THIS WAS QUITE A DAY

We have been very busy, so I haven't been posting much.  Our new storage shed was delivered on Monday, but we didn't get approval for it until yesterday afternoon.  We knew that the approval would not be a problem (they just wanted to confirm the exact location), so we started all the pre-assembly of all of the sections.

There were parts and pre-assembled sections everywhere.
 

There were also tools everywhere you looked. It was like a giant Lego set to put together. "Slide tab A into slot B, etc. etc. etc." It went on and on all the way to "Snap tab YY into slot ZZ."

Then to top it all off "The Cable Guy", make that "The Cable Gal", showed up to hook up our cable..  Seeing as how we are going to stay put, for our whole three months, this year, we decided to have cable vision. 

We didn't quite finish yesterday.  We ran out of steam by 6:00 pm  We will get it finished today.  Then I can move some stuff out of the trailer and into the shed.  Then I'm going  shopping for more Patio furniture. 

I will only be Blogging about once a week, from now on, because as I re-read my last post, I found it pretty boring.  I am sure no one is interested in every detail of what we are doing every day.  But I will post at least once a week, even if it is only the mundane details of our life here in Paradise Park. 

Great Day in Paradise Park

We had a great day today.  We went to the Rec Hall for the Saturday Breakfast.  It was very nice.  A great turn out and great food. 

After breakfast we took Sea-Enna to the dog park two blocks away.  She romped and played with a few dogs, and had a good time. 

Dan's back into eating a big bowl of shrimp every day.  I'm sure he is going to have gout by the time we get back  home in the spring.

Before supper Dan & I went for a swim.  We pretty well had the pool to ourselves. 


After dinner it was such a lovely evening, still 74 degrees at 7:00 pm, so we took Sea-Enna for a walk and discovered a Morning Dove, sitting behind our trailer.  It wasn't hurt or anything, just resting, because it did fly away when we approached.  So that was our day. 

Shopping

Yesterday we went out and bought our storage shed.  We got a real good deal on one of those low maintenance vinyl kind.  Dan will have his hands full putting that together when it is delivered on Monday.

I bought my Bread Machine.  So I will be busy making bread this weekend. 

But this morning we are off to the Park Rec Hall for the community Saturday morning Breakfast.    It is going up to 80 Degrees today, so I will definitely be going in the pool. 

Not Quite Used to the Warmth

There is nothing like driving down the freeway in shirt sleeves and looking at the palm trees to remind you, that you are in Texas.  It takes a while to forget that it's January and there should be snow on the ground, but in a few days all this will seem perfectly normal and we will forget all about the great white north. 

We went to Sharon & Casey's for dinner last night.  Which was a real treat, to not have to cook, after all that unpacking and shopping all day yesterday.  It was also Dan's 70th birthday.  I'm still only in my 60's you know.  So, for the next nine days I get to brag about the fact that he is a year older than me. 

I think today is the day that we will finally get a chance to settle in and relax, and maybe walk over to the pool for a while. 

Our Little Home Sweet Home in Texas

I was too tired to Blog last night so here it is Thursday morning and I'm typing up yesterday's Blog. 

Well, here we are in Texas, hauling out all the stuff we stored in the trailer, and hauling in all the stuff we brought with us.  We have been to Walmart, to get some basic groceries, unpacked half of the truck, and we are exhausted.  Trying to throw some burgers together for supper and realizing all the supplies we don't have in the trailer.  I know it will take days and days to be properly stocked. 

Sesa-Enna is so happy to be out of the truck.  I think she recognizes things.  She certainly is sniffing, sniffing, sniffing, and greeting people as if she knows them.  You can never quite tell with her though as she is so friendly with everyone.  Well, I guess I better get back at it.  I am sitting here with stuff piled all around me, that I need to find a place for.  That's the very true saying, that definitely applies to a trailer, about "A place for everything, and everything in it's place.", otherwise it is Kaos.

WE MADE IT TO TEXAS

Time for todays Blog. 

We accomplished three things that we always look forward to.  1. We reached Green Grass.  2. We had to turn the heat off in the truck.  And last but not least, 3. We made it to Texas. We are only 33 miles over the Oklahoma / Texas border in Denton Texas.  We still have a full days driving of approximately 600 miles, but at least we are in Texas and on the home stretch.

 We left St. Louis this morning at 7:30 am and made a diagonal journey across Missouri from St. Louis to Joplin.  I was surprised to see the lovely rolling country side out side of St. Louis.  It was a very pretty drive all the way, much like the Oklahoma that I am very familiar with.

 Here is the green grass we saw today.  Very different from the snow we left in Ohio.




 Then we made a diagonal journey across Oklahoma through Tulsa and on to Oklahoma City, then straight south toward Dallas. 

  

  We stopped at 4:30 as we did not want to tackle Dallas in "Rush Hour".  We have done that before (with the trailer in tow, no less) and it’s no fun. 

So,  with any luck at all,  we will be at our little home away from home by  dinner time tomorrow. 

OFF TO TEXAS

We left Youngstown at 6:00am with a light sprinkling of snow in Lisa's yard, that turned into absolute white outs from time to time as we travelled across Ohio.  All the way along the highway there were cars and trucks in the ditches, which of course caused tie ups and traffic jams.  Everywhere there was an accident, there were always at least 4 cars involved.  As we travelled through Indiana it became intermittent. It would clear and we would think it was all over, then it would be back again. 

Finally as we entered Illinois it started to clear.  We still had the odd streak of snow come through but nothing to serious.  And as we entered St. Louis Missouri, the sun was shining just like us prairie girls like.  The wind was howling and it was cold, but the sun was shining as if it was Manitoba.  I can live with that.  (I'm used to it.)  So we are settled in here in southwest  St.Louis, and going out for dinner.  We will try to make San Antonio TX, tomorrow, the forecast there for tomorrow  is 62 .   I'll take that.