November 14, 2005

November 14, 2005

Coarsegold, California

YEAR 2 DAY 150

 

Today was sunny and warm. My cold is improving.

This morning after regular morning routines and chores, and preventive maintenance, I phoned my friend Sep, in Kingston, Ontario. I sent him an e-mail the other day, and it was returned as an invalid address. I left him a message to advise me of his current e-mail address. I went to pick up our refilled propane tank from the park's propane refill station. I removed and measured one of the floor heat registers. I want to replace them. We took Bo for an obedience training session. He did quite well, despite being only partially focussed on what we were doing. Well, after 11 months of almost daily obedience training sessions, he finally is beginning to respond to obedience commands by second nature. Unruly little cur ! Yesterday at the front entrance gate to SKP Park Of The Sierras I picked up a massively huge pine cone, and threw it in the back of the truck. It's the size of a cantaloupe. Today I took a close look at it, put it into a bag, and into a storage area. I'd like to take it back for my sister, who uses pine cones in craft projects. I got gum all over my hands from the cone, and had difficulty cleaning it off.

We drove to Coarsegold, to mail a parcel at the Post Office. Parcel postage rates are much cheaper in the United States than in Canada. HMPH ... as is the case with many things. We drove to Chuckchansi Gold Casino & Resort to have lunch in their buffet restaurant. WOW ! What a lot of food ! There was a soup and salad bar, Mexican food table, Italian food table, Chinese food table, American food table, and dessert table. We had a long, leisurely lunch, until we were stuffed, then went into the casino to play penny slots < snicker >. To get a discount at the buffet restaurant, we became members of the casino’s “Player’s Club”. Before we sat down at the slots, we swiped our Player’s Club cards at their Player’s Club daily sweepstakes terminal. Holy shit ! Joanne won free lunch for two in the buffet restaurant. HA HA HA ! Too bad we didn’t swipe the cards before we had lunch. We contemplated giving the voucher away, here at the SKP Park, but Joanne checked, and it’s only valid for her, using her Player’s Club card. We’ll probably go back to the casino tomorrow for an early ( huge ) lunch, after checking out of SKP Park Of The Sierras, before hitting the road for a long day of driving. We sat down at the penny slots, and each of us fed a dollar bill into a slot machine. It took us an hour and a quarter for each of us to lose our dollar. Cheap lunch, then cheap entertainment. The casino was packed with people, early in the afternoon, on a weekday. Mostly seniors. I wonder where they all come from ? As we were leaving the parking lot, more bus loads of seniors were coming in.

We returned to the trailer. I drove Joanne to the clubhouse to do laundry, and I returned to the trailer for a brief nap. Then I returned to the clubhouse with the laptop, got online, sent and retrieved e-mail, updated my blog, and surfed the Workamper website. I finished just as Joanne finished the laundry. Good timing. We went into the library, and I picked up some books at their book exchange. We got into a brief discussion with a nut case, about socialism. Americans, by and large, don’t understand such Canadian socialist policies as government sponsored automobile insurance like Manitoba’s Autopac, or universal health care. The lunatic fringe don’t get it at all. On the way back to the truck in the parking Joanne chastised me for engaging American nut cases in discussions about socialism. Back at the trailer again, I walked Bo, did today’s accounting, then began to work on today’s journal entry. I checked our atlas to see exactly where Elgin, Texas is. I found a somewhat interesting Workamper job on the Internet, in Elgin, Texas. We haven’t yet heard back from the Good Sam RV Club about our application for a campground host job in Arizona or New Mexico, in January or February, through their campground host program. I administered hairball medication to Teddy, flea prevention treatments to Teddy and Bo, heartworm medication and dewormer medication to Bo. We'll have to buy a can of cat food to administer dewormer medication to Teddy. We delayed having supper, due to our huge, late lunch.

We had a very late, light supper, then watched a bit of TV. Oh, goody ... the forecast is for another week of sunshine and day time temperatures in the 70's.

DSK