NO Cheese for YOU ????

Sunday February 13, 2022

Rainy start, high 73

Super Bowl  Sunday if you care, I DON'T.

I woke up first, still could hear the gentle rain on the roof. I was up first but only by 15 minutes or so.

 

We had planned to meet Lance and Crystal at Spanish Springs for this weekend's Art show. But it was raining a little, was going to clear up later in the Day. He texted Jim around 9, we were not even close to being ready yet. They wanted to go early and get something specific she wanted for there new lovely home. Then go grocery shopping. So do we today.  I like food shopping, some people don't. Hi Phyllis, thanks for the reading blog.. Then they had to go get ready and make food for super bowl. He can't walk much yet, till he gets his knee replacement. Then one of there sons and DIL are coming for a visit. We said we would just skip it today. I really wanted to see them today, I have something for them. 

So we left to go do our errands. First we stopped at bealls.  Jim wanted to find some new shorts, and he found new swimming suit. I  found a cute gift and this for us, ME. 

 Then we went to Save-A-Lot, really like them here. I get what I can there, then we were going to go to Winn-Dixie. But while in Winn-Dixie, Jim received a message from CHEESE aka Chris, we met him and Nancy at Meet and Greet, with Todd and Sheila. Of Switch it up. They new we were here, they drove in from Daytona, never did find out why they were in the area. Was still raining a little. He was in our CG, said they would wait, Jim said we would finish quick 

"Cut our shopping trip short" be back asap, Jim was all for that. When we got home,  he brought everything in and texted him. He said they headed home already, sorry, but it was raining heavier. SO NO CHEESE for us. LOL.

He did tell Jim about another Meet Up with the Switch Crew on Saturday the 19th, we didn't know about it, I saw it posted, but thought it already past. It is at the Winery next to Clerbrook Golf and RV, be there soon. There are going to be alot of YouTubers there. So Jim went online and got tickets too, YEAH 

 We ate lunch leftover Papa John's. 

Cute picture of our oldest son Thomas's family. Sarah 14, went to a dance. 

Later we took a golf cart ride. Saw this cool interesting camper on our ride. 

Apparently the Circus 🎪is in town. 

 

We came back Jim grilled chicken for dinner and later meals,  he made himself a steak for tonight. The ice cream truck went by so I went out and got us novelty treats for dessert later. 

We watched the Super Bowl 🏈 we didn't care, I Just wanted to see the Commercials. A few were good. I washed dishes took shower. Went to bed before Jim. The Pollen is killing me lately, when everything turns green.  I even took a Zyrtec, think it made me sleepy, I took a nap earlier today too.. didn't do that for awhile.  My head feels like it's going to explode. I Have a headache like when I'm around cigarette smoke. Jim finished the game first. 

Has been great weather except for the rain today and when we moved here. AC ON in the day, most nights don't need heat. We will need heat  tomorrow am, according to WESH 2 Weather. 

Saturday Chores, Pool/Hot Tub, Hockey

Saturday February 12, 2022

Today's high temperature was 86

Today again we were both up early before daylight. Did our normal routine,  I made Jim breakfast a  healthy Maple apple breakfast sausage, fried some onions, peppers, and potato, with two dippy eggs on top.

 After breakfast the mail was delivered to our site, Jim went through that. Hate mail delivery day then my table is a mess. Then took a shower and went outside. Then I decided to do some cleaning inside, I've been totally procrastinating on that. Even did some laundry too. After I vacuumed, I mopped the hard wood floor with a product that makes it shiny even after it drys. All that took awhile.

In the middle of all that I  made myself some lunch. Jim had the rest of the shrimp, that was around 12:30. I kept cleaning. 

Then Jim came in looking for something else. I looked for something else but I was stumped. He said kidding.  I can get pizza delivered here. I said go ahead. He wanted me too. I still had alot to do. So he went outside and ordered from Papa John's he even ordered thin crust, I like it because its lighter. It came quick, was really good. Saved some for tomorrow. He shook the rugs, cleaned vacuum after I used it. Later he watched Hockey outside. 

I did more laundry. I put butternut squash in the instant pot, then we left for the pool. We dropped the trash off, took a little ride before we arrived.

Was really full and busy over there. We relaxed in the hot tub. Then we both took showers and washed our hair in the bath house. 

We headed back. I washed the pool stuff. We was outside listening to music 🎶 the rest of the night.

I finished my butternut squash soup, was really good. 

In the pot for 8 minutes cubed BNS, an apple, pinch Cinnamon, 3 cups chicken broth, garlic, onion, carrots 

Pureed together added little butter and Skim milk 

Made him a little dinner leftover yellow rice with beef and onions and peppers with spaghetti squash. I just had the veggies. He won't eat any of the BNS soup, more for me.

I was catching up on watching The Amazing Race, and crocheting. 

The pollen was really bothering me again, I'm sneezing like crazy.

He came in after 9 am for the night.

Lunch with Lance, in The Villages, Sam's Club

Friday February 11, 2022

Today's high temperature was 85 degrees 

Well now we seem to be in a different morning routine, we are both getting up at the same time,  still very early, before daylight. We were up just after 6 am. 

We did our normal boring morning routine, coffee news and weather, and relaxing, we are definitely experts at that.

Before we left for the day I wanted to call General RV, to see if they were able to set up an appointment to have our major slide repair work done. I called and had to talk to somebody else and explain the whole thing over again. We did end up setting an appointment for the day we leave here at Southern Palms, February 22, on our way to Wauchula, Peace River Thousand Trails. We will go to General RV in Ocala,  and have it looked at, and then head to Peace River. Will be a long driving day. Then we will have to schedule when we can bring it in for the major repairs to be done. I also asked if we can stay in the rig at night. He made it sound like we can work something out. I said we can be gone all day and then just come back when they shut down for the night. We can keep an eye on the progress too.. So glad are extended warranty will be involved in this major project.

 Jim texted Lance his former boss , to see if they  wanted to join us for lunch in Spanish Springs, The Villages . Then we got ready, later he texted, what time. We plan to meet him around noon. Crystal his wife was working at her new part-time job in The Villages, at a golf cart sales office. We parked the truck in the Publix parking lot, it  has the most room to park it. 

Then we did a little walk towards the shops and restaurants there. We were going to go to World of Beer,  they have really good food. Lance saw us coming out of a store in the golf cart, he pulled up as we walked out and offered us a ride around the area.

His golf cart is huge compared to ours. Jim said sit in the front, so I didn't have to be in the sun, sweet man.       Photo opp. 

It was a lot of fun, he goes quite fast,  a little scary when cars are whizzing by you. I like it better when we're on separated golf cart roads. Then we decided where we would go eat. 

Instead of Spanish Springs we went to Lake Sumter Landing, another town square, 

We ended up eating Alfresco at Johnny Rockets. Both the guys had Burger Ruben's, I had a salad with a scoop of tuna. We had a lovely chat, he has to have knee surgery very soon, but he seems very very happy right now, I call it giddy.

After lunch we had another ride back to Spanish Springs. We took a little walk to get back to the truck. 

Then we headed to Sam's  Club, it is very close by. We like to plan fun with real life chores, to save time and fuel, since we were close by. We needed some things, SO why not, Jim's favorite shopping, LOL.

Jim found two kinds of beer, and a case of the variety pack of Chi-Chi's fancy mixed drinks that we really like. We'll get to try a few new flavors. Jim is getting really tired at the end walking around, that's when his pain starts to flare up. The store was way busier on a Friday afternoon than we anticipated. We ended up with a pretty big Hall. The only thing not in the picture was the booze and two huge containers of coffee.

Then we headed back home. Put everything away. That took awhile.

Later Jim grilled some Tuna Steaks,  I made him some yellow rice in the instant pot. 

We watched TV before bed. OK  we always DO that.

Nails, Pool/ Hot Tub, Met Switch Crew

We both woke up at 5am today, crazy. I was thinking about the slide floor problem we have. And how I can't imagine packing and having to move out for any length of time till it was fixed. I couldn't stop thinking about what all that would involve. 

So we got up and started the coffee. Wish we were at a better location to watch the sunrise. 

Around 8:30 I started breakfast  when we were finished we went for a walk around the park, there is a flea market across the street today.

There are Switch crew here, not home yet.

 I have an appointment to get my nails done at 11 a.m. we will try to make it after that to the fleamarket. We left about 10:40 Jim drop me off, and then he headed to Burger King for a slightly early lunch and went to the liquor store, and waited to hear from me back at  the rig. 

I went in to lovely salon and met Illa. She has five horses and does something called Cowboy mounted shooting. Never even knew it existed, you can go on YouTube watch videos, they are in a  commercial, her horse was in  with her husband on the horse running full out and shooting at targets with a rifle. NO hands on the reins .Was amazing video. I had a wonderful time and really enjoy talking with her. She did a fabulous job on my nails. And the next client that came in after me,  we had a lovely chat, she lives in Winter Garden. She was telling me about her property and that she has an RV spot she was thinking about renting.  I told her we might be interested for next year, technically this year cuz it would be end of October. We also had a lovely chat I gave her my card and got her number. After some nail drying time I texted Jim to pick me up.

 We went back to the rig and I ate some lunch and then we walked over across the street oh, but the flea market was pretty much wrapped up by then. We will try next Thursday. Went back again to the rig put on our bathing suits. Wanda my cousin, had called while I was at the nail salon so I called her back we talked about 50 minutes. They have their place down here listed for sale oh, her husband had some health issues. When we finished our conversation we took the golf cart across the road again to the hot tub / pool. Had a wonderful time relaxing in the hot tub. And we took a little ride around on that side of the campground, then  headed back to the rig Jim took a shower. I showered and Changed  over there before we drove back. 

The  motorhome a few sites up from us that has a switch it up flag out front, I've been waiting for them to be home to say hi. So  I grab my water bottle and phone and walked up to see if they were home yet.

 Their names are Billy and Cindy he was sitting outside when  he saw my shirt he said hi, it's like we knew each other for years, Cindy came out we chatted, we're so excited to talk with more crew members. I texted Jim said come up to our crew . She took me in and showed me her motorhome. We realize we did briefly chat at the meet and greet in Tampa  Florida. They live in Texas and will be going to the Huddle too. We're going the end of April. I told them to could come over and see our rig. We ended up walking over, probably was after 5. We gave them  the grand tour and sat and talked till after 7:30. Wow did we cover a lot of different subjects. We'll probably see each other again, I hope so,, I think they leave Saturday. We will definitely see them in Texas. 

We said our goodbyes for the evening. 

We didn't have dinner yet,  and I had thawed some shrimp and we had some strawberries and I ate

 some quinoa/ cauliflower rice veggie salad I make. We watched a few more YouTube videos before we went to bed late. Jim went up first what a beautiful fun day.

Mobile RV Tech, Beautiful day, set nail appointment

Today I was again up before Jim. Today not by to much. We had coffee,  I made him bacon and eggs he made us each an English muffin. I  straightened up. Got ready for our appointment with the mobile RV tech. Appointment was for between 9 and 11, she texted at 8:30, said she was on her way. Yes she, her name was Vega,  found out later she was from Allentown and was in the Army National Guard and was in the Gap, I said you ever go to Moose KZ, she smiled, OH yes. Small World, but I wouldn't want to clean it. Well I say that part.

She was here to look at our problem slide. We told her the long history of it's now many problems, and it never worked right since we bought it.  We showed her what we do to try get it in. She looked outside, and jacked it up a bit. 

But her real final diagnosis, was, she did all she could, and to take it for major slide repair of the slide floor. The slide would need to be totally removed and repaired, It has many problems, she said was not done right from the factory. She worked briefly at General RV, and suggested we try to take it there. 

I actually called them while she was still here, said they would call me back, still never did today.

After she left we sat a bit out in the sun. Jim was setting up outside, took the golf cart out while she worked on the slide. We talked about how it would work for us to take it somewhere, and have to be out of it. 

Then we took a golf cart ride, pretty small on this side of the CG,  I drove and we crossed the road and went on the other side to look around. Is alot bigger on that side. Nice bigger pond. 

Nice pool and hot tub. 

But it is really full and some sites had alot of mud where you have to park. And really packed in tight. We thought that our site wasn't that great, but after looking around it is not that bad. We stopped and talked to a guy with a Brookstone he talked to at Peace River, they just pulled in as we drove in.

We came back to FW. Came in for a bit and decided to go for a walk around this side. We got back Jim put the grill on and I made him flat tater tots and me a few sweet potato fries in the air fryer. He grilled a few burgers and turkey hot dogs. We had more glazed strawberries with topping for dessert. 

I called someone to set up a nail appointment today, she said she was booked till March. Gave me a number of her friend  who might have available openings. I called she wasn't at her shop. Said she would call back. I had to call and leave a message, then she called me we set a time for tomorrow at 11 am, yea, I can understand her too. She said she was out riding, I said I wanted to ask her about that. She said she has 5 horses. I said you ever need a buddy to go riding with, she said YES sometimes I DO. I said OH we could be best friends. Told her looking forward to talking about horses with her.

Jim Watched hockey while I did this stupid blog again, lol sure hope we like reading it when we're old.

I went to bed first my leg hurts for some reason after our walk.

Cool Day, rain on the way for Moving Day

Jim was up first today. Always is on moving day. We had coffee and I made him breakfast with sausage red peppers from last night, and green ones with onions and eggs and cheese. 

The weather report last night said rain was going to start at midnight, never did. Was dry out the whole time we packed up. Our problem slide was a real problem today It didn't want to go in at all. He worked HARD to get that bugger in. 

We said Hi and bye to our neighbors, right before they left. I was looking at all the air plants in the tree above us. It was loaded with them.  One was huge looked like the top of a pineapple.

                 Picture below, whoops.

We left at 10:15 am, still dry out. Was a nice drive, not to much traffic today. Was dry till we stopped at Love's for a quick potty break and grabbed a protein bar. Saw one RV tire seams to have a wear mark on it.  Then it started to drizzle a little after our break, just after  I  4.

We arrived here at Southern Palms Encore Park, just after 1:30.  

  One of the Palm Trees at Southern Palms, nice.

They help you back in they still lay rope down to guide you in, kind of weird but whatever. 

It was raining heavier than, he got level, unhooked, not in that order. I went in did my stuff. Started late lunch. I almost always have a plan. For almost ready to eat items. I heated up beef noodle soup for Jim first. 

The huge Air Plant

Then made us cassadee and dessert from last night, with my glazed strawberries with topping and 2 Lorna Doones. 

I put a spaghetti squash in the microwave.

We relaxed for a bit. Jim talked to Bryan he called.

Rain stopped by then. We went for a walk around the park on this side of the road.  Got a few shots in before it got to dark. 

I little pond here, cool reflection 

People had a little pond with fish,, and a dinosaur theme  

We got back I squeegeed the truck and RV a little, kind of dark then. 

Our new site at Southern Palms Encore Park 

We went in I put spaghetti in the instant pot. Watched a few Ozark episodes. I took a shower and washed the dishes before bed.

Strawberries More Strawberries

It finally happened, I Was up first this AM before Jim.

I don't mean by minutes, but it was almost an hour. Good to see him get some good  sleep for a change.

 I did save him some coffee. I made him a nice breakfast, we put a few things away, tomorrow is moving day. Then we got ready for our day of fun. 

We made plans to see Bob and Sally.  I met them first in the pool here in Peace River, years ago They invited us to meet up with them at Goodson's Strawberry Farms.

It was about an hour drive for both of us. We arrived just after 11:30.

They started to get ready busy, they have great sandwiches for lunch, we shared a Cuban and a club sandwich, and they have strawberry shortcake with the works, they call it, the cake, strawberries, ice cream and Topping, and I got a strawberry Pizza slice it has a cream cheese topping with it.

 Course we forgot to get pictures of that. It  was kind of chilly outside they only have seating outside to eat. We had a nice visit and caught up on their travels. They're staying at Royal Coachman for the winter season. We went in to buy some strawberries right before we left. Jim was anxious to get home and start putting stuff away, as they said rain  was arriving tomorrow. We bought our strawberries and I also found some beautiful red peppers $0.25 each. Here is a picture of them when we got back home. 

Here are pictures of the area, kind of like Parksdale. We really liked it,  we took some of my dessert home.

12 dollars for the half of a flat of berries 

Beautiful produce

That is where you order the food. Bob said they didn't raise the price in over 4 years. 

On the way home we stopped at Wal-Mart wanted a few things, but they didn't have it. Jim did find a couple of flannel shirts he needed. 

We got back to the RV after 3 and I started to put stuff away, I made glazed strawberries, chocolate covered strawberries, I missed one, and I chopped up the red peppers. All that took forever, 

Jim worked outside putting things away, he put the golf cart away too. He worked untill after dark, he didn't come in till after 8 pm.

We watched TV before bed he went up first.

           Thanks Bob and Sally for a fun day.