Anchored In Place A Little Longer

Finally, a beautiful, sunny and warm day.  74 degrees and I was wearing sweats.  Why?

I had an appointment at the Veterans Hospital for some occupational therapy on my shoulder.

 

Good thing I got there early, the parking lot was packed full.  I spent a long time riding around looking for a space to open it.  One finally opened up and I made my appointment on time. 

One issue I’m dealing with is an old injury on my right shoulder, I tore the rotator cuff in training in 1992 and the therapy I had back then was pretty poor.  Over the subsequent years, continual training abuse and wear and tear has left me with scar tissue and some painful, limited movement.  Now maybe this therapy may be helpful and avoid surgery.  The downside, I have four weeks of therapy to complete before we can even think of heading down the road.

It’s not all bad, though because it’ll give us some time to get some eye doctor visits taken care of.

Once I completed the appointment, I couldn’t get my shorts on fast enough.  Those sweats really worked, they made me sweat like there was no tomorrow.

Not wanting to waste the perfect day, I dragged my foldable ladder out from the basement storage holder.

I set it up outside the kitchen slide so I could apply waterproofing spray to the slide topper until I can fix that annoying leak. 

A good sweep of the dust off the top of the awning.

I bought a couple of cans of this Scotchgard Waterproofing spray.

I gave it a good coating, here’s hoping it works temporarily until I can get the awning off and perform a more permanent fix.

 

Marti didn’t let the day go to waste, either.  She has some crafts she’s working on for the grandkids.

We’ll have to find plenty of projects and things to do around here.  Looks like we’ll be hanging around until mid February.  We may find ourselves heading south to Florida while waving to all the returning northbound snowbirds… :cO

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Married To A Cougar

Bet you didn’t know that Marti is older than I am.  Yep, she tracked down this younger guy, pounced and made him her own.  Her birthday is January 4th, mine is January 8th and she’ll tell you those are the longest four days of her year every year.  It brings out the best in me.

We’ve been making headway on our colds.  They’ve really kicked our butts, but between the cold meds, the cough meds, Vitamin C,  a few other herbs and spices, plus copious amounts of chicken soup and rest, I hope we’ll be up and about to go out for our double birthday celebration dinner tomorrow.

The only time I’ve left the Journey over the last couple of day was to refill our portable propane tank.  I have the onboard propane tank almost full. but being we’re in one place for a month, I don’t want to use it.  If it runs out, I’d have to take the Journey to get the tank refilled.  That would require taking everything down and disconnecting all the utilities, driving to get the tank filled and then reversing everything when I get back to the campsite.  Not the end of the world, but my portable tank is working very nicely.

Since installing the Extend-A-Stay kit on the Journey’s propane tank, it’s been a breeze to disconnect the tank and get it refilled.

It hasn’t been really cold here, so in combination with our heat pump, we’ve been getting three to four days out of the tank.  I’ve found a cheap source to get the propane filled at a nearby Tractor Supply Center, $1.99/gal.  So it is costing us about $2/day.  Much better than moving the whole motorhome.

The weather forecast for midweek is into the low seventies, so I’m going to tackle that awning and slide leak.  Hope I don’t cough myself off my ladder.

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Down For The Count

Ah, yes.  The gift that keeps on giving.  We've both picked up a nasty cold from somewhere and we're passing it back and forth. 

Good thing we have no plans or agenda to follow.  Pardon me while I hack up a lung.  Now where is that chicken soup?