Richmond, Texas, that is. Our first night at Shady Oak RV park, we saw two other Views pull into the park. It wasn’t long before there was a knock on our door and a fellow was asking if he knew us. It was one of the View owners coming to see if we’d been to any rallies they’d been to and to invite us over for happy hour. So we met John & Peggy and Larry & Virgina, all from Wisconsin, and talked, among other things, about how glad we are to not be Up North at this time of year.
We spent the weekend doing household chores–like laundry and house cleaning and all that fun stuff.
Monday we went into Houston for a day of errands.
We went to REI and stocked up on freeze dried food.
We had a recall on our Sprinter done. We waited about an hour for it to be our turn to get a 2o minute fix. Helfman Dodge had a nice waiting room where we got a bunch of computer work done. I like it when they have tables near electrical outlets.
We went to Smitty’s RV and Welding to find out what to do about our hitch. We’ve been told it’s going to fall off. They said, “Yes, it is.” They will put in a bracket to hold it better. They will also put a wheel on the upright part of the Segway lift so it will roll instead of drag when we go through dips at driveways. On Friday they will do these things.
Tuesday we spent cleaning out all our cupboards and shelves to see how many things we aren’t using that we can throw away or ship back to our storeroom to lessen the weight of our stuff. We are trying to get rid of all the “someday we might want to use this stuff” so we have more capacity for the “we use this every day stuff.”
Wednesday we ran local errands. First we went to the Post Office to mail back all the DVD movies we have that belong to NetFlix. We are suspending our account since we never seem to have time to watch movies any more. We have seven days to send back these movies before they charge us $20 apiece for them. If we get the urge to watch other movies, we can rent them for $1 at RedBox which is at most McDonalds and some Wal-Marts now.
Then we took enough stuff over to the UPS store to ship five boxes to the store room. It’s not as much as it sounds like since the piano keyboard gets its own box as does the piano stand and the tire chains which are either too awkward or too heavy to go in with anything else.
Then there’s a box of piano sheet music. And this one:
A lot of that last one would probably have gone into the estate sale if we’d been thinking more clearly. Some day we’ll need to resort stuff in the store room and decide, once again, which to keep and which to dispose of.
In the meantime we keep doing chores here. Such as going to Hobby Lobby and buying a piece of strip wood to put in the silverware drawer so the holder slides instead of falls. The sharp knives are in a holder under the silverware holder and it can’t be good for the tray to keep falling on them.
We also went to KFC/Taco Bell for lunch. The last time we drove by it was still under construction but today it is open for business. It turned out to be the first day they are open so the employees are practicing their new jobs. And the food is free! From 12-2 and from 5-7 Wednesday and Thursday each person who comes in gets one free meal. Friday is the Grand Opening and you get to pay for your food. We repaid them for our free food by helping them learn what else they need to do–for us they need to get knives and butter which they said they will do. We like KFC’s original flavored chicken strips but we eat them with a knife and fork. No knives meant we couldn’t cut them up. We also like butter on our biscuits. Today they gave us some clarified butter they use for cooking and promised to order packets of butter. Good people; I hope their place is a success.
Then we went to J.C. Penney for Dave to buy new underwear. I made him throw his out. I asked him if he didn’t put his fingers through the holes trying to put them on and he said, “Yes.”!
Then we went to Kroger to buy groceries. They have Mocha Mix! I can have cereal for breakfast again! Which I think I’ll go do now. We have another two busy days planned here.
TTYL,
Linda
Ha! Ha! Underwear with holes? Isn’t it funny because no one sees them, everyone has them but they are the last to be replaced. We’ve also found the $1 DVD movies at most chain grocery stores.
In SW Fl there seems to be Redbox locations only in Walmart stores. FYI, Rebox is also having free movie Wednesdays in March. All you need to do is go to blog.rebox.com on Wednesday to get the promo code. I am not sure if you need to be a member but that is free too and we got a free movie for doing that too.
Also, at the rate you are traveling I don’t think we will meet up in Florida this year as we heading back to Minnesota on April 1st. We will be traveling this summer so maybe there will still be is a rendevous in our future later this year.