Travel
- Blogs
I have noticed several times in the past week or so that when I write a comment and hit Publish, it never shows up. In one case I wrote my comment and published it twice but it didn't ever appear. I'm mentioning this because I think...
- Sunday Relaxin'
I drove over to Jeannie's this morning for coffee and some tasty cookies. We sat around and worked the NY Times crossword puzzle, and talked about getting an assembly line together to make tamales. It would be so much easier than one person...
- Correction!
I wrote in yesterday's blog that my youngest son would be 39 today. Lordie, did I ever make a mistake. He stopped by this afternoon with his 2 daughters and I mentioned him being 39 - he thought for a minute and said, "NO, I'm not...
- Back Home
I was scheduled to fly out of NY yesterday but the fire in Chicago has had a huge affect on airport traffic there. They didn't have a space for my flight from White Plains and delayed it for several hours, causing me to miss my connection. ...
- Quick Update To Sunday's Post
I went out and took pictures of the back of my Highlander. (Excuse the boxes and remnants of camping stuff.) I tried to lay the small seat flat and it doesn't show the true slant in these photos, but it's definitely there. I got in...
Travel
I appreciate the comments and suggestions
I am trying to consider all angles, and appreciate the input I'm receiving. This morning I woke up and said, "No, no, no! You are too old to be so uncomfortable when you bought a big tent so's you'd be comfortable." As Billy Bob so aptly put it, "You ain't no spring chick-a-baby no more ya know."
I don't think I would have much trouble making the cargo space usable for occasional overnight stops. One thing that worries me is that I get up every couple of hours during the night for you-know-what. How aggravating would that be when I have to maneuver myself out of the back of my Highlander, and then run into an elk or a bear in the woods.
I continue to welcome the suggestions and won't make up my mind just yet.
Anything I was going to get done today was done by 10:30 this morning. The desktop thermometer says 97 (at 2:30), and the thermostat on the wall behind my chair says 92. That doesn't sound right at all, and it looks like there is no hope for relief for at least two weeks.
Out of sheer boredom I went back to lifting small weights this morning. It is so monotonous, sort of like walking all by yourself. I really should begin walking again in the cooler hours of the morning because I'm sitting way too much of the time and that can't be good for a person.
I walked to the office this morning to drop off the rent check, and passed by a house that's been sold recently. The owner has periodically set items out with a "Free" sign on them, and the last couple of days there has been a very nice looking recliner - in much better condition than the ratty old thing left here by the former owner of my house. I would try to get it into the back of my Highlander but I'm sure I don't have the strength to maneuver it in, and then again to take it out and carry it around to my front door and up the steps. I need a nap just thinking about all that hassle! As soon as I ask one of my kids to come over and help me, someone else will have picked up the chair.
A month or so ago I got 4 nice leather and chrome dinette chairs from the same guy. I had one helluva time getting them home - they were really hard to position in the Highlander and I couldn't close the hatch, so I just did one in the vehicle and carried the other 3 home, one at a time. They are heavy especially when you have to carry them even the length of a city block. How I miss my truck at times!
It wouldn't take much right now to make me think about giving up my computer. Nothing is working right except Gmail, and I've sure had trouble with it in the past. I have to close out AOL sometimes and restart it to be able to do anything, Blogger isn't consistent with the size of type, and either a lot of folks aren't blogging right now or I'm missing them in the blogroll on my page. I guess it shouldn't be surprising that there are technology glitches when the weather is so extreme lately. I haven't noticed any brown-outs yet, but I require electricity for my computer components and maybe the grid is just being overloaded. Nah, probably not, but it sounds as good to me as any other reason.
- Blogs
I have noticed several times in the past week or so that when I write a comment and hit Publish, it never shows up. In one case I wrote my comment and published it twice but it didn't ever appear. I'm mentioning this because I think...
- Sunday Relaxin'
I drove over to Jeannie's this morning for coffee and some tasty cookies. We sat around and worked the NY Times crossword puzzle, and talked about getting an assembly line together to make tamales. It would be so much easier than one person...
- Correction!
I wrote in yesterday's blog that my youngest son would be 39 today. Lordie, did I ever make a mistake. He stopped by this afternoon with his 2 daughters and I mentioned him being 39 - he thought for a minute and said, "NO, I'm not...
- Back Home
I was scheduled to fly out of NY yesterday but the fire in Chicago has had a huge affect on airport traffic there. They didn't have a space for my flight from White Plains and delayed it for several hours, causing me to miss my connection. ...
- Quick Update To Sunday's Post
I went out and took pictures of the back of my Highlander. (Excuse the boxes and remnants of camping stuff.) I tried to lay the small seat flat and it doesn't show the true slant in these photos, but it's definitely there. I got in...