HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY RONDA!!

Today was Ronda’s 50th birthday. The girls at work threw her a party and called it BLACK FRIDAY! They all mourned the end of her 40’s…

 

We went out for her birthday dinner and then get this, she wanted to go to a gun range and shoot a couple of hand guns! She looked over several 9mm’s and 22’s and decided on a revolver. The Ruger 357 P101 3 inch barrel. She also fired the Ruger 4 inch barrel and a Smith & Wesson 357 3 inch barrel. She thought she would like the S&W more because it was lighter, well lighter may be nice but they kick more! In the end she decided she likes the 3 inch Ruger.

She used .38 rounds which are the same diameter as .357’s but are shorter so less kick. She was asked not to shoot the PVC pipe that is used to hang the targets so she shot 2 of them dead center. They didn’t charge us for them because it was her birthday and we rented 3 guns.

Let me tell you, the 3inch Ruger is LOUD and powerful! For home defense it’s the perfect choice, it’s easy to turn off the safety and for home defense it will be loaded with .357’s. If a bad guy breaks in and tries bad things, he’ll wish he hadn’t.

Tomorrow night we are going to see Paranormal Activity 4, we were going to go last night but Ronda asked to wait until tonight. She is ADDICTED to this series!

 

 

Have a great weekend everybody!

Storm Front Picture

There was an awesome looking front moving south/East this morning so I thought I’d post a pic of it.

What A Great Weekend!

We had our Grandkids Mathew and Brian over Saturday night through Sunday morning. They went Trick or Treating and then went on the haunted hayride and haunted path. My cellphone camera doesn’t work worth a darn in the dark so I’m going to bring my T3i with from now on to have it on hand.

You saw the AC cover update, thank God that’s replaced! I am ordering the front one as well, hopefully that goes smoother!

There is one more weekend of camping at Blackhawk and then they move all of the rigs to higher ground in the campground for the winter. We will be taking ours out one more time to Geneseo on the 26th to the 29th and then returning to Blackhawk to store the RV.

The unknown right now is if I’ll be able to take the rig out during the winter months like I usually do every other week or so. The hill leading down to the campground is very steep and there is no snow removal so we’re taking a risk for sure.

We’ll see how it goes, you know I’ll post about that when the time comes!

What A Shocker – WRONG *$&$^$%# COVER!!! - UPDATED

Leave it up to a dealer to have the right model number, serial number and STILL ORDER THE WRONG &*#&^$&#&^*#&^ COVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don’t get it, 100% of the time Illinois RV dealers get it wrong the first time…

EDIT: A few hours later…  I went back to the dealer with the wrong cover, let the parts man know exactly how pissed I was they had the wrong cover and the price increased by nearly $75.00. The parts man takes one look and says “That’s the wrong one”… I looked at him and asked if you know this is the wrong one then why was it given to my wife?? He didn’t give it to her… so he asks me to come back while he looks around and 30 minutes later they find my cover.

It’s the right price and I believe the right cover. I bring it to the RV and the two rear screws don’t fit, at all so I’ll drill those later, there is an extra hole in the front middle that I’ll drill later into the sheet metal which I like because it will make it harder for the wind to rip it off.

Before…

After…

You Know You’re Hard Core When You Camp During 26f With No Heat!!

That’s right, the wife and I are crazy, last night we decided not to turn on the heat because it was only supposed to get to the middle 30’s and we have handled 30’s before with no problem. Well, it got to 26f last night and that’s cold!

I woke the wife up at 8am and she said she isn’t moving until I turn the heat on!   She is going to kill me when she sees I posted this picture! I turned the heat on and it’s a comfy 66f inside the rig now, we are NOT going another night with it off!

PICTURE REMOVED TO PROTECT…. ME!

We are celebrating Halloween up here at Blackhawk campground so the trick or treaters will be hitting us up around 4pm.

Here is Loki’s costume for tonight, the Viking Basenji/Shepard!!

Thorin, the wife and kids will be coming this afternoon for pizza and a big bon fire, if it gets that cold I’ll have to really make it a big one!! This will likely be the last fire we have at Blackhawk until next season.

Our last trip will be to Geneseo on 10/26 for the yearly Halloween festivities and we hope to win first place again! It’s time to head out as soon as Ronda gets back to install the new AC shroud. I’ll be ordering the front one today to get delivered next weekend.

Have a great Saturday everybody!

Steve Jobs Interview 1983, Very Interesting

Many of you are like me, near 50 or older, 1983 seems like yesterday. For me it was my first year out of high school and computers were very new to us. I had been using one at my side job for a few years at the time for inventory, it took 10 minutes to load the inventory and we thought that was fast!

Here is an interview with Steve Jobs from 1983, you can download it and keep it which is what I did. It offers a very interesting viewpoint of the time. Check it out, I think you’ll enjoy it as much as I did. I know I have posted negatives about Steve Jobs and Apple, but this interview shows the mindset of Steve Jobs  at the time and no matter what your view, this is worth listening to.

Beautiful Morning!!

Thought I would share our beautiful sunrise from this morning.   

Busy Weekend, More Repairs

We had Jared over from Friday to Saturday, we watched the movies he wanted to see and ate too much.   Did I take pictures… no.. ack..  While he was there I decided on Saturday to check the walnuts on the roof and see what I could do about the stains. I tried bleach, soft scrub (gently!) and the very strong Kaboom and none of them did a thing. The roof can be cleaned however so that’s a start. I was told to try lemon juice on the side stains.

Here you can see the staining starting to fade on the roof. Figures, the side is still disgusting.

We also noticed the box elders were covering the sunny side of the rig by the thousands, even around the basement doors. When we opened a basement door they fell off in such large quantities it looked like the ground was moving. I should have shot video!

While up on the roof I saw a walnut had cracked the rear AC unit cover. While removing the screws for the cover my left hand went right through the cover…   I forgot to take pictures because I was too busy trying to figure out how I could handle a gaping hole. Ronda called Collier to see if the service department was open so we took it there, I forgot to check for the model number of the AC unit…   see a pattern here? Anyway I went back to the RV and found the model number & serial number and emailed them to the dealer.

I saved all of the pieces and put duct tape (it fixes everything!!) on the inside of the cover to hold all of the puzzle pieces together.

Here you can see the outlines of the pieces after they were all fitted back together.

Can you see the original problem? Barely! After taping from the bottom it looks almost perfect.

Here is the finished product, this is how it will stay until the new cover comes in. The cost for this new cover? $145.00 plus tax and shipping. I’m sure the front one is as brittle as the rear so I’m replacing that one next to be safe.

After that we got ready for friends to come over for a fire, forgot to take pictures… again!! Well, I took one of the fire right after I got it going.. forgot the phone soon after… oy