Better weekend

Having a much better weekend than last week. Last weekend the windchill was below zero with strong winds coming from the north. The camper stayed warm - greatful for that but we woke up Saturday morning to no water. You don't know how much you actually use water until you don't have any coming from the pipes. Not to worry - we had plenty of drinking water.

Went outside and the campground faucet was froze. Waited until the office opened up and went up and asked another work camper for assistance. Had a hand held blower and thawed the faucet. Didn't help - still no water. This means that a pipe in the camper is froze. Yuck! Hopefully it won't burst. Found out we could also thaw out using our blow dryer.

Later that afternoon, with the sun out, still not above freezing, went out with the blow dryer. You guessed correctly - no pictures. Just imagine the cute sight - all bundled up with a blow dryer in hand blowing warm air on the pipes. :) The faucet wasn't froze. The water hose wasn't froze so still in the camper. Wondered if just froze at the connection to the camper. Since the campground faucet froze kept water from coming into the camper at night - just maybe. Plugged in the dryer and blew the warm air on the connection. Heard yelling coming from inside the camper. YEAH!! We have water. Just to be on the safe side - let the kitchen faucet drip through the night but the north winds had died down. Had water all night long. Sunday afternoon we just emptied the kitchen gray tank.

On Monday had a little over an inch of snow. By Tuesday, starting to get back to normal. You know you just can't do much of anything when you have the kind of trauma we had over the weekend. Ha Ha.

Went to the grocery store on Tuesday afternoon. Took us awhile to get started. Sort of got hooked on Andy Griffith reruns. That Barney. Around noon, decided we should take showers and get ready to go into town. Grabbed a quick lunch and then went to Hy-Vee. Wednesday - rained all day.

Thursday & Friday we worked. So Saturday was a chore day: laundry and empty tanks.
Ate leftovers earlier in the week so on Friday made a quiche, Saturday we had waffles and bacon. Needed to use up part of the bacon used in the quiche and today we're having roast turkey, stuffing and carrots. Been eating good the last couple of days. This next week we need to eat up some more leftovers. Freezer is getting full again. Just need to keep a couple of items for when we're on the road.

This week we'll work Thursday& Friday and again on Monday & Tuesday before leaving Thursday, March 1st for San Antonio. Today, planning menus for the week and preparing the grocery list.

About time to go and cut up carrots-the turkey is smelling wonderful. We're supposed to have another rainy day either tomorrow or Tuesday so trying another new recipe: creamy chicken tortilla soup in a crock pot.

Still have about 560 slides to scan and then the slide project will be done. Then I can start on the pictures.

Well, as you can see we're enjoying being very lazy at the moment. Have been watching movies, playing games and doing some reading. Need to get back to working on our winter projects again.

Well, guess it's time to start some "lupper". We coined this word for when we eat mid-afternoon: combination of lunch and supper.

Strange Week

Have you ever had one of those days that you just don't feel like doing anything. Well, that's been this week. Most for the good, some just plain simple, but at least nothing bad.

On Saturday we received a phone call from our friend, Jean. I worked with Jean at Principal in HR. Her and Dick were coming back from Texas and heading home to Iowa. Thought they might stop in on Sunday if we didn't have any plans for the Super Bowl. They hadn't seen the RV, yet. All of the plans over the past couple of years kept getting changed. They arrived about 4pm. Ordered a couple of pizzas and had a great visit. At least the right team one. Nice, exciting finish.

Monday was just one of those kind of days. We were going to run errands: pharmacy, grocery store, etc but decided to wait until Tuesday. Played games all afternoon. Kind of refreshing.

Tuesday, we did run our errands. Grabbed a couple of salads from the store for lunch and continued the game playing in the afternoon.

Now, Wednesday, you'd think we'd be ready to do something right. Well, NO. :) Sharon got up around 9:30 am. We had a webinar at 10 that lasted about 1/2 hour. Watched a little TV, made some soup and read all afternoon. It's been so cloudy and cold.

Today, we work. Sharon's got the morning shift and we both work this afternoon. Tomorrow, I'll work in the am and we'll both work in the pm.

We were hoping to get our taxes done but still haven't received our W-2's from the summer. Apparently the owner didn't tell the payroll company where to mail them. They were sent back to the company. So, hopefully we'll get them by the end of next week. Glad we asked him about them. Sharon had a few quips to say.

Going to try a new recipe for lunch. Found a recipe in the new healthy cooking magazine. French toast with apple topping. Still cloudy today so sounds good with a nice cup of coffee for lunch. Have a chance of snow tonight after 8pm. Guess we'll see.

As I said it's been a strange week. Hopefully, we'll get back on track this weekend.