Monday 5-14 Visiting the Dentist

Super Day

We started the day out by going to the dentist. During my last checkup they found a tooth on the lower left that needed a filling so today he numbed me up and filled the tooth. Hopefully this will take care of the problem. It didn't take him long but it took three hours before I could eat anything. It's still a little tender on that side but its fine.

I also have a tooth on the upper left in the far back that has had a problem with a receding gum for more than 10 years. The dentist thought he could solve the problem but it has persisted and now the tooth has become very sensitive to both hot and cold and sometimes bothers me when I eat. I made an appointment to have it pulled next month. 

Visiting the dentist

   

During the afternoon I finished reading Heretic, it was 416 pages long. I enjoyed reading it but it may not be for everyone considering it has a lot of violence. While I read Larry put another coat of stain on the puzzle board.

In the evening we went to Sun City to dance with the Sundancers. We had six squares of dancers. Brad called an hour of mainstream and an hour of plus. There were enough people to have one tip of A and three people tapped in. We had a super evening of dancing with friends and to Brad.

Square dancing is fun

Sunday 5-13 Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day.

Louise and Alice came out in the morning to celebrate Mothers Day with us. We visited for a bit and then we had lunch. I barbecued seasoned boneless pork ribs and we had potato salad. For dessert we had Edwards chocolate cream pie. While Louise was here they called their mother to wish her a Happy Mothers Day. We had a great visit with Louise and Alice.

Dessert

 

Louise and Alice

In the afternoon Larry worked on modifying Louise's puzzle board. Using a heat gun he was able to finish removing the felt, then he used a sander to remove the dried on glue and small pieces of felt. Next he cleaned the surface and applied a coat of stain, tomorrow he will decide if it needs another coat. It is time consuming but Larry enjoys doing projects. While Larry worked on the board I read.

Sanding the puzzle board down

 

After sanding

One coat of stain

In the evening we watched YouTube videos and an Amazon movie called Gold Star. It was a very slow moving movie and I didn't really understand what it was about. Afterwards we watched the finale of the second season of Unforgotten. Then I read until it was time to go to bed. We had very good day.

Saturday 5-12 Visiting Louise

Smile and be happy

Yesterday Larry called his sister Louise, she said she was having trouble getting her lawn mower to run so this morning we headed to Round Rock. The mower would start but then it would stall, Larry thought maybe it was the spark plug so off to Lowe's we went to get a spark plug. With the new spark plug and a little starting fluid he got it running. Louise was happy, she didn't want to buy a new mower. Larry also did a bit of work rearranging Louise's Roku's and he worked on her computer homepage, afterwards, Louise treated us to lunch at Taco Bell. While Larry was doing projects I worked on her jigsaw puzzle and played with Alice. We had a great visit with Louise and Alice.

When we got home I did some housework and Larry worked on a Lazy Susan puzzle spinner for Louise, when she is assembling a jigsaw puzzle it allows her to rotate it around. She used it for a bit and discovered the felt surface made it difficult to move the puzzle pieces. Larry decided to see if he could remove the felt to make it easier to move the puzzle pieces on it. Getting the felt off is very difficult, he worked on it for over an hour and might have got about 25% off.

Doing housework

In the evening we finished watching this season of Bosch. Then we watched an Amazon movie called Crooked House, it was an Agatha Christie movie. It was a little weird and I didn't like the ending. I was surprised considering it had a lot of good actors and actresses in it. We had a very nice day. LIFE IS GOOD!!!! 

Relaxing in front of the television

Friday 5-11 Putting the Minnie in Storage

It was a very windy day

What should we do today?

The Minnie was dirty from our trip so we decided to give it a bath. Larry washed down the Minnie and I dried it off. After washing it Larry cleaned the wheels. We have now done all the maintenance that needed to be done and cleaned it inside and out, it is ready for our next trip. 

Scrubbing the bugs off the front of the Minnie

Washing the side of the Minnie

Cleaning the wheels

The Minnie is ready for its next adventure

We have an area on the side of the house where we can park the Minne but we prefer to store it indoors so after washing it we took it to storage.

I decided to make potato salad for this weekend and I needed a onion so on the way home we stopped at Walmart.

While we were on our trip we didn't watch any of the GizWiz shows so we're behind. After lunch we started to catch up on the GizWiz. It will take us a few days considering each episode is about an hour long and we missed seven weeks. We have caught up on all the other YouTube videos we follow.

In the evening we watched four episodes of Bosch and we have a couple more left. While I was watching Bosch I made potato salad. We had a busy morning but our evening was very relaxing.

Thursday 5-10 Just Another Thursday

Doing Errands

We had a few things to do this morning. We started off by going to Walmart to dispose of the used oil and transmission fluid. Then we stopped by the UPS Store and picked up our mail. The battery in the house part of the Minnie seems to be losing voltage a bit too quick so we swung by Auto Zone to get it tested, it tested good. The next errand was to go grocery shopping at HEB. 

On the way to HEB the car computer reported that the right front tire was low on air so we decided to go to Discount Tires to get it checked out. They found a nail in the tire. They patched it and we were on our way. It was lunchtime so Larry treated me to lunch at Freddy's. We shared a burger and an order of white cheddar curds. I didn't think the curds were as good as they sounded. The burger was excellent. After lunch we did our grocery shopping

Single Steak Burger

White Cheddar Cheese Curds

Grocery Shopping

During the afternoon I read. 

In the evening we went to Sun City and danced A with the Sundancers. We had enough people for three squares and an extra couple. All of our regular friends were there along with LuAnn and Dalbert whom we hadn't danced with in a very long time. We had a great time.

Wednesday 5-9 RV Maintenance

RV Maintenance

We had a busy day doing maintenance on the Minnie. We have driven about 5000 miles since we last rotated the tires so Larry had made an appointment for this morning at 8:30 with Discount Tires. We arrived at 8:00 and they took care of us right away. The people who work at Discount Tires are not used to working on RVs so everytime we get the tires rotated on the Minnie Larry tries to make sure they do it right. The outer tires can be rotated all around but the back tires are dual tires, the inner tires have extra long valve stems that make it easier to check the air pressure and they can only be rotated from side to side and have to be put back on in the inside. It took about forty-five minutes to get the tires done. 

On the way home we stopped by Academy Sports + Outdoors to buy Larry a pair of shoes. Larry found the shoe he has been wearing for years but they didn't have his size in stock. The clerk checked other stores and found a pair in Round Rock but we didn't want to go all the way to Round Rock. The clerk said we could order the shoe and it would be delivered to the house in a few days and the shipping was free, we ordered a pair.

When we got home Larry parked the Minnie on the side of the house to change the engine oil and the transmission fluid. While he changed the oil and oil filter I kept him company. Then I helped putting the old oil in the empty containers and cleaning up. Next was changing out the transmission fluid. Larry has done this before, before we stated he refreshed his memory by reading his notes. I helped by holding the funnel while he poured the fluid in and I told him when to stop when he was removing the fluid. We removed one gallon of fluid at a time and then added one gallon of fresh oil back in. It took five gallons to flush the transmission. Afterwards we put the old oil in the empty gallon containers. Then we cleaned the bucket and funnel before putting them away. It took about and hour to do the entire job.

Holding the funnel for Larry

In the afternoon I started a paperback book titled Heretic, it is the third book of a series. I already read the first two books and liked them. It is a historic series that took place in 1347 about wars between the French and the English for power and control. 

Reading is fun

We were on the road for over six weeks and we didn't do any Advanced square dancing during that time so we refreshed our memory of the moves by using a program called Taminations. We had a relaxing evening.  

Tuesday 5-8 Doing This and That

Another gorgeous day

It got up to 90 degrees again. We had an awesome day of doing this and that. 

The Minnie has a water pump that supplies water to our sinks and toilet, last fall it went bad and Larry replaced it but the new one never sounded right. He thought maybe the problem was with the plumbing and when he worked on the incoming plumbing the pump would seem to sound correct for a short period and then the problem would reoccur. In the spring and after working on this many times he finally decided there was probably something wrong with the new pump so he ordered another pump but from a different manufacture. The new pump arrived and it would not work at all so he returned it and decided we would live with the other pump until we got back from our trip. The new pump arrived so today Larry took out the old pump and installed the new one. It sounds a lot better, we hope that it continues sounding great.

We took the motorcycle with us on our trip and used it a number of times. When Larry was researching this particular motorcycle people had commented about the seat being really uncomfortable, he figured since we didn't plan to ride it very far it would be fine. Well, they were correct, the seat was very uncomfortable and it only took a few miles for it to start bothering you. Many of the same commenters said they used a seat cover made by Coleman. We ordered one and it came in so today he installed it.

The turn signals on the motorcycle are not self cancelling and it is very easy to forget to cancel them. When he ordered the seat cover he also ordered a couple of beepers. Larry wired the beepers into the turn signal wiring so now whenever the signal blinks the beeper goes off.

When Larry was finished with the seat cover and the beepers we went for a 20 mile ride. The seat cover and switches worked excellent. We had a super ride.

Having fun with the motorcycle

In the evening we continued to catch up on YouTube videos and watched the second episode of the second season of Unforgotten, it was on KLRU Sunday. Afterwards we started watching the fourth season of Bosch.  

Relaxing in front of the television