Yes, indeedie, my Blog Buddies,
My DW Melissa Ann Goodwin has published her novel!!!
******The Christmas Village******
Is a BOOK. And the book is available in print NOW on Amazon.com.
Please check it out by clicking on this link:
http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Village-Melissa-Ann-Goodwin/dp/1463646259/ref%3dsr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1317936258&sr=1-1
And please tell your friends to tell their friends and so on!
Thank you my friends! JR :>)
This Land is My Land
Friday, October 7, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
SHORT HELLO
SHORT HELLO
Hello Blog Buddies,
Got quite a bit of rain yesterday and last night - we need it as we are in a drought that has lasted years and years!!!! I have a fear of rain - yep there is such a thing - google it
"fear of rain" - so I'm a big fan of droughts!!!! When I say fear ----- when it starts raining real hard, I have to fight not to become a basket case - my fear is sometimes overwhelming. My DW says I should seek counseling - but as I tell her counseling may teach me how to deal with this fear but the underlying effect would be a new fear of being POOR from spending all our money on counseling!!!! I'll live with it!!!
Did the food shopping today - a day late but it will take a few weeks to get back into the norm of living since moving.
Tomorrow we are returning to the house we just sold, in order to meet with the new owners and go over some of the items regarding the home and how somethings work etc etc - oh yes and when to put the rubbish out!!!
Our trip to Elkhart Indiana is coming up next week in which we will go out to the RV manufacturer, talk quality and kick some RV ass ---- whoops MY BAD -------------
Kick some RV Tires!!!!!! I would expect we will sign a contract to have our RV built and ready for pickup around the end of March.
OK time for my yogurt lunch - yes - I'm back on my diet as all this stress for the past 7 months with trying to sell the house has brought about a 10 pound weight gain!!! :>(
Later my friends. JR :>)
Got quite a bit of rain yesterday and last night - we need it as we are in a drought that has lasted years and years!!!! I have a fear of rain - yep there is such a thing - google it
"fear of rain" - so I'm a big fan of droughts!!!! When I say fear ----- when it starts raining real hard, I have to fight not to become a basket case - my fear is sometimes overwhelming. My DW says I should seek counseling - but as I tell her counseling may teach me how to deal with this fear but the underlying effect would be a new fear of being POOR from spending all our money on counseling!!!! I'll live with it!!!
Did the food shopping today - a day late but it will take a few weeks to get back into the norm of living since moving.
Tomorrow we are returning to the house we just sold, in order to meet with the new owners and go over some of the items regarding the home and how somethings work etc etc - oh yes and when to put the rubbish out!!!
Our trip to Elkhart Indiana is coming up next week in which we will go out to the RV manufacturer, talk quality and kick some RV ass ---- whoops MY BAD -------------
Kick some RV Tires!!!!!! I would expect we will sign a contract to have our RV built and ready for pickup around the end of March.
OK time for my yogurt lunch - yes - I'm back on my diet as all this stress for the past 7 months with trying to sell the house has brought about a 10 pound weight gain!!! :>(
Later my friends. JR :>)
Monday, October 3, 2011
ALMOST BACK TO NORMAL
Hi Blog Buddies,
Well today is Monday and we are about 95% settled in and things are starting to get back to normal. Melissa went to work this morning at the Yoga Studio and I--------- WELLLLLLLLl it's Monday and as we all know-----Monday is what??? You in the back row --- you are 100% correct it is HOUSE CLEANING DAY!!!!!! The Unit On The Hill is 1/2 the size our home was and there are no hardwood cherry floors to clean and polish so my house cleaning chore is cut in half. As a matter of fact much less than HALF!!!
We were suppose to get a 5x7 storage area with the UNIT - but that is not ready yet so I've got snow shovels-lawn chairs and many boxes of odds and ends in the dining room which is suppose to be my STUDIO!!!!! HOLY CRAP I"M GETTING PISSED!!!!
I'll give them until Wednesday and then my artistic calmness will leave my aging body and I shall go down to the front office and ask PRETTY PLEASE!!!!!! :>)
I really am a pussycat but I love to pretend to be ornery and crabby and if anyone tells you any differently they need to speak to me directly and can assure you I will straighten them right out!!!!!
I'm biting at the bit to paint!!! Can you tell??????
We just bought a GPS a Magellan Road Mate Pro 9165T made for RVs. I'm charging it now and will play around with it tomorrow. Of course as with all things today it came with a"Quick Install Book-let" The Booklet is not worth the paper it is printed on as all 5 pages are nothing but CRAP-OLA and provide no instruction what so ever in how to use the FRIGGIN thing!!! I went up on - line to see if I could print off a User Manual. I was asked to enter the model # and of course it responded that it had no knowledge of that model!!!!! The website is just so much more CRAP-OLA!!! What has happened to companies today - they just don't seem to give a CRAP!!!!
Well I'll tell ya right now if I can't figure it out my DW Melissa will because she has patience and is very smart!!!
OK - I'll check back in with youse guys in a day or two and I hope to be painting again by the middle of next week - as I'm sure you folks are getting real tired of the CRAP I've been posting - although that said I happen to find in QUITE INTERESTING!!!! :>)
LATER MY FRIENDS :>) JR
Well today is Monday and we are about 95% settled in and things are starting to get back to normal. Melissa went to work this morning at the Yoga Studio and I--------- WELLLLLLLLl it's Monday and as we all know-----Monday is what??? You in the back row --- you are 100% correct it is HOUSE CLEANING DAY!!!!!! The Unit On The Hill is 1/2 the size our home was and there are no hardwood cherry floors to clean and polish so my house cleaning chore is cut in half. As a matter of fact much less than HALF!!!
We were suppose to get a 5x7 storage area with the UNIT - but that is not ready yet so I've got snow shovels-lawn chairs and many boxes of odds and ends in the dining room which is suppose to be my STUDIO!!!!! HOLY CRAP I"M GETTING PISSED!!!!
I'll give them until Wednesday and then my artistic calmness will leave my aging body and I shall go down to the front office and ask PRETTY PLEASE!!!!!! :>)
I really am a pussycat but I love to pretend to be ornery and crabby and if anyone tells you any differently they need to speak to me directly and can assure you I will straighten them right out!!!!!
I'm biting at the bit to paint!!! Can you tell??????
We just bought a GPS a Magellan Road Mate Pro 9165T made for RVs. I'm charging it now and will play around with it tomorrow. Of course as with all things today it came with a"Quick Install Book-let" The Booklet is not worth the paper it is printed on as all 5 pages are nothing but CRAP-OLA and provide no instruction what so ever in how to use the FRIGGIN thing!!! I went up on - line to see if I could print off a User Manual. I was asked to enter the model # and of course it responded that it had no knowledge of that model!!!!! The website is just so much more CRAP-OLA!!! What has happened to companies today - they just don't seem to give a CRAP!!!!
Well I'll tell ya right now if I can't figure it out my DW Melissa will because she has patience and is very smart!!!
OK - I'll check back in with youse guys in a day or two and I hope to be painting again by the middle of next week - as I'm sure you folks are getting real tired of the CRAP I've been posting - although that said I happen to find in QUITE INTERESTING!!!! :>)
LATER MY FRIENDS :>) JR
Saturday, October 1, 2011
DAY OF REST
Hello Blog Buddies,
Well----we declared today a day of REST!!!!
We went to our favorite coffee shoppe ECCO this morning and had a nice mocha and a treat! We then went up to the Ski Basin and sat in a nice clearing among the pines and aspens and just relaxed! My DW Melissa proof read the latest draft of her novel and declared it to be ready to publish!!!! HOW EXCITING IS THAT!!!!! She will email the publisher and say "PRINT IT DANO!!!!!"
I managed to fall asleep while enjoying the fresh air and my pines and aspens this morning. I felt totally exhausted after SITTING for about 20 minutes so I guess I needed the sleep. We have been going NON-STOP since Tuesday - I've never worked so hard in my life (well---once before when I was on KP back in 1959) and I never want to work that hard again!!!! TRUST ME I WON'T!!!!!!!
My DW stuck in there like a trooper and did more than her share - I think she could see that the physical labor was starting to get to me after so many day's and hours. This I think gave her a second wind for which I am greatly appreciative!!! LOVE YA DW!!!!!!!
Well, I feel another snooze coming on so I shall sign off and just rest my eyes!!!! :>)
Well----we declared today a day of REST!!!!
We went to our favorite coffee shoppe ECCO this morning and had a nice mocha and a treat! We then went up to the Ski Basin and sat in a nice clearing among the pines and aspens and just relaxed! My DW Melissa proof read the latest draft of her novel and declared it to be ready to publish!!!! HOW EXCITING IS THAT!!!!! She will email the publisher and say "PRINT IT DANO!!!!!"
I managed to fall asleep while enjoying the fresh air and my pines and aspens this morning. I felt totally exhausted after SITTING for about 20 minutes so I guess I needed the sleep. We have been going NON-STOP since Tuesday - I've never worked so hard in my life (well---once before when I was on KP back in 1959) and I never want to work that hard again!!!! TRUST ME I WON'T!!!!!!!
My DW stuck in there like a trooper and did more than her share - I think she could see that the physical labor was starting to get to me after so many day's and hours. This I think gave her a second wind for which I am greatly appreciative!!! LOVE YA DW!!!!!!!
Well, I feel another snooze coming on so I shall sign off and just rest my eyes!!!! :>)
Thursday, September 29, 2011
MOVED!!!!!
Good Morning Blog Buddies,
Well the closing on the house is completed and our FUNDS should be in our bank account today!!!
We still have a lot of arranging of STUFF to do in the UNIT ON THE HILL - but all in all it is quite comfortable - in a nice location of Santa Fe - it is clean and quiet. What more could one ask for!!!! It is 1/2 the size of our home we moved out of which is a good thing in that it will prepare us for our RV adventure starting in 6 months. The RV will be less than 1/2 of space in this UNIT ON THE HILL. Soooooo we are leaning now how to conserve space and to do without STUFF!!!!
Our TV service and phone service still needs to be hooked up and that is suppose to happen today - why I can get WiFi I'm not sure but I am glad I can.
My DW and I spent 14 hours moving into our UNIT ON THE HILL and I have to say that I don't think this old body will ever be the same. We had 4 other people helping us a couple of weeks ago when we moved the bulk of our STUFF into the storage unit but the other day when we moved the rest into the UNIT ON THE HILL, we had one person help for a couple of hours and after that it was my DW and her DH (that's me!!!) There is no part of my body that does not hurt and my leg cramps and hand cramps are pretty much constant - so I hope that does improve!!!
Well just a quick note to say we are alive and well and hope to be 95% organized by the week end and I hope in a short time I will be painting again.
More later my friends. JR :>)
Well the closing on the house is completed and our FUNDS should be in our bank account today!!!
We still have a lot of arranging of STUFF to do in the UNIT ON THE HILL - but all in all it is quite comfortable - in a nice location of Santa Fe - it is clean and quiet. What more could one ask for!!!! It is 1/2 the size of our home we moved out of which is a good thing in that it will prepare us for our RV adventure starting in 6 months. The RV will be less than 1/2 of space in this UNIT ON THE HILL. Soooooo we are leaning now how to conserve space and to do without STUFF!!!!
Our TV service and phone service still needs to be hooked up and that is suppose to happen today - why I can get WiFi I'm not sure but I am glad I can.
My DW and I spent 14 hours moving into our UNIT ON THE HILL and I have to say that I don't think this old body will ever be the same. We had 4 other people helping us a couple of weeks ago when we moved the bulk of our STUFF into the storage unit but the other day when we moved the rest into the UNIT ON THE HILL, we had one person help for a couple of hours and after that it was my DW and her DH (that's me!!!) There is no part of my body that does not hurt and my leg cramps and hand cramps are pretty much constant - so I hope that does improve!!!
Well just a quick note to say we are alive and well and hope to be 95% organized by the week end and I hope in a short time I will be painting again.
More later my friends. JR :>)
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
THIS IS D-DAY
Good Morning Blog Buddies,
It is 7 am - I've been up since 4:30 am and today is moving day!!! We pick up our U-Haul truck - just a small one as we will be in The Unit On The Hill for only 6 months so we are not taking a lot with us and will live in a very minimalistic setting.
One of the fellows who helped us with the big move of Stuff into the storage unit will be helping us this morning for a couple of hours. We'll just setup the bed in the apartment and then come back here to the house and do our final spot cleaning (I've been cleaning for a couple of days now) as the buyers' broker is coming tomorrow to INSPECT the house!!!
Some day look on the tops of your highest closet shelve and see if dust has collected. HOLY CRAP -------- I was amazed at the amount of dust - where does it come from in a closet??? How does it get into the closet???
Well ---- one last cup of coffee and then off to pick up the truck! I told my DW that at almost 72 years of age this is the last time I will move our STUFF - next time we hire movers, pull up a comfortable chair and WATCH THE MOVERS MOVE!!!!!!! Tis what they do!!!!!
I'll see youse guys in a couple of days - once I find my computer after moving into ------
THE UNIT ON THE HILL----------JR :>)
It is 7 am - I've been up since 4:30 am and today is moving day!!! We pick up our U-Haul truck - just a small one as we will be in The Unit On The Hill for only 6 months so we are not taking a lot with us and will live in a very minimalistic setting.
One of the fellows who helped us with the big move of Stuff into the storage unit will be helping us this morning for a couple of hours. We'll just setup the bed in the apartment and then come back here to the house and do our final spot cleaning (I've been cleaning for a couple of days now) as the buyers' broker is coming tomorrow to INSPECT the house!!!
Some day look on the tops of your highest closet shelve and see if dust has collected. HOLY CRAP -------- I was amazed at the amount of dust - where does it come from in a closet??? How does it get into the closet???
Well ---- one last cup of coffee and then off to pick up the truck! I told my DW that at almost 72 years of age this is the last time I will move our STUFF - next time we hire movers, pull up a comfortable chair and WATCH THE MOVERS MOVE!!!!!!! Tis what they do!!!!!
I'll see youse guys in a couple of days - once I find my computer after moving into ------
THE UNIT ON THE HILL----------JR :>)
Sunday, September 25, 2011
SAME OLD - SAME OLD
Hello Blog Buddies,
Well more packing today and more STUFF into the storage area - I can only assume you guys are as tired of hearing about this as we are of doing THIS!!!!
We move out on Tuesday, into the UNIT ON TOP OF THE HILL - on Wednesday morning we sign our side of the documents and when the funds transfer on Thursday or Friday------
WE CELEBRATE!!!!!!
It will most likely take a week or so to unpack things and to find a place for everything and of course everything in it's place. Once this is done----------------------------
I CAN PAINT AGAIN!!!!!
Soooooooo I may not post for a few days but a day or two after moving into the
UNIT ON TOP OF THE HILL I will post and let you guys know how it is going!
Later my friends--- :>) JR
Well more packing today and more STUFF into the storage area - I can only assume you guys are as tired of hearing about this as we are of doing THIS!!!!
We move out on Tuesday, into the UNIT ON TOP OF THE HILL - on Wednesday morning we sign our side of the documents and when the funds transfer on Thursday or Friday------
WE CELEBRATE!!!!!!
It will most likely take a week or so to unpack things and to find a place for everything and of course everything in it's place. Once this is done----------------------------
I CAN PAINT AGAIN!!!!!
Soooooooo I may not post for a few days but a day or two after moving into the
UNIT ON TOP OF THE HILL I will post and let you guys know how it is going!
Later my friends--- :>) JR
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