Time Odometer Notes Photos 09/25/2017 7:17 am 194243 Left house in Springfield, MO 7:27 am Stopped at Battlefield & 65 to air up the tires 7:35 am Got on HWY 65S, then 60E 8:23 am 194288 Stopped in Mansfield for fuel (15.4 mpg) 8:33am Back on HWY 60E …
Our rental property is in between tenants and that means there’s work to do. This time, we aren’t doing all the work ourselves and have asked for help. Good folks like Queen City Disposal dropped off a dumpster so that we could fill it up with stuff left by the last tenants. Stuff like a …
This weekend was a four-day holiday and should have been relaxing. But, nooooo! For at least six months, Gayla had “clean out shed” on the calendar. There was no avoiding the job. It’s on the calendar and the weather was perfect (darn it!) Not only did we need to clean out the shed, but …
The elusive humpback green turtle made it up many mountain passes over the past few days and has gone many, many miles. We’ve been keeping watch, and although the temperature gauge would creep up a bit while idling, it quickly returned to normal. It wasn’t acting quite right, but we didn’t see anything wrong under …
This week, Gayla and I had a longer trip to St. Louis than we anticipated. I work with The Band Special 20 from time to time and they were appearing on Fox 2 News on Wednesday morning. Gayla and I decided to head up from Springfield to St. Louis on Tuesday afternoon so we could …
Although we like our Alfa, after living in it for a while, we find ourselves wanting to do a few personal touches here and there. One thing that we’ve changed recently has been our bathroom faucet. There wasn’t anything wrong with the original one, except we didn’t care for the style. We had been on …
I was checking out the awnings today and found the sealant over the doorway awning was cracked and in need of replacement. I got my handy razor blade tool out and began the job of removing all the cracked sealant. Once removed, I found that there were a ton of leaves wedged in there. It …
What an eventful day. This is going to be our last weekend in Colorado for quite some time and we wanted to make sure we did some more sightseeing, but where to go? We finally decided on going back to the Rocky Mountain National Park since it was free National Park weekend. The last time we …
