Adventures with my RV’s

 After three different RV’s I’m sorry to say we have sold our class A. Don’t get me wrong I loved traveling and I loved driving my 35’ class A, with a wrangler being towed. I called her my Volkswagen I could whip her into any gas pump no problem. My husband would constantly say “You’re not going to get in there or you’ll never get out”. No problem I do really believe I was a trucker in a former life.  What a joy to have it. Since my mom is now 100 with dementia and can barely walk and my husband does kidney dialysis everyday it was hard to leave home any longer.  Iam happy to say I sold it to my grandkids with their babies so I’m sure they will get as much enjoyment out of my VW as We did.

The adventures were real adventures for sure. One trip we were in Montana coming down a steep mountain and we could smell rubber burning, yes it was ours.  We had not figured out that using the brakes constantly would be a bad idea. We stopped cooled off and started to use gears that would control the speed and that took care of us burning the RV up.  No we did not damage the brakes thank heaven.

Another trip out East was fun we went via I70 and decided to stop in Ohio for the night using the garmen which is ok if you don’t put total trust in it, because it took us 10 miles away from our camp ground into a small subdivision, oh on this trip we were towing the 35’ travel trailer and George was driving, heeeee! Lol, well it was already dark and couldn’t tell what was ahead. A deadend with really a very tight road.  Well we went around a corner only to see it went no where while getting to close to a power pole and actually getting hung up on the pole in the dark.  What fun we were having a young boy from the neighborhood saw what happened so he thought he could help us get unstuck!  Everyone one yelling come, no stop, hold it etc when one of the neighbors came out to see what was all the noise..haha

We were lucky this guy was an actual trucker and he said”let me help” he gave George instructions and just like that we were unstuck and on our way to the real camp ground 10 miles down the road.

So the moral to this drama is stop in the daylight, don’t listen to garmen and learn how to maneuver a travel trailer.  And this is just the beginning of some really fun and funny adventures on the road.

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I’m not funny anymore ME

 Do you think as your life situation changes you lose yourself?  I’m thinking “yes”, I hardly ever laugh or think of funny silly things as I once did.  I could make others and myself laugh by just using my imagination, which at present I’ve lost it somewhere, my imagination that is. 

Why when your life is so full of taking care of others we forget to take care of ourselves!  Could it be because Me whoever that is has left for parts unknown to survive the mental and physical toil? Where did ME go?  I ask myself is ME having fun? Is ME doing things that make ME happy?  How can I find out where ME really is.  

Do you ever feel like ME is feeling bad for you or laughing at you because you have given up your ME?

Now you might think it sounds crazy to be talking to your ME (self) but isn’t that who you’ve always trusted your whole life to be honest with you? Well isn’t it?  

To tell the truth in my case as a child my ME was not there, I grew up not knowing I had any worth and I believe when your Selfworth is not there you have no ME. Being abused and poor comes at a price to your ME and finding it takes years.  

I think I found my ME when I was in my late 20’s and that was an awakening.  Not everyone finds their ME for sure, I know my sister even in her 70’s has not found hers. I’m so sad for her..

When I found ME I had the power to change my life, to live happy and to laugh.  I could see what needed to be done and I did it, I had hope for the future, ME is a blessing of strength and assurance that tomorrow will be even better no matter what happens today. 

Why then at this time in my life has my ME fled me to maybe someplace safer, happier and more sunny?

What happens to us as we age and our burdens increase, do we split into different parts and our ME hides out until it’s safe to return?  When will that be?  I miss ME!

Fur Babies make every day special

This is Allie and little Rudy about 4 years ago.fell in love on 5he spot with Rudy and our sweet Allie just lost her best bud Sydney he was the best he knew when anyone was sick he would stay by their side and purr  he passed because he had cancer.  When Skittles passed,  Sydney would just moan and not do anything so we got him a friend Allie and they were good buds until Sydney passed. 

Sydney and Skittles both in fur baby heaven 

Here is big Rudy now with his friend Rex the bunny, they love to play together. 

One year old Maia with her favorite friend Rudy

Big Rudy with baby Sweet Pea , sweet pea is 3 months old and 3 lbs but she can hold her own. She loves Rudy matter of fact she loves cats a lot. They both have our hearts for sure.  When a day gets rough just watching them play makes you laugh and smile.

Maxx the old fella his partner Chocolate passed earlier this year The Palmarain, Maxx is 13 and not in great health but the vet takes good care of him so he can enjoy the years he has left  A little grumpier now but still a sweet loving boy 

 

My Town is going down the drain

 I’ve lived in my town for over 35 years and the reason I moved here was because it was a small farm town with lots of close knit families where my boys would have a chance to grow up safe, get a good education and have friends that lived here their whole life.  

Well that certainly was the case, my boys went on to college, became successful have life long friends and stayed healthy and happy.  As of today June 2023, this little town has expanded from 800 to nearly 2000 and yes that’s good for the financial welfare of the town I can’t say the same for some of the people who have moved in. We had no crime, it was safe to leave your doors unlocked so your children and their friends could come and go, today we keep them locked all the time.  We have more crime, fast moving traffic and people coming from other liberal states wanting to change this bedroom community into what they left behind.  

The rules are becoming ridiculous and the new residents are not friendly. The kids have little in manners and some are rude like their parents.  The close knit community is gone, most of the folks who were here when I moved are either dead or moved away.  Our kids have moved away, we don’t know very many folks anymore.  When we get a new neighbor close to my home I try to visit with a welcome gift to let them know we care.  So far batting 0, in todays world no one wants to know their neighbor or cares.  

We have a house close by that I truly believe is possessed by bad mojo.  It has been inhabited 4 times over my last 35 years and each resident who lives in that house is mean, hateful, and vindictive.  When I moved here the old guy would mow his yard at10pm just when we tried to sleep. Other times he would have horses in the back yard which was ok but he would park his horse trailer in front of my driveway. 

The next would have drunken parties loud and foul language late into the night.  They used and abused the house and got evicted. Today we have the family who always has a snarl, wishes their dogs would get hit and killed, they never spend any time with those dogs. I bet they have never been to a vet because right now one is in poor shape and nothing is being done as far as we can see. 

 The dogs were fighting so my husband tried to separate them with water from the water hose the guy came running and snarling out to the fence accusing us of calling the police on him for beating his dogs!  Well we told him we have never called the police and he just ranted on and on. We always let him know when his dogs would get out, the police used to come to our house when they would catch the dogs thinking they were ours but we would let them know the pay belong next door.  We now know of at least one person that called the police on the and maybe others. This family is not nice to people let alone their dogs. Heck they’ve lived there for awhile and still haven’t fixed up the place.  The youngest child used to come to the fence and talk to us now it is just like the rest of this family won’t even look our way  only evil can be so mean to turn a child against people for no reason.  When they moved in I took them a welcome basket. I have figured out welcome today means stay away. 

Have you read the owners manual?

Now on my third camping vehicle, started out with a small Mini Wini, then a 35 foot travel trailer, now in a 35 foot class A RV.  Camping is the life, you take you bed with you were ever you go, no more dealing with bug infested, smoke filled, dirty bathrooms hotel rooms.  It has been an experience learning how to drive or tow, and then parking or backing up has been a real learning adventure.

The Mini was only 23 ft long so it was like driving a larger van, no problem on the road or parking in a camp site.  Now the draw backs are it was so small we were always climbing over each other, but you certainly learned how to pack everything into every nook and cranny, the bad thing was if you needed something you would have to unload every nook and cranny to find what you needed.


Decided on getting something bigger and ran into a great deal, someone was selling a 35 ft travel trailer along with a f250 to tow it, now this is scary driving all this vehicle on the highway with other people, ugh!  Well I must have been a trucker in my other life because it wasn't to bad.. Yeah, that's what we all say until you drive on highways with nothing but potholes big enough to send you rolling on your side.. We were taking this monster on a long trip without realizing that we did not have all the parts hooked up to tow this 11,000 pound machine down the highways, we would hit a hole in the road and spend minutes trying to get straight again.  You would get worn out just driving 50 miles on these roads.  Finally we reached the state we were heading to only to get there late at night and get lost for hours even after stopping people to ask where the camp ground is.

Now the fun begins. And I will save this for my next post.  Happy camping

A funny thing happened on the way to work!

I was driving to work the other morning, it was just cool enough to have the sun roof open and all the windows down.  I drive on a road that during the morning rush you can't pass so I just enjoy the views, the air blowing through the car and the peace.  I was enjoying my drive when all of a sudden I saw this water on my windshield and some came in the sunroof and side window.  I said oh this is great it's raining, oh how we need the rain.  I looked ahead at the big truck in front of me and saw liquid coming from the side of the truck? 
Yep something in that truck was relieving it's self and I was getting it all.  Ugh.  I then thought to myself, as I closed the windows and sunroof, what the heck?  I decided I already got hit by who knows what and there's nothing I can do about it now I just hoped it wasn't a pig.  As soon as we had four lanes I pulled along side the truck and lucky for me it was loaded with cows.

You see I just convinced myself that cows eat grass so when they pee it is only used grass now if it were a pig it would have to be a lot more complex since they eat a little bit of everything. Wait, lets double check this to be certain.
Well I wanted to make sure before I gave the pigs a bad rap and sure enough the research says pigs are cleaner than cows.  The only reason pigs appear to us as nasty and dirty is because their owners make them live in their own filt.  Pigs would rather live in a cleaner enviornment.  Well now it should have been pigs in that truck. 
A good washing and it's all gone but next time let it be turkeys.