. How sad, plus only one dance left. So I took a drive the long way home. Stopped my Barbara and Tony, the scooters were not there. So kept going said hi to the 2 sisters that have the beautiful orange tree here like mine, but huge and planted outside. Saw it 2 weeks ago in full bloom. 

Pictures from a ride around 

Till I arrived back to the RV. Jim still working on the sink, he does such a good job. It just gets messy and some language glad his Mom didn't have to hear.

So I had to wait to get lunch out, was all ready just heated up pork. I prepared a card to send his Mom that Deb made in Piece River. It was SO good. Had a cookies for dessert.

Then we went for golf cart ride, stopped at the Pro shop got Travis a golfing shirt.

We had dinner I made Jim beef noodle soup. 

We went into pool. The took a sunset golf cart ride.

Fridge, Pool, and HOT HOT, HOT

Jim was up first this morning. I was up soon after. We sat with our coffee for awhile. Jim had a bowl of cereal with berries as we chatted about what we wanted to do today. 

I spent alot of time going through a stack of little note papers that I write info on. Some I still needed, most of them I did not. Have to try to keep them all in ONE note pad. 

 I called Home Depot to see if the paint we ordered was in. The lady I spoke with 2 weeks ago, was on vacation now, and lost my number, great. So I was trying to tell the new lady that answered the phone what I wanted. Then I couldn't find the part # that Rust-Oleum gave me. We looked everywhere, was it one of the little pieces of paper I threw away,  NO, we called each other back and forth. I finally found the number. Gave it to her when she called me back, she had called Rust-Oleum too, and luckily we both  had the same number. Hopefully it gets ordered soon but we found out only comes in 2 two gallons sets now. 

I made two reservations with CG's for our trip back to Pa. 

Then I suggested I call a refrigerator repair guy here for our Samsung that has been dripping water from the defrost cycle into the drawers since we left PA. No one there would work on one. I talked to a guy he said he could get someone here around noon. That never happened but he called me back a few times so we kind of waited for a while.

We took a golf cart ride before it got to hot, I put sun screen on, but still felt like I was cooking in the sun.

As soon as we left saw a couple from Pa we know, we chatted for a bit. We stopped by the pool here in Crossroads to see how warm it was.

Jim was happy with it, he said I would get in this pool. Hot tub really nice too. I have to go in later though to much SUN for me NOW.  Darn I realized that I rinsed the sun screen off my feet. My feet have tan lines from my sandals.  We finished our ride early as the sun was strong. Some pictures of our ride.

Someone else planted a pineapple.

Food truck here, Exit 90 Ate, cute name, taco stuff.

Cute park model for sale here.

l underlined our FW,  took from out by the road on our ride, we have a great view in the back. 

I made 4 salads for lunch, almost always make 2 for tomorrow, just as easy to make 4.

Jim also fixed my grape clock that sits above his chair. It fell multiple times in travel, and he has repeatedly fixed it. It totally stopped working once, and he replaced all the clock guts as I call it.  It was fine till we got here, and the hands were all bent. He took it all apart, got it working again. But there's just not enough room in the back of it for the command strips to secure it to the wall when we move the RV. So he put a screw in the wall, first time we've ever did that. And I added it to my travel list to take the clock down and put it on the bed when we move. Hope that's a permanent fix.

Jim sat outside as I busied myself inside. A  huge MH backed in with one empty site between us and I never seen it. 

Around 3 p.m. I looked out and Jim was talking to Barb and her husband, they drove over on their scooters. They were chatting for a while but I had just put the pot roast on the stove to Brown before I put it in the instant pot. So I couldn't walk away from it, so till  I got it in the pot they had left. 

Today I want to go in the pool sometime. It felt so good earlier.

We both sat outside a bit, was to hot for me to stay long, even though we have a nice shade tree and always a breeze here. This is the best site we ever had here. Jim and I were watching the golfers, hope there good. RV's have gotten hit before, but we are at a good angle. 

For dinner I served Jim pot roast with leftover potatoes from last night and corn off the cob. I made a huge pile chicken, onions and peppers, black beans and the rest of the Corn for quesadillas later. I had a half of one for dinner, a little bit of the potatoes. Jim just loves that pot roast. We are just taking our last two bites, the kitchen was a mess with all that cooking. And Jim looked out the window and the refrigerator guy was here. Jim was just about to wash the dishes. So this never happened before.

 Two guys at the same time working in my kitchen.

What a mess we had. I was so worried they'd have to pull the fridge out. The guy said we do it all the time. I was trying to make him  understand how it sits up on a platform and it would have to drop down once it was out. Never even thought about till the guy came that the island probably would make it really hard to get it all the way out. It turned out the defrost was constantly running and the water had a slow drain It just had nowhere else to go. We had to empty the fridge it was hard to get all the shelves out but the guy made it work, took the panel off the back to replace a part. It's awesome that he had it with him. He did a great job. I talked about how I was going to wash everything and how I would do the big shelves Jim suggested I take them in the shower. That works great I kept myself busy as it stresses me out everything all pulled apart. The total bill was 350 he said he can only take cash. I'm glad we still had a stash of that much. It was worth it to me to get it done. He wanted to snake the drain for the defrost but he would have had to pull the fridge out. We decided to not do it. He felt that this would take care of the problem if it only went into defrost when it needed to not constantly that the drain could keep up.

YEA that makes me so HAPPY that is done. Together we finished wiping it out and putting everything back in, and watching the temperature go back down. Just after we finished Dale and Mary Lou Price stopped By to  say hi, we chatted for a bit outside. Met one of the other neighbors.

 Then we went inside Jim watched hockey while I jumped in the golf cart and went up to the pool. By this time it was just after 8. As soon as I got in this guy started talking to me, Butch. Hardly anybody was there. He was quite chatty the Price's  said the pool is open till 10. But he said it closed around 8 or 8:30 so around that time a lady showed up to lock the gate. He said let's tell her we're on our honeymoon and see if we can stay 15 minutes longer. Okay whatever dude. She said it was okay I went in the bathroom and changed. Glad he was gone when I came out. Nice enough guy  but  kind of a weird thing to say after only a 10-minute chat. I think he was sad I got back so early. But the mosquitoes attack you as soon as you stop the golf cart. He went to plugged it in.

 Later we finished watching Superstore the last show of the series, when I got back in hockey was over. I took this picture right before I headed to the pool.