Summer slow down....

I haven't given up blogging, but we seem to go out on the motorcycles to yet another restaurant 40 miles away...  And I think you are tired of me reporting that all the time....

Biscuit had her hair cut and acted all goofy for several days, but now she is back to not remembering her longer hair...  And that is good because we have broken into the 90s for every day this last week....  Not that she stays outside very long, but at least it is a summer cut for her....

I have been again fighting with financial institutions as they learn of Loyce's passing....  They immediately shut my accounts down and make me go without a bank account....  The brokerage shut down one of my credit cards and the bill paying service right over the 4th of July.......  Grumble........ Grumble........

The local folks make a big deal of it, but the national people in their company could care less, if some little guy is without his money.....  It will get fixed when it gets fixed...................

So that gets me into a bad mood, and then I don't feel like writing, in case that attitude leaks out.....  Or pours out......  I don't like to write a rant...

We have a large motorcycle trip planned next week, so that should be fun.... But then when I went to look on the calendar, it is the same day as the trip to the doctor's office.......

Hope that goes well and I get out of there timely...   Need to be on the road before noon.....  I'll report how that one goes when the time comes.....

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer...

Retired Rod

Why is it so hot in here?

Just a quick little story to let you know I am still alive and well.....  As you know, we rode the motorcycles down to the lake of the Ozarks...  It was a really nice day...

But of course on the way back it was raining all morning and then the storm split into two blobs on the radar and we rode right thru the middle of them.... Nary a drop...  But it was in the high 80s with both the humidity and the temps....  So it wasn't all that nice....

We rode on just like it was 65..  But in the process, it takes over three hours to make the trip... I was a tad dehydrated when we got home....

When Biscuit and I retired to our bedroom, it was hot up there.  We had turned up the AC while we were gone..  And even though we turned it back down, you know how two story houses never catch up in the upper story...

Well I have the portable AC that we often put in the motorhome...  In the bedroom, just to help out...  When we left, I opened the window and pulled in the hot air hose..  Then locked the window...

And of course last night in the dark, I forgot that fact...  Turned the unit on and went to bed...  I awoke at about 2:30 AM, only to find my room at about 130 degrees.....  Seems the hot air going out the exit hose is way more than the cool air coming thru the louvers...

So in the middle of the night, I am standing in the open window trying to center the hose and its window plugs and get the window back down on it just so....  In my underwear to boot...  Not sure anyone would have been watching at that dark hour...   But hey who knows.....?

It did cool off fairly quickly once the hot air was on the outside of the house.....  I guess that hot motorcycle ride effected me more than I originally thought.....  LOL

Retired Rod

Its the mid summer holidays!!

Happy Fourth of July!!!

We are at Lake Ozark celebrating the holiday....   It seems somewhat empty without Loyce, but we have to move along and accept reality...

My son Ben and I rode the motorcycles down here on Wednesday after loading our suitcases into the back of his SUV... His wife Danielle and the grandkids came with that SUV... oh and Biscuit the dog as well...

It was a cool day in the mid 70s which made for nice riding...  And we thought we rode right along, but Dani was here waiting for us when we got here...  We took the two lane back roads, while she drove the divided highway for most of the trip...

We thought it might be safer on the two lane roads, but even then we came around a corner to find some workers driving a Bob Cat bucket loader with rubber tracked wheels at about 3 miles an hour down the center of the road...  It was being followed by a single pickup with its flashers on....  

Your mind does a double take, as you realize that the truck is going sooooo slow.....

It was about 80 this afternoon, and the kids were out in the lake... I rode up town for a sandwich while they played....

I hope you are enjoying your holiday, where ever you may be this week end....

Retired Rod

Canada Day

Happy Canada Day  !!!


To all of my Canadian Friends and readers that I haven't had the opportunity to meet........

Retired Rod