Exhausting Weekend

What a weekend we had. Friday night we worked on organizing the garage for the garage sale on Saturday. We worked on that until almost ten. That garage was a mess! We are having a hard time working in this humid heat.

Saturday morning we got started early. We were up at six and got busy right away. We had a lot of STUFF to pull out. The weather was terrible. It was hot and humid.

We had people show up before we put the signs out and it was a steady stream of folks in and out all day. We sold a lot of STUFF. We normally close down around two but we were so busy we were open until four. We also had several friends stop in to visit.

We were so exhausted by five and still had STUFF to put back into the garage. We went in cooled off a bit and then returned outside to finish up. We decided to get a shower and go for Mexican food for dinner. We had a nice dinner and visited with friends we ran into at the restaurant. By nine thirty I was in bed.

On Sunday morning Dawn went to the grocery store and I steam cleaned the living room carpet. I steam clean the carpet on a regular basis. We do have four legged kids that track in all kinds of dirt and grime. When Dawn got home with the groceries, I helped her put them away. She put a roast in the crock pot and we went to work on the riding mower. The belt needed to be replaced. We got the belt on and found out quickly the guy sold us the wrong one. Our yard needs to be mowed today. It really has grown a lot since the rain last week. We barrowed a couple of push mowers from a friend. While loading them into the truck, Dawn slipped and almost did the splits. She thinks she pulled a muscle. When we got home we unloaded the mowers and mowed as long as we could. Did I mention it is hot and humid here? Well, let’s just say these two old fat girls didn’t last long pushing lawn mowers! Beside I had a snake run between my feet while mowing and I HATE snakes. In an hour we had mowed all we could. We had to go in and cool off.  We live on two acres and there is NO way we could mow it with push mowers. We only mowed the small yard were our small dogs play.

The friends we barrowed the mowers from came out and mowed some for us and took the belt off our riding mower so we could return it. We then ate a quick bite of roast and had to run across town to meet a friend. I needed to take some pictures for him. We spend an hour there. We got home about eight and at nine-thirty I was ready for bed. We are both sore all over from all the work this weekend.

I am so ready for fall weather. Neither of us likes the heat.

Garage Sale Time

We are planning on having another garage sale tomorrow. The weather is finally cooling off a bit. Tomorrows temperatures are predicted for low nineties. It’s still hot but not as hot as it has been!


We have posted our sale on Craigslist and will work tonight to get our new inventory added to the lot. We were going to work on it last night but I had this hare-brained idea to drive into Addison and check out the Addison Oktoberfest.

We stopped off at a seafood restaurant to have fried shrimp for dinner before going to the festival. We ate fast and got out of there in a hurry. The music was so loud we couldn’t talk and the place was more a bar than a restaurant. The food wasn’t all that good either. Oh well!

We drove around the Oktoberfest area for twenty minutes looking for a place to park. We finally found a place a couple block away.

We were planning on seeing the German dancers, dog agility show and snap some pictures. We walked around for a bit and did see a few dancers. We walked through the vendor’s area and we did see a few of the agility dogs but mostly we saw a lot of beer drinkers. There were tons of people and everyone was carrying a huge stein of beer. OMG, I don’t want to be around a bunch of twenty-something’s that are drinking like it’s the last day of school. They should name this festival the beerfest!

We didn’t stay long. We should have just stayed home and worked on the garage sale stuff instead! Well, now we can say “Been There, Done That!

Big Foot Leveling System

As mentioned in the past, we have owned a motorhome. We found it somewhat cramped and traded it in for our current fifth wheel. We love everything about our fifth wheel with the exception of leveling the beast. We kind of got spoiled with the leveling of the motorhome. We pulled into our site and pushed a button and the motorhome could be level in a matter of seconds. We could adjust our level from front to back or from side to side. Boy that is really the only thing I miss about the motorhome.

We have been doing some research and would like to add some kind of automatic leveling system to our fifth wheel. We have looked at Level Ease and Big Foot. The Big Foot system seems to be exactly what we need. The problem is that we don’t know anyone that has experience with them. We have checked with our forum friends and got back two responses that said they were really great to have. We noticed that Bill & Debbie (The GoodeLife) was getting some installed in the near future. But we wanted to find out if anyone out there has any experience with them and what their opinion is.

We really trust our RV blogger friends opinions.

Productive Weekend & Rant

We had plans to have a garage sale on Saturday but learned on Friday evening that there was a very good possibility it would rain. We will try again next weekend.

We decided to do our grocery shopping on Friday evening. That was a complete disaster! Dawn gets mad at me for making rude remarks to RUDE people. I find the older I get, the less tolerable I am of unruly children and their ignorant parents. I consider myself a polite person and I feel like manners should be practiced at all ages. My mother made sure we had good manners and they were so instilled in me that I am shocked at people and their public behavior. Do you hear a rant coming on?

Well here it is!

Have you encountered the Stop & Talk Cart! That is people who have to stop dead in their tracks to talk on their cell phone. You know the kind that has to stop in the middle of the aisle so that you can’t get around them!

How about Lifeline Cart! The people that have four or five kids surrounding the cart hanging on like it is their lifeline. They can’t even let go when they meet you head on in the aisle and instead will ram into your cart because the aisle isn’t wide enough!

Or Stationary Cart! The people that leave their carts parked in the middle of the aisle while they wonder from one end to another returning occasionally to drop items in!

Or Screaming Cart! The cart with the screaming kid that has the parent who insist on pushing them up and down each aisle so that everyone can enjoy the noise!

Or Cell Phone Parent? This is the parent that is too preoccupied with the cell phone that they don’t notice the kid pulling stuff off the shelves, crawling over merchandise, running and down the aisles!

How about in restaurants? Have you encountered the Restaurant Terrors? The kids that jump up and down in booths, crawl on and under the table, throw food on the floor and return to the buffet to stick their grubby little hands into the food! What part of that seems like good behavior?

Or Last Minute Parent? The parent that stands in line with the kids at the fast food counter that doesn’t bother to ask what they want until it’s their turn to order. Then the arguments start. Shouldn’t that have been decided before you got in line?

HELLO, am I the only person that has a problem with this?

Don’t get me wrong, I love kids. I even have one myself. He’s grown now. He does have manners. I would have died of embarrassment if my kid would have done some of the things we have witnessed recently.

Sorry about the rant, just had to get that off my chest!

Anyway, we did have a productive weekend. We bathed all three little dogs, pulled the fifth wheel out and starting going through the RV building. We took a load of JUNK to the dumpster and have another pile of STUFF to add to the garage sale. We also sold a dresser we had listed on craigslist.