Back for another burger on a nice Monday

After working up and down the extension ladder all afternoon yesterday, I was more than beat by last night....  Seems I scamper right up the ladder at the beginning of these projects, but by the time its about night fall, I crawl ever so sloooowly back up after going on yet another tool run...

Then I seem to pay for all of that exuberance the next day...  Just not as spry as I once was....  And so today was a stay inside day...  I worked on the computer for much of the day and enjoyed the partially overcast day as the sun was out and bright for a while and then seemed to duck under the clouds the next minute...

We never did get any rain, which is usually true to our normal desert weather...  If we do get some, it seems to spot the car's windows but never wet the ground much....

So late in the day Loyce and I went out with the car looking for a sandwich...  Since going over to Fuddruckers with JB and Brenda the other day, I couldn't keep that fresh ground burger on its fresh baked bun out of my mind...

So even though Loyce didn't know where I was headed, I went directly over there and we had another of the smallest burgers they serve...  Of course that isn't too small as they start at 1/3 pound...

After early evening sandwich we drove around over in the near North side of Mesa around Falcon Airfield...  Seems we don't get back to some of these parts of town unless we are just wandering around...

Never started the motorscooter or left the house otherwise, but a good Monday just the same...

Retired Rod

Glad thats over with....

While I was reading all of those prior year blogs last night for December 1st, one thing struck me about those prior years....  Especially last year when we arrived here on December 1st......  It was cold and rainy..!!

For days on end it was in the early 60s for the daily high...  It dipped into the 40s each night... Even though I went back home to get the first surgery repaired the weather here in Arizona didn't improve much...

So this year we have been overwhelmingly blessed with absolutely beautiful daily weather...  Its like summer never ended here...  And the forecast while cooler here tomorrow will be back into the 80s for more time this week.

Since we are now several weeks into this unusual weather, I feel that we are tempting fate here as it is only a matter of time...  Time before the fall cool and rainy period begins...

Now keep in mind that we never get much rain all at once here in the desert but it does rain kind of off and on and the days are sometimes in the 50s for a high... And that is a lot better than back home...

But remember I had that problem with my satellite dome and had to dig out all of the rubber sealant to remount the dish... And while I went over and purchased the new rubber, I never have completed the job....  Which was wearing on me last night, when I realized the weather could turn any time now...

So that became job number one today...  Go back over and get the motorhome...  Take the dome back off of the roof and remove the brackets with their stainless steel screws..  Then reassemble the whole thing using the CA glue as a locktite type product..

After that the area of the roof needed to be cleaned with alcohol in preparation for the rubber sealant...   I didn't remove all of the old sealant, but rather used a craft knife to taper the old into the area where the brackets were reassembled...  When it comes to replacing the sealant, I don't know where to quit..  At $10 a tube, this stuff is a bit higher priced that ordinary caulking...

Doesn't take too long to describe the work, but I spent most of the afternoon at it...  But as it was getting dark, the sealant had over an hour to harden...  Of course it wasn't cured completely but it was skinned over and no longer runny, so I took the coach back over to storage...

Now it can surprise me with those muddy rains that come early in the morning anytime it wants to......  The roof is sealed back up!!!  Yay, or is it yea!!

I found this a few moments ago...


      Yay:  pronounced just like it looks, use this to express your glee over       meeting someone famous or getting your teeth cleaned.

Yea: pronounced like “yay”, but use this when you are voting in affirmation.

Yeah: pronounced like…well…I don’t know how to explain that well, but this is your casual yes. 

Well OK enough of the English lesson, but I need that every once in a while....

Retired Rod

Snow!

In the category of only in Arizona....   This afternoon I was up at Fry's grocery in Old Apache Junction and they had the streets all blocked off for what was explained to me as a Walk A Thon....

But since its never cold enough here for snow, as part of the entertainment for the kids, they have dumped a big pile of snow in the middle of the street...  I didn't find out where they got the stuff, but it was melting rather quickly as it was mid 70s outside...

The big kid in black shorts has a snow ball and his buddy in the gray shirt is about to get it....!

Eww, that's cold...  Well ya. when your in a T shirt and shorts anyway....  If you look some of the other kids are down on their knees scooping up some of the very wet stuff for projectiles of their own....  Wonder if that was what the event planners had in mind.....  But really, these kids rarely see this stuff....

I had to ask what a walk a thon was, and was told that the kids walk several miles for a pledge for each mile from their sponsors....  The schools get the money for their activities funds.....  Works for me....

Saturday is kind of my day to hang low, as all the neighbors were out working on all their weekend projects...  We seem to have a new neighbor to the South as that house has been for rent since it was built...

They were over there moving furniture all day, so I just left the garage door down..  No sense distracting them from their work, we can meet later....  The truck was a rental so I am sure it had to be returned as quickly as possible...

In reading Al's blog a few minutes ago he recapped where they had been on December 1st for the last several years, which caused me to look in our blog for what we were doing on this same day in years back...

But it was interesting that last year we had just arrived for our stay at Valle Del Oro on this day...  We had spent the night before in some very cold temperatures well below freezing in the motorhome...  That would have been at Holbrook, Az...

Its hard to believe we have already been here a month this year, missing all of that cold nasty late fall weather.....  But we do plan to go back for Christmas this year so I had better not get all exuberant about missing the cold weather.....   Even though I am sitting here in Short Pants and a T shirt.....  LOL...

Retired Rod

Looking for a carwash and tethering, not....

I hate to keep talking about the weather here but we continue to experience really nice temperatures....  Today was to be cooler but it still made it up to 73 in the middle of the afternoon..

And it is to be warmer each day until the middle of next week when we are to reach 80 again...  Sigh....  Tough duty.......  Not a rain cloud in sight....

Well with the nice weather, I decided that I needed to wash the motorcycle...  This requires a pressure washer to get the wheels and underside clean..  And I don't have one here..  Sometimes I brought one from home, but there wasn't much room this fall..  For the added weight.. I'm sure I could have shoehorned it in though...

But that's easy just go to a car wash.....  But looking on line, they were all auto drive thru types... How do you find a wand wash when you want one...?  I'll just ride up into the old part of Apache Junction, there'll be one up there some where............   Wrong...

I rode and rode up and down all the suspect streets and never did find such an animal...  I wonder if wand washes are so out of favor that they have all been closed...???  I came home and searched the internet again but didn't find anything...  Perhaps some of my fellow Arizona bloggers know where they are hidden...

That left me outside with a bucket and a soapy sponge...  And even though the temps were very nice, that sun bears down on you, making me leak sweat.....  I couldn't keep my glasses on my face....Yuk...

And it was a rather slow process, as the water leaves all those water spots...  So it all needs wiped off before it dries......  And the underside is still just as dirty as before....

So when I finished that project,  I was hot and disappeared inside to work on the the new little android transformer tablet.....  I was trying to see what it would take to tether the phone to it as an internet source....  At first I thought it would need to be wired with a cord, so I drove way over to Fry's Electronics in West Tempe...

Finally I whomped up a cable to connect the two....  But once home it obviously wouldn't work.....  Studied some more and decided to use the bluetooth option.... And several hours later I did get them connected after using a couple of different downloaded apps...

And I thought I had it too.... but..... I learned that the tablet was secretly connected to a distant neighbor's wifi...  Its wide open and just named linksys, like it came from the factory....

I read that there is some file that I might be missing....  But then they said the nasty words that I might have to root the operating system to install it.....  Nah, more study before we do that....   Tomorrow.....  or maybe not...

Retired Rod