Spent the morning and part of the afternoon watching NASCAR races. First the truck race and then the Cup race. They were snowed out yesterday. #18 came in 2nd again. In the last four races he has been 3rd once and 2nd three times. No races next week.
One thing about watching them during the commercials I get a lot done.
Pretty much caught up on everything but the mail. Tomorrow we'll pick it up and also pick up my glass for my stained glass window.
Right now the corned beef is cooking waiting for the cabbage to be added. The cabbage it took three times to the grocery store to get.
Just remembered something we bought for someone else in Mazatlan. Did not bring it in the house, it must still be well hidden in the motorhome. Can't imagine where though. Will have to try to find it tomorrow when we take the RV to the RV Doc.
By the end of the week Vegas is supposed to be up into the low 80's guess summer is coming, hopefully not too soon.
Bill's jasmine plant is really growing well. It doesn't seem to have been bothered by the cold winter here.
Some of the lantana plants are full of flowers and some are really scraggly and one or two died over the winter. So need to do some work outside.
I framed and hung the picture I bought right after we got to Mazatlan. It is a companion to one I bought last year. Bill made the frames years ago, they are Maple Burl. The pictures are much prettier than they look, had to get a decent picture of them. Tango dancers with the backdrop of one of the restaurants in the Plazuela Machado.
Also got all my Christmas yardage I bought put away. Forgot I got so much. Need to start thinking on what to use it in. [After I finish my window and make quilt for soon to be born great granddaughter.]
Grrrr my Nook just died, right in the middle of a good book. So ran up to Barnes and Noble and bought a new one. It has to charge for four hours before setting it up. So I brought the book up on my laptop to continue reading it. All was fine for a bit - THEN I reached a point where the pages refuse to turn. I just finished Chapter 29 - it will not go to Chapter 30. Turned it off, turned it back on. Now it won't go past Chapter 2. I'm going to get out my ice cream and a spoon and sulk until the new Nook is charged.
Oh my, the first Sunday we are home able to watch a NASCAR race and it is rained out. Won't be until tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. our time!
So first off - the Rooster made it home in one piece. He is proudly sitting on the stoop of our back patio. He might get moved later. Though Bill says, Where he is he stays. He is heavy!" The plant on the floor next to him will eventually go into the pot next to it. Forgot to get planting soil yesterday.
And he has a friend. Think we'll get chickies? But they look like they are ignoring each other. hum...
Coming home from the RV to our house takes some getting used to. I almost burned my hands this morning when I went to wash them. My bathroom is right next to the water heater so I get hot water immediately. In the RV with the tankless water it takes forever to get hot water. Usually done using it before it gets hot.
The start and stop buttons on the microwave are in the opposite place of the RV. So every time I go to heat my coffee I hit the stop button instead.
But making the bed here is much easier.
Who ever gets up last has to make the bed, since we've we been home it is me.
So much easier than making the bed which is in a slide out in the RV. Have to crawl all over it to make it.
It is nice here to have a number of TVs so we can both watch something different. And they are far enough away the sound doesn't bother the other person. Like today, The races were supposed to be on the same time as an International Argentina soccer game. Kind of a moot point today with the cancellation of the race, and he is taking a nap.
Getting used to my PC is taking some thinking before acting too. My laptop has windows 8.1 the PC Windows 7. Lot of difference in the two programs. Also the keyboards have some of the keys in different places. Took me a bit to find "delete" on my PC. Won't take long to adjust though. Also the monitor is much much larger on the PC. Almost too big, Bill gave me his old one when he got a BIGGER one.
Our refrigerator looked so empty before we went to the grocery store and the one in the RV was full. I think I bought groceries we didn't need just to fill it up! Speaking of buying groceries - corned beef was on sale so I bought one along with potatoes, carrots and onions. I FORGOT the cabbage. And not only that - today we made another WalMart run and I forgot it again. So had to stop at Albertson's to buy cabbage. Then decided not to cook it today - will fix it tomorrow.
It is so strange riding in my car - it is a 1998 Mustang Convertible and it sits really low to the ground. Like you look out the window at hubcaps! As opposed to the Jeep where you look over the tops of most cars. Hard to get used to.
Enough for now tomorrow is another busy day.
Woke up to a kind of nice sunrise over the desert behind our backyard.
The temperatures were in the low 70's today which made it nice for all the work we had to get done. We only can keep the RV in front of the house for 24 hours, then we have to put it in the storage lot. Heaven forbid we keep it there 20 hours, someone will complain. At least the storage lot is only two blocks away here in the community.
Any way we got it emptied but not cleaned. We'll do that when we bring it back from the RV doctor. We have an appointment on Wed. the 28th to drop it off. Needs a few things under warranty fixed and one recall that I know of.
It looks like we lost about three of our plants in the back. And my ocotillo - that one I'm upset about. But we can take it back and get a new one if/when I find the receipt. Same with the other dead ones.
Guess it got too cold here for a couple of them.
Today was like I said in the 70's but we had heavy winds all day. I couldn't hang on to the car door when I opened it. The wind just took it.
Almost everything we brought back into the house from the RV is put away. Where it belongs? Maybe/maybe not. Also have only one load of laundry to finish. I thought I'd sit down and watch the truck race and it got rained out so I had to continue working!
At least I don't have to clean in here, our loving son will send a couple of the ladies from his maid service over next week. Amazing how much dust/dirt can get into a closed up house.
We did go out for dinner then to WalMart for groceries and odds and ends we remembered we needed. I had to get a 126GB thumb drive so I can get all the drone pictures and videos off of my laptop - they really eat up storage.
And that's about it for today. Tomorrow I'm going to cook corned beef and cabbage and watch two races. Maybe I'll hang up a few of the blouses I got in Mazatlan as I bought hangers today.
Can't wait to go over and get the glass to finish my window.
