Two Out of Three Ain't Bad

Nothing can compare to Christmas lights, Christmas music, and a crackling fire. Even if the fire is fake. The good points of a fake fire is you don't have to clean up after it. Just hit the off button. You still feel heat, TV's get pretty hot. And it's sorta free. It's available on Netflix. So if you are already paying for Netflix, this fire scene is free. I just love free stuff! So come on over and we'll put our feet up on the electronic devices and warm them up. Computers produce a lot of heat too.

The only problem is if the electricity goes out. It would be a dark, silent, and cold night...in that case I'll be coming to your house!

The Problem with Pictures

We finally took a Christmas picture this year to send to friends and family. It's been a few years (maybe more) that we have done this so some people who haven't seen us for years will be surprised at how old we've gotten. If we had remained incognito they would still remember us as young. What a rude awakening.

We decided to make this picture our Christmas card and printed Merry Christmas on it. Well, it looked great on the computer...but after we had it printed at the store you can't see the text very well. Those of you getting one in the mail will see what I mean. Should have used a color for text. I guess printed pictures are like the moving finger, once writ it moves on and nothings going to change the writing. Got to do that before printing.

Texas Speed bump

I hate it when we are driving down the road and see carrion. I feel sorry for them. Here in Texas it is deer season and this pushes the deer into areas where they are safe from bullets. But what they don't realize is there is something just as deadly only bigger. Motorized Vehicles!

Here is an armadillo we saw in the state park last Sunday. Or as some people call them Texas Speed Bumps. I haven't really seen any by the side of the road lately so maybe they are staying away which might be why everyone is driving so fast cause the speed bumps are gone. Naw!

Who got ticked?

This is where we lived in Connecticut. Surrounded by woods. When we bought we didn't know about the high Lyme in New England. Joe had Lyme while we lived there and so did our neighbor. One summer I picked 9 ticks off Dusty and two off Joe.

The MDS still thinks I have Corticobasal Degeneration but my Western Blot for Lyme was borderline. I need to see an infectious disease specialist now. Funny if my problem the last five years was caused by ticks. Since we had moved we didn't think of that. We like the sun now cause ticks don't and poison ivy doesn't like the sun which is another blog.

Preface

I started this blog even tho I have another blog because this one covers another part of my life. www.sillysayings.blogspot.com is the silly me and www.truecampingstories.blogspot.com is about camping and this one www.marciajayne.blogspot.com is adventures of mine. So at times this blog will cover silliness too and you might get confused which blog you are reading but then you will know how I feel cause I'm confused a lot.

So for all my friends and relatives, I promise not to begin another blog...maybe. But three is a good number. It's a prime so it's got to be good. But then again, so is 5.

marcia
P.s. I decided that the camping blog ought to be combined with my adventures blog. So I deleted www.truecampingstories and moved the posts to this blog. My motto is 'simple is best'. Are you confused yet?

Old is relative

This is the big tree that is in excess of 1000 years old. It's at Goose Island State Park on the Texas coast.









Don't you think Joe and I look younger?



Anybody know what was happening a thousand years ago?

The end of the Dark Ages in England.

Vikings brought Amerindian to Iceland.

Google Earth reveals 1000 year old fish trap off British coast.

A Tsunami in Puget Sound Washington.

Grilling

Sometimes you don't have to go anywhere to enjoy the outdoors. Sometimes you just have to look in your own backyard!

But if you are the type of person to sit and look about at what needs to be done then you better go to a park to grill.

How many men does it take to light a fire?
Three. It would only take one woman but we won't tell them that! Shhhhh.

Ode to May-what a trip.

Oh May, where have you gone.
We have to say so long.
We took a trip to see old friends
And took no pictures to put herein.
So all you get is our text words
Which if I write it it's for the birds.
So I should stop here and not explain
For maybe we will be seeing y'all again.
Maybe next Memorial Day
We'll have more to say.

And pictures too! And then we'll have pictures of you!
Maybe.

sign, sign, where's the sign

How come the only one to see the sign for our turn was sitting in the back! Maybe we ought to listen to back seat drivers. Sometimes anyway. Or we need one of those GPS's. But that's just another voice to listen to. Getting lost isn't that bad because if you keep going straight you will turn up someplace!

Getting ready for summer.

Yeah, everything you own needs maintenance. Joe has been busy washing the Pod. He also cut a bigger access hole for the water filter area. He flushed the antifreeze stuff out of the lines and added water to the fresh tank. Last month we had to replace two tires cause the side walls were defective. Not the fun stuff you like to do but with every RV a little work must be done. Now it's due for an oil change. :>(

The Black Hole Couch

Joe can't see anything without his glasses and has a special pair for computer work so he doesn't get neck cramp looking through the bifocal part. A couple weeks ago he couldn't find the computer glasses. Looked all over. So we finally broke down and ordered another pair. He's been anxiously waiting for he depends on them. They are ready tomorrow so he was looking forward to it. Then today he had terrible pains in his leg so he stayed home from work and was laying on the couch. He gets up and can't find his distance glasses! So I had to look all over too. We couldn't find them. Then he remembered the couch likes to eat stuff. Once it ate a king size sheet and it was in there weeks (I wondered where it had gone). So he pulls up one cushion and there are his computer glasses! He was so happy! We continued to look and the couch also had the distance glasses! They must have been having a party in there cause we found 60 cents and popcorn too. Our glasses really know how to throw a party. So after sitting on this couch make sure you check your pockets! And your glasses, hats, cell phones, etc.

It does snow in Texas sometimes

On February 4 we woke up to snow. The schools were closed and some businesses. The roads were really icy-really. By 6am when I got up they were saying there was 600 accidents. It has been really cold also but today it's warming back up to 75 as a high. It might get cold here for a week or two but it usually doesn't hang around. In fact this snow 'storm' was melted by noon. That's just how I like it.

just a discovery

I've been contemplating one problem of the universe. Ok so it's not really a big problem but it seems to be universal. The problem of how to get the guys to put the toilet seat down. Actually I really did accidentally come across the answer. I was amazed when I realized it. But it creates another problem, no one can leave the seat up without holding it so is it worth it? If you think this is silly-stop reading guys. All females keep reading.

All you do is buy and install a non-slamming toilet seat and have a shelf behind the toilet so the lid hits it and has to remain straight up. This prevents the seat from going straight up and it's off enough that gravity pulls it down! Ha! This way as soon as anyone leaves go of the seat, it goes down by itself!

Now we just have to solve the problem of guys not replacing the paper on the toilet paper roll holder.