Arrived at Retama

We arrived safe and sound at Retama on Wednesday. The trip was uneventful which is always a blessing. Only one time of a little tension in the truck when we were going through Austin but we won't go into details. Lets just say it was a quiet ride from Austin to San Antonio.

As mentioned in the last blog I have a picture to share of the RV park in West Memphis. Many of our RV friends make a point of stopping here and unfortunately it was hit hard with the flooding this spring. Here's a picture of the laundry building. All the buildings down by the river are raised
but afraid they needed to be a lot higher on this last flood.


The woman at the desk said the water was above this building. They not only had the flood to deal with but I guess a tornado went through that took a lot of the trees where the office use to be. But as I said they are back up and running.

As much as I hated leaving Michigan it sure felt good driving in the gates here. It's nice to have two locations that both feel like home when you arrive. Not a lot of people here yet but each day one or two pull in so by the end of the month there should be quite a few.

Truck ran good coming down and even better the fuel mileage was the best we've had. Larry goes by MPG, I go by CC H(credit card hit). We filled up in West Memphis (3.67) 84 gallons ($302) and we still have almost a half of tank left. This sure beat the $1000 it cost us on the way home last spring. Granted we had a few more miles of traveling but not that many. Guess the work KW did on it this summer paid off.

Today we ran to Walmart to give our fair share to the economy and while Larry washed the three inches of dirt off the car I started pulling some of the lawn furniture out of the shed. I also worked on the laundry. It's so nice having the larger washer/dryer here, especially the dryer, the one in the trailer takes forever to finish a load.

We had HH last night with the McCarrons and Jim Brunfield. David/Sue have been here all summer (they have a really nice house) so they filled us in on what's been happening. Even tho it was warm we were able to sit out on their patio.

So that's about it. Till next time................................

Pepper update:

Pepper has really taken to this retirement life of going for walks and having happy hours. She's met three new friends, Cookie who is about her size, Trip who is much taller and Trash who is a 122lb lab. I think Trash has fallen in love with Pepper and I also think the feeling is mutual. With HH at McCarrons and their yard is fenced in we were able to let her off the lease. Pepper seemed to be totally fascinated with the size of Trash's tongue and kept sticking her nose on it, maybe to see if it was real. When Trash would try to do monkey business Pepper could scoot under him. Course sometimes that wasn't the safest way to get away cause she'd get hit with that 20lb tail. Will have to get some pictures of her new boyfriend. Trip didn't want much to do with her, I'm thinking she doesn't like having a new girl in the neighborhood and all of Trash's attention was towards Pepper.

Early this morning we took her next door to the dog run before it got to hot. It's a huge area and after 15 minutes of smell checking she started chasing the ball. There is a container there with several balls and she would run after one, take it to the container and bring another one out for Larry to throw. Haven't figure out what that was about but than I'll probably (and hopefully) never understand a puppy thinking.

Who needs expensive exercise machine when you have a puppy