Sharon - Busy, Busy, Busy

August 3,2012, Day 40

Today was a big day for Sharon.  Started out with an early morning Breakfast with Marcia at
Chef Geoff's.  She and Marcia then went to Dahlia, in the Hotel McCall for pedicures and from what I hear had a great time, two hours worth.  Marcia got familiar with Sharon's Iphone and I can see a smart phone in her future (hint to Franz). After the pedi, they went a did some errands around town.

I had a late breakfast at The Pan Cake House after riding my Bike there.  Two eggs over easy and ham.  Back at the RV I washed the outside windows as they had picked up quite a bit if dirt in our travels. 

Sharon returned for a short rest before we took off for a late lunch at Shore Lodge. What a great place with a great view, good service with good food. Everyone seems to enjoy themselves here.

Then it was off the the golf course at 5 with Skip and Bev, for the Friday evening special. Golfing in the evening was fun. Sharon finished, Bev hit some good shots, Skip did not play up to his potential and I had two chip ins.

Sharon and I had happy hour when we returned around 7:30, fixed her a Mexican Martini. We had hot dogs for dinner , with no fine wine, Coors Light please.

Please check out the picture of the new closet we had installed in the RV; I think it will hold most of our stuff and maybe a little more.

Foxes in the Park

August 2, 2012, Day 48

Today was a do nothing day, Nada, Zip, Zero. for me.  Sharon did all the work today, washing.

Hung around and watched a little Olympic tennis in the morning, read and enjoyed the cool day.

We did have happy hour, can't miss that, some lamb on the grill and a nice red wine.

After dinner the foxes came out.  They are very calm and seem to enjoy being around the park, getting little morsels of food.  One of the permanent campers feeds them marshmallows, it looks like they are carrying golf balls.

After the Foxes went away for the evening a full moon came out.

Another perfect day.

Where Has This Month Gone

August 1, 2012, Day 47

Happy Birthday Gretchen.

Where has this month gone, it seems such a short time ago that we left Austin and now we need to start thinking about heading back at the end of the month leaving this cool weather behind.

I need to mention the weather we have had here, it has been perfect for enjoying outdoor activities.  We have only had one rain and that was a few weeks ago and it was at night while sleeping.  Other than that there has been no interruption due to weather in the things we have wanted to do.  Hope it holds out for the rest of the month.

Today was tennis day.  Started out riding our bikes to tennis at the High School courts in McCall.  There is a local group that we have gotten into that plays on Monday's and Wednesday's.  It was another mile stone for me today, I held serve at love.  But, I continued to let my partners down, I hope they still keep letting me play, maybe if I bring new ball it would help.  The bicycle is a good means of transportation to the tennis courts and the down town area as there is a good bike trail that runs from the RV park.

After tennis we went to My Father's Place for some refreshment, Franz said he would by, but when we got there he only had enough money for his treat, bummer. 

In the evening we had Happy Hour at Franz and Marcia's, I abstained, as tennis clinic was at 6PM.

At the tennis clinic, at the High School courts there were about 10 people, a real good size of group, and we work for about and hour and a half with the ball machine on cross court returns and volleys.  A real nice work out.



Back at the RV park I cooked up some dead chicken on the grill, one for tonight and one to save for grilled chicken salad in the future.  Some nice white wine, corn on the cob, made for a great meal.

Did Not See the Blue Field again

July 31, 2012, Day 46

Today was our trip to Boise/Meridian, we did not make it Boise so we didn't get to see the Blue Field again.  After we left the park we stopped for breakfast at Grand Ma's in Cascade.  They are doing some road construction on Main Street and people have been complaining about how long they are held up with the one lane road, for us after breakfast it was only a three minute wait.

Made it to Meridian around noon to visit my cousin Joanne James and her Husband Otis.  Joanne is the oldest of my Dad's sister Margaret's three children.  Joanne is 80, hope she doesn't mind me telling her age, which makes her about 10 years older than me.  They have a very nice home, in a sub division out in the country.  We have a great visit and nice lunch and we got to meet her two great grandsons, who she was looking after during the day.  Her husband Otis has a lot of interests centered around his shop and collections of cars, guns and other stuff.

After our visit we had to make our stops at Walmart and Costco to fill the shopping lists from our RV friends.  We also stopped at the state run Liquor Store, to replenish our supplies of Grey Goose and Irish Whisky.

On the way back our stop in the Cascade road construction was a little longer but not a big problem.

We got back around 7PM, delivered our purchases and then went to Dinner at Toll Station, cold beer and a small Pizza, hit the spot.Back at the RV is was desert, a little Olympics and hit the hay.

Boo No WiFi

July 30, 3012, Day 45

Another day with out WiFi at our site, so I decided to go to the Office/Lodge and try to do my blog on the Ipad, it was some what successful but I made some adjustments to it today by adding a couple of pictures from the golf course and re-formatting a little.  It took me most of the morning to get that done.

Paid our electric bill for the month, it was $44, we thought that was a bargain as we ran the AC almost every day.

We went to lunch lunch with Franz and Marcia at Notch 8, don't know what the name means but the sandwich was good, as well as the pint of Guinness. (According to Franz, Notch 8 restaurant is an old RR station. Evidently the old trains had a lever that adjusted for speed when moved into notches, with the fastest speed attained when in notch 8. That was told to me by a local yokel.)

Finally got WiFi back in the early afternoon and now I can start to catch up on emails and blogs.



Happy Hour at Franz and Marcia's, Steak on the grill, and finished the CH Lot 300, which was a nice wine.