Had a great weekend. I ran my last Couples Tournament at Firewheel Saturday night, with my co-hostess, Chloe. She is a very mature 14 year old. Well, more like a 60 year old in some ways. She is my bookworm granddaughter. Morgan, 11 years old, is my internet specialist. That girl could figure out how to get my birth weight in a matter of minutes. As Angie and I say…. Want to know stuff, take Chloe. Want to survive in the dessert, then Morgan is your choice. She definitely thinks outside the box.
I had purchased gift baskets from the Diamonds in the Rough
golf tournament in Ft. Worth. There were
two, which had wayyyyyyy too many items.
Angie came over and we ended up creating 4 gift baskets. We had a beer themed basked, a wine basket,
and two other food gift baskets. All but
the wine included several cook books to match the theme. I took the prize money on this tournament,
and payed 1st, 5th and 9th place. I then took the secondary prize money and
included it in the raffle. That was only
$30, but was very popular. I guess the
putter was the most popular. Everyone
got something, and the big raffle winner got 3 food gift baskets. That was all she put tickets in on. She definitely wanted one of those.
Chloe spent the night with us, and then Sunday morning, she,
Gary and I got up and drove to Sanger to pick up the RV. They have an RV park right behind the repair
place, and they had parked the RV there for me.
Our plan was for me to do a final inspection, then give them the almost
$5,000 and take it home Monday morning.
Well, so much for the best laid plans.
The first thing you do when you get to an RV site, is level it, then
hook up the electric and the sewer and water.
Just a reminder….. the biggest problem was the wiring and the sewer
holding tank and associated connections were ripped out by the blown tire. Well, there is no way I could connect the
sewer. The connection was put in too far
to one side, and the hose cannot make contact with the pipe.
We decided to go out and eat. We found a Mexican restaurant, Miguelito’s,
and guess who picked it? Right,
Chloe. I got tortilla soup, Chloe got
fajita nachos, and Gary ordered Talapia.
Chloe and I loved our food. Gary
hated his wouldn’t eat it. I didn’t like
it either. Tasted like swamp thang….
Gone bad. We came back and played Hand
and Foot. Gary was so aggravated cause
Chloe won. She had 11,000
something. That’s our new record. I don’t have the paper with me, so I
honestly, no really, don’t know who came in second. I will have to find the paper in the RV soon,
cause Chloe wants it documented that she now holds the high round record. She’s so proud that she took it away from her
mom, Angie.
Gary and Chloe decided to go ahead and head back home. No toilet connections made for a long
evening. I was parked about 2 blocks
from the toilet. Trust me, I had a long
night. Anyway, when they got home, Gary
called to tell me they would NOT come back during the night, so to be
safe. I 35 northbound, was shut down
from Denton to Lewisville. It was a
projected 3 hour delay getting thru that area.
I, thank goodness, managed to make it thru the night without any
trouble. Well, that is unless you count
the 500 trains that blow their whistle as they pass, or the high volume traffic
noise from I 35. I did not sleep
well. When you’re awake, you tend to have
to go to the bathroom several times. Not
only that, it was cold last night. It
was 51 degrees this morning at 6:30 when the alarm went off.
I am currently at the repair shop. They are attempting to fix the two problems I
found. If they can get that done, then
I’ll head back to the RV park and check out the holding tanks. I plan on filling the black and grey tanks
(black is toilet water, grey is sink and shower water) by filling them with
water, then dumping them. See, there are
gauges that tell you how full they are.
That’s important to know when you’re traveling, because if they are
full, that’s a lot of additional weight.
Also, if the sewer gets full and isn’t dumped, it could overflow into
the bathroom if you hit a bump, etc.
When I got here, I asked for the man that worked on the
sewer connections. He came out, and I
asked him if he would look at the connection, and in his opinion, tell me if it
even looked like it was on straight. He
never answered me, but went and got a man to come out and look at it. I offered to get the connection hose out for
him to try it, and he said it wasn’t necessary.
I am sitting here in the showroom, which they opened up for me (I got here
at 7:30, and they don’t open up til 9:00) so I could watch TV. There is no internet, so I’m typing this into
word, and will cut and paste it when I find wi-fi someplace.
I also butt dialed Margie early this morning…. Thank you
Apple….. at least it only butt dials the last number dialed, or someone in your
address book. She was already up, so at
least I didn’t ruin her day. I have got
to start shutting down the phone app when I finish a call. That doesn’t always work, so I now must
remember to lock the phone when I finish using the phone app. It will still, of course, open up the phone
app at random when I unlock the phone, but maybe I can keep on top of that
issue.
Nothing much else going on.
I am hoping to be able to get home tonight. If they can’t finish it up today, I’ll call
Gary and have him come get me. He’ll have
to do it, cause I have Chloe’s school project in the RV. She brought it with her to finish up. She did a water color painting that
demonstrated 1 and 2 dimension vanishing points.
Oops, they’re here to vacuum the carpet. Gotta move.
Here again, but it’s Thursday (yes Sheila, I checked the
calendar). They fixed the black water
connection problem. I ended up having to
buy a new connector hose ($50) because the heavy duty Rhino would not fit
correctly. Just like me… too fat. Retested it, and everything was workingThey
also said they thought my tires were showing unusual cracking…. Becoming
brittle. I told them I’d have them
checked when I got home. . I came back home and pretty much did nothing
Tuesday. Just too pooped.
Tuesday night, Sheila, Margie and Gerry took me to Top Golf
for golf and dinner as a birthday treat.
We had a ball. Especially
Gerry. Margie, Sheila and I had all been
there before, but not Gerry. She loved
the set up. I only had one complaint…..
we played two different games, and they didn’t let me win at anything. Happy Birthday to me?????? Oh well, the food and company were great
fun.
Wednesday, I decided to get busy. Gary wanted to see the new sewer (black
water) connection. As we were looking at
it, I noticed that the wheel well wasn’t connected like it should be. It wasn’t bolted to the frame. I called them, and they answer I got? The guy probably didn’t know how it was
supposed to be connected. WTF? I asked why they had an inexperienced person
working on it alone. Well, duh! I realized it would do me no good to
argue. So I made an appointment to have
it repaired Friday.
I then decided I wasn’t able to get enthused about cleaning
it, and went to the tire store. Well,
more bad news. One tire is classified as
not sate at all. They contacted
Michilin, and they are replacing it for free.
Another tire, that had excessive cracking (caused by too much sun and no
enough driving to keep them waxing), needed to be replaced. They paid for all but $115. That’s not bad for two tires, mounting,
taxes, etc. The bad part is they had to
order the tires. Ok, but do they think I
could drive it to Sanger on Friday?
Nope, to unsafe. Sooooo, I
rescheduled the appointment to Monday.
In discussing all this with Sheila, I realized that I was one day ahead
of the real day. Long story short, I
claimed a senior moment, as I’m now really old.
I did spend yesterday (Wednesday) cleaning the inside of the
RV. When we had the tire trouble and
Gary picked up the RV, we took almost everything out of the RV. The air compressor, jack, anything that we
thought might seem valuable enough to steal.
I had to put all that back in.
We’d also taken out all of the dishes that weren’t necessary when we
first packed for the trip. Hey, we had
to pack enough junk for 3 weeks. I had
to wash all that and put it back. I
shampooed the carpets, moped, cleaned the inside from top to bottom. It is spotless, on the inside only. I decided not to wash it since I’ll be
driving to Sanger again on Monday. I’ll
wash the outside after that, then put it in storage.
Yesterday was Eric’s (son-in-law) birthday. We treated him and the rest of the family to
dinner at Brio’s. OMG! Talk about one spoiled granddaughter. Morgan likes their steaks, and usually orders
their artichoke steak medallions.
They’re $27. She decided to go
with filet mignon, and ordered it with catsup.
I think Eric got the same thing, but they got their plates mixed up, and
Morgan ended up with the medium and he got the medium rare. They were melt in your mouth delicious. Morgan ate all of her steak except 2 bites
without catsup. She loved it. Maybe she’ll start ordering it that way. She likes it red, but not bleeding. Instead of eating dessert there, we went to
Cheesecake Factory for dessert.
Got there and decided we’d get out desserts to go, and eat
them on the patio because the weather was so great, and then we could just take
our leftovers and head out whenever we were ready. We stood in front of the case that holds the
cheese cakes, and there were 3 people behind the counter, but they ignored us
for about 5 minutes. I went to the
cashier and asked how we were supposed to get served. She said to go to the register. Well crap, it is right next to the case. I told them we wanted some orders to go. She said what do you want. I told her we had questions. She rolled her eyes at me and gasped. I told her if it was too much trouble to get
the manager to help us. She SAUNTERED
the three feet to the case, and I told her I liked dark chocolate and was
asking about the various cakes when she turned to the other cashier and again
rolled her eyes. I got soooo
pissed. I asked if she had something wrong
with her eyes that cause them to roll every time I spoke to her. She refused to look at me, and said just tell
her what I want. I told her never mind,
it appeared to be too much trouble, I’d go somewhere else. Of course, the rest of the family headed out
the door. I spoke to the manager and
left. We had no birthday cake. I did tell everyone we’d go to the one at
Firewheel on Friday, while Angie was at work and we’d be hungrier. Everyone except Chloe was good with
that. We headed back to the house, and
everyone had ice cream and we sang happy birthday to Eric.
Today, I worked on the garage. Even Gary tried. It is over whelming, so say the least. They called about the tires a few minutes
ago, so I’m once again blogging in word because there’s no wi-fi here. I also have a neighborhood meeting at 6:30,
so I may not get it posted until later tonight, but that in on my agenda.
I have no other plans for the weekend. I’ve decided to break down and go to the
gastro doctor once again. I am not 100%
where I was before I took antibiotics, and I am sick and tired of the gut issues. I am hoping he can once again get me on
track. That’s it for my exciting
life. Later…. Have a great day.
Friday, got the tires replaced. Saturday, one of them went flat.... but Gary fixed it. They had gotten one of the valve extenders on cockeyed and the air leaked out. GASP! Here is a picture of them working on it.
Friday, got the tires replaced. Saturday, one of them went flat.... but Gary fixed it. They had gotten one of the valve extenders on cockeyed and the air leaked out. GASP! Here is a picture of them working on it.
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