I awoke early, for me, and crawled out of bed. The first thing was to open the blinds and let the daylight in after slopping cold water on my face to help the wake-up process. It was a nice sunny day although a bit windy and we harnessed up to go out walking. We barely covered a half mile, but it was enough to get the blood flowing. 

I checked the Jeep but could not see any visible damage to it from last night’s hailstorm. I did not bother to check the roof of the RV as it does not have a built-in ladder. I could always get my expanding ladder out of the storage box. Maybe later… 

Following the usual routine, I had brought out the bird feeders before we went walking. It does not look like the deer were visiting last night probably due to the thunderstorm. There were no signs around the park that we even had a storm. 

Back in the Caboose, I fixed breakfast all around although Sandy did not eat hers, as usual. She paid remarkably close attention to me as I ate a Burrito. She had a couple of tasters as did Mikey. 

I happened to notice a recording of Adagio for Strings and made the mistake of clicking on the link. It was such a beautiful, sad, and melancholy piece that tears streamed down my face. I guess I am just an old sentimentalist at heart… I like things that move me. Music, Pets, Women… 

I was discussing music with one of my friends as she had her radio on playing one of the oldies, but goodies and we got into a discussion of the music we both like versus the modern-day stuff. Both of us are older so we belong to the generation when good old rock and roll was king. Compared to those days. modern music leaves a lot to be desired.  

Funny, I can remember the adults when I was growing up saying the same thing as I am saying now. 

We went out for another walk about but did not go very far. Consequently, our mileage for the day was only 1.1 miles. Still better than sitting around and not getting any exercise. When we got back, we sat outside on the deck for a while, but it was a little on the chilly side and we eventually went back inside. 

I worked on the blog and did a couple of other things before winding up the day with food and television. 

Written April 10, 2024, read my other blog at https://pondblog2011.com                               

Henly RV Park
Living in an RV
Thursday, April 04/11/2024

I knew that today was going to be a busy one, so I set the alarm to make sure that I woke up early. In truth, I did not sleep that well sometimes just lying there with my eyes closed but not sleeping. Consequently, even though I thought I set the alarm, I was late both waking and getting up. I had the alarm on my phone set for 6:00 but if it went off, I did not hear it and awoke with a start with the clock saying 6:15 am. I was already late in starting my day. 

The reason for the early rise was to take my Jeep into Austin to the dealership for them to do some work on it. The Jeep is equipped with a system that allows me to set the height of it if I choose to go 4-wheeling to give more clearance space underneath. The dogs inadvertently tangled their harness in this switch and broke it is why it had to be replaced. I also had a newly developed problem with the windshield washers not working at all and as we later found out, due to a broken hose. 

I had to take the dogs out for their morning walk, which only increased the time I was late. We did a quick once around the block, and I hustled them back indoors.  They are still mad at me for that, and it is now 2:00 pm. 

Saying a quick goodbye and locking the door behind me, I jumped in the Jeep and pointed it in the direction of the repair shop. Needless to say, I could not have chosen a worse time to travel with everyone going to work and all, like me, heading into Austin. The traffic was literally bumper to bumper all the entire 40 miles which meant that I was 30 minutes late for my appointment. 

I was expecting the young man that took care of me to say something like,” You are late and have been moved back in the pecking order,” but he just smiled and took down all the information and told me to go to check in at the counter to finish the paperwork. 

I had previously made arrangements with my good friend Delores. that she would come and pick me up to take me back to the park for the rest of the day but when they told me it would only be a couple of hours of work, I got on the phone and explained the situation to her. She was halfway here from the campground and after sampling the same traffic that I had, bumper to bumper and a lot of crazy drivers, was only too pleased that I had called so she did not have to complete the journey in. 

I hung out in the waiting room and then went to look at all the new cars on sale and thought of my Jeep. Quite honestly, I am very satisfied with what I have and with the small amount of driving that I do nowadays, it just ain’t worth spending money on a new one. 

Eventually, after a couple of hours, the young man I was working with came and told me the Jeep was ready and “Sign here and here” and you are on your way. I thanked him and made the trip home the back way which was remarkably interesting getting out of Austin but thanks to my trusty route finder, we made it home all safe and sound. 

I made one stop in Dripping Springs at the Tractor Supply there and bought bird seed and a couple more plants which I could not resist and then made the short drive back to the RV park. 

The dogs were very pleased to see me, and we went out for a walk before going indoors. I brought out the rest of the plants and while I was at it pulled a few weeds. I planted one of the new flowers but still have the others to put in the ground. The dogs were tied up to the table, so they could feel like they were joining in with the work. 

With the work out of the way, we adjourned back inside of The Caboose for breakfast which was more like brunch as late as it was. Then, I turned my attention to playing catch up with the blog and brought it up to date and posting the latest of them. 

With that out of the way, I looked around for other things to do and my eyes caught the sorrowful gaze that Sandy was giving me. Interpreted, it meant that she wanted to go out for a walk, so we harnessed up and wandered around the park. We walked for the quality and not the distance which meant a lot of stopping, sniffing, and peeing. Mikey is as bad as she is when it comes to the afore-mentioned actions. 

We wandered around but did not cover much in the way of distance, but we got in a lot of the actions. 

The rest of the day was spent lazing around including a lot of sitting outside until it got dark and then I brought in all the bird feeders for the night. We finished the day watching a premier league game. 

Written Friday, April 12, 2024, read my other blog at https://pondblog2011.com