RV Blog--Life in a Box. This just ain't 'camping' any more....

Wednesday, March 30, 2005:

Wahoo! A new game, which I shall call "Harrassing the Uppity Trailer Trash"! Like, I was walking the dogs Sunday morning, 7:30 or so, and 2 women stopped me and demanded to know if I live in that community. Which I don't. It's a glorified trailer court with a sign out front that says "Retirement Community". It has 6 streets that all intersect with the main road and connect to each other by a cross street at the back of their "Park". The jist of what they had to say was that this was private property and I couldn't be in there walking my dogs on their streets! And then I continued on my merry way.... :) Next morning I'm out walking my dogs--guess where. (It is the only decent place anywhere around to walk!) Just as I'm turning out of their neighborhood, a woman yells at me from the middle of the street half a block away...something about 'private property'..... :) At this point, I decided I'd just walk back and forth on the sidewalk, along side the main road. It's only 1/4 of a mile long, but 2 trips makes a mile.... No problem yesterday. Today, same b..ch and her 2 body guards (I guess that's why she had a man and woman with her) stops me ON THE SIDEWALK and reams me out about walking my dogs on private property and letting them poop in people's yards and not cleaning it up--at which point I said something really classy--I think it was "bullshit!", and showed her the pocket full of baggies I was carrying. So then she gives me the private property song and dance--I didn't point out that I hadn't been into their 'community' in 2 days. Then she threatens me with the dreaded, "you'll be hearing it from the manager if you don't stop" and starts stalking away. I'm sorry. I wanted to spit on her, I was tempted to laugh, but I just turned, spoke to my dogs and started away...clearly saying something rude about 'uppity trailer trash'..... I'm, told that people have been bicycling or walking (with or without dogs), in that neighborhood for years. There's little traffic, the streets are shady, MOST of the people you see will smile, or wave, or say 'howdee'.... We don't leave our dog poop, we don't cut across people's yards, we don't sit on their park benches...just walk down the middle of the streets.... Tomorrow I'm going to increase our walk to 3 round trips...... *eg*

Dinah // Wednesday, March 30, 2005
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Saturday, March 26, 2005:

It's 7 AM and it's 73+ degrees, 92% humidity, and not a breeze in sight. So much for walking the dogs before it gets icky out! Makes me long for a snow storm.....

Aside from the weather, there isn't much excitement here. A lot of the snowbirds have flown--going home for Easter, I guess. Works for me! We could stand less people down here!

The glads I planted 2 weeks ago are a foot high, one of my little tomato plants has a tiny little tomato on it, and the peas are up....


Dinah // Saturday, March 26, 2005
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Friday, March 18, 2005:

I have learned a valuable lesson. Always 'save' your blog before trying to post it! Or, you could end up having to re-write the danged thing! So, here I go again....

Yesterday, Hubby got rained out, so we borrowed the neighbors' car and went car shopping yet again! (our friendly, neighborhood mechanic had only managed to buy 1 car at the auction!) So, I dragged him over to test drive the old Horizon--but it was gone! That was CLOSE. Eventually, in the pouring down rain, we found a white 1998 Ford Escort station wagon, which we proceeded to buy. I'd post a picture, but when you've seen one white station wagon, you've seen them all! Not a bit of chrome anywhere. Just white.

And now I am free to go anywhere, at any time, without having to ask to borrow the 'family car'! But, it's Friday in Central Florida and we don't like to get out into the free-for-all! Old people slamming on their brakes at yellow lights--and getting rear-ended. Busy people who don't have time to look both ways, pulling out and t-boning old people who are minding their own business! And that's just on the 3 mile drive to the mailbox!

The big loom is such an improvement! I've already made a 3' long band, about 2" wide.... Don't ask what I'm planning to do with it--I just don't know! It would make a nice shoulder strap for a purse..... maybe I'll make a denim purse and bead it.....


Dinah // Friday, March 18, 2005
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005:

We're still here, in the Sunshine State. Weather forecast is for t-storms, wind and rain with LOW temps in the mid-60s. Just a hint of things to come, I'm sure! For now, it beats the weather up North. Even if the humidity IS 90% !Check in with me in, say, July and August and see how I feel about it.....

Creeping to the top of my 'to do' list is the scheduling of the RV for all that 'new rig' warrantee work. We've been making a list and checking it twice.... Worst part of it is that the RV has to go to Tampa for the work to get done--and we're living in it! Basically, they kick you out in the morning and let you back in at night, if the work takes more than one day. I have a feeling we're looking at more than one day! Got a slide-out to adjust, drawer fronts to be replaced, an AC unit to work on, a water pump that bangs against the wall when it runs..... little annoyances like that....

I've decided it's time to behave like an adult and quit smoking, for the last time! I've started on the Wellbutrin (which was very helpful the last, last time) and started phsyic-ing myself up. Just gotta pick a date.... It is just pure insanity for a grown person to piss away $25 a week on something that's most likely going to kill them!!!

Meanwhile, the beading is going well. I had to get the big loom--shoulda just bought it first! It didn't take long to get really sick of sewing 5" strips together to make bigger ones.... Got one on the loom now that's about 18" long, so far.... Now, I'm not sure what it will become besides a brightly colored strip of beads....

We're getting really sick of the hunt for a serviceable junk car to replace the old gunboat. (gunboat is scheduled to get a $50 junkyard transmission put in, sometime before Summer hits.) I'm still liking the 1984 Plymouth Horizon with 64K miles on it.... LOL! It's orangy-red and black, interior looks good, about the size of a ladybug--2 seats and a couple of wannabees, plus a handy hatchback... It's been a 'toad' in it's past life. ("toad": vehicle that is teathered behind a large motorhome and towed down the road from campground to campground and then used for a vehicle while the motorhome sits.) Yeah, so Hubby is whining. Resisting. It's NOT a manly car! It's a 3 cylinder roller skate! We've got motorcycles with more power! But hey, it's carborated. If only Hubby was a 'tinkerer', he could have a lot of fun messing that up! Of course, the little engine is packed in so tightly that it'd have to be taken out for any kind of work! We'll see... The mechanic who sold us the gunboat last year was heading for the auction yesterday. Maybe he'll have something to keep me from test-driving that Horizon.....


Dinah // Wednesday, March 16, 2005
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Sunday, March 06, 2005:

When last I posted, we had just put $130 into an exhaust system on the old 'gun boat'..... 4 days later, the transmission shot craps. We bought that relic to last a year--and she did. Thank goodness we hadn't bought the tires!!!! So, yesterday we went 'car shopping'. When you only have a huge, yellow, 2ton RV hauler to get around in, and diesel prices are sky high, a car is not a luxury! Gotta find one! The guy who sold us the wagon last year reluctantly said we could bring it down and park it out behind his garage--he knows a salvage guy. Meanwhile, he's headed for the auction this week and will see what he can find for us.... Nothing much on the Buy Here/Pay Here lots except overpriced junk! Keith has the hots for a red 1991 Ford Ranger, plain Jane, with 80K miles on it. NOT GONNA HAPPEN. It's cute--but there's no room for anything but 2 people! He'd have to buy a bed cap just to have room to keep their hardhats! And it's waaaaaay beyond the throwaway price I had in mind. Heck, we got a year out of the gunboat--paid $550 for it, plus the new exhaust, over a year ago. Now THAT was a throw away car..... :)

Gus and Minnie are driving down from wherever it is they're camped for the winter. It'll be nice to see them, since we haven't laid eyes on them in about 3 years!


Dinah // Sunday, March 06, 2005
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