February 15, 2022

Well, we were there until the end of the week. First thing Monday morning at 6:30 am, I was outside walking the dogs when they showed up to remove our windows. We started with 6 being removed but added a seventh. They would remove the entire window and frame, then tape plastic wrapped cardboard over the opening. This made the inside of the RV very dark, but it was effective. Although temperatures at night would drop into the 20's, it didn't get too cold, and it kept the rain out of the RV. 

Within an hour we were enveloped in darkness, which we mostly stayed in all week. We streamed a lot of TV shows. The T-Mobile Home Internet we have provided good signal all week. During the week we watched RVs come and go, as they had fewer windows to repair. Their priority is the fewer windows to repair the sooner you get fixed. As I would walk the dogs during the week, I had to be careful not to have them walk on broken glass fragments or razor blades. They use the latter to cut through the seals around the windows but then apparently toss them on the ground. During the week I picked up 17 blades.

So there we sat until 7AM on Friday morning. They came and reinstalled the 7 windows,  but we had bad news. Of the 14 panes of glass which comprised the outer layer of the windows, 11 were so badly etched that they had to be replaced, of course, at additional cost. Further, they only had enough glass in the tint required to replace 8 panels. They had to order more, requiring us to schedule another time to go back and have 3 windows removed, replaced, and then reinstalled.  This will take place the first week of March. 

Friday at 10am we left Hudson and arrived at Fiesta Grove RV Resort in Palmetto at 11:30 am. We spent the rest of the day setting up and scoping out the area. We called Arthur (cousin) and Helen and arranged to visit them on Saturday. We both took covid antigen tests to ensure we were safe and wouldn't be spreading anything. We expected to be negative, and we were.We joined them for lunch and dinner and had a great visit with them. So great that we met them again on Sunday for another great visit. Monday, Valentine's Day, we called them and we met and went out for dinner nearby to celebrate the day.

Tomorrow,  Wednesday, we are meeting  them at Richard (brother) and Joanne's rented home to go swimming and have dinner. Earlier this week Richard declared himself a snowbird, never wanting to remain again up north during the winter. 

And this ends this weeks entry.

Sunday, February 6, 2022

This week we relaxed in the campground. The place was nice, only about 10 sites so far. It was strange, however.  The way the sites are set up everyone  has to drive over grass to get to their concrete slab.

Two days ago we drove to a bonsai (bone-sigh) shop and looked around. Beautiful plants. Here are some:

And my favorite 

Nancy spotted that little frog in one of the trees. We left with two plants, a juniper tree for a gift, and a fukien tea plant (from China) for ourselves.

Fuel in Florida is expensive. In some places it is over $5/gallon. When we left this morning the price in town was $4.21/gallon. Luckily we have a fleet card for the RV (no, not an enema card, a card that is owned by an organization,  namely Nancy & I. It provides us a discount,  in this case we saved $0.43 per gallon). 

We departed this morning at 8:27 am CST and drove 277 miles to Hudson, Fl, arriving at 2:50 pm EST, which included two driving breaks. The weather was cloudy and misty but we made good time, considering all the little towns we drove thru.

Tomorrow we will be awoken at 6:30 am for the window repair guys to begin the process of recreating a vacuum and resealing 6 of our double pane windows. We were told we may be here til the end of the week. Will let you know next week.