Thursday, July 21, 2011

Swimming and squirt guns

Nothing much going on - it's been a quiet week, just hanging out with Katie, taking lots of walks, and laundry and some housekeeping.  It's amazing how dusty The Palms gets.

I'm still here in the same RV park, but I'll be leaving soon.  I noticed this morning that the water coming out of the tap is not clear - kind of a light tan color, and that concerned me. I don't want to use the water at all, I don't want to shower with it, or wash my hands in it, and tomorrow I'm going to unhook from the water.  I have a tank of clean water that I can use until I leave on Monday, and I can still be hooked up to the sewer and electric until then. 


It's been really heating up here, I had the A/C on all day for the first time, and rather than going up highway 50, I'm thinking of driving up the coast instead where I can enjoy the ocean air temps.  I'm not sure yet which way I'll go when I leave, but I'm leaning toward the coast route.


My grand kids came out again and spent the afternoon with me today.  I went to Lauren's gymnastic class first, then Kristy drove us here and we had a picnic lunch in the shade under the grape arbor.  When Kristy left to go to work, we took Katie for a walk and went over to the office and got ice creams, then the kids swam. 


After swimming we walked back to The Palms and the kids had their "outdoor shower" with my outdoor shower.  I like the idea of cleaning off the pool water, and they just love that shower and didn't want me to turn it off.  They danced around in the water showering down until I finally shut it off and got them dry.


After they were dressed we filled their new squirt guns and they played with them for a while until it was just too hot, and we went inside The Palms where the A/C was going.


We played computer games until Matt came after work and picked the kids up to go home.

I need to do some shopping and other errands, so Kristy is going to lend me her car to get those things done, and we'll spend the weekend together before I leave.

I'm starting to get excited about heading out again. I'm finding that a week or two is enough in one place, and then I'm ready to move on.  That was what I had originally planned to do as I move from place to place, and that seems to be what is working for me so far. I think the heat here and the poor water quality in this RV park have also given me a reason to think about moving on, too.

I had made an appointment to have vent covers installed as well as a back up camera and a few other things, but I canceled it.  I'm thinking I'll wait until I'm further north into Oregon where they have no sales tax, and look for a good RV place there to do the work.  If you have any recommendations, let me know.

From Me and My Dog, have a good Thursday tomorrow!  : )