Rhonda was up and ready for work on Monday, the 18th and I stayed home working on a campaign poster for the owner of the park. Guy is running for the Commissioner for Precinct 2 here in Tyler County. I’d never done anything like this, but Guy was happy with it, so that’s all that matters.
On Tuesday Rhonda just had the opportunity to be lazy like I have been recently, while I took the day getting a lot of things done. My list consisted of first, stopping at the County Annex to pay for the plates on our car; second, getting the yearly car inspection required by the state of Texas; third, dropping off the motor home payment and putting it into the trusty mailbox drop; fourth, stopping to get my haircut. My barber is an older gentleman named Cotton. A very nice man who recently lost his wife of 58 years; fifth, going to Wally-World to buy some ink for my printer to be able to print out the campaign poster I’d made for Guy; last but not least stopped by where Rhonda works and talked to her boss, Danny. Talked to him for about half-hour and then headed home. It was a productive day for me.
I was awakened four or five times during the night by our cats, who I believe were trying to dig their way to China through their litter box. Reluctantly my feet finally fell to the floor around 8:30 am on Wednesday morning. I was fixing my breakfast when I heard voices outside (no they weren’t in my head, they really were outside). It was Guy the owner of the park talking to a young man unhooking his dolly from his M/H. We had a new neighbor pulling in beside us. Come to find out he’s the new doctor in town, he will be working at the Woodville Hospital starting February 1st. Guy introduce me to him, his name is Kevin, I just can’t seemed to get away from them – my new son-in-law’s name is Kevin too. We talked a little, I found out he likes to golf and he is from Murray, KY. A place we had just stopped at on our way home at Christmastime. Just how small a world is it? According to him, he even took a few courses at Murray State, but doesn’t know Rhonda’s second cousin,
Ne(i)l. (That’s Neil with an “i”)
On Saturday Rhonda took a girl’s day to go to Beaumont, Texas with her friend Annette. I stayed home writing, reading and working on the newsletter and blog. I had the easy listening music on just relaxing and doing my guy thing here in the man-cave (at least that’s what I call it when Rhonda isn’t around). The girls called on their way home saying that Bobby (Annette’s husband) and I should take them out for dinner. Neither Bobby nor I could argue with that (not if we still wanted to speak with man-voices), they stopped by and picked us up. We went out for a nice evening and a good dinner.
On Sunday, I went down to clubhouse around noon and Rhonda came down right at game time to watch the Colts pull out a win in the second half against the New York Jets. Rhonda went back home after the Colts win, while I stayed to watch the second game pitting the New Orleans Saints against the Minnesota Vikings. It was a good one going into OT with the Saints winning 31-28. It’s the Colts vs. Saints in the Super-Bowl on February 7th.
To show you just how boring Monday mornings can be this is what I did on the last Monday of the month. I made a pot of coffee, had eight mini-chocolate donuts and a glass of milk for breakfast. Rhonda was up around 8:30 am getting ready for her one day at work this week. Bobby our neighbor down the way called asking if I could take him to pickup his truck at the auto/truck shop. We drove down around 11 am, and on the way back I stopped at Wally-World bought some chicken pieces with Bar-B-Q sauce on them and some flowers (tulips) to take to Rhonda. Later on in the late afternoon Bobby called asking us if we wanted to go out for dinner. We were game and went to the Mexican restaurant, Senor Toro’s just south of town. Again, it was a bad experience at this restaurant, the second time in a row. I will not go back to eat at this establishment. We came home and did our usual thing sitting around watching TV. Shoot it really wasn’t that boring if you consider that I ate eight mini-chocolate donuts.
Last Tuesday of the month I was up as usually and made a pot of coffee, while I waited for Ronda to get ready for work. She was asked to work today and it’s hard to turn down the extra money. Today I will take her into work because I need the car for Sadie’s appointment (our little dog) at the vet’s. She is getting medication for Thursday’s cleaning of her teeth and nails clipped. Also Dr. Moran is going to check out the lump on the front of her chest.
The vet checked out the lump and after consulting with me, I decided to forego the teeth cleaning at a later date and have the lump removed. She is going in next Tuesday, February 2, 2010 for this operation. The vet said it would run approximately $212 for the operation and another $90 for the biopsies. So all-in-all over $300, but the money isn’t the concern in my eyes; it’s her health and her age concerns me too. I just love Sadie so much; I’m praying everything will turn out for the best. After seeing Dr. Moran, we went to Rhonda’s work and spent the last hour and fifteen minutes waiting on her to close shop. Most of the people who came in to get a tan fell in love with Sadie as she did her Wal-Mart greeter impersonation for them as they walked in. At last, it was time to close shop and we headed for home and a relaxing night.
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On the last Thursday of the month, Patty a friend we both met a few years back came over for a short visit. She and Rhonda went for a nice lunch and some girl talk. Patty was very instrumental in helping me with my piano lessons a few years back. Although I’m not, nor will I ever be as good a piano player as she is, she has helped me immensely in all aspects concerning the piano and I thank her for that.
And the last Saturday of the month found Rhonda and I going down to the big city of Beaumont, Texas for a movie, a little shopping and an early dinner. We went to see the movie, Edge of Darkness starring Mel Gibson. It was just okay. We both really like Mel Gibson and his movies, but this movie was short of being on his normal scale of good. After the movie we went shopping at JoAnn Fabrics were Rhonda bought some Monk’s cloth for her Swedish Weaving and then we went to Target to find a vacuum sweeper, a Dirt Devil (thanks to Mike & Kimmy for the Target gift card) and then for an early dinner at Chile’s restaurant (thanks to Kevin & Katie for the Chile’s gift card). I had a couple of beers at the dinner table, so therefore it was time for me to hand over the keys and be chauffeured home. It has been my belief that it’s better to be safe than sorry.
A friend of mine sent me an email that had a great story and pictures concerning early RV’s, in particular a 1937 Ford House Car. Since that is what we live in, not a 1937 Ford House Car but rather an RV. I found this really interesting. I hope you will check it out too.
www.gtamarketing.com/1937FordHousecar.html
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