Georgetown, Texas

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Thursday 10th - Thursday 17th October, 2013

I know, I know, I have been bad and haven't updated the blog for a week.  Oh, how time flies when you are enjoying yourself and not really doing anything, ha!! ha!!  This is what retirement should be like.
We really have been doing everyday ordinary things, it is quite refreshing.  We have had more visits with J&K and have really enjoyed ourselves.  I did suffer from bites again, I think mosquitoes but they are getting better.  I am spraying myself with spray and wearing a bracelet when we sit out and that seems to help.  Only got bitten once instead of multiple times!!!

Highlights are:

We saw Texas Longhorn cattle.  Sorry, I was too slow to get a picture.

We discovered H-E-B, a Texas based supermarket.  I really like it, Walmart has a challenger here in Texas, ha!! ha!!

We learnt how to play Mexican Train, a dominoes game, thanks to J&K.  I have wanted to learn this since we decided to become motorhomers.  We will finish our game tomorrow.

Our awning decided it didn't want to retract anymore. We called out a mobile RV tech and he told us it is the motor.  He is trying to locate a new one but it seems they are hard to come by.  He will keep trying but we don't hold out a lot of hope that it will be found before we leave on Monday or Tuesday.  At least we got it manually wound in and have secured it as best we can.  We will have to find somewhere along the road where we can get a new motor and get it fixed.

I spent some time trying to update the map on the left hand side but it has a mind of it's own at the moment and what I used to be able to do on it is giving me some trouble now and I am having difficulty in adding certain parts of the route.  I will give it a break and try again another time.

We have been trying to plan and book our sites for Louisiana and Florida.  This takes longer than you would think and we are waiting at the moment to get approved by a site for our 3 weeks in Louisiana over Thanksgiving. We had to fill in an application complete with references etc., so we shall see.  I hope they hurry up though as we don't have a lot of options in the area and being over Thanksgiving means a lot of sites will be booked.
We are looking at going to Tampa for an RV show in January before we head over to Daytona but because it is snowbird season and the RV show, sites are already booked so that may have to change.

We had a cold front come through Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, it rained pretty hard and the temperatures dropped to the fifties during the night and the day on Wednesday.  We put the fire on to take the chill off and got the dust blown out of the heating system.  The temperatures appear to be back to normal today.

Kathy finished off the scarecrow by adding a face, hair and some accessories.  She did a really good job.  Here is the finished version, we present "Matilda Magillacudy"

Well, until next time.  Take care of yourselves.  :)