Fall is here

Time seems to be getting by me all too fast. A cold front blew through two days ago, and it actually was accompanied by a frost. I had attached a new heater tape to our water hose and plugged it in the night before. I still have our old heater tape, but it only works if you clamp it in the right spot to close the connection, and then it heats. There must be some use for this tape as it does work under the right condition. I still have it if anyone needs one.

I also took down our bikes which were hanging on our ladder to the roof of the coach so that I could climb up on top. We are parked under an oak tree, and the limbs used to brush against the coach on a windy day, but no longer. I took a huge armful of limbs to the dumpster. Now, as to the bikes which we have not ridden in a year, everything is rusty. Any suggestions for removing rust from chains and gears, etc?

We take care of our grandsons two to four times each week, and they keep us busy.
We encourage homework, music lessons, cleaning their rooms, reading, and if time, we play cards. They have become good card players and can play: Old Hell, Progressive, Hearts, Spades, Pitch, and several others. We usually let one choose which game, and the next time the other gets a choice. They give no quarter in the game. We are about to teach them Canasta and maybe later on Pinocle.

Of course, now that fall is here we are back to watching the fall television shows that we like. Fortunately, with DVR we can record them for later viewing. The only problem has been late football games which cause the whole schedule to get out of sync, and then we record only a part of a show. Foxy gets mad about missing a part of a favorite show, especially when it occurs toward the end of an episode. Our reading has slowed down a great deal at this point.

Naturally, we keep up with family and friend's birthdays, and oldest son will turn 50 tomorrow. He is really old, huh? What does that make me, you say? How about older? Being just a kid at heart anyway.

In our spare time we go to estate and garage sales looking for things to buy that we can resell from our space in an antique mall. Then in the rest of our spare time I do stained glass and have started teaching the elder grandson here to do this art. Foxy is again sewing and doing cross stitch. As you can see, we manage to stay busy.

Finally, we have found a church home here and soon will apply to get our Kerrville membership transferred here. This is a short version of a necessary update, and I will try to do better with my blog. Thank you, Julie, for your encouragement. Happy travels.