Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Iowa - first two weeks

Wow! Have we been busy. We arrived at the KOA on Thursday, April 7th. We were in the office working on Friday, April 8th. The new owner is nice but really young. He's traveled in a motor home for a couple of years for his prior job. He hasn't owned a campground before so this should be very interesting.

He decided to change the inventory system. He's putting everything into quikbooks. So we've been scanning and counting every item in the store since we arrived. We finished today. Yeah! This will be a lot easier in the future but was a headache the past few days. We put in a lot of hours.

Cydney, one of our office workers, graduates at the end of May. She's easy to work with. There's another couple that we work with but let's just say that it's interesting right now. None of these people have worked in a campground before or so it appears. At least everyone is nice and that helps.

The owners are hanging around for a few months to help in the transition. They bought a house and land down in southern Mississippi - not far from the Gulf but not in hurricane or flood territory. Looking forward to visiting them later.

The birds are starting to appear. We just can't believe how cold and rainy it is. We left 90+ degree heat in Texas - thinking maybe it wasn't so bad after all. Furnace hasn't run so much in a very long time. In fact, we're not sure the last time it has ran every night for a couple of weeks.

We have a pair of Canada geese that are very interesting to watch. The other day we found them sitting on top of a Kabin. Yesterday they were in the yard of the house next door. Sharon managed to take a couple of pictures of them sitting on top of the woodpecker tree (dead tree) and the shed in the back.



Hopefully, it will dry up enough so we can prune a few shrubs. Needs to get warm so we can get some flowers planted. Looking forward to a couple of weekends off. Have a couple of graduations to attend in May.

For right now, we're just adjusting to a new area and routine.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Leaving Texas behind

Well, we're on our way up to Iowa. Stopped tonight at Red River Ranch RV Resort in Thackerville, OK. Arrived safely and in good time. A couple of slow downs in Austin and Fort Worth but only delayed arrival by about 1/2 hour. Blew a fuse for the front jacks so will take a look at them in Iowa. Decided not to manually crank them down tonight. No need - left attached to truck.

Sharon's watching the Women's Final 4. Love our satellite dish and DirecTV.

We're looking forward to heading north to cooler weather. It was so very very hot the last few days in SA. Kind of strange to be leaving, though. But excited about the next job. It will be a little the same and a little different.

The spring flowers are in bloom in Texas. Took some pictures last year but didn't get the oleander so took a couple of pictures of them before we left.





This past weekend went out to eat with the friends we made at BLRV. We went to the Longhorn Cafe. Ordered some fried pickles. They were great. Hamburger dills - deep fat fried. Couldn't believe how good they tasted.

Lynn & Edith

Darlene & Bob

Ray & Yoli


After dinner went back to Creekside for dessert and a game of Jokers.




Tomorrow, we're heading for Topeka.