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Shopping and Veterinarian Issue

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:37:52 +0000

Hello! Today’s weather was beautiful. I sat out outside soaking up the sun today. Today we went to “The Loop”, it’s an outdoor plaza type mall with many stores and restaurants in one neighborhood section. We walked around and visited Kohl’s and a couple of other stores. Typical shopping day. I didn’t buy anything, I’ll wait until I get back to tax-free New Hampshire, but Mom bought two cute Capri’s. We didn’t do much else over there and came back to the RV.
I had ordered Jake some more food and treats last week from Celebration Animal Hospital (2 miles from where we are staying) and today I called them and they told me that they had ordered and received the food in the wrong size can (I thought, okay, no biggie at all) and they didn’t order the dog treats and then they tried to sell me dog treats of another brand. I pre-ordered (didn’t pre-pay) both the food and treats last week for a Thursday delivery and the conversation today over the phone with them didn’t go over too well with me. I’m pretty low key, I’m getting to old to get upset, and over the years I’ve definitely moved to be a more understanding and patient person, but when they told me that they never intended on ordering the dog treats and blew it off as I can buy the “Royal Canine” brand name from them and not the “Prescription Science” that I had ordered, well, I told them what I thought about the way they did business. Now, hang on a second, it’s not that I didn’t get what I wanted…..those dog treats can be ordered thru any veterinarian with a couple days notice…..it’s the fact they had no intention of ordering them in the first place and never told me (reason and I was told: the veterinarian office had to order the “Prescription Science” treats in bulk and they didn’t think they could sell the other packages in the bulk order) and then tried to substitute it for other brand name that they had in stock. The dog food and dog treats brand were prescribed by the veterinarian I had brought Jake to in Yuma Arizona when he was sick, and of course I want to keep him on that specific diet because of his disease of Intestinal Lymphangiectasia. The veterinarian office in Celebration didn’t even know what Jake looked like (still doesn’t) and wanted to put him on a completely different brand of dog treats?? Sorry to vent, but come on, Celebration Animal Hospital, if you are not going to order what I ask for, at least tell me so I can order it thru another local veterinarian. I can’t do much now, because we are leaving in two days and Jake gets no dog treats until he gets home. Moving on….tonight we went to dinner at Perkins, I had the soup and salad and it was delicious and enough for me. Tonight I just watched some TV and relaxed. I think tomorrow we are going to slowly and leisurely straighten up the inside of the RV for departure on Sunday morning. When you sit somewhere for a long period of time, you start to accumulate a lot of stuff. Got to find places to stash all the souvenirs! Hope you all had a good day and I’ll be back tomorrow! Night Night!

Windy and Stayed Home

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:38:30 +0000

Hi! Wow, it was windy out today. Not as windy as the Northeast got, but a little on the windy side down here. Today I woke up a little early, not sure why, guess I slept great last night or maybe it had something to do with the time change. Anyways, Jake and I sat outside this morning and watched the squirrels bounce around on the grass. Usually Jake has a “squirrel fit” and wants to chase after them all, but this morning he just sat on his doggie hammock and watched them play on the grass. I did warn him “Don’t you move” and he didn’t. For the past two days I’ve been leaving out peanuts around the big tree here on our site and the squirrels would come down and grab one and run back up the tree. Hey, it’s the simple life here and that’s what I did this morning.
I called my aunt and uncle up in Groveland and there’s a chocolate factory right down the road from them so we made plans to visit the factory on Tuesday. What else did I do today?? Let’s see….I downloaded more application programs to my Blackberry and Mom and I took Jake for a walk to Dunkin Donuts across the street. There’s a sign outside of Dunkin Donuts that said 99 cents for a medium iced tea, so I had to get one. We had a cookout today with hot dogs and hamburgers. I always like a cookout and remember that apple pie we bought at Perkins last night, yep, it’s all gone now. We finished up that pie while watching “Undercover Boss” tonight on TV. Other than that, we didn’t go anywhere, we didn’t do that much. Tomorrow is suppose to be a little windy too. We don’t have anything planned for tomorrow, but I hope to spend a lot of time outside watching the squirrels with Jake! Have a good night and I’ll be back tomorrow! Night Night!!

Perkins and Gift Store Shopping

admin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:45:21 +0000

Hello! Wow, today delivered beautiful weather. I was outside in just a t-shirt today and I took Jake for a long walk around the park avoiding the left over mud puddles in the road. We have a neighbor to our left that has one of those rain amount measuring over sized test tubes that tells how much rain we got. There’s got to be a name for that plastic measuring thing, but anyways, we got 3 1/2 inches of rain here at the campground. Everyone was out walking around today, sure was great weather. This afternoon we went to Perkins to eat a lunch/dinner around 3:30 and then Dad dropped off Mom and I on US 192 (the main street here right outside our RV park) and we walked to a couple of local gift shops. Oh, I almost forgot, at Perkins we did buy an apple pie to take home, half of it’s gone already – so delicious. So, anyways, at the gift shop I bought this pouch type bag with Florida written on it, made to hold important documents and money. It’s got the state of Florida on it with a flamingo. It’s got a zipper on the top and I’ll use it for something, not sure yet, it was only $5 dollars.
So after walking around and returning to the RV, we watched TV into the evening. Tonight we went to Old Town, 2 miles from us, they were having Classic Cars Cruise Night to see all the antique cars brought in from all over the country. They have this every Saturday, but for some reason, tonight was packed! I heard an official at Old Town say to someone that they had over “300 and something” number of antiques cars here tonight. Those cars are neat too! Yes, Jake came along with us tonight, but with the number of people there, I carried him around all night. Everyone loved him and they all thought he was so cute.
After the Cruise Night, we came back to the RV and put a knife in the apple pie. It was so good too. Melted in my tummy and almost put me to sleep! It was a simple day today. Tomorrow is Sunday and we have nothing planned. Monday or Tuesday we have some neat plans…..noooo, I can’t tell you yet . Not sure what day yet. Anyways, I would say that tomorrow will be a simple day with nothing big going on, but you know us…..something always happening! Have a good night and I’ll be back tomorrow.

My One Year Anniversary With My Significant Other…..

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:18:02 +0000

Hello! Now don’t get me wrong….I love my puppy Jake and we’ve been together for 8 years and I’ll never get bored of him or trade him in or upgrade him. He’s perfect just the way he is. But when it comes to technology and today’s electronical gadgets, well, I can’t help crave the next Ebook Reader or a new phone, or a new netbook. These are all neat tech stuff that I want and I can’t wait to get my hands on the next new gadget. And when it comes to me hanging on to a computer device for over a year, well, I must call it a “miracle milestone”. Today is my one year anniversary with my Nextel Blackberry Curve. We’ve had our moments and it’s true, this thing (that I’m typing this blog post on now) almost went sailing a few times in the past and, remember, the time back in December when I was giving it CPR on the RV floor because I needed it to work like a bad addictive drug. Yeah, when they call it “Crackberry”, they really mean CRACKberry. This is my very first Blackberry and I can’t imagine going back to a normal plain simple looking cellular phone. Ugh Today my Blackberry is working wonderful, but I’m telling ya, if they come out with a duel, or quad core in a blackberry, this thing is history. My blackberry has giving me all sorts of loving, including providing email on the go, website browsing anytime and anywhere, and application programs that make my life go as smooth as cruise control. The next device I’m looking at right now is the Verizon Mi-Fi 2200. Now this I need. This little credit card size Wi-Fi tower provides internet to up to five devices and can be use anywhere Verizon cell signal is available. It allows up to four hours of internet signal in battery life and service plans offer up to 5GB of internet browsing monthly. For those of you that want internet now, well, “now” is here.
So, enough babbling, let me tell you what I did today. I had a great day today and we did some cool stuff too. We took off and went to the Strawberry Festival in Plant City! It’s a neat strawberry themed county fair with live stock, games, rides, and big name concert headlines!! I paid $3.50 and got to make my own strawberry short cake! It was so good and everyone at the fair was super friendly! We stayed for about an hour or so….why not longer…it was 84 degrees out today! So we left there and had to cool off somewhere so we drove another 15 miles and cooled off chilling at the Hard Rock Casino in Tampa!! Yeah, it has been a while since we’ve been to a casino. I had a great time there, but wow, where did all these people come from. The place was packed!! Lines everywhere, people trying to get around each other, I was wondering if it was a holiday, but then I read in a local newspaper today that south west Florida was sitting at 13.4 percent unemployment rate and I found them all. Well, that was my day!! (And if you are doing the math for me – I lost $60 dollars today). Tonight for dinner we had a cookout here at the RV and now it’s sitcom hour and American Idol time! Have a great night and I just heard the weatherman on TV say that it’s going to down pour for the next two days straight. I’ll be back tomorrow!

RV Fender and Bob Evans

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:29:00 +0000

Hello! Today was a fun and simple day…..We went to Camping World and picked up the new fender for the Montana. Remember the one that got torn in half and one half stayed on the RV and the other half decided to say “Bye Bye” on I-10 in Texas when we had the tire blow out. Well, we ordered the new fender and it came in yesterday, so we took Jake and headed over to pick it up. Perfect, exact piece too, straight from Indiana. Since we were out and about we wanted to find a place to enjoy lunch, but were bored with the typical Perkins and Dennys, so as we drove down US 192 we saw a restaurant we never been to before : Bob Evans Restaurant. Fast food? Buffet? Counter order or is there waitresses and waiters in there?? No ideas, so we stopped in and checked it out. Wow, neat place, we had a chirpy friendly waitress and we browsed over a menu that had quite a bit to choose from. I went with the Chicken Pot Pie -yummy! I don’t think we have that restaurant back home. Going to have to look in our connecting states! After lunch we came back to the RV and installed the new plastic fender – looks great!! Good to go! Tonight we went to Bingo here at the RV park which I love and now I’m relaxing watching TV with Jake. These days are going a little fast and I don’t like that too much. We are all doing great in Kissimmee, Florida! Have a great night and I’ll be back tomorrow…..

Relaxing, Nascar, and Perkins

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:27:55 +0000

Hello! Today I slept in a little late and relaxed outside most of the morning with Jake. Jake just loves his new hammock. He stretched out and enjoyed the hammock as I read my magazine in the sun. Speaking of the sun, I can see that the temperature is rise outside everyday and it will be up in the high 70’s later this week. I’ll be sitting outside more and more often this week.
This afternoon I watched some TV and watched the Nascar race. We were waiting for the Nascar race to end to go out to eat and I’m glad we held out for the race to end because there were some intense crashes in Nascar today. After the race, we went to Perkins (I know, I know, we are addicted to this place) and we broke down and bought another pie to bring home for the week. Yes, for the week because it will not last that long. Delicious french silk pie. Oh, yum! When I’m done with this blog posting I’ll be getting myself a slice of that pie. Tonight we are watching the 82nd Academy Awards! This show is taking up my usual Sunday night show of Undercover Boss. I love the show Undercover Boss – I’ll have to catch it next Sunday night.
Other than that, it’s been a nice relaxing day and I’m excited that we have another two weeks here. Tomorrow we are off to Cape Canaveral. I can’t wait to tell you all about it tomorrow. Off to get my jammies on and get a blanket and get comfy with Jake to watch the rest of the Academy Awards! Have a great night!

Yard Sale and Lobster Pizza

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:46:35 +0000

Hello! Well, the title gives it all away but let me get into detail about my day today! This morning we drove the 3 miles west and went to Celebration, Florida where the small town was having their town yard sale. We brought Jake and walking around from house to house looking at their sale items on the sale walk in front of the homes. I’m not really a yard sale person, don’t really have experience in finding a bargain in second hand goods, but we had a good time. After combing over all the yard sale items, we walking around the center of town where there is a big pond, movie theatre, post office, bank, etc. This little town has these little vehicles residence use called “NEV” which means “Neighborhood Electric Vehicles”. To me it looks like a cool golf cart on steroids….it has four seats all facing forward (we had a golf cart and the rear bench seat faced the back), anyways, it has a windshield, a roof, and it was neat looking. Wait a minute, I’ll find you a website to these things since I can’t upload photos. http://nevportal.com/members_gallery/NEVs1.php that website should help with what I’m talking about And they have meters on the side of the street where you parallel park these NEVs and you pay the meter and plug the “car” into the meter to charge them up. They are so neat!!
After exploring the town of Celebration, we came back to the RV and turned the TV on only to be faced with the food network talking about pizza. So, Jake curled up on the couch and we went out of pizza for a late lunch. We were trying to decide on a pizza place and pulled into Pizza Hut and right next door to Pizza Hut is Red Lobster so I suggested Lobster Pizza! Yummy! It was so good. I wouldn’t mind having that once a month.
As for the rest of the afternoon, I took Jake for a long walk around the park and watched TV for the rest of the night. Movie, sitcom, cop show, and now AMA pro motorcycle racing at the Daytona race track is on TV. So, this is how I end my night. Oh, I have to say that I did sit outside for a while today and Jake loves his new hammock that I bought him at Camping World this week. He was in that hammock for at least a half hour until he spotted a cat and I had to bring Jake back inside for a little while until the cat left. He still gets all excited about a cat and wants to take off after it. I swear he will never learn. But all in all, it was a very good day. Tomorrow we aren’t going far as Nascar is on TV, but I’m sure we will go out to eat. I’ll let ya know! Have a good night and enjoy your weekend!

Hanging Out

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:49:24 +0000

Hi! I’m typing this blog post from outside the RV! I’m sitting in the lawn chair outside looking at the blue sky and it’s 77 degrees out. Where’s my freeze time button?? If I could stop time right now…..
This is perfect weather and I have friends that are texting me from New Hampshire saying that there is a foot of snow on the way. I said, “Where?? I don’t see any snow.” They said, “Here in New Hampshire, Dummy.” I said, “Ohhhhhh.” Heehee…..I wonder if they will text me anymore??
Well, my cousin and her husband stopped by. It was so nice to see them. We sat around and chit chatted for a while and then we went out to eat at Applebee’s for lunch. I wish I had their luck! They fly into Orlando and had an economy car reservation waiting for them. They get to the rental car counter and they don’t have any economy cars available to give them, so they give them a convertible corvette…….some people have all the luck! So, it was so nice for them to stop by. I hope to see them again soon. So now I are sitting outside at the RV and I have to tell you what happened this morning. I, certainly, wasn’t impressed at all……
My little Maltese is a curious little bugger. And he’s been looking out the window at the cat next door. Well, he went out this morning to do his duties and found the cat under our pickup truck. Jake got a little too close to the cat and the cat turned and scratched his face. Yep, scratched my little puppy’s face. Well, he’s got a scratch mark between his eyes and nose and I stopped the bleeding and he lost fur around that area and now it’s getting a little swollen. I will monitor the damage thru the night and see how Jake does. He’ll be fine and I think he learned his lesson. Well, I’m not sure about learning his lesson, but we shall see. I really think his pride got the worst of it! He didn’t even cry, I think he was in too much shock to cry.
Other than that, everything else is quiet. We are just going to relax tonight. Have a good night!

Jake’s Slot Machine

admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:55:09 +0000

Hi! I’m so excited about this blog posting and I’ll explain the title in a minute, but I wanted to tell you what we did last night first. Wow, was it busy on the Las Vegas Boulevard last night. We took the bus down to Treasure Island Casino (not far, two casinos south of us, but was still far enough to take the bus)…….

Inside Treasure Island Casino, they have always been motorcycle/chrome themed! Take a peek……

So if you want to win a bike, go to Treasure Island. Next door to Treasure Island is the Mirage Casino, home to the infamous erupting of the volcano right outside. Very neat. I didn’t see the volcano go while we were there…..I think it’s every hour or every half hour or so.

They are beautiful waterfalls outside the Mirage Casino too!

Okay, next up, the Wynn Casino. Steve Wynn built two towers, the first tower called Wynn opened in April 2005 and his Encore tower opened last winter (we went to the opening of Encore last winter). I’ve never seen this huge Tiger before……

Okay, this is where I’m going to get a little hyper on ya! I have a little dog. He’s a pure breed Maltese, he turned 8 years old on Jan 10th (he’s a Capricorn) and he weighs 8 pounds. I’ve had him since he was 12 weeks old. He’s my little buddy, so this is what he looks like……this is not a picture of last month or last week, I came home last night and took this picture before uploading the pictures on the laptop last night…….

Ha! You can tell I’m holding a treat above the camera by the look in his eyes!

Anyways, the reason why I’m showing you a picture of Jake is because when I was at the Wynn Casino (and I’ve never ever seen this slot machine in any other casino at all), this is what I stumbled upon………

I don’t care if they kicked me out of that casino, I was determined to get a picture of this slot machine. Isn’t that too cool!! Jake’s got his own slot machine. Well, as much money as I put into all the slot machines, he should have his own slot machine! Ha! You should of saw me when I found it, I was like a little kid all excited! No, the slot machine didn’t pay out a dime to me, but that’s okay, because I’ll be going back to that slot machine to dump some more money in it so see if I can hit the Jackpot. Oh, wait, I already hit the Jackpot……I’ve got my own Maltese Fortune right here sleeping right next to meeeeee!

Have a great day and I’m not sure what we are doing tonight, but since the Miss America pageant is over (congrats to Miss Virginia), everyone should be leave Las Vegas today.

Hoover Dam

admin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:25:45 +0000

Hello! Today is a good day so far! I say so far, because it’s only 3:09pm and we’ve got so much to do and see this evening and tonight. I think we are heading down to Fremont Street tonight and on a Friday night it should be a rowdy night. Not rough or dangerous, but if you are a people watcher, it will be a hot spot.

SO! What did we do this morning? We went to visit Hoover Dam. Last winter when we were here they were starting to build a new bridge that would funnel the cars over Hoover Dam and not against it. I’ll show you a picture of a year ago and I’ll show you a picture of this year’s progression. It was so exciting to see Hoover Dam and the building of the new highway.

These are 3 pictures from last year’s (and I do mean, exactly one year ago) of the new bridge they are building….

Okay, and these following pictures are from today’s visit……

So those are the pictures of what we did today! We had a nice time there and we brought Jake along to enjoy the weather with us walking around. We didn’t walk across the dam, but we went to one of the many rest area around the dam and enjoyed the area walking around and visiting the gift shop.

I’ve got pictures of when we went out last night! Take a peek….

This is a picture of outside walking along the Las Vegas Boulevard……

Paris Casino and Hotel. I didn’t win much money in here…..think I lost about $40 bucks……

We visited the Excalibur Casino…..very neat inside, but not paying out….

New York New York Casino! Nice and simple inside with a decent food court. Great pizza here! But, didn’t payout for me last night!

The Luxor! Very nice inside. I got some pictures of inside as far as I could go with a camera!

I didn’t win any money here, but I almost won this (yeah, right!)……

So, that’s what we did last night! The only place where I made some money last night was at the MGM Grand! I won about $200 dollars. So tonight we are heading down to Fremont Street. I’m not bring a lot of money to spend, because remember Friday night thru the weekend, I really don’t think the casinos are going to pay out that much. I think I’ll be staying with the penny machines tonight. Have a good night. And I hope you enjoyed the pictures!