Day after Thanksgiving

We had a nice Thanksgiving, hope you did too. Just wanted to let you know I've uploaded some pictures from 11/3 to 11/20, my camera has quit working for some reason so I have no pictures from Thanksgiving, because that's when I discovered my camera quit working.
David Jr, Jodi and Riley came up to Kim's and spent the night, on their way up they, plus, tons of other traffic were escorted by the highway patrol down the grapevine because of the fog. We had a nice visit and a good dinner, mainly, cooked by Dave but David was able to assist when he got there, Jodi and I aren't allowed to cook anymore, or darn it!
Kim got home around 7:15pm then the pictures were taken by David and Jodi. Kim wants pics for Xmas and David brought some of his equipment and Madison was very good, even though we had to wake her from her sleep, I'm telling you she is false advertisement for the next one.

Today, after the gym but no time for pickle ball, was another babysitting day, we got over to Kim's about 8am. David, Jodi, Riley, and Danny all left about 8:30am. Dave cleaned up in the backyard and side yard, at Kim's, then took everything to the dump, I made turkey enchiladas for dinner, oh my god, I got to cook something and it came out pretty good. Kim might be on call tomorrow, work is a little slow for her because of the holidays, but if not Danny has a big test on Monday so I might have to watch Miss Madison for a couple hours tomorrow so he can study.
That's about it for now.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL don't look at the posting date

Happy Thanksgiving to all, I believe it is late enough now that no one will read the blog until tomorrow, which really will be Thanksgiving day.

Last week Dave went to the doctor's, we found a new one here in Bakersfield instead of driving down to Simi for our physicals. Dave had an EKG and he is missing a heart beat, he went last Friday for some other kind of test and will get the results along with the blood work on his next appointment, which isn't till Dec. 17th, I'm sure if there were something to really worry about the doctor would call him in sooner. I went to the doctors on Tuesday, now I have to go for blood work and a mamo on Monday, Dec. 1st, on Trini's B/day. (that's my sister-in-law) Pap on 12/29 and as I was leaving the doctor's he gave me a number to call to arrange for a colonoscopy, he said that is the passage into the 50's. I told him that was dangerous for me to have to make the appointment, since we are 5 months behind in our physicals as it is. Maybe I'll call next week sometime and make an appointment??? This doctor isn't as good as the one in Simi but he will do for now, I hope.
Enough about Dave and I.

Kim and Danny have added another new addition to their family, they had added the 3rd addition, what last Oct. or Nov. after the wedding, now again another addition at the end of November, but I'll let her cover it in her blog, you just might have to wait awhile before she updates her blog. They have recently posted new videos of Miss Madison, boy is she a doll. She is getting more and more active, just a few weeks ago, when Kim 1st got these bouncy toys, she could barely lift her arms out now she is jumping and grabbing things like crazy. I'm really going to have my work cut out for me in a few months, I better start losing some weight or she is going to kill me. Although all the dancing and playing around with her, pickle ball, and the gym here in the RV Park, something has to kick in soon, let's hope.
We have had rain the last 2 days but I think it will be gone by tomorrow and start warming up again.
David Jr., Jodi, and Riley will be here for Turkey Day, so here is wishing you all a happy turkey day.

Update Time

Sorry, it's been awhile since I've updated the blog, but been busy, bummed and just not in the mood.

Bummed because of the Prop. 8 thing, when Dave and I 1st got married and would talk about the voting stuff he would tell me I had no right to make a comment unless I registered to vote. I did get registered many years ago and the thing that upsets me is why do we vote for or against a proposition if the courts can turn around and change what the majority of the people voted for, no matter which way. I believe what most people fight about is the word "marriage" who the hell cares, if you want to protest just find another word instead of "marriage" that everyone will go for. If the protesters would come up with something and work on the people that fight the word "marriage", and that means talking not attacking, that's what hurts them most. The USA needs to still work on things , look we have the 1st African American as President Elect, next is the gay community, but talk don't fight please! "Can't we all get along?"



OK I feel better getting that off my chest, but I do hope it all works out in the end for everyone.



Miss Madison is punishing me for taking off a week, she hasn't been the sweet little thing like she was before we left for St. George Utah. When you have those days where she is grumpy boy am I exhausted when my duties are over. When I had to do this full time before I was 25/26 and I know it was a lot easier then, at 50 it's a little harder. Although, Danny does give me credit for being able to hold Madison in my right arm and feed her a bottle, while standing, because she is so long and getting pretty heavy, but that's probably why my shoulders are killing me. She is now sleeping in her crib all night, I believe Kim and Danny started it a week ago and she is doing good. Kim isn't doing so good because she keeps waking up to look at the monitor, it will become easier, sweety, I promise.

On the Friday after we got back, Nov. 14th, Dave went down to Simi and got to visit with Alex, a friend of ours, then went and spent the night with David Jr. Saturday they drove up to Phoenix to pick up a few things and visit with Jeff. It was just a short trip and Dave was back in Bakersfield on Sunday by 4pm. Luckily Kim fixed dinner that night for all of us because Dave was exhausted from the long drive and short visit, things you do for your kids, as we all know.

Dave and I have still managed to get in the Pickle Ball thing, when I'm not baby sitting, and he is now beating me, every once in a while, don't want his head to swell.



One thing I thought was funny, I was looking thru my blogs and last June is when Valley went to the vets and they wanted to do an MRI and we said NO WAY can't afford 2K so I said she would be put down in a couple weeks, well guess what, Valley is still with us. Dave took her to the vet the other day to have a check up and they said they still want to do an MRI to see if she has a tumor in her nose and we still said NO WAY. Love the dog to death, she turned 12 last week, but it is getting harder and harder to live with her, luckily she stays with Kim and Danny more now, Thank You for that.



That's the update for now, Christmas this year is Kids only, the stock market is killing us, plus, it should be only for kids anyway.

Kim works Thanksgiving and Christmas so this year is really going to be an eye opener for this family clan, Marisa gone, Kim working, Trini in Colorado for xmas, families move on and make new traditions, sad but true, it will all work out.

Happy 2nd Anniv of engagement to Kim and Danny

Some things that the kids now a days keep track of, 2 years ago today Danny proposed to Kim and we all had an engagement dinner to celebrate. That dinner's cost was just the beginning of the wedding planning, most done by Kim. Thank goodness it's over now and they are doing just fine and the big costs are gone, now we can spoil the new Grand Baby, Miss Madison, which if we aren't careful can be just as costly. :)
Everything going fine here, went to dinner Sunday night with the kids, was on standby Monday but Kim never did get called in. Today, Tuesday, was an off day, so we played pickle ball, I walked Valley then went to the gym, and tomorrow I'm working from 11:30 to 5pm, Thursday and Friday, of course, are my normal working days. (6:30am to 7:45pm then 7:45am to 5:30pm) Madison is starting to stay awake longer and longer on some days so it should be getting more interesting trying to keep her entertained. Dave and I went the other day and marked off the tennis court, near Kim's, so we can play pickle ball and Miss Madison can watch and learn. Got to get her interested in sports, hopefully tennis, then she can make the big bucks and support us along with her parents. :)
That's it for now.

Scary Drive back to Bakersfield

We left Primm Nevada at 6:30am this morning. After the long hill climb we hit a sand storm, and I mean a sand storm. Haven't checked out the paint on the coach yet, because it is raining here in Bakersfield, will check it out later. This wind was throwing us everywhere, then when we hit the junction at highway 14 it must have been blowing 80mph. We pulled over for a potty break but the wind grabbed our awning from our slide and pulled it out. This was the awning we just had fixed in St. George. A big rig had pulled off the freeway with us and he managed to pull to where the wind was coming at him. We followed and managed to pull the slide out a little bit and when we pulled it back it in the awning rolled back up to the rig. When the wind slowed down a little bit we pulled along side of the big rig and checked to see if they were OK, they said yes, that were driving with an empty load and the wind had managed to lift up the back of the rig, scary. The rest of the drive was rain and not as strong wind and we managed to make it back to the RV Park. I called Kim and said we needed to rest and would be over in a few hours, hell of a day.

Primm Nevada / Rear Ended

Larry's service this morning was very nice, his step brother talked, his gay stepson (I only say that because he made it a point that he was gay and Larry didn't care, either did anyone else I think. Only his mom, Larry's second wife, who is dead now, seemed to care that he was gay.) Anyway, there were a few more people that got up and spoke then we all went to the restaurant, where Linda and Larry had bought their house and had a nice lunch. After that Dave and I decided to get back on the road and start to head back to Bakersfield. You know how traffic can be from the losers and winners leaving Vegas so we got a jump on things and are now in Primm Nevada. Tomorrows drive should only be about 4 hours. Can you believe when we were driving thru Vegas, bumper to bumper traffic, mainly stopped, and someone rear ends us. The signs say if you have an accident and there are no injuries wait before you pull over. I jumped out of the RV, because like I said the traffic wasn't moving, and it was a couple that rolled down their window and said "everything OK right?" I don't believe they could speak much English only Spanish. I looked at my car and didn't see anything and looked at their car and didn't see anything but I did take down their license plate number when they went around us, and on the back window of their car was a for sale sign. Once we got parked here in Primm Dave checked and didn't see anything either. It's bumper to bumper traffic how in the hell do you hit someone, it's beyond me. If anyone can't pay attention in something like that they shouldn't even be driving.
Bob and Jackie were going to go back to Linda's tonight, so they plan on getting back on the road Monday. Hopefully on their way back to Redding, CA they will stop by Bakersfield to say HI and visit with their son and family, they just weren't sure yet when they plan on going home. Although we forgot our jackets in the back of their car, since they drove today, so maybe they won't have any choice but to come by Bakersfield. We did tell them if they aren't coming to please give the jackets to Linda because she plans on coming by and staying a couple days in Bakersfield at the beginning of December.

Weekly Update

Today is Larry's service, not looking forward to that, a lot of friends and family were suppose to be arriving the last 2 days, will see today, we haven't seen Linda since Wednesday night.
This week we have done some hanging around St. George, looking at new houses the one we really liked was 2.9 million, I tried to trade 3 houses and a motor home for it but they didn't go for it, St. George is really beautiful. Dave and I had lunch with my Aunt Evelyn, stayed and visited for a few hours, which was a lot of fun. Thursday we drove to Zion National Park with Bob and Jackie, what a great place. They had a bunch of rock climbers, crazy people, I have no desire to climb a flat faced mountain.
That's about it for the week, Dave and I head out tomorrow back to Bakersfield, I have babysitting duty on Monday.
I've posted more pictures.

Hell of a storm in St. George

We had a skunk walking around the Elk's Lodge somewhere because you sure could smell it. We had one hell of a rain storm last night until early this morning, lots of rain and lighting. Late morning when we knew the rain was over we decided to bring the slides in a little bit to get all the rain water off of the awnings, but too late. The drivers side awning over the slide ripped, so Dave and Bob got the latters out and each took one end and managed to the the material awning off. Since it's Sunday in Utah nothing is open to go shopping for material to repair the awning. Will go tomorrow and either get material so Dave can sew a patch for the awning or will just get the iron on patches and fix it that way. We can see the back awning material is going to be tearing next so will repair it before it gets a chance to tear.
Around noon we went over to Linda's house, watched Nascar, football and had snacks. Later on we played cards then went into the jacuzzi. Linda and Larry picked out a really great house, too bad Larry didn't get to spend much time in it, it's a great community with lots to do so I'm sure Linda is going to be OK, anyway after dinner we came back to the coaches.

Saint George, Utah

We left the RV Park at 7:30am and arrived at the Elks Lodge in St. George Utah at 2:30pm. (3:30 their time) Nice long day driving but we split up the driving so it wasn't that bad. We only stopped 3 times, once for fuel, and the next 2 for changing drivers. We had one hell of a rain storm outside of Bakersfield but after that the weather was clear. Once here in St. George we got set up, with Bob and Jackie's help, Linda showed up and we had gossip time then we went to dinner at the Elks. Not to exciting of a day, but it was long for us.