I wonder who that is?
I slept very well and was ready to get up at a reasonable hour, for us. As my water problem is still not fixed, I decided that I really had no alternative other than take a cold shower and boy, was that water cold? I hopped about as it hit parts of my body and wondered why I tortured myself like this. I finally crawled out and grabbed the towel to dry myself off and warm myself up. Incidentally, I was wide awake when I crawled out. Can’t wait for James to come back and fix the water problem as I do not think I can take very much of the water torture. I will tell anyone anything they want to know…
We went out walking in the park but did not go very far as I was having serious problems with both my feet and knees hurting, making it difficult to walk around. I have no idea what is wrong, and I will be glad when things return to normal. Besides my feet hurting, my balance is also off. Thank goodness for my trusty walking stick.
We returned to the RV, and I fixed our breakfast and then sat down to write the blog. As we are pretty much up to date, the writing was easy without too much brain racking trying to recall just what I had done recently. In truth, I have a very lazy life and do not get up to much. The high spot of the week is usually when I go grocery shopping or the occasional trip into Austin, to Walmart’s. I sure am easy to please.
We sat around doing a lot of nothing and generally being very lazy. I tidied up a bit, but my heart wasn’t in it, so I quickly stopped. When the dogs start to complain about how untidy the RV is, I might, just might pay attention.
We went out for another walk around the park and managed to cover 1.3 miles for the day. Not great but at least my legs were moving, sort of and as sore as I was, I considered it to be good.
The rest of the day was spent in the usual way, with lots of lazing around and the occasional burst of energy as I found something that needed taking care of.
What a life…
Written May 8, 2024, read my other blog at https://pondblog2011.com
Living in an RV Henly RV Park Wednesday 05/08/202
I was ready to get up early but lay there for a bit before rolling out from under the covers. I slept very well and only awoke for the usual bathroom breaks and was ready to get out of bed. Incidentally, the call of the bathroom is much more frequent with less results than it used to be. The dogs, not so much and they both stayed in bed until I was through with the bathroom and had my clothes on.
Then they waited by the door, and I am sure that if they knew how, they would already have their leashes on. I obliged them and got them ready for that first walk of the day. We wandered around the park as we usually do but did not go very far, just 7/10 of a mile. At least, it is a start.
When we got back, I went through the bird feeder routine and only had to fill a couple of them. I looked at every feeder including the ones in the trees as the birds are not lowering the seed level very much which is a sign of a blockage or something similar. What happens is that the seed in the openings that the birds use gets wet in the rain and unless the birds push it around, hardens into a solid mass which is what I end up moving with my trusty screwdriver.
Incidentally, there are nowhere near as many Grackles who appear to have moved on, but now, I have pigeons. The smaller finches are also starting to show up and they are really pretty to look at.
I received a message from James who said he was on his way. I texted him back just to let him know I would be here. I happened to be looking out of the window at nothing in particular and I saw his van pull in at the bottom exit. He did not come up at once, so I assume he had a client in that section.
As I had no plans, it matters not in which order he works on our rigs, but I will be glad to get things straightened out. It appears I may have another problem as the A/C does not shut off.
After a half hour or so, James pulled up in his van and I went out to greet him. We chatted for a bit before he went to work indoors changing out a part. James is a big man probably 6’ 5” and at least 350 pounds and he lay on the floor and squeezed his big body into a very small space in the closet. He changed out a couple of parts and then turned his attention to a different area where he worked on the A/C units both in the living area and the bedroom all the time mumbling under his breath, “I hate this brand of A/C”. This time, the units were in the ceiling.
About an hour later, he turned on the unit and this time they worked without causing a flood as they had before. He fiddled with a few other things and taped everything as it should have been and declared it all fixed. He had turned on the units to check that both were working right and would shut off after reaching a certain temperature.
James is a very honorable man and had been working on my rig on the same problem at least three times before and had problems every time not through his fault. Twice, the new parts stopped working which caused other parts to quit and the project had been a challenge. To his credit, he told me he was all through and started to gather up his things and made no effort to give me a bill.
In my book, unless it is a royal screw up, every worker should be paid for the work they do, and James had no control over new parts burning up, so I questioned him and made him write me a bill which I gladly paid. He went home satisfied, and I was once again, one happy camper.
By now it was three o’clock, which did not matter much as I had no plans to go anywhere or do anything except the usual, “Walk the dogs routine”. We wandered around as we usually do going nowhere fast.
With all of the excitement finished for the day, we really didn’t have anything else to do except sit around a lot and make a fuss of the dogs who loved every minute of all of the attention. We sat outside for a while, but it was not very comfortable out in the hot sun, and we adjourned back indoors in the A/C. This is a first and shows that summer and really hot weather are on the way. I wonder how many 100 plus degree days we will have.
The day ended as it usually does with food all around. With some clever finagling on my part, I got Sandy to eat all of hers.
We were in bed by 10:00 pm as another day came to a close.
Written May 9, 2024, read my other blog at https://pondblog2011.com