Valentine's Day

We went out to dinner last night for Valentines Day. Today I got a heart shaped breakfast of sausage & eggs.

Tonight I had a nice dinner.

Carol had some concoction of cabbage and soy meatballs, without meat.

Saturday, February 07, 2009

A couple of days ago it was 10 degrees. Today we hit a new record high of 70. It was great. I raked leaves and sweet gum balls. The only problem is the sweet gum ball trees still have a million still on them.

I even got in a short bike ride around the subdivision.

Friday Night

Last night we went to a fellow Aliner owners house in Belleville, Il. Not only do they own an Aliner but they are the regional director's for the Aliner Owners Club and the ruling Monarch of the group known as the "Gathering Of A-Frames".




We visited, talked about Aliners, camping places, etc. We went to a great restaurant in Fairview Heights called Lotawata Creek. They advertise they are not a chain restaurant, just good southern cooking. The food was great and piled very high on the plates. There went the diet.

A very nice day

We finally had a nice sunny day in the 50's. Awesome! The 8.5" snow was melting and I was able to pull the camper out and clean the garage.

A little Snow

With the predictions of 3"-8" of snow I decided to take the day off. Why drive in the mess when I have 400 hours of vacation on the books. We only got a couple of inches so far but they say more is on the way. I dug my snow blower out of the shed last night so even with only 2" I decided to use it.

Artistic Wife

Carol took a piece of wood and made a plaque of our Aliner. She used wood carving, wood burning and painting to create this.










It sure is close to the picture that Carol used to design the plaque:

A cold Saturday

I'm always looking forward to Spring.

As I sit here today in the 20 degree weather I'm getting anxious to get the Aliner out and go somewhere. Right now it's just sitting in the garage since last October. I bought a cover because I planned on putting it outside for the Winter but that never happened.

A busy Saturday

We didn't have anything to do today so we rearranged half the house. I had one bedroom for my office and Carol had the other bedroom for her stuff. Today we switched rooms. Of course this means destroying the whole house moving stuff out of one room to make room. We stacked up stuff in our bedroom and the dining room.

I spent most of the day dealing with wires. I have too many electronic gadgets. In my office I have a TV, VCR, computer, printer, PDA, 2 cell phones, a router, modem, speakers, 2 way portable radio, emergency radio, 2 digital cameras, shredder, and more. All of this plus all the cables to connect everything, network cables, coax cables, power cables, USB cables, etc.

We bought a piece of counter top and put it on two filing cabinets to make a computer desk. I took the TV and put it in the computer cabinet.

I still have a lot of work to do. I'll be busy tomorrow.