EXTENDED WARRANTIES…GOOD IDEA?

Tuesday, January 10 – Paul has been talking with Rick, a friend here at Leisure Valley, about extended warranties for the motor home. Rick blew a turbo charger on his MH last summer in Oregon, and it was an expensive repair. Fortunately, he has an extended warranty and most of the cost was covered by the insurance company.

With a big trip planned for this summer to Oregon and Washington, Paul is considering purchasing an extended warranty for our MH. It's a long way and will be our first trip in the Rockies! We usually aren't interested in purchasing extended warranties, but one of Paul's biggest concerns while traveling is a major breakdown. If purchasing the extended warranty would increase his enjoyment of traveling the big mountains and beyond, it might be worth it.

What do you think? Do you have an extended warranty on your RV? Have you found them worth the expense? Are they comforting? Decisions, decisions, decisions!

Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see y'all back real soon. Hope you have a great day!

BACK TO THE '60s and '70s

Friday, January 6 – .....We got all dressed in our hippie clothes tonight to attend the 60s/70s Dance at the Leisure Valley Ranch Activity Center. Our friends Lynn and Mike Murphy are the DJs, and we are going with a large group of friends we met last year.

Of course, Marsha volunteered us to be in charge of the popcorn machine. We arrived about 30 minutes early to get a supply of corn popped so it would be ready to go as people arrived. It's really not too big of a job. We only had to pop corn 2 or 3 times during the night. It's a self serve item, so all be had to do was watch when the popcorn was getting low and run over and put some more in the machine to pop.

Yes, that is our sign leaning against the machine. Marsha just thought it was a hoot to have a sign saying, "Make Love Not War."

We enjoyed dancing to the tunes from the past and visiting with many of the friends we made last year here in the Rio Grande Valley.

Carol, Angie, Marsha and Paul

We did make it to second place in the costume contest. We got beat out by Wilma & Fred Flintstone. They had an advantage over us. They own a lot here in Leisure Valley and had the hometown crowd supporting them. Here is a picture of  the winners. Now you be the judge.

Marsha participated in the paddleball contest.



Guess what...she won! Here she is thanking the crowd for voting for her.

What a talented gal. Every holiday, Marsha buys those paddleball toys for the girls, and they laugh at her. I guess it's there responsibility to become experts, like their mom, and carry on the family tradition of winning a trophy for paddleball. Now where are we going to display this humungous trophy....LOL

For those of you who would like to read what is engraved…I mean…written on the trophy.

Paul entered the YoYo contest but was eliminated early. Being an expert Yo Yo competitor, he found it difficult to compete with the el cheapo YoYos picked-up at the Dollar Store. Guess he'll have to bring his championship YoYo to these Oldies Dances in the future......Ha Ha!!!

One of Paul's good friends is Mike, the DJ. They look like hippie brothers!!

The highlight of the evening was a spontaneous “sit-in” in the middle of the dance floor. The DJ's were shocked! “What are these darn senior citizen Hippies doing sitting in the middle of the dance floor?” The bouncers were called to break-up the peaceful demonstration. Paul remarked, “It's a good thing the bouncers came to help us up off the floor.”

The dance continued without further interruptions to the bewitching hour of 9:30 pm. After cleaning-up the Activity Center, it was time for all the old hippies to head home to bed!

Saturday, January 7 - After a bike ride around the RV Park this morning, we did a little house cleaning this morning. We decided to go through the basement of the MH and clean-out anything we haven't used in a while. They have park-wide garage sales here periodically, and we can sell off things we don't need. Surprisingly, we didn't find too much that we don't use. Now that's a shocker!!! We did put some things in the shed, and we did eliminate one plastic storage bin, but Paul thought we would be getting rid of much more than we did.

It was an amazing beautiful day. The temperature was in the low 80's, the sun was shining, there was no wind, and the sky was a beautiful blue. Marsha took advantage of the afternoon and relaxed in the sun. Paul met some guys and played Pickleball. If you're not familiar with Pickleball, it's like tennis for old farts. You play it with paddles similar to large ping pong paddles, a wiffle baseball, and a very small court (approximately 20 X 40 feet). Playing partners, you don't kill yourself and you get a good workout.

This evening, we went over to Angie & Rick's new house for happy hour. We helped them move into their beautiful new house just a week ago. They also invited two friends that just arrived yesterday. Thanks for a great time you two!

Joe, Jane, Angie, Rick

One thing for sure, there is never a dull moment here in the RV Park. If you want something to do, there is plenty of things to get involved in or you can just relax and enjoy the great weather.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see ya'll back real soon. Have a great day!

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL

Monday, January 2 – The Verizon installation man arrived as scheduled this afternoon to install a satellite dish on our covered RV pad. Due to the fact that we are parked under a roof for the first time, our automatic roof satellite dish will not connect to the signal, so we have to get a dish mounted on the shelter.

Let me tell you, if you are ever in a similar situation, don't try to explain to your satellite provider that you live full-time in an RV and you need a “temporary” dish installed. They just can't fathom that situation....LOL.  We must have been passed between a half dozen different operators before we gave up. On advice of our new landlord, we finally called back and just told them we moved and need a dish installed on our new place.

They were so happy to have us as a customer in our new location, they easily set an appointment for an installer to attach the new dish at no charge. Our landlord wanted to keep the old Dish Network satellite for future renters, so he now has two dishes on the RV shelter, a Dish Network and a DirectTV Network dish. Future renters just need to connect the TV wire to which ever satellite service they need.

It was then time to sit back and watch the BCS Bowl games for the remainder of the day. We did pry ourselves out of our chairs for an evening walk around the park. We are enjoying nice weather with highs in the upper 70's and lows in the 50's. The orange, lime, lemon and grapefruit trees are doing awesome. They taste as good as they look!

Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see ya'll back real soon. Have a great day!