A Day at a Time, We Relaxed Today, News

Quail Ridge RV Park

On Wednesday, Apr. 5^th there was something in the air. Bill and I called it ‘HOPE’. We were up by 7 and with no plans to go anywhere today, we dedicated it to a peaceful day together as a family. Even our hopeful prayers were silent. 😊 Gibbs and I walked and even though it was bitterly cold, 30F/-1C, the winds had dropped considerably from the last two days. That made it a nice walk around this west end of the park.

Good morning!
Our hopes are high today!

We had our tea, cereal and delved into our books. Our neighbours, Don and Diane, were packing up for their route home to New Hampshire. They were in no rush so we wished them well and visa versa. Their wishes to us had a lot of ‘Good luck!’ thrown in. I walked up to the clubhouse to drop off two of our James Patterson books and came home with 2 J. A. Jance books and 1 book for me. The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs sounds fun.

We've had some truly beautiful skies
this week

We waited until after 1 before trying to get in touch with Ford and did hear back just before 2:30 that the truck went in the shop last night before closing. Deb and Riley had gone into town and also reported that it was not in the lot anymore. 😊 All good news. Around 3:30 as we were readying to go to Happy Hour, an outside one today because it’s a lovely afternoon, Bill got the call that our truck would be ready either late Thursday or early Friday morning. Yay!

Last one this spring with this group

And one with me
Bittersweet to say goodbye

That’s all we wanted, to have it done this week at a reasonable cost, so we could continue our travels in appropriate time. All we can do is to continue our prayers, hopes and wishes. Earlier, I had mapped out what Bill thinks will be our route with the changes. It helps me to have a better idea as I'm terrible at that stuff. Happy Hour was nice, sitting at the front of the Stinger B in the sun. Layers were removed the warmer I got sitting there. We hugged Riley and Deb goodbye around 5:30 as they head out early tomorrow and returned home to Gibbs.

Walking back from Happy Hour
A lovely sky

I took him for his afternoon walk and then fried us up some yummy cheeseburgers. No bacon tonight. It was messy doing them on the stove but we didn’t get Weber out when we arrived, not expecting to stay this long. They were delicious. 

These were delicious!

Bill cleaned up the pan and the spattered stove and I sat for my blog. The Pink Moon was beautiful but I was too lazy to walk over to that side of the park to get a better picture.

A few shots from inside the Suite
of the Pink Moon
It was huge!

A great day with some good news. Bill also had some good news of his own when he heard that his last parcel, his plane from North Carolina, has been shipped. Another Yay! 😊

Then it quickly disappeared behind the clouds
Good night!

Thank you for visiting.

Last Day, Laundry, Goofin’ Off Mostly, New Friends

I woke at 6:30 on Friday, Mar. 22^nd and knew Bill had gotten up half hour earlier. I joined him and had my tea. My goal, our goal I should say, this morning, was to get the bedding done along with one last load of laundry. After my tea, I decided to forgo the walk today and get to it. Bill disturbed Clemson, still sound asleep in bed, around 8 so we could strip the bed. “What the? Can’t an old guy sleep in around here?”

A rare occasion at Brookshire's grocery store
The packer insisted on walking our groceries to the truck for us
even after Bill promised to return the cart
Well, wasn't that special? :)

Bill drove me to the Laundromat and helped load 2 washers before driving back home. He had a few things to do before hopping in the shower. I hopped on a couple of the exercise machines for 10 minutes (big deal!) and then walked to Texas Hall where I worked on the jigsaw until the wash was done. And then, after moving things to the dryers, walked back for the 40 minutes. I feel that I’m accomplishing a lot but I know the 1000 pieces will not be in place by the end of the day. Pshaw!

Bill joined me to help fold and we drove back to the Suite to make the bed and put things away. Time for breakfast so he started frying the bacon while I finished upstairs and we had our traditional meal together. After dishes, we drove into Glen Rose to Brookshires for a handful of groceries that will do us until we are in the next park for any length of time. Bill topped up with fuel, noting that the price at all the stations had bumped their prices up by .10¢/gal.

We could have drove to Granbury and got it for $2.56/gal
but that was 20 minutes from home and didn't make sense for $15 worth

We found one private station that still offer diesel for $2.69 and Black Beauty slowly gulped $15 worth. There was no reason to dawdle, wanting to get home so I could shower and finish putting things away. We bought bulk meat (ground sirloin & pork chops) when in town so I divided it up for the freezer. Lastly, I split the chili I’d made yesterday into 5 meals. Two went into the freezer and 3 in the fridge for easy meals next week.

This beautiful bush is turning red
Pat and I were put in mind of the Burning Bush we have back home

With all of that done, I walked to Texas Hall again and focused on getting as much of the puzzle done as possible. It was a hot day, no complaints, and that is under mostly cloudy skies. The temperature reached 77f early afternoon. The 7 – 9 mph winds (am I really saying this?) are a blessing today. The a/c was on in the laundromat and in the Hall and our new neighbours have been running theirs since they arrived.

An hour and a half later, I walked back home and at 3 took Clemson for his walk. 

Tadah! Well, it isn't finished and won't be by me
but I did this one by myself from start to this point in 2 days

Pat joined us around the park. It might be my last tour, unless I go in the morning. Bill has everything put away outside with the exception of our chairs. Before supper, he dumped and flushed our tanks. We have 25 or so gallons of fresh water in the tank for on the road. I cut us each up an apple with peanut butter to get us through until supper.

Nice easy, tasty supper

For an hour or so, I went back to work on the puzzle. It wasn’t going to be finished so at 5 I returned to the Suite. It wasn’t going to be an elaborate supper, with just meat loaf to warm up plus a salad to dish out. We had finished eating by 5:45 and we relaxed for a little bit. Rob and Bill had to confer over tomorrow’s destination and departure time. Both had put the route addresses in their gps’s already. In the morning, we just need to unplug, disconnect water and go. I made up sandwiches for the road trip tomorrow.

And Jingles, their temporary cockapoo is adorable!
3 times the size of Clemson

 Bill met someone walking around today while I was at the Hall and they invited us back tonight. They just bought a 2018 Mobile Suite, same model as ours. This is always fun, talking to other Suite owners. We share the same feelings over our rv.  So, after dishes, we walked back to find them. Tom and Cindy are now living in Houston, Tx but have lived in Michigan, Iowa and Pennsylvania. I think I’ve got that right. Anyway, we sat and chatted with them for about an hour and a half and learned that we have a lot in common.

Cindy and Tom
and Jingles

We shared one of our ‘travel’ cards with them and hope to hear from them again and perhaps meet up next winter. It was great to meet new friends, such a wonderful couple. Back home at 8:30 we sat for a while with Clemson. Bill went upstairs with his book and I watched my two recorded episodes of This is Us.

One lonely bright star in the cloudy sky as we walked home.

This was a great last day here in the park. Thank you for stopping in for a visit!