Hiya Darlin',
Since no one had any jobs lined up for me today (the trails are in excellent shape this year), I opted to get down my pressure washer out of the attic and tackle this oil problem in my truck and the front of my trailer. I had bought some degreaser yesterday, so I sprayed that, then went at it with my washer, and eventually, I made everything fairly clean. I finally managed to track down two of my three packages, one of which was delivered to a neighbor for some inexplicable reason. The missing one, Lola's heartworm meds from Australia, is still MIA. Apparently it was put in a mailbox that no one ever checks, even though it's the address that pops up if you put the name of the place in any search engine, and the box is empty. Tracking says it was put in there, so it could be anywhere now. Guess it didn't matter that I left a voicemail asking them to keep an eye out for it, and that there's a separate mailing address if I had hunted it down, so it looks like I'm out $120 for meds I'll have to replace. Grrr! At least I have my parts for the furnace, though I likely won't have time to put them in now. The rest of the day was pretty quiet, except for a quick trip to the post office trying to track down that missing package. Oh, well! Anyway, quite a number of folks arrived today, but tomorrow will be the busy day, so I'm heading to bed early, if possible! Good night, babe! Love you!

Hiya Sweetie,
Was up before my 7:30 alarm, had breakfast, which takes a lot longer than a bowl of cereal, then finished packing up everything. Thankfully, it wasn't as cold this morning, and now that we're back on standard time, the sun was already warming things up. I got everything packed and was on the road by about 9:40, and had a wonderfully uneventful drive to Broxton. Arrived about 12:30, confirmed my site, managed to dump my black water at an open full service site per Rebecca's recommendation, then got myself situated. Put up my portable electric corral for the horses, as this site didn't have the right configuration of trees. When I unhooked, I was surprised and dismayed to discover that one of the gallons of used oil that I had put in the back of the truck had somehow got it's cap loosened, and there was oil EVERYWHERE! All along the back of the truck, all across the panel of the trailer where my batteries and propane tanks are, all along one edge of one of the bales of hay in the back, what a mess! I wiped a little off, but it will take some major effort to get it cleaned up, likely with my pressure washer. Not sure I'll have time to do it here, but I certainly will have to make time at my next stop. Very glad I have water and electric here, as soon as my water heated up, I started a couple of loads of laundry, though I have several more to do. That's what happens when I don't do laundry in over two weeks! Made plans for checking a trail tomorrow, not sure what else they need me to do yet, but I'm available. Though I do have to take a run into town to get at least three of my propane tanks filled up, even though I won't be using it right away. Things are cheaper here in South Carolina, so I'm going to get whatever I can while I'm here. My list of repairs and things to do is getting longer! Anyway, settled down for the evening, got caught up on some computer work, and even managed to watch some TV now that I have a halfway decent signal, and I'm not even using their wifi! Thank goodness for that! Jo was supposed to be coming up, but her new horse Nikki got kicked by someone and she elected not to take a chance on bringing her. I'm still undecided about where to go after this, but I'm thinking McCulley Farms, just because I can get a full service site and get caught up on stuff, but I'm not sure how long to stay there. With no set schedule except December, I'm footloose and fancy free again! Just the way I like it! Won't be long out of bed, so good night, my darlin'! Love you!

Hi Babe,
Another chilly morning, as predicted, but it's supposed to be even colder the next couple of nights. Not enjoying this cold weather! I should be farther south! Spent the morning doing some research, trying to find out why my generator is leaking oil, but had too many other things to do so I dropped it for awhile. My main focus was changing the oil on the truck, which was overdue, then figured I had enough oil to also change the filter on the generator as well, even though I was ten hours early, and who knows? Maybe the leak would stop. Sorry to say, it didn't. I'll take a closer look tomorrow in daylight to see if there's any trace of where it's coming from. I do know it's not coming from the main housing, which seems to be the most popular place they leak, so more research! Got those two jobs done, then decided it was high time to straighten out my sockets in my tool drawer. I bought a new container for my many assorted screws, nuts and bolts, but held onto the old one figuring I could find something to do with it at some point, and sure enough, this was the perfect job for it! Got them nice and organized now. I ended the day spraying the horses' rain blankets with some waterproofing spray that I had bought for my rainsuit, because I had one and a half cans left, and I noticed that the blankets weren't doing a very good job at keeping them dry. It's supposed to rain tomorrow night, so I wanted to get that done, hopefully it will help. I was tempted to put their heavier blankets on, because it's going down into the 30's tonight (brrr!) and tomorrow night. I may do both blankets tomorrow, since it will be both cold and rainy. Finally settled down for the evening, figured out last night that if I turn off everything, I can run my generator and use my small space heater to warm up my bedroom area before going to bed, which is lovely, but doesn't quite stay warm through the whole night when it gets too cold. It's times like this I wonder why I restrict myself to working at endurance rides, it keeps me too far north too late in the year, though I do think it's unusually cold here right now. Oh, well, I have to take the good with the not so good! Can't wait to have electricity again so I can run my fireplace full-time! Had a nice steak dinner, heading to bed shortly. Good night, sweetheart! Love you!

Hey Darlin',
After another warm flannel night, it was nice to wake up to actual sunshine for a change. It's been gray and rainy for three solid days, so even though it was windy and a bit cooler, the sun felt good. I did some research yesterday on what could be my furnace problem, in addition to talking to Dave, a local RV mobile guy whose schedule is too busy to service me, so I had a few things I wanted to try today. It was a struggle taking the thing apart, but I finally managed it. Didn't see anything obviously wrong (that would have been too easy!), but I cleaned up everything and put it back together several times, adjusted the gap on the ignition electrodes (which I though was the main problem, plus any rust), but when I finished, it was actually worse. Instead of firing up then repeatedly turning off, now there's no spark, I can just smell the gas since it's not getting burned off. No joy fixing it, sorry to say. But it did narrow things down for me, I think. I ordered a new burner and ignition electrode and am having it sent to Broxton, so at least I'll have it there, even if I don't have time to put it in. I've reserved an electric site anyway, so I won't need my furnace, but I will have to get it done at some point. Anyway, I'm no worse off than I was before. I'm just running the generator and using the electric fireplace to warm up the trailer before going to be, but I'll still have to suffer through the cold mornings, though it does stay pretty warm in here, in this well-insulated trailer. Not getting a very good signal tonight, so watching TV has been frustrating, not even sure I'll be able to post anything tonight! Heading for bed pretty soon, need to cuddle with my flannel! Good night, babe! Love you!

Hiya Babe,
Managed to get to bed before 11:00 last night, had a good night sleep. I needed to pick up two bags of feed I ordered from Tractor Supply, as well as fill up three propane tanks, though at least one was only down a little bit, I guess because I kept thinking my furnace was low on propane, which is why it wasn't working very well, but that wasn't it. After TSC, I headed to Walmart for a few things, plus topped off with fuel. Crazy, last week I paid $2.99/gal, this week it was up to $3.47! Go figure! Got back to camp, put everything away, then did some work on the furnace, but it didn't improve. Had an otherwise uneventful day and evening, though I did have a decent, albeit intermittent cell phone signal today. So weird how it comes and goes, very frustrating! Anyway, got to bed at a reasonable hour, happy to snuggle in my warm flannel sheets! Good night, sweetie! Love you!

Hey Sweetie,
So happy and snug with my flannel sheets! I missed them, and am so glad to have them back on my bed! It rained throughout the night, and sprinkled off and on all day, so another dreary, drizzly, gray, dirty day. Sorry to say my furnace did not straighten itself out last night or this morning, so my first extracurricular chore was to look at that. Unfortunately, I never could get it working properly, despite vacuuming, blow-drying and resetting it numerous times. Since the temps here were a high of about 53 degrees, it was kind of a chilly day, inside and out. I dressed in lots of extra layers, then ran my generator for awhile so that I could use the electric fireplace to take the chill off. I remembered I had a small space heater, so I put that in the bedroom so that when I ran the generator in the evening, I could warm up the bedroom a bit. I had a hard time getting a cell phone signal again today, until finally about 4:30 I was able to get online, so I did my stuff, then managed to get the TV going for awhile. My latest series binge is Bones, which I'd never seen before but had heard of. Not bad, though I do get a little tired of all the gruesome ways that people kill other people, which is why I quit watching CSI when it started springing up in various other cities than Vegas way back in the day. Then my generator quit on my a couple of times, and I ended up having to put some oil in it, as it was the auto shutoff working. I think I have a little oil leak somewhere, it seems wet with oil, so that's another chore I need to add to my list of things to do. The horses aren't all that thrilled with being out in the rain, despite having their rain blankets on, but I kept them happy by putting out a bunch of hay several times during the day, since there's not really enough grass to satisfy them. Amazingly, when I came out in the morning, the corral gate was wide open, but they were still standing in the corral! What Good horses! Planning on going to bed early, can't wait to snuggle back up into my flannel sheets! Good night, darlin'! Love you!

Hiya Darlin',
Rain started in last night, and kept up most of the day. In between showers, I managed to get my chores done, but that was pretty much my day. Just reading, trying to watch TV but my internet was very poor and kept shading in and out on me until I finally gave up. My furnace is still not quite right. I thought I had it figured out, that it tends to not work as well when the pressure from the propane tank is down, as it worked better for awhile when I opened the next tank, but then it gave me a little problem again later, maybe air in the lines again. Kind of frustrating, not knowing if it will come on in the morning and warm up the place, but not much I can do about it. Haven't been able to do laundry with all the rain, so I just changed to my flannel sheets, which I'm so happy to have, they'll be perfect for the cold temps this week! Heading to shower and bed soon! Good night, babe! Love you!