Brisk Fall Day

The day was a little cooler today, but inside our house, it is still nice and toasty warm. Still haven’t turned the heat on – I’m hoping for at least November 1st!

Harry was busy this morning, finishing up the winterizing and cleaning the roof of the fiver.

He took this “before” picture of the roof. The air conditioners and falling leaves have not been kind to our roof.

I was a little worried about him working on the roof while I was away at work, but he promised to be careful.

I took his picture as he was hard at work when I got home.

 

 

 

There was also one more spot that Harry wanted to get mouse-proofed. No little critters are going to sneak their way through here.

We are now ready for the winter months. Although every week that we don’t get cold weather, I think - we are one week closer to spring!

In the meantime, I was busy working on painting the downstairs guestroom. I made some good progress. I was able to get the majority of the room edged and three walls painted. The lighting was getting very dim when I was finishing up so hopefully I don’t have a lot of missed spots – I will be checking tomorrow. I am hoping that by the end of the weekend, I can check this room off the list!

A Quick Note to Start the Day

We’re at the beginning of what promises to be a busy, and I hope fruitful, weekend. I will be heading off to work soon – hope the day goes by quickly so I can get home to my project – painting!

Harry will be working this morning on cleaning the roof of the fiver. He has promised to take some pictures of his progress, so I will be giving an update on that later as well.

Finally, last but certainly not least, a BIG congratulations to Laurie and George on their special day!! I hope you guys have a wonderful day, great weather, filled with everything good! Harry and I wish you all the best for an awesome future together – wish we could be there!!

Knock on Wood

I’m almost afraid to put this into print, but so far our fall has been so….warm!! Believe me, I’m not complaining – I’m just so surprised at our good luck. In all other respects, it is definitely fall, the days seem dark, the leaves are covering the lawns, and those fall winds are blowing. As far as the temperatures go, even our weatherman has been remarking on how nice this fall has been – our highs have been over 60 most days, and our lows have mostly been in the 40s. Wow.

If that could only continue for another month or two! We still have not turned our heat on, not even once.

Not much else has been going on this week. I spent yesterday finally picking up around here, getting all of our suitcases and vacation stuff put away. I am fully recovered from my cold now, and happy to be feeling better.

We are almost to another weekend. Harry will be finishing up the winterizing of the fiver, and I am going to get busy on the next item on the to-do list – painting the downstairs guest room. There are only ten weekends left to work before the end of the year, and that last one is Christmas weekend, so I don’t plan to work on the house that day. Time to get motivatin’!!

Back to Work Day

Yes, it was back to the ol’ grind for Harry and me today. Ok, enough said about that!!

I may have mentioned a couple weeks ago that we got a coupon from Home Depot for 12 months with no interest for a purchase over $299 (yeah, like that number is hard to reach ). So yesterday, we headed over to pick up the rest of the items we need for the improvements that we want to finish up in the house over the winter months.

This isn’t a great picture – I had to turn the light off in order to take it, but I think you will get the idea…

You may remember our kitchen remodel back in February (9 months ago already!) – well, the only piece not redone was the light fixture, which is just a little, ummm, shall we say, outdated?

 

 

 

This is the replacement…

 

 

 

 

We are also replacing the flooring in the two bathrooms,

and the faucet and shower fixtures in the downstairs bathroom…

That is the last, yes LAST, of the purchases we need to make for the house for our planned improvements. (Other than a few gallons of paint which I don’t count, since we will buy them as we need them.)

I can see it – the light at the end of the tunnel – it’s just a little brighter!!!

Laid Low

I sure am glad that we came back from VA when we did. All day on Friday, as we were traveling back, I had a sore throat and was feeling a little sluggish. But by Saturday morning it was a full blown cold. Yuck. I haven’t had a cold in quite a while, maybe even over a year, but this one knocked me for a loop. I spent Saturday and Sunday on the couch, sleeping on and off. I am feeling somewhat better today, thank goodness.

While I have been sleeping off this cold, Harry has been busy – he checked the batteries, freshened up the peppermint oil that is hopefully doing its job repelling little critters, and he worked on winterizing the icemaker in the rv. He had to put air into the water lines, and manually operate the icemaker to blow air through. The only piece he has left is to put some antifreeze into the water lines. Now the outside of the rv is pretty well set for the winter. Harry has ordered some roof cleaner and treatment which should be coming soon. This Saturday looks like it will be a perfect day for working on the roof.

Today is our last day off before we go back to work. I took it off because who wants to go back to work after vacation on their birthday! That’s right, today is the day! I turn the big 45!! In honor of that day, I am going to relax and enjoy one more day off! And, my favorite – Chinese – for dinner tonight. Yum.

Have a great day everyone!

Back Home

Yesterday was another dreary day, and we spent much of it on the road. I managed to bring home a cold with me, which was not really my intention. We definitely saw more colors in the foliage as we traveled north, but I wasn’t able to get very good pictures from the car.

 

You can see how dark it was from the pictures. All morning we traveled through rain and wind, and a little bit of fog, but by later morning we were finally driving out of the storm a bit.

The previous evening at the hotel, we ordered a hot sub from a local sub shop. We had a great brainstorm and ordered a cold sub to take on the road with us. We stopped at a rest area on I-78 in Pennsylvania and enjoyed a yummy lunch. It wasn’t a quiet spot with all the traffic zooming by, but it was just nice to be out of the car for a bit.

 

We were out of the car for about 20 minutes when we noticed those black clouds were catching back up with us. So we decided we better be moving on!

 

Finally, we were heading down the final street to our house. A lot of leaves have turned and fallen while we were gone. I don’t know why, but leaves blowing by on the road always makes me think of Halloween.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The trees are turning quickly now, but the temps for the upcoming week still look pretty nice – in the mid to high 60s. Looks like we may possibly make it to November without turning on the heat!! I sure hope this is a foreshadowing of the upcoming season!

Travel Day

Well, we are on our way home. It’s been a good week, but we were ready to head out this morning. Both Harry and I remarked at how different it is staying in a place like this as opposed to taking our fiver someplace. Going somewhere in our rv truly does feel like we have taken our home with us. Having our own bed, our comfy chairs, all of the supplies in our cupboard, with our own pots and pans, and also a big thing is being able to bring our cats with us. I am so glad that our future times away from home will be spent in our own place.

Today was a dreary day for traveling. We started out with breakfast out at a local Pancake & Waffle place. Although they had every possible breakfast item – Harry enjoyed a sausage omelette.

 

 

The scenery didn’t change very much as we traveled along from Williamsburg toward our hotel stop in West Virginia. I much prefer travelling on sunny days, and from the weather forecast, I think that tomorrow may be more to my liking.

It was definitely a travel day for truckers – we saw bunches of them on the roads.

After about five hours on the road, we landed at our hotel, and we have ordered out from a local sub shop. Yum.

We just turned the news on, and there’s a tornado watch in Virginia. I believe the highlighted watch area includes where we were during the week. So we definitely picked the right day to head out!!

We will be leaving tomorrow morning for parts north. Time to go home….