Lily, Tilly & Milly and a visit......

Saturday 31st August

We opened the windows and doors today to try and get some ventilation and to see if it helped Bryan.  Bryan did laundry and I cleaned out the bathroom closets and reorganized.  They tell you that you will need to purge every six months and we have already lived in Lily longer than that.  We were having problems with everything in the bathroom cabinet falling out whenever we opened the door after travelling and so I have reorganised it and hopefully that won't happen now.  We will see!!!  Bryan mounted the extension cord inside of the cabinet so we can have our razors plugged in and out of the way.  It looks much better.

 Notice that I called the motorhome Lily.  A friend of mine told me that her son had called his new dog Lily the same as the motorhome and I suddenly realized that I hadn't been calling her by her name.  Poor Lily, ha!! ha!!  So I will try and remember, Lily = motorhome,  Tilly = Our Chevy Malibu car and Milly = the bear that my sister in law kindly sent me some years ago.  There is a rather long story that goes with Milly that I will tell you another time.

Ok, maybe I'll tell it now.  On one of my visits to England, to spend time with mum while my brother & sister in law went on holiday, I was amused by the number of teddies that were sharing the bedroom.  I decided that I would write a note from one of the teddies to Julie, my sister-in-law, telling her how pleased the teddy was that Julie was back as she was fed up with being kicked off the bed by this intruder (me). On my next birthday I received a present from England in the shape of a teddy bear complete with note.  She had been sent by her relative teddies to keep me company as they had been missing me or something to that effect.  I still have the letter somewhere and if I come across it I will rewrite this with the exact words. And so, Milly was born.  She has always been on all our travels with us, even before we started living in Lily fulltime.

 I know crazy but goes to show that Julie is as crazy as I am!!!!

I watched Dan Evans in his match against Tommy Robredo which he was very close to winning but unfortunately lost.  He has done exceptionally well here and hopefully he will continue to improve.  

Sunday 1st September

Today we had a visit from what I think is a Pocket Gopher.  It could be a vole or a ground squirrel as well, but from my research I think the gopher is the most likely.  He or she was digging tunnels by the side of the motorhome and close to our planter. He was very quick and this picture is about the best I could get.

 He had just finished the hole on the right and was starting on this one at the bottom of the planter.

The link below goes to a video that shows him going back to the hole on the right and filling it in and then coming back and making the hole by the planter bigger and he comes out a little to look at the planter.  He was fascinating to watch.

Gopher Video

We went for a short ride to take a look around.  We went to Lake Morena County Park.  We didn't stop and park as we didn't want to pay the fee. We were going to go to Pacific Southwest Railway Museum but they weren't open.  They usually open Saturday & Sunday but they were shut on this Sunday.

Bryan's ears are still not right and so we have been taking it easy. We are still trying different things to see if we can figure out what will work and if he gets better before we leave we will maybe try a couple of the walks by the campground. 

I watched Andy Murray win and so was happy and Bryan watched Nascar.

Monday September 2, 2013

Today we booked the campground at Pensacola - Oak Grove Park, Pensacola, Florida from December 2nd, 2013 - January 2nd, 2014.  This is the campground by the beach on the Navy base in Pensacola where we have happy memories of good times in the cabins with Ryan & Bryan's parents.  We like Pensacola and it is close to Crestview where we have to register Lily by 4th December so we will spend Christmas & New Year here.

We both felt really tired this morning and Lily seemed very stuffy so we opened up the windows and the door all day to get some air in.  It felt a lot better.

I wasn't going to watch any tennis today but saw that Robredo had won the first two sets against Federer and so had to watch the remainder of the match which Robredo ended up winning in three sets.

I did some more research on "ears" and after trying several different things Bryan eventually got some relief by heating up a coffee cup and placing it over his ear.  He repeated this several times and it eased the pressure in his ear but didn't unblock it.  We will see what tomorrow brings.

Take Care everyone......