Category Archives: Everyday Stuff

The next day (8/31) was another day that we got going early then planned, because the drive to the next campground, took about 2hrs longer then we thought. That was for the Sequoia National Park. We didn’t realize that we would be climbing mountains. We are currently at 7,320ft elevation.

I love the mountains, the cliffs, the scenery, but doing it in a class A RV that takes up a lane fully, is scary as hell to me. I couldn’t look down. I just keep looking straight ahead. Pass other big trucks…….icks. If we were doing it in a car, it would’ve been less heart stopping, let me tell you. I don’t know how Harold did it, but he doing better then I am.

We are currently chilling out, enjoying the fire. It may get hot during the day, but it does get chilly at night. Which I’m enjoying. =) There are lots of warnings about bears and food. Hopefully the picture I took of the food storage comes out so you can see it. But we have yet to see a black bear.

Well, my pc battery is about to die and we only have 45min left a being allowed to run the generator. So I’ll try to write more tomorrow.

*** Sunday 2nd September @ 08:35

We are out of the Sequoia National Park, it took over an hour to get out due to the curves and cliffs. It can be quiet dangerous if you aren’t careful. It is a pretty morning. Reggie even came out and laid on my lap for a while. He is not normally a lap cat for me, it is usually with Harold.

I’ve been enjoying myself, but there have been some frustrations. A lot of things that we had arranged fell threw. =( So that is the business area of annoyance. But the biggest frustration, personally, has been my feet. Harold is like it is ok and it will take time. But after walking around Vegas, my feet were so swollen and hurt so bad. At the Sequoia park we had to shuttle straight to the General Sherman Sequoia instead of doing a half mile trail……..which is the thing that I love. I know it is not my fault, but I feel horrible that I’m not able to help out as fully as I use to……..like getting fire wood….ggrrrr I hope I’m better in the next month, because I don’t want to be sitting on my ass all the time due to my feet.

***I already posted a ton of pictures from Sequoia…….lol I thought I would give you a break.

I think I only have about 2-3 blog posts to put up about the trip. I hope you’ve been enjoying the sample of pictures that I’ve been putting up. Those have been only a small example of the pictures we have. We took about 7000 of them………lol

I worked on my passport application and saw that they need my birth cert…….well, I’m not giving up my one and only certified copy when one of the counties in Indiana lost my original………it happened about 16 yrs ago, but it still pisses me off to no end…..gggrrr So I went online to see what I need to do to get a copy of Harold’s and mine. His is a lot easier then mine. I was able to order it online, but mine I have to use snail mail! WFT?!?! Is this not 2007?!? So I’m not too pleased.

I don’t know backed up the passport apps are. So that is another reason for not giving up our birth certificates to apply, we won’t be able to head to Canada and get back without them. =(

Today was my great-aunt Mary’s service. I talked to Melinda, I guess there were a lot of folks who turned up. My great-aunt Ruthie was crying a lot. Aunt Mary was the sister she was closest to. Mom said the flowers we ordered were huge. But then I ordered from the local florist who my family has dealt with for almost 20yrs and she takes care of the local families very well, knew exactly whose services and her age.

The strange thing was that my aunt’s services wasn’t at the funeral home where all my family on that side have been taken care of. I guess the owner got very sick and didn’t have anyone to take over. So it has fallen in quality big time. Rumor is that it may be up for sale….. I don’t know, if her services had been able to be there, at least I’d be able to imagine the services better. So it is sad that the place that has taken care of all members of my family won’t be anymore.

My aunt Mary will be cremated and then have her ashes buried on top of her mother’s grave, (great-grandma Schinkel). My grandpa’s ashes on with his dad’s (great-grandpa Schinkel) and my grandma is with her sister-in-law’s (Aunt Charlotte). The Aunt Ruthie will be with her husband’s, Uncle Bob. So at least I know where to go to pay my respects when I head back there. That is where most of that part of my family is buried.

This is tough…..working from home, way too many distractions. I’m one who needs structure, a work schedule…….. I need to be able to focus.

If I’m going to work from home, I need 2-3 days of left alone work……and that is for the online job I have. Then I need at least 2-3 days of left alone work for our business.  I can’t get anything done if I keep getting pulled away from my goals. Then doing my normal hour or two a day for support and follow up. I’m really thinking of creating a planned calendar/schedule but I don’t know if I’ll be able to stick with.

Everyday I had a plan, it got pushed aside. Just because I’m working from the house, doesn’t mean that I don’t take my jobs any less then if I was working out of the house. Hell, if I did that I wouldn’t get anywhere.

I will say doing errands here is no different then Florida, they take forever. So that hasn’t helped with my time management. I think I’m going to have to put one day of the week just for errands. But that is a bitch, because you want to get them done before that brats are released from their confines……..lol………and sometimes you have more errands then that amount of time.

It is very nice not to really go anywhere this weekend. It has been months since we were able to do that.

We’ve been having issues with continously being knocked off line. It was pissing us off, big time. Well, Harold got on the phone with comcast and demanded a solution. The guy there wanted us to reset the router and restart our pcs everytime!! It would go off 3 times in 5min, so that wasn’t happening! So after Harold gave him an earful, we were able to get a guy out today. It was the splitter and the router was an older one that we should’ve never received. So the tech replaced and and so far, we haven’t been having the issues.