Son-in-law Kenny, grandson Travis, and I left Show Low about 5:30 Friday morning on a road trip. It was fast road trip, but we covered a lot of miles. That was okay with me because Kenny did all the driving. We took U.S. Highway 60 east to Springerville, where we picked up U.S. Highway 191 […]
The Dodge dealer called yesterday morning to tell me that the work had been done flashing the fault codes on my Ram truck, and all I owed was a $100 deductible. Because I first thought it was going to be the hybrid battery pack, which could have been anywhere from $3,000 up, I got off […]
Well, it turns out I don’t have a trampoline after all. We all know it’s probably better that way, don’t we? Even though I dictate when I’m writing, I still have to use my hands once in a while, and if my arms are both broken and I’m in traction in a hospital bed, how […]
We woke up in Tucumcari, New Mexico Monday morning full of optimism, knowing we only had about six hours left on our trip back to our hometown of Show Low, Arizona. We were expecting it to be easy-peasy, but we had no idea how wrong we were. Son-in-law Kenny is a top-rated automotive technician who […]
So much has happened during our move from Alabama to our old hometown of Show Low, Arizona, that I decided it was best to tell the story one day at a time. In my recent blog post The Best Laid Plans, I said that we had so much to take that we wound up having […]
Did you ever have one of those days? You know the ones I’m talking about, where if it was raining soup you would be standing outside with a fork in your hand. Yeah, Terry and I both had one of those days yesterday. It started out with terrible internet service, which seems to be the […]
Can you think of a better way to start the day than with a stack of Miss Terry’s delicious blueberry pancakes? I sure can’t. Alli was eating her dog food as I was eating my breakfast and when she looked at me I could almost see her thinking, life just isn’t fair sometimes. With breakfast […]
Yesterday was another day spent on the go. After taking care of some things at home in the morning, we started out in the early afternoon by going to the post office to mail off a couple of items, including a book order. There were only two people ahead of me in line, so even […]
When I went out to the barn yesterday morning, I was greeted with a large pool of fluid that had come out from underneath the front of my Kubota tractor. That’s never good. The afternoon before, I had been on the tractor for several hours, using the new grapple attachment to gather up downed limbs […]
The last two days have been very busy. On Monday I went over to our son Travis’ house to pick up my Kubota tractor and flatbed trailer. I left them with him while we were out of town on our trip to Arizona and Travis was able to get quite a bit of land cleared […]
Monday morning our son Travis came over and I gave him a lesson on using the bush hog mower on the back of the Kubota tractor. As I said in Monday’s blog, Travis has done quite a bit of work with the tractor using the bucket loader, but had never used the bush hog before. […]
My dad used to always say that sooner or later in life you’re going to have to pay the piper. I don’t think I’ve ever met a piper, but I know the taxman definitely wants paid on a regular basis. The registration renewals for our three cars and two trailers expire this month, so yesterday […]
After a light breakfast of berries and cream along with half a bagel yesterday morning, Terry guided me as I backed the tractor off the flatbed trailer. I had left it on overnight after getting back from the dealership for its 50-hour service. After parking the trailer, I spent a couple of hours on the […]
I was a bit apprehensive when I left our house yesterday morning towing my Kubota tractor on the flatbed trailer, only because I had not done that before. But the Ram’s Hemi eTorque engine was more than up to the job and the tractor rode great on the way to Travis and Geli’s house. They […]
Whether it’s automotive engines, boats, guns, boobs, or some other things we won’t get into, we’ve all heard the unending debate of whether or not size matters. This came up a lot when we were doing seminars at RV rallies and events around the country. Some people insisted you had to have the biggest motorhome […]
For someone who could not back my pontoon boat down the ramp and into the water without calling on help from my buddy Jesse Bolton, it may seem strange to think that I’ve become the owner of not one, but two trailers. Most regular readers will know that we bought a 14-foot cargo trailer to […]