Sunday ; Mostly sunny and warm today. Just enough cloud cover to prevent Joanne from baking a cake in the Sun Oven. She had volunteered to bake a cake for the ice cream social this evening. She had to bake it indoors.
I started my day with a Bo-gility session. Well done, Bo, good dog ! I hooked up our satellite dish cable today. I had cancelled our satellite TV service for the month of November, while we travelled from B.C. to Arizona. After getting set up all we could receive on our TV was ... the channel guide, the weather channel, and ... the Shaw Direct "fire log" channel. HUH ? Where's all the rest of my channels ? Can the rumours be true ? Has Shaw Direct disabled their service south of the Canadian / U.S. border ? Why would they do that ? Don't they want my money for the next five months ? I sent an e-mail to "Technical Support". Wish me luck !
This afternoon I removed the storage chest from the bed of the truck. I had to grind off the four mounting bolts. Tough job ! Good thing I bought a grinder at Harbor Freight two days ago on Black Friday. I'd like to speak to the a*****e in Kingston, Ontario who installed the storage chest in the back of the truck 7½ years ago, and his moronic choice to use carriage bolts instead of hex head bolts ! ! !
At tonight's ice cream social I made an announcement about the upcoming tour of the Humane Society of Yuma Animal Shelter on Thursday, and the fund raising luncheon afterwards. Joanne and I are involved in the organization and execution of both.
Monday ; Sunny and warm. Went out this morning to run errands. First stop was Bank of America to get a certified cheque to pay for the truck camper on Saturday. More complicated than it needed to be. Outrageous service fees ! Next stop was Smart & Final to buy food for Thursday's fund raising luncheon. Food for about 80 people ! Last stop was ... WOO-HOO ... PetsMart, Bo's first visit of this winter season. And ... < sigh > ... another new food for Bo. The "winter season" food we have been feeding him for the last two winters is no longer available. And never was available in Canada. Hence him having a "winter food" and a "summer food". Despite the pet food industry having made us as financially comfortable as we are today ... it pisses me off !
This afternoon I continued the truck camper preparations / modifications to the truck, relocating the truck to trailer / camper "umbilical cord" and seven pin wiring plug. Easier said than done. Can't believe that I've used my new grinder twice since I bought it just a few days ago. Maybe my "Liquid Wrench" days of dealing with seized nuts and bolts are over ? HA HA HA ! Repaired a minor leak in the kitchen sink plumbing. Just a loose plumbing fitting caused by road vibration. Shouldn't be experiencing any more of those in the now "retired" fifth wheel trailer ! Joanne did a lot of laundry tonight. I ordered tickets to an upcoming play / live theatre performance.
Our satellite TV service now seems to be working fine. Got no response to my e-mail to "Technical Support", but ... the problem is solved.
Tuesday ; Sunny and very warm again.
This morning Joanne took her elderly friend Eilene shopping for a bathing suit. And they were gone all day ! While I was preparing my lunch I dropped a Corel plate into the sink ... and it shattered ! What a mess ! After an early lunch I went to Special 1 Truck Accessories to have TorkLift truck camper tie downs installed on the truck. Special 1 Truck Accessories did a very good job at a very reasonable price. On the way home from Special 1 Truck Accessories
I stopped at Yuma Nursery Supply and bought a dozen sections of precast concrete tree ring. After the daily dog pack walk I unloaded them from the truck. All eleven of them. HUH ? ? ?
Wednesday ; Sunny and warm, chilly in the evening.
I continued working on preparing for the pick up of our new ( to us ) truck camper on Saturday. Joanne spent the afternoon in the clubhouse, working with Carol Mae, preparing food for tomorrow's fund raising luncheon following the Humane Society tour. Mostly they were baking tortillas in moulds to make taco salad bowls, and dicing twenty-five pounds of tomatoes.
We attended the regular Wednesday late afternoon potluck social hour, then spent quite awhile chatting with new friends. Afterwards we watched Survivor. I set up and configured the new printer I bought on Thanksgiving evening. This is the second year in a row that I have purchased a new printer on Thanksgiving evening for less money than the replacement cost of the two ink cartridges inside the printer.
Thursday ; Sunny and mild, chilly in the evening.
This morning I led a ( smaller than expected ) caravan of cars from Kofa Ko-op SKP RV Park to the Humane Society of Yuma for a tour. Joanne remained at Kofa Ko-op to work on preparing the luncheon.
The tour went well. First there was an audio-video presentation followed by a tour of the shelter facilities. Given that about seventy people had signed up for the tour and luncheon, I was extremely disappointed that the tour group comprised twenty-seven people !
We returned to Kofa Ko-op for the fund raising luncheon. Attended by sixty-seven people ! Where the hell were all these people when we were on the tour ? ? ? ! ! !
The good news is ... the meal was great, and the fund raising goal was achieved.
The bad news is ... that goal was reached on the basis of two significant donations and one huge donation ! The other sixty or so people's donations didn't amount to a hill of beans ! And the luncheon revenues barely covered the luncheon costs. Maybe. Hard to tell. Accounting didn't exactly follow GAAP !
< shrug >
Friday ; Sunny ! Cold !
This morning we headed to The Foothills, to shop at the Helping Hands Super Yard Sale, an annual fundraiser at the Gila Mountain United Methodist Church. I was shopping for tools. Joanne was shopping for ... I don't know ... whatever the hell she endlessly shops for, I guess. By the time we arrived about 11 AM, all the good stuff was sold. I bought a bread maker machine.
We went to Fry's in The Foothills. I refilled with diesel, then we went inside to shop for groceries. MMMMM ... Fry's in The Foothills has a sushi bar. I bought some sushi. On the way back to Kofa Ko-op we stopped at Westwind Golf Resort & RV Park to visit briefly with a neighbour from back home at Riverside RV Park Resort in Keremeos, B.C.
CRACK ! WHAT ? ? ? Another rock chip in the windshield ? ! ? What the **** ? ! ? That's the fourth time we've sustained damage to the truck's windshield, three times in the last year ! Because we're leaving tomorrow morning to go pick up the truck camper, and we'll be gone for a few days, and a cold spell is starting, and we were worried that the new rock chip is going to "spread" into a long crack across the windshield due to cold weather, we drove to a local windshield repair shop to have it immediately fixed. The windshield repair shop owner came out to look at the truck, saw the irreparable damage caused to the windshield a few months ago in Saskatchewan, and talked me out of paying $39 to have today's crack repaired, convincing me that it's time to replace the windshield because of the Saskatchewan damage. At a cost of $150 ! Which seems reasonable. And Joanne bought on quickly, because she's tired of having to look out the windshield through the Saskatchewan damage. Okay ... sometime this winter we'll have the windshield replaced.
Back at home I chatted with a neighbour about cactus gardening. She gave me some cactus cuttings, and advice. We met with Carol Mae to "dissect" yesterday's Humane Society tour and fundraising luncheon. We went on the daily dog pack walk. And most importantly, we prepared for the road trip to go pick up the camper.
Saturday ; Yuma, Arizona to Aguanga, California
AHHHHH ... nice truck camper ! ! !
This morning we left Kofa Ko-op and headed west out of Yuma on Interstate 8, across the Colorado River and into California, heading for San Diego. Before we reached San Diego, the weather got ugly. Cold temperature, heavy rain, low clouds at times becoming fog, zero visibility. We stopped in San Diego to have the picnic lunch Joanne had prepared, but ... HEY ... an "IN N OUT BURGER". MMMMM ... haven't been to an "IN N OUT BURGER" in a couple of years. Picnic lunch will keep until tomorrow !
After lunch at "IN N OUT BURGER" we headed north out of San Diego on Interstate 15, about an hour to Temecula where we met David, the owner / seller of our truck camper, in a Wal-Mart parking lot. Of course, as soon as we began to remove the truck camper from his truck and install it on ours, it began to rain again. Cold rain ! We removed the truck camper from David's truck, installed it on ours, took care of payment and paperwork and ... WOO-HOO ... we had our "new" 1997 Lance Legend 990 truck camper.
We left Wal-Mart, and Temecula, heading east on Hwy. 79 about 20 miles or so to Jojoba Hills SKP RV Park at Aguanga, arriving just before dark. We filled the camper's fresh water tank and parked in a boondocking / unserviced site for overnight. We examined the truck camper, brought in the bedding and food from the truck to the camper, then had supper. BRRRRR ... cold evening !
We were very pleasantly surprised when Sully managed to get himself up onto the over cab bed. That was one of our main concerns about getting a truck camper ; the difficulty / inability of both Sully and Bo to get in and out of the over cab bed. Even though Sully did manage to get himself up onto the bed ... once only, he couldn't seem to do it a second time ... he and Bo will both need "pet helper steps". I think we might go to PetsMart in Temecula tomorrow and buy some.
I started my day with a Bo-gility session. Well done, Bo, good dog ! I hooked up our satellite dish cable today. I had cancelled our satellite TV service for the month of November, while we travelled from B.C. to Arizona. After getting set up all we could receive on our TV was ... the channel guide, the weather channel, and ... the Shaw Direct "fire log" channel. HUH ? Where's all the rest of my channels ? Can the rumours be true ? Has Shaw Direct disabled their service south of the Canadian / U.S. border ? Why would they do that ? Don't they want my money for the next five months ? I sent an e-mail to "Technical Support". Wish me luck !
This afternoon I removed the storage chest from the bed of the truck. I had to grind off the four mounting bolts. Tough job ! Good thing I bought a grinder at Harbor Freight two days ago on Black Friday. I'd like to speak to the a*****e in Kingston, Ontario who installed the storage chest in the back of the truck 7½ years ago, and his moronic choice to use carriage bolts instead of hex head bolts ! ! !
At tonight's ice cream social I made an announcement about the upcoming tour of the Humane Society of Yuma Animal Shelter on Thursday, and the fund raising luncheon afterwards. Joanne and I are involved in the organization and execution of both.
Monday ; Sunny and warm. Went out this morning to run errands. First stop was Bank of America to get a certified cheque to pay for the truck camper on Saturday. More complicated than it needed to be. Outrageous service fees ! Next stop was Smart & Final to buy food for Thursday's fund raising luncheon. Food for about 80 people ! Last stop was ... WOO-HOO ... PetsMart, Bo's first visit of this winter season. And ... < sigh > ... another new food for Bo. The "winter season" food we have been feeding him for the last two winters is no longer available. And never was available in Canada. Hence him having a "winter food" and a "summer food". Despite the pet food industry having made us as financially comfortable as we are today ... it pisses me off !
This afternoon I continued the truck camper preparations / modifications to the truck, relocating the truck to trailer / camper "umbilical cord" and seven pin wiring plug. Easier said than done. Can't believe that I've used my new grinder twice since I bought it just a few days ago. Maybe my "Liquid Wrench" days of dealing with seized nuts and bolts are over ? HA HA HA ! Repaired a minor leak in the kitchen sink plumbing. Just a loose plumbing fitting caused by road vibration. Shouldn't be experiencing any more of those in the now "retired" fifth wheel trailer ! Joanne did a lot of laundry tonight. I ordered tickets to an upcoming play / live theatre performance.
Our satellite TV service now seems to be working fine. Got no response to my e-mail to "Technical Support", but ... the problem is solved.
Tuesday ; Sunny and very warm again.
This morning Joanne took her elderly friend Eilene shopping for a bathing suit. And they were gone all day ! While I was preparing my lunch I dropped a Corel plate into the sink ... and it shattered ! What a mess ! After an early lunch I went to Special 1 Truck Accessories to have TorkLift truck camper tie downs installed on the truck. Special 1 Truck Accessories did a very good job at a very reasonable price. On the way home from Special 1 Truck Accessories
I stopped at Yuma Nursery Supply and bought a dozen sections of precast concrete tree ring. After the daily dog pack walk I unloaded them from the truck. All eleven of them. HUH ? ? ?
Wednesday ; Sunny and warm, chilly in the evening.
I continued working on preparing for the pick up of our new ( to us ) truck camper on Saturday. Joanne spent the afternoon in the clubhouse, working with Carol Mae, preparing food for tomorrow's fund raising luncheon following the Humane Society tour. Mostly they were baking tortillas in moulds to make taco salad bowls, and dicing twenty-five pounds of tomatoes.
We attended the regular Wednesday late afternoon potluck social hour, then spent quite awhile chatting with new friends. Afterwards we watched Survivor. I set up and configured the new printer I bought on Thanksgiving evening. This is the second year in a row that I have purchased a new printer on Thanksgiving evening for less money than the replacement cost of the two ink cartridges inside the printer.
Thursday ; Sunny and mild, chilly in the evening.
This morning I led a ( smaller than expected ) caravan of cars from Kofa Ko-op SKP RV Park to the Humane Society of Yuma for a tour. Joanne remained at Kofa Ko-op to work on preparing the luncheon.
The tour went well. First there was an audio-video presentation followed by a tour of the shelter facilities. Given that about seventy people had signed up for the tour and luncheon, I was extremely disappointed that the tour group comprised twenty-seven people !
We returned to Kofa Ko-op for the fund raising luncheon. Attended by sixty-seven people ! Where the hell were all these people when we were on the tour ? ? ? ! ! !
The good news is ... the meal was great, and the fund raising goal was achieved.
The bad news is ... that goal was reached on the basis of two significant donations and one huge donation ! The other sixty or so people's donations didn't amount to a hill of beans ! And the luncheon revenues barely covered the luncheon costs. Maybe. Hard to tell. Accounting didn't exactly follow GAAP !
< shrug >
Friday ; Sunny ! Cold !
This morning we headed to The Foothills, to shop at the Helping Hands Super Yard Sale, an annual fundraiser at the Gila Mountain United Methodist Church. I was shopping for tools. Joanne was shopping for ... I don't know ... whatever the hell she endlessly shops for, I guess. By the time we arrived about 11 AM, all the good stuff was sold. I bought a bread maker machine.
We went to Fry's in The Foothills. I refilled with diesel, then we went inside to shop for groceries. MMMMM ... Fry's in The Foothills has a sushi bar. I bought some sushi. On the way back to Kofa Ko-op we stopped at Westwind Golf Resort & RV Park to visit briefly with a neighbour from back home at Riverside RV Park Resort in Keremeos, B.C.
CRACK ! WHAT ? ? ? Another rock chip in the windshield ? ! ? What the **** ? ! ? That's the fourth time we've sustained damage to the truck's windshield, three times in the last year ! Because we're leaving tomorrow morning to go pick up the truck camper, and we'll be gone for a few days, and a cold spell is starting, and we were worried that the new rock chip is going to "spread" into a long crack across the windshield due to cold weather, we drove to a local windshield repair shop to have it immediately fixed. The windshield repair shop owner came out to look at the truck, saw the irreparable damage caused to the windshield a few months ago in Saskatchewan, and talked me out of paying $39 to have today's crack repaired, convincing me that it's time to replace the windshield because of the Saskatchewan damage. At a cost of $150 ! Which seems reasonable. And Joanne bought on quickly, because she's tired of having to look out the windshield through the Saskatchewan damage. Okay ... sometime this winter we'll have the windshield replaced.
Back at home I chatted with a neighbour about cactus gardening. She gave me some cactus cuttings, and advice. We met with Carol Mae to "dissect" yesterday's Humane Society tour and fundraising luncheon. We went on the daily dog pack walk. And most importantly, we prepared for the road trip to go pick up the camper.
Saturday ; Yuma, Arizona to Aguanga, California
AHHHHH ... nice truck camper ! ! !
This morning we left Kofa Ko-op and headed west out of Yuma on Interstate 8, across the Colorado River and into California, heading for San Diego. Before we reached San Diego, the weather got ugly. Cold temperature, heavy rain, low clouds at times becoming fog, zero visibility. We stopped in San Diego to have the picnic lunch Joanne had prepared, but ... HEY ... an "IN N OUT BURGER". MMMMM ... haven't been to an "IN N OUT BURGER" in a couple of years. Picnic lunch will keep until tomorrow !
After lunch at "IN N OUT BURGER" we headed north out of San Diego on Interstate 15, about an hour to Temecula where we met David, the owner / seller of our truck camper, in a Wal-Mart parking lot. Of course, as soon as we began to remove the truck camper from his truck and install it on ours, it began to rain again. Cold rain ! We removed the truck camper from David's truck, installed it on ours, took care of payment and paperwork and ... WOO-HOO ... we had our "new" 1997 Lance Legend 990 truck camper.
We left Wal-Mart, and Temecula, heading east on Hwy. 79 about 20 miles or so to Jojoba Hills SKP RV Park at Aguanga, arriving just before dark. We filled the camper's fresh water tank and parked in a boondocking / unserviced site for overnight. We examined the truck camper, brought in the bedding and food from the truck to the camper, then had supper. BRRRRR ... cold evening !
We were very pleasantly surprised when Sully managed to get himself up onto the over cab bed. That was one of our main concerns about getting a truck camper ; the difficulty / inability of both Sully and Bo to get in and out of the over cab bed. Even though Sully did manage to get himself up onto the bed ... once only, he couldn't seem to do it a second time ... he and Bo will both need "pet helper steps". I think we might go to PetsMart in Temecula tomorrow and buy some.
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