Spending Money Like Rock Stars

 We've been getting the new RV all set up like we like it, and we've been running the numbers off the credit card! To start, tow bar for the car, new theatre seating, new Mini Max Green Egg, new Maxxfan in the bathroom and up lighting in the RV port. It's all good, we need all this stuff!

Truck full of Big Green Egg stuff. I ordered it at our local Ace Hardware and they got it in a week. The Mini Max will fit nicely in one of the bays. No supply chain problems for BGE.

We cooked burgers on it the first night and they were killer good. 

We love the up lighting we added to the RV port. They point up and light up the hole area. I can control them from my phone or a remote control in the RV. They're really nice. We feel like rock stars.

Katie had a sleepover with Gracie one night. They didn't go to sleep until 12:30 just like little kids. Gracie is a good girl and Katie loves her.

Here I am cutting the legs off my tool box to make it fit in one of the compartments.

My plan worked out pretty good. Fits in good with all the tools we need to take with us.

Our dryer just quit working so we had to spend more money on a good used one. The colors don't match but it works good.

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Peggy restained the BGE table and it looks great too.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 

Whirlwind

 OMG it's been a whirlwind here for us the last 3 weeks! The first thing is, we got a new (to us) motorhome; then we sold the big truck; then we bought a new car; and we had Craig and Charlie here for the holidays.

We drove the old RV and truck to pick up the new motorhome in Las Vegas. That took 5 days. Now we're back and loading up the new home. We had way too much stuff in the old one. Time to get rid of some useless stuff we've been hauling around. The new RV is really nice inside. We have a couch and a loveseat to entertain people inside. It's got 3 TVs and one of them is 50". 

The new motorhome. It's a 2020 Jayco Seneca 37TS. It's a little smaller then the old RV so it should be easier to travel with and Peggy can get up and get me a Beer anytime. (just kidding, no drinking and driving)

We got an AWD Equinox to flat tow behind the motorhome when we travel.

The new RV fits nicely in the RV port. Now we just need to get the car ready to tow and sell the old Tracker hoopty. 

Peggy in the new kitchen.

Our Christmas day photo. Craig, Charlie, Peggy, Vinnie, Katie, Baby, Bonnie and me. Merry Christmas! So the dogs have been going crazy playing all day for a week. Katie is pretty whipped out at the end of the day.

Vinnie the newest member of the Boston pack. He's a really good dog, just over a year old.

The dogs just played all day.

Then, add in Gracie and Buffy for a six Boston happy hour. That was really crazy!

The old truck sold in one day. Joe flew in from Missouri to pick up the good, old Freightliner. We'll miss it. 

We all went to our favorite place in town to have a good holiday dinner at A&R grill. 

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Pepperoni Pizza going on the BGE.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

  

 

Week 8

 I've made it to week 8 already! Doing good. Home therapy is done and now doing outpatient therapy at a place close to home. They have machines that work me hard 2 days a week for an hour each time. It's a lot harder, but a good work out. I can now drive the car and I have golfed a couple of times. Still have a little pain, but doing really good.

At outpatient therapy they wire me up to help with the pain after a hard workout. The knee is starting to look like a real knee.

They make me ride the bike for 10 minutes just to get warmed up for the hard work.

Now that I could drive we went and picked up the big truck from the paint shop. They did a good job on the paint job. Looks like new. Here's Arnold, the paint shop owner and I in front of the big truck. Arnold is a really nice guy and has a thriving business.

We had a great Thanksgiving. Cooked a huge turkey on the BGE. We had turkey for 2 weeks after that.

We hosted a happy hour on a nice Sunday afternoon. We had a good group, now that Joe let the Canadians in this winter.

Then the shot ski came out.

I'm not sure that old people should be doing shot skis, but what fun to watch.

We've really been busy. We've been dealing on a new (to us) motorhome. The experience has been full of ups and downs, but now the deal is done. The new one just needs a part for the levelers. So we're waiting to go to Vegas to pick it up. It's amazing how much stuff we have in this one. We'll probably have to downsize our stuff. Our shed is full.

Here's a picture of the new one. It's a little smaller than the big toy hauler we have now, so it will be a little easier to drive around. We're just waiting for a phone call to go get it. Keep your fingers crossed the part is not on one of those ships off the coast of California! Joe!

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Bill and Marsha pulled into town yesterday. Glad to hear they had a good trip down. I think they brought the cold weather with them as it has cooled down to mid 60s now. Thanks a lot Bill and Marsha 😏. So we had to go out to dinner right away.
 

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 

 

Nearly 5 weeks in

Well, nearly 5 weeks into this knee replacement thing and it still hurts! Especially when Shelly, the therapist Gestapo, shows up twice a week. She makes me do bad things to my leg. Pretty soon she's going to make me do jumping Jacks. 

Peggy took me to the doctor and he said I'm doing better than most. I was really surprised to hear that. He had me walk up and down the hallway and said see you in 4 weeks.

Doctor Ron checking it out. He said I could practice driving the car in the driveway. Like I did when I was 15 years old and I could start with my 7 iron at the range. I really don't think I'm ready for either yet.

This is one of those bad things she makes me do.
 

This is what they put in my knee.

Peggy had a little project to fix the biggest blind in the whole RV. 
It was a little stressful, But she got it done. Only took a couple of hours of watching Youtube on how to do it. But it turned out nice.

Katie loves her bean bag chair.

The weather has been great. The temperatures have been way above normal and nice and sunny. I think this has been the best fall weather we've had in a long time. We love the sunny south west.

Not much to blog about when we don't go or do anything. It will be better when this leg thing is done.

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Peggy cooking on the BGE last time I had some leg surgery, back in 2012. 

Live Happy and Always Go Big. 

 

   

Doing Pretty Good

It's been 3 weeks since my full knee replacement. I'm walking on the bad leg already, without the walker. I've been doing home therapy a couple of days a week. Peggy is taking good care of me. I love her! (But, she makes me get my own Beer now.)

Home therapy. Shelly is measuring my range of movement. I think I had improved 3 more degrees. It's hard work.

I have one little, bad looking spot. It's a little red.

Some of my first steps without the walker.

Sitting outside, we set up a hummingbird feeder on the table and they buzz us all the time. Pretty cool.

More wildlife in the tree next door. The owl sat in the tree all day.

The drive thru at the Dairy Queen. Some guy tried to drive thru with a 5th wheel on his truck.

He must have been crazy.

We couldn't find Caramel Apples at the store here, so we make our own. They are killer good. I love Peggy!

Katie looking for her friends, Buffy and Gracie. They just pulled in to town today.

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Cooking with the palm trees in the background.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 

Got it Done

 I finally got it done. I got my left knee replaced. It's not the most fun I've ever had, but it had to be done.

Right after surgery I was freezing. The last thing I remembered was, it was 7:30 am, the next thing it was 10:00am and my leg hurt. They had me up and walking on it by 10:20 with the aid of a walker. Then, off to rehab for 7 days. I had physical therapy twice a day. 15 minutes on a bike, then worked on steps going up with the good leg then go down with the bad leg.

The view after we took the leg wrap off.

After a visit to the doctors office a week later. He released me to go home that day. Rehab was fun, but not that much fun. Glad to be home. Big zipper!

Katie was glad her lap buddy was back home. That's enough about me. 

Peggy planted some Tomato plants. We will keep you posted on the progress. Week 1.

Today, physical therapy is coming to our lot. We'll see how that goes.

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Pizza on the BGE

Live Happy and Always Go Big.
 
  

We made it Home

 We've made it back home, here in the Fortuna Foothills! It's nice to be back.

We stopped in Lake Havasu City for a week on the way. We stayed at Havasu Falls RV Resort. We had the best site in the park. That was the first time we stayed in Havasu. The town has a lot of good restaurants and bars. Our favorite place was College Street Brewhouse. The food was good and the beer was great.

Our site was right across from the clubhouse and pool.

Probably the best site of our trip this year.

We made a trip to our favorite bar on the Colorado river. Fox's!

I love fast and noisey boats! The water is beautiful and fast flowing.

It's like a little boat show on the river. The one on the right has twin turbochargers on it. 

We got back and sold our golf cart in two days. It was nice to have, but we didn't use it enough to haul around.

We had to do a little car maintenance. A new battery and had to put a new terminal on it. Now it runs like a top.  

This morning Peggy got up early and got this great photo of a thunderstorm going by. It rained a little bit.

I went to my knee doctor to set up knee replacement, so next Tuesday I'm getting it done.

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Heidi and Matt cooking some wing on the BGE. No snow on the ground yet.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.