I'm still here, not signing in often as I had nothing much to add. Most here followed my saga for some time.
DD is still in the group home and doing pretty good. MIL is in assisted living and we are still trying to get her
VA benefits started, I'm hopeful as in October will be a year, her sister just got hers. DH goes to see her about
every day or every other day, I think he feels guilty, but no much else you could do.
DH retired in January, we are busting our butts working. We have bought 6 rentals up here, yes, you read that right,
closing on number 6 Aug 12th. We have 3 rented and the newest one shouldn't take a month or less to get ready. It's
near turnkey, just some painting on inside walls and cleaning. After huge property tax increase in Texas I fought on the
duplex, next year its being sold and some lots down there. Taxes went from $1500 to $4700, just crazy. That will clear
those out.
Ok, I have been telling husband I will help him till spring to finish the last 2. One is his mom's house, needed quite a bit
of work and the other I bought some time ago and still needs a lot, but we will get there, demand is high. Ability to pay,
is we shall see, so far so good. But with some of these younger folks, we are repair people and counselors. LOL! They tell
us we are the best landlords ever, we always tried to be. And I'm strict as ever.
I don't know if he will go with me or not, but when I help finish these I'm quitting on remodeling, at least full time,
if he wants to keep doing it go for it, we are 70! I'm hoping if I go in the winter, he will just get bored. Most everyone
we know here goes south for the winter.
I'm going to S Korea again in Sept this time for a couple of weeks to see grandbaby again, he will be a year and 3 months,
hubby won't go till he is old enough to remember him, does that make sense? They are trying to get transferred home but
not so easy and of course its would be dumb for him to quit a good job, he is getting near to a pension, so I will go once a year till they can.
We are still going to Mall of the Americas, yes I put it off a month as I have produce I'm canning, I'm saying this is the last
year for a garden, or at least a big one. Think I will buy from the amish in the future if I continue to can. He does think its
silly for me to do that. But I like the food.
We still haven't found why the motorhome started using oil, had it to diesel shop they say they can't see evidence of it but it
did last trip and he measured it carefully. I said so lets buy a newer one, found a nice Eagle for $100k, 2004, excellent condition.
He says, that's a lot of money for one so old, I says we can get a different brand for much less, but I step in and the difference
in quality hits me quick. He says well we can just have the old diesel overhauled for $15k, see my ploy here. LOL! The old one is fine
with me, I like it and everything in it is new, and never had a problem with the engine, no repairs or anything to it. Yes, brakes,
air bags, batteries, tires, all kinds of inside appliances, etc but not the engine. He says when I get time I will look at it first as we really don't think its using oil, think it might be kicking it out when driving or something, no leaks in the garage, no plume of smoke down the road. I am not checking oil constantly while traveling and worrying about it if alone. We are taking this trip with it just at or below add to see if that helps, he did that the last day of driving home from Florida and it used none. We have argued this point that maybe he is just putting to much in and he wouldn't listen until the last day of driving. He is generally right on mechanical stuff, but once in a blue moon I am. This big negative on this coach is no slides, but $85k to get slides is a pretty high price to pay.
I told him yesterday, well I didn't make reservations in Florida for next winter and should have, silence. I know he traveled the world working and I know he likes to be home. But I know what I like to do also, I haven't even had my boat out once this summer. It's been raining here like crazy, and beyond hot and miserable, so not much point to try.
This doesn't help you but that's kind of my saga in a nutshell. I was going to join RVing Women in Michigan for a rally and with so much going on I decided to cancel, but I will still do it one day. I feel so badly leaving DD behind, she loved traveling so and my take her now and then. He says he doesn't care if I want to go, go. That doesn't make me happy as I've always been alone traveling, but if that's the only way I can go I will.
I am going to go next year when done. Maybe after he is home alone for awhile he might decide to come at least once in awhile, we
shall see. I'm getting old and don't know how many more years I have left to do things I enjoy.
Oh many of you know I have had tremendous problems with my feet. I finally decided to get DonJoy ankle stabilizers. You lace them, then have straps that crisscross and an elastic piece at the top. I went to our local pharmacy and they sell diabetic shoes, tennis, but
some you can buy with real ridged backs to hold the foot stable and a wider toe box. Added my orthotics to them and it has given me a lease on life. They were so bad I could hardly walk, the pain got to a point I couldn't even sleep at night, I was in agony. At first I slept with them on and had them on day and night. Now at times I can leave them off for a day and only sleep with them at night on occasion. Docs were not encouraging so I just started looking for solutions on my own. Best thing I've ever done, I don't look like a fashion model but hey walking is damned important.
So nope I haven't given up yet. If I really get aggravated I will have a newer motorhome, but I'm kind of a tightwad too so would rather not, but one way or another I will go.
If we get done in time and I doubt it, but even if we don't, I would love to meet up somewhere maybe in January or February and we could do somethings together. I like to fish, bikeride, not sure how much walking I can do but will find out in Korea as we walk everywhere there and this time will take public transportation. Love my little DIL and grandson.
You can PM me. As I've said I am 70, but in my mind I think I'm oh maybe 40 or 50 and I also love to cook, go to movies, dinner theaters. I don't golf or play tennis, also like cruises. I think he and I will still take a trip to Cuba when they open up more, he is interested in that.
Ok, gotta go, we are also mowing 8 acres, I'm mowing a lot today to help in the little town by us to help it look better and then
go and work on scraping and painting window frames on a house. Here's a couple of new pictures.
That's me with my new ankle stabilizers on, it has also helped with all the back pain I had!!!
Sorry I wrote a book, but you'all know how I am!!