October 31st Chores today.....

Started out early today, up at 0545, so we could go get blood work done for Raymaker office visit this Friday....  Went yesterday, but my sheet wasn't in the car.  Poop.  Then went to Wal Mart for provisions, then home, later on, we head on down to Flagler Beach for lunch with Dan and Kippy Kingston, and to see their new digs.  Will plan the summer trip, then do Lander stuff rest of the day. Today looks like typical 2 season Florida day... chilly morning, pretty afternoon....

Was set for the 0930 talk, but didn't have anyone there!  Slow day.....



Saw Hawaii plate yesterday!  

Had a nice lunch with Kippy and Dan, and their place is super!  
Stopped by Ocean Grove, Robbie is still gathering numbers.  
Working at Fort tomorrow.  

October 29th Chilly and rainy today!

Headed to the fort for a long day of volunteering-  8-4.  High today only supposed to be 68, with lots of wind, and maybe some rain.  Spitted rain most of the night. Clear for now....

Turned out to be really windy today, and temps in low 60's  Saw these plates today:

October 28th Lots of chores today......

Worked at the Fort yesterday, and did lots of chores today....

Went to Wal Mart for meds, then to the banks to do the wire transfer for the new motor home warranty contract, then we found out our dentist had cancelled teeth cleaning, then to the post office to mail off our passport renewals.......  Bette goes off today to the movies, then Fort work tomorrow.  

Saw this plate yesterday at the Fort:

October 24th Chores today.....

Lots of chores today, went to Wal Mart, got provisions, then to Social Security, they only had one slot open, and rather than wait 2 hours, we opted to do it online, (change of address), then to the bank to transfer funds, then to Lowe's to purchase a car vac, and lumber for the ball racks up in SC, then to the St John's county admin building to see about renewing our passports, ($110 each!) then at 430, dinner at O'Steens with Steve and Wendy and Lew and Mary Beth!  

Good day.  tomorrow is at the Fort-  short day.  

Saw this plate today:

October 23rd Fort day and chores

Did the Fort today, 4th day in a row!  Did the 0930 ranger talk, that was fun!
No cannon shots today, and also helped Ranger Mike out with his 2 talks.  
After Forting, then to Wal Mart for provisions.  Got most of what we needed.  Tomorrow is Donuts at the Liar's Club, then more chores.  

Saw these plates today:

October 22nd Busy fort day......

Spent most of the day at the Fort-  5 cannon shots, all good ones-  lots of families today....

Bette is out doing laundry at Joan's house, which is a nice gesture on her part!

Saw these plates today:

Scheduled to work at Fort tomorrow, but it's a short day, then grocery shopping, and meds shopping.  

October 20th Back in the Florida routine.....

Went to the Fort today for the first time in several months.  Just like I stepped back in!  Did lots of water battery duty.  Had lunch at Mary's.  Also had the Farragut Academy crew to learn the cannon drills, so we had 3 cannons for our demonstrations!  

Lots of plates today, it's Bike week at Daytona, so a lot were motorcycle plates:

After the Fort, came home, and we went over to Sharon's house to pick up our groceries that we had stored in her refrigerator.  Nice to have our food back!  

We are watching cable tv at the coach, yay, local channels!  

Tomorrow, we go grocery shopping, then I have a Changing of the Guard ceremony downtown.  Be at the fort in full uniform at 3, then we march from 6-730 or so.   

October 19th Back to Florida!

A crazy trip to Florida and our home for the winter, St. John's RV....  we arrived at about 2 pm, and paid the first month's rent.  Then, on down to Ocean Grove to pick up the RV, then back to St. John's for our home for the next six months...  Pulled into space 9, tried to set up, and we had no power, even though the pedestal was good.  

So, back off to Ocean Grove we go-  I cranked up the generator on the way down, and that may have been the crux of the problem.  We had left the coach with Ocean Grove for over a week, and Robbie did remember to turn off the master switches, but probably failed to hit what we know as the "salesman switch, with probably drained the house batteries of voltage, and there simply wasn't enough juice to power everything up.  Back to St John's, genny running, and we are now ok, except the fridge won't switch over to shore power.  

Anyway, we are here!   Plan to go back to the Fort tomorrow for volunteering, Yay! Also, Saturday is a Changing of the Guard.  

Saw these plates today:

October 13th Change of plans....

Because of ants, we decided to leave Montgomery a day early and head on down to Palatka.

396 miles:  Max 70 mph, moving avg 53, Overall avg 41, Total travel time 9:35, Fuel consumption 7.6 mpg, 51 gals used.

This morning, we took the coach over to Ocean Grove and let Robbie look at it for a laundry list of repairs.  He will get back to us in a couple of days with estimates.  Looks like it may be a fair amount of both time and money!

We are currently at the Flying J at exit 305 on the I-95 for the night.  Drop the coach off at Ocean Grove in the morning, then head to SC for at least until the 19th.