RVing With a Purpose

Friday, June 15, 2018

Heat index of 101 today. Sunny most of the day and it was hot and humid early this morning. We thought we were getting an afternoon thunderstorm to cool things off but it went just north of us. We got a sprinkle. Sure hope we don’t have to start watering Mom’s lawn this early. It is looking really good and we want that for marketing reasons but … maybe we will get rain tomorrow.

First day in a while we did not have to be up and out at any specific time. We both slept in. It was great. Then a nice breakfast and back to work. Lots of paperwork for the aunts today. We will eventually get things so they are easier to manage but we are still in the change of addresses and changing accounts and all that stuff. Then there is the estate stuff.  Making progress but, wow, is there a lot to do. We may need to cancel a project to get more done. We will see what progress we are making over the next week. Jim is suppose to be here starting Monday. Hopefully we will accomplish a lot.

Max grilled us another wonderful lunch and we walked to Cookout this evening for milkshakes. It was a good day.

Thursday, June 14, 2018

Weather – same as the previous days. Cloudy, threatening rain at times. No rain here at Mama Ruby’s.

Started the day with productive meeting regarding a lot of Mama Ruby’s business. Hopefully, things will work out because if they do we could really make some progress. Praying for guidance, wisdom and God’s will be done. The next 2 weeks are going to be very busy. We worked all day but took a break to go to a local Chinese restaurant and market that is about 6 blocks away. If it weren’t for the traffic and lack of sidewalks in the area we could walk but sadly we must drive. The food is always good and we always have leftovers and today was no exception.

While we were out we made a visit to Lowe’s as we are still contemplating a new small compound miter saw. Did not yet make the purchase. On the way back to the house we stopped by Academy Sports and picked up some shirts that were on sale. Then it was back to work. And at 9:15 we are still at it. Hopefully some things will come together and we will be able to play again soon.

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Today was about the same as yesterday weather-wise. cloudy, and threatening rain at times and blue skies at other times. Certainly the temperatures are continuing to be milder than a few weeks ago, upper 80’s, with typical Alabama humidity.

We had an 8:00 appointment at the long term care facility to discuss making some changes to the ladies insurance. It would be changing to skilled nursing facility medicare rather than what they have now. It was a good meeting and we will make a decision soon. There are definite advantages, but also some disadvantages. After the meeting we mailed Aunt Jean’s Alaska photo album to Denali National Park. For those of you new to our blog you can find the information about all this on our Alaska blog. We are pleased to finally be able to make the gift to the park. It was way past time for breakfast but we finally stopped before we left Oneonta for Tuscaloosa. In Tuscaloosa, we got settled into FRED again, and started to work on our to do list. We did take time to grill some steaks, corn and squash for a late lunch/early supper. Nice time. About 6:30 we decided to make a different walk, walking away from the greenway, toward the high school Anne used to attend then out to 15^th street and back to the greenway and then home. It was between 2.5 and 3 miles. A nice walk. Hopefully we can get back to walking most days. Tonight we are doing NOMADS work and planning. We have an 8:30 business appointment in the morning. Hopefully we can do some fun, more interesting things soon. But, this is life.

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Today was another mild early summer day. Still hot if you are working outside but not nearly as bad as the last two weeks in Hattiesburg. Overcast for much of the day but we haven’t had rain here on the mountain. However, we have been hearing thunder south of us and we just got word from our friends coming home from the Philippines that they flew around Birmingham so long waiting for a break in the weather that they had to go back to Atlanta to take on more fuel and then try again. There’s a storm that has just been sitting over the Birmingham airport. We are still hearing some distant thunder. Hopefully they will get home soon.

Today we started by reviewing some of the estate paperwork and Max worked to clear some of the underbrush away from our house and Helen’s. We had so much spring rain that things are looking a little woolly. There was a mimosa tree that had grown up in one of Helen’s front flower beds. Juno would not have been happy. She would be happy about the pretty hydrangeas in the back of the house. We also spent some time visiting with Randy and Debra before they had to go back to South Carolina. It was so good to spend some time with them again.

When we came back from Helen’s, Max was going to spray some week killer and set the sprayer down close to the garage door. Unfortunately it was also too close to a big rattlesnake. It never made a sound! He had to be removed from the premises and relocated. Nine rattles and a button. Scary. So after that little escapade we took a break from the outside work and went to Oneonta for lunch and more estate business. Stops at the bank, court house, funeral home and monument office. All went well and a few more items were marked off the list. Still seems we add more than we delete but we are making progress. Thanking the Lord for a safe, productive day.