wow ,,,<br /><br />aren&#39;t you all up and at it this morning.. i couldn&#39;t sleep till 3am... i really dislike not working.. its the pits.. my time clock is all off.. put some applications out there so we will see.. i can&#39;t sit around and wait for them to call me back....<br /><br />ok it cold here too its was 59 this morning .. LOL sorry i just had to say that.. to me thats cold.....OMG 15 Maria ... gezzz i would be like a bear and not see me till spring ....it rained all day and most of the night.. we got about 2 inches of rain... ya know mother nature as a werid thing with southern california...<br /><br />Gary called and says hes coming home... hes cold and it rained out there and all the sand is wet he can&#39;t dig... he said he found a couple good nuggets this time...( if i forgot to tell you he goes out to his claims in the desert and digs for gold ).. hes found a nice little bit from time to time...<br /><br />JOey heheheh you come up with some funny things... that sure made me think  about how i was able to rewrap very well...<br /><br />Sue.. i am waiting for Pappy to look at you one morning and say no way.. LOL glad ya got the tree done...<br /><br />WE have a little section of town called little italy with deli&#39;s , restaurants.... etc .. so we don&#39;t have much problem with good italian..or good mexican food...great chinese...we have alot of great places... <br /><br />Steve your house sunds like me.. with animals .. my dad had an arfican gray.. TODY.. omg he was mean...but he did enjoy his shotglass of beer on the weekends.. he would open his cage and come say HELLO iTS ME...and then get up on the back of the chair and just talk talk talk... this one time my Grandma was visiting and shes very christian woman... he was sweeping up around his cage.. and said some very choice words to my grandma and she came running out to the kitchen.. &quot; saying OH MY OH MY did you hear  what that bird called me and and told me to ********...( i dad was navy ya know what words i mean )..I took everything my mom and dad and me had to not laugh at her.... my dad did make a show and tell him dang Tody shut up with that... he would laugh at my dad when he would get yelled at <br /><br />Thanks for that thought Steve i had forgotten about that memory with my dad and grandma...<br /><br />Sheryl... click on the RV jorunal on jackies post and check out the log for her trip to afica, with pic&#39; you will enjoy the reading .<br /><br />Jackieeeeeeeeeeeeee ya glad you home safe and your trip logs w/ pic&#39;s have been wounderful.../When you said you werew going to south afica, i didn&#39;t know that had csmps with that kinda of lodging.. or is it because it is a national park... if i ever do traveling over there that seems to be the way to go.. the pic&#39;s are wonderful .. i jsut love the wildlife...i love the leopard..i will be traveling there one day...i think of you every time i make my peri peri chicken... that has become Gary&#39;s fav dish.. i found the spice on line<br /><br />well thats about it.. i made a big pot of minstrone yesterday gave some to the neighbor&#39;s that both work and thought it was cold they would like that and not have to cook...so thats dinner tonight...<br /><br />tomorrow is sams club to get all the stuff for making the cookies ...walnuts, pecans flour etc etc... i make my own vanilla so i never have to buy that...i have to great my lane cake started here pretty soon.. it has to soak ( oh ya bourbon nevet tasted so good ) you make the cake and then cheesecloth with bourbon over it,, then ever so often ya splash it LOL so by christmas its oh yaaaaaaa. its an old old recipe ...<br /><br />wow i was just typing and typing today thatd enough<br /><br />Tonia<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />