A FEW RV THINGS FINALLY RESOLVED, KELLY’S GRANDS, AND A RIDICULOUSLY HOT DAY

KELLY’S GRANDSON KAI LOOKING FOR FROGS IN OUR FROG POND THIS MORNING

We've had another flip-flop of plans regarding the selling of our Motorhome and the purchase of a smaller one.  Kelly has decided it would be better to keep the rig we have and I do agree with her but where our future RV plans are now I have no idea. Best for me not to even think about it anymore.

AREA WHEAT FIELDS ARE RIPENING

THERE ARE BIG ROLLED BALES OF HAY WRAPPED UP THERE IN THAT PLASTIC

Most accurate way to describe our weather today is hot-hot-hot and yukky-yukky-yukky.  Not nice to be outside, well at least for me it isn't.  With old Sol climbing steadily into Saturday morning's lazy hazy sky Pheebs and I ventured out.  Actually the Sun is stationary and doesn't rise.  It is the Earth that moves and rotates downwards giving the elusion of the Sun rising.  Well that’s what a little green space Alien once told me anyway.

CORNS A GROWING

AND FARMERS ARE BUSY SPRAYING FOR WEEDS

Pheebs and I drove ourselves on over to the Hullett Marsh.  After washing the Jeep Saturday it was needing a fresh new coating of dust so that is just what it got.  Drove slowly into the Marsh  along a dusty gravel road and the Deer Flies were flying right alongside waiting for us to stop and get out.  We didn’t.  Bordering the marsh is what I assume to be an old tumble down wooden shack of a church with an accompanying cemetery beside it.  Bit of a breeze blowing through there so no Deer Flies and we were able to get out for a leg stretch and some photos.

MIGHT HAVE BEEN AN OLD SCHOOL HOUSE AT ONE TIME TOO

AND YES THAT IS AN OLD OUTHOUSE TO THE LEFT

THE ACCOMPANYING CEMETERY

 

With the morning quickly heating up, my skin  sticking to itself, and Pheebs tongue dragging on the ground we hopped back into the Jeep and headed for home.  On cold days we sometimes drive around with Pheebs window down and the heater on but today it was the her window down with the A/C on.  Works great.

FIELDS AND FIELDS OF WHEAT

I LIKED THE FOUR WHITE HORSES ON THE RED BARN DOORS

AFTER A HEAVY DAYS WORK IN THE FIELDS THIS OLD TRACTOR RESTS IN THE COOL SHADE OF A TOWERING MAPLE TREE

Kelly’s son Ben and his two boys Darion and Kai stopped in about 11:30 on their way to the beach about a mile and a half or so west of us.  Because of the humidity Ben’s wife Bri decided not to come so Ben and the boys decided to head home after spending some time at the beach.  In this humidity even with A/C running in the rig it can still be on the warm side with four people.  We understood Bri not coming and their decision not to do an overnighter in the Motorhome.

KAI AND DARION AT OUR HOUSE TODAY FOR A SHORT VISIT….OH AND THEY BROUGHT THEIR DAD WITH THEM TOO

YES WE HAD SOME INTREPID FROG HUNTERS AT OUR HOUSE TODAY

     

KELLY POINTS OUT THE FROGS IN THE POND

TRYING OUT KELLY’S FOREST CHAIR

‘WOW WHAT BIG LEAVES YOU HAVE HERE GRAMMA’…..’CALL ME GRAMMA AGAIN AND YOU’LL BE GETTING ANOTHER BACK HANDER’   JUST KIDDING, JUST KIDDING

AND THAT’S KELLY’S YOUNGEST SON BEN BACK THERE

‘HIGH FIVE GRAMMA’

DARION AND KAI HEAD OFF DOWN ONE OF OUR JUNGLE PATHS

OH-OH ARE THEY LOST

NOPE HERE COMES ONE OF THEM NOW

AND HERE COMES DARION SO THEY ARE BOTH ACCOUNTED FOR

In the first bunch of years in our RV travels we always looked forward to heading back to the Southwest every Fall but the last couple years we have had problems between us deciding not only when to go but do we really want to go.  Of course I’ve always been the one pushing harder to go and to go earlier and see more things.  But not so much this year.  This past Spring’s homeward trek really did both of us in and by the time we finally stumbled into our driveway here at home we were both vowing never to do that again.  Of course that was nearly four months ago now and that was then.  Kelly’s still feeling a bit that way and I’m beginning to feel a little less that way.  This afternoon we had us a sit down talk about future travels so here is the latest hot off the press.  As mentioned earlier in the post we have decided to keep our Motorhome and the  shaky Jell-O plans nailed to the tree right now are that we will once again head for New Mexico, Arizona, and California.  Of course don’t make any bets on that because you know what we’re like but it at least gives me some encouragement and time to put my thinking cap on and try to come up with some ideas on how we can make our winter travels better.  We need to change things up and do things interestingly different.  I see this afternoon’s talk as finally a step forward.  We’re not down and out just yet folks:))

A SPOT IN THE HULLETT MARSH WHERE ALL THE DEER FLIES SURROUNDED THE JEEP AND DEMANDED OUR SURRENDER

Never ventured out of the house all afternoon.  Why step out the door and turn into a clammy mess when it’s so comfortably cool in the house.  A no brainer for sure.  In fact it was so hot out there today it was just ridiculous!!!!

GROANER’S CORNER:((  At 8 p.m. one night, a pilot who had run out of fuel made an emergency landing at a top-secret government base. He was quickly surrounded by security and taken inside to be interrogated. The interrogation was grueling because they wanted to make sure it was an unplanned landing and he was not a spy.
The interrogation lasted all night. At 6 a.m. they refueled his plane and let him go with his promise never to return. Four hours later he returned and landed again.  Security met him on the runway. They asked him why he had come back.  'I know I promised never to return but I brought my wife and now you have to tell her where I was all night...'

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A blonde was bragging about her knowledge of the state capitals of the United States. She proudly announced, "go ahead, ask me any of the capitals, I know all of them."A red head said, "O.K., what's the capital of Wyoming?" The blonde replied, "Oh, that's easy, 'W'."

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All Bill asked for was a little good-night kiss, but Anne haughtily rebuffed him with, "I don't do that sort of thing on my first date!"  "Well," Bill replied with sarcasm, "how about on your last date?"

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SO SCRATCH ONE BLOG POST:((

Well I had a post all ready to go for tonight folks but as sometimes happens my blog thoughts were turned upside down in a heartbeat so scratch one post.  I’ll leave you with a few photos Pheebs and I took this morning in Goderich……………

BY 10 A.M. THE MORNINGS HEAT HAD ALREADY MADE LAKE HURONS AIR HAZY

A NICE WAY TO SPEND A FRIDAY MORNING BY THE LAKE

TUG BOAT IN THE HARBOR

HERE’S A COUPLE SENIOR BEACH BLONDIES JUST ARRIVING AT THE BEACH FOR THE DAY IN THEIR HOT RED CHEVY CORVETTE CONVERTABLE

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GROANER'S CORNER:((  A cattle farmer went into town on a Saturday night for a sit-down steak dinner. When the waiter brought him his steak it was rare -- very rare. The cow-puncher looked at it and demanded that it be returned to the kitchen and cooked. "It is cooked," snapped the waiter. "Cooked -- nothing," replied the cow-farmer. "I've seen cows injured worse than this and still recover!"

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KIND OF A FLOWERY POST TONIGHT AND SOME MORE RV TRAVEL TALK

ALL OF TONIGHT’S PHOTOS ARE FROM OUR FRONT YARD LATE THIS AFTERNOON
Heavy rains in the night had me awake and left us with a foggy morning.  Not foggy enough to deter the two semi-monthly coffee guys from hitting a Tim Hortons in Goderich and absconding with not only a couple coffees but a carrot muffin and a load of banana bread.  The muffin was mine and the banana bread was Richards.  We again solved a multitude of earthly woes and for sure the earth has to be a better place now because of it or should I say despite of us.


Over forty years ago both Richard and I worked at a factory in Stratford called T.B. Woods.  Also working there was a fellow from my home town of Tavistock Ontario whom I used to chum around with back in the 60’s.   After returning jobless to Ontario from British Columbia in 1975 Gary Burton was instrumental in getting me a job where he worked which was at the time called Bettger Industries, later called T.B. Woods.  It was here where I first met Richard who turned out later to be my Supervisor.  Gary worked in the office as Accounts Payable I think.  This morning Richard and I dropped in on Gary and we sure didn’t have far to go to do that.  Gary’s wife sadly passed away about a month and a half ago in Stratford Ontario and Gary was thrust into a world of sudden change.  A change I must say he is adapting to very well and one of those changes was to put his place in Stratford  Ontario up for sale and buy himself a place right here in the 5 Seasons Estates Park where Richard and I live.  You can see why we didn’t have far to go to drop in and see him.  With 3 retired ex-employees of T.B. Woods living here now we just might have to hang us up a sign out by the main entrance saying….Five Seasons Estates Home of Former Disgruntled T.B. Woods Employees.

Although cloudy our comfortably cool temperatures remained until about noon before the sun popped out driving temperatures up and dragging the miserable humidity with it.  Temps are predicted to soar into the 90’s by Saturday and with company coming we busied ourselves this afternoon getting the Motorhome configured to accept guests.  Of prime importance was to get the A/C working which we did.  Kelly’s son Ben, wife Bree, and two small boys are headed this way for an overnight stay.  The kids want to go to the beach and we just happen to live at the beach:))


Happy to say we were finally able to make a little progress on our future RV plans this afternoon.  Some recent events got the wheels spinning for us a bit and I see that as a good thing.  Nothing totally definite but we will probably sell our Motorhome.  We might already have a prospective buyer but we’re not sure yet. 

We do not want to give up the RV lifestyle so in order to do that we have to make some changes.  Kelly has been on the internet these past couple months looking, looking, and looking for a smaller RV.  Yes, yes, I know……we have been down this road before and it didn’t work out for us.  Some additional things have changed from then to now and we have to go with those changes if we want to keep our RV travels alive.  Our hearts are still in the Great American Southwest of course and there are a lot of places out there we have not seen including the Pacific Ocean in California.   And some places we have simply seen too much of.  Those often visited truly beautiful places have not changed of course but we have and in a later post I will tell you why we have decided on this change.

Okay, so what might we be looking for in another RV.  Well let’s put it this way, our Class A Motorhome is too big for the type of RV future we are thinking about and a van like a Roadtrek is simply too small.  We do not plan to tow a car with our next RV.  We have had a total of 4 Class C’s over the past 20+ years so that is not exactly where we want to go again.  That leaves the B+ Vans.  Kelly was keen on the Rialtos for awhile and is now looking at the older Chinooks but they are rare and hard to find so we are expanding our search.  We are not looking for a new RV, just a nice gently used one in maybe the 24’ range and if anyone out there has any ideas we’d love to hear from you.  Or maybe you are looking to sell just what we are looking for.  Of course we’re not completely sure just exactly what we want but I think you get the idea of which ballpark we’re in.  So there you are and those are our plans as of today……………………. 

CLEMATIS FLOWER
GROANER’S CORNER:(( Three cowboys were hanging out in the bunkhouse. "I know that smart aleck Tex," said the first. "He's going to start bragging about that new foreign car he bought as soon as he gets back."  "Not Tex," the second cowboy replied. "He'll always be just a good ol' boy. When he walks in, I'm sure all he'll say is hello."  "I know Tex better than either of you," said the third. "He's so smart, he'll figure out a way to do both. Here he comes now." Tex swung open the bunkhouse door and shouted, "Audi, partners!"
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