February 16, 2014 Lorraine’s report
Happy Birthday, Susy!!! Sure hope you have an awesome day, full of fun, friends and love. Wish we could be there with you!!!
Hello once again from Sharon & TJ’s lot in Yuma, AZ. Thanks for stopping by. It has been hot here, and we are still without a front air conditioner. But we are not complaining, especially with all the snow and cold weather we have been hearing about back up north, and in the rest of the country. it must be so hard on the rest of the country to endure this hard winter. Sorry guys!
So this week I called a high school friend from Spokane, WA and told her we were going to my 50 year high school reunion. It was nice to visit with her, I think it may have been close to 45 to 48/49 years since I heard from her. I called Marie today, but no one was home. Hopefully we will get together in Ketchikan for the reunion; it was nice to visit and I look forward to seeing her once again.
What stood out for me this week was my check up for my eye glasses. Man of man, is getting older hard and it isn’t for the feint of heart. I found out my glasses changed a bit and I will need new glasses. I didn’t like what the doctor told me. My eyes are aging just as I am, and while some of my stuff came from my Dad, some came from my Mom. Daddy didn’t live until he was old like my mom. He passed away at 70; mom was 93 and was suffering from macular degeneration, which has shown up for me, and I’m getting migraine’s in my eye as well. I need to get some supplements that are suppose to help with the degeneration. Sure hope they will help.
Then Rob and Norma came back into town last Monday evening. They had business they attended to, and when they finished each day, we met them for lunches or for dinner for a few days. It was nice to see them again, and will not see them until we return in the spring. Safe travels you guys!!!
Norma asked me to go with her for a pedicure, so they told us to go to Wal-Mart. Man oh man did we ever get treated like cattle. It was awful. They kept moving us and we ended up sitting on a smallish stool, nothing to rest our legs on, having our toes done. It was pretty awful! If you are ever in Yuma, don’t go to the WM by Interstate 8! N O T Good….
So that is it for me, hope everyone has a great week. Until next time..
Hugs,
Lorraine
3/16/14 Chuck’s report
Today is our daughter Susy’s Birthday. Happy Birthday Susy, hope you had a good one, sorry we weren’t there to celebrate with you though.
Another quiet, stay-cation type week for us. We are keeping pretty close to home, no travel plans in sight for us for the next couple of weeks.
Sunday after we finished writing our blog, we drove to the swap meet and the rodeo that we thought was in town. Bad timing on our part, the rodeo was finished by the time we got there, shoot.
Monday I took Lorraine to the mall, she had some stuff she wanted to pick-up. We stopped by the casino for some slot play and their special prime rib dinner, pretty good. I think we both were up on the slots, not much but at least we were on their money.
Tuesday we were pleasantly surprised to hear from Rob and Norma; they had quietly come back to Yuma on Monday evening. They were dry camping at the casino so agreed to meet them for dinner at the diner we had been to last week.
Wednesday we once again met them, this time at Wal-Mart where the gals got a pedicure, Rob and I went to a RV dealer to look over some rigs while we waited for them to get finished. They came by our place to continue our visit, it was warm sitting outside but nobody was complaining.
Thursday we stopped by and ordered Lorraine’s new glasses from Sears. They had a two-for-one deal so the price was almost the same as what we would have paid in Mexico and this one included a one year guarantee. The gal told us that it would include new frames if broken and/or new lenses if scratched, as many times as needed during the year. She also suggested we stop by any Sears store just before the year was up (making sure the lenses were scratched and the frame bent) and get a new pair after the first year, (sounds like a plan, huh?).
We then met Rob and Norma for a late brunch at the casino where they were staying. Once again I had their prime rib dinner special, wow, two times in three days. Rob had the same while the gals tried different dishes, everyone was pretty satisfied as I remember. Rob and Norma were planning on leaving on Friday we said our “so longs and meet you back in the NW this spring” as we didn’t plan on seeing them before they left the next morning.
Friday we went to the mall once again, then stopped by the swap meet and the indoor swap meet too. Lorraine had found some Seahawk Championship tee shirts so we both got one. However, after she washed then, the applique on both of them sort of shredded, not sure why but we planned on returning them on Sunday, shoot. She also found a couple of items that we got her for Valentine’s Day present from me (nothing like waiting until the last minute, huh?).
Saturday we had a lazy morning and were surprised when TJ and Sharon stopped by, they needed to get a measurement from their house. We sat around and visited with them for awhile then ordered take out from a Thai place, TJ picked it up and we when to their house to continue our visit. We ended up visiting for most of the day, a very good day it was too. We are staying at their lot and they offered us the use of their house here on the lot but we haven’t even been in it more than once. They both once again offered us the use and encouraged us to take them up this time.
Today we made a quick run to the swap meet to return/exchange the Seahawk tee shirts but they were only able to exchange mine, they were out of her size. They told her if the new one had any issues to return them both for a cash refund.
We are still waiting for the part on our air conditioner, he ordered it a week ago on Thursday and told me it should be here on Friday. I should have made sure what Friday they meant as it still isn’t here. We had plans to meet some of the gang in Lake Havasu to watch the fireworks but our roof air conditioner is still in pieces so we can’t drive right now. I kept getting the “it should be here tomorrow” story from them so didn’t want to put it together enough to travel, hoping one day they would be right. Here it is, 10 days later and still no front air conditioner. I’ll call them tomorrow and see what they say, I may have to contact our credit card company and cancel the charges and start over with a different place depending on what they say.
Boy has the weather been nice, I think I heard it’s about 10 – 15F above normal for this time of the year. TJ said it’s the warmest he’s seen it since they’ve been coming down for this time of the year. We have been sitting outside under their patio most afternoons until the sun goes down, waiting for the temperature to drop enough inside the coach. That’s one thing TJ and Sharon meant when they told us to use their house here, it has air conditioning.
The daytime highs have been in the low 90s, of course that’s in the shade and today is the first day that was cloudy most of the day. I try to get outside and read my book in the sun for 1/2 hour or so every morning too, getting a bit of a tan from that. We aren’t complaining about the temperature, that’s the reason we come down South every year but it would be nice to have both of our air conditioners working when it gets so hot inside the coach in the afternoons. But it does cool down to the low or mid 60s at night, makes for good sleeping weather with just a fan running.
We both took some pictures with our phones this week but I can’t figure out how to down load them so I can’t add them to this blog. We had pictures of Rob and Norma plus TJ and Sharon, I can see them in the phone but just can’t add them here. But there was a nice sunset tonight and Lorraine got some pictures of it with our camera, I’ll add them here and call it good for this week.
Sunset from our site on TJ/Sharon’s lot.
Thanks Chuck
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