New Photos and New Update on Mice

To begin with, new photos have been posted. They are of Aimee's wedding, one of Kim's best friends, and all of our grand-daughters plus Danny and Kim's niece's, Karla and Jessica. In other words Madison's cousins. Got to give Kim and Danny credit, they took on 5 niece's plus Madison, which they have to take on! Kim thought it would be a lot of fun to have Danny and Kim's nieces, Karla, Jessica(Danny's sisters kids) Bryauna and Jayden(Jeff's daughters) and Riley(David's step daughter) up for Madison's 1st birthday. 6 girls, maybe having them for 5 days will change Kim's mind about having 4 kids, which she had mentioned in her blog. There are pictures too of all the girls swimming in the pool at the RV Park that we, Dave and I, stay at.

There are also pictures of the fruit place we went to today where we got a hay ride and you got to pick your own fruit. All the kids got to go to the petting zoo after we had lunch that Kim had made for everyone. I'm very impressed, Kim is really handling everything very well, I still hope she changes her mind about having 4 kids tho.

Let me back track, since we have gotten back to Bakersfield on 7/1. After setting up the mouse traps, the smart little thing had managed to get the cheese out and not set off the trap. We stopped and bought a couple different mouse traps. These were a little bit bigger and round, you are suppose to put peanut butter in the middle of the trap and the mouse has to climb inside to get it and that's when they are caught. The top of the trap says, set, not set, and caught, well when we got up Sunday morning the trap said "caught" and when Dave picked it up he said it was heavier then when he put it in. You can't see inside the trap you are only suppose to through the whole thing away, which we did. So, the other traps we had set we changed from cheese to peanut butter, and the next morning we had another mouse. Hopefully, we only had 2 because nothing else has been touch or seen around the coach since catching the 2nd mouse.

There is one picture of Bill and Karen, Dave had grown up with Bill and they haven't seen each other for 40 years. We met up with them in Pismo Beach and had lunch at one of my Mom and Dad's favorite places "Fat Cats". We visited with them for a few hours then headed back to Bakersfield.

I mentioned in the last blog that we had over heating problems driving down. We took the coach today to Cummins and it ends up we have a leak where the pipe & hoses connect to the radiator, so we need a new radiator, luckily we have an extended warranty, not through Monico but another company, and it is covered, thank goodness. The bad news is the new radiator won't show up until Friday, maybe, and Cummins still needs 3 to 4 days to install. We leave Bakersfield on this Wednesday for Arizona so Cummins said they will just store the RV on their lot, no problem. My biggest fear is leaving something in the RV that a week down the line we might need. Before if we had forgotten something we just went up to 1000 Trails to retrieve it, but with the RV in Bakersfield we just can't make a quick run to get something. Needless to say our car will really be packed when we drive back to Arizona.

Another problem is, which Dave reminded me of, when we come back in August to pick up the RV is when we leave for our travels for 3 months. We will be going to Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, North and South Dakota. We need summer clothes and for the Dakota's we need winter clothes, remember we are doing the Sugar Beet Harvest. He didn't need to remind me of that, I am now already stressed.