a word about my aunt peggy

My aunt Peggy is a very special lady, She found out a few yrs ago that she had breast cancer. She went through treatment and beat it. Matter of a fact (if I remember this right) We took off and went for a road trip after she had her treatments. Peggy her husband me and my girlfriend at the time and my sister, we drove to vegas. That will have to be another story though. lol anyway, a few yrs ago peggy found out she had breast cancer again, this time she had to have a mastectomy. She didnt hardly even slow down, She is one tough bird!! :O) Everything thing was good for a while and then the bad news again. She went through another mastectomy. Now she is in remission again. Why am I telling you all this? Because I love her and respect her greatly!!! She tells you like it is if she cares for you and I guess thats where I get it from :O) She is being honored down in council grove tonight for being a surviver. She will be walking for awareness for cancer. I thought that I would help get her story out here for you all to read and to know just alittle bit about a great person. I also want to tell you about her husband :O) who has stood by her through this whole thing. He is a really good person too, ( I really shouldn't be saying that because now he will think that I like him :O) ) they both a great people and I love them both. Just wanted to tell you all about a couple of great people and they are my friends. :O)

Hmmm

I really need to learn to keep my mouth shut about my opinions!! Seems like all I do is really really piss people off when I tell them the truth that they do not want to hear.. And then .. oh well, you can lead a horse to water but you cant make him drink, Not even if you jump on the dumb asses head and keep it submerged!!! Just need to keep things to myself and when they get to bitchn the "poor me song" tell em not to complain to me, I don't want to hear it..... The hell of it is that "they" seem to think that everyone is totally stupid or something because of the dumb ass reasoning that "they " try to make people swallow and believe!!! I imagine that "they" will read this and be even more pissed off but oh well!!! I am tired of watchn the bull shit merry go round.
sorry all, had to let some steam off... In other news, It is getting very close to the launch date for this excursion :O) Just putting the small final finishing touches on things. going to hit the road locally for a short trip or too. Head to a lake and set up for a evening or a day, do some more touching up and then move to another lake, do some more touching up and then I am outta here :O) Really getting anxious to be going. Welll, going to get off here and do some more work. :O) later all.

wtf!

Sorry, had to get that out of the way. As some of you may remmeber, I had a rat problem in the rv awhile back. Got the rat, thought life was good. Fixed all the damage done by the rat, pretty much all new wiring in rv, all new wire on the motor , all new wires for the brake tail and turn signals. You name it I had to splice it or replace it. SO all that done I drove the rv into town to my moms old place and survived the winter. Well, the otherday I was running some new wires for my batteries in the trailer, was laying under the camper and out of the corner of my eye I saw movement from the front of the rv by the motor compartment. I layed still for a while and much to my surprise and horror, a no good rotten nasty assed rat ran from behind the rock wall up into the motor compartment with what looked like nestiong material!!!
shimied out from under and poped the hood and sure enough!!! RAT NEST BEGINNINGS!!
I jumped into the rv grabbed the 22 rifle and layed back down under the rv and waited. Sure enough, there he was. little whiskeers adn beeding eyes... Now before any of you get to feeling sorry for the nasty little wire chewing pooping peeing stinkn damn thing, I dont kill needlessly or for the "pleasure" of it. I really dont. But let me tell you that after finding wirers chewed off again and having too clean poop and rat pee up yet again, I must admitt that I did find a strange pleasure in taking the agressor out Rambo Style lol
SOOOOO, I am going to town today to get some more new plug wires so I can drive the rv again. Think i might make me a rat trap holder for under the hood and install a rat trap permenantly just for any future invasions.
Does anyone elsew have problems with rats under the hood?

Bed

well, Dont know how to tell you all this but the aerobed meet a untimly death.... I woke up for the last time the night before last to find that the mattress had let me down yet again... (litterally) :O) went to sams club and bought a real mattress and a memory foam topper!! slept on it last night and had a good nights sleep finally. No more leaks, air pumps, or the thing slidding off the dang fold down couch... Should have went this route first but we all go through learning curves dont we? As you can see, cricket is fully injoying the new bed. :O)



Today I have been working on the galley getting it organized alittle better. Built a shelf for the microwave to sit on. Had to make it so the door could open all the way instead of hitting the sinks fauset neck. going to tweak it a bit more but this is basically how its going to be.

ouch

the other day I took another load of junk to the scrap yard, everything went okay untill I went to start the pickup and nothing happened. figured out that the battery connection was bad so I took the plyiers and was attempting to remove the bolt to fix it and the pliers slipped off the bolt and clamped down on my finger. I was unfortunantly putting the death squeeze on it too. Not sure but I might have wet myself alittle lol but I got the beast running :O)



on another note, the other day I washed all my buckets up so I can use them on my prospecting trip. This is about half the buckets I washed. Nothing like alittle recycling huh ? 21 all together.

what kind of tree is this?

My dad found a tree just like this one along a county road that they were cutting down, got a seed from it and planted it about 7 yrs ago. this is what it grew into and what do the leaves remind you of?? lol anyway, thought it was cool and wanted to share it with you all. :O)

The Aerobed chapter revisited

As you all remember, I was looking for another bed mattress because the aero developed a hole. I was still using it with frequent times of airing it up. Being a tight ass and not going and buying something new actually!! anyway, Last night was the night for creativity and thinking out of the box. (kinda lol) I woke up around 3 am to find the bed totally flat!! and let me tell you this little coach that folds down to a bed is NOT at all comfortable to sleep on. So I tore the blankets and the sheets off, tossed the pillows and started searching for the hole. low and behold, there is was right in the middle of the bed right on a seam. about 1/2 inch long break. I figured it was dead for sure this time. So I thought what the heck, might as well try some things. What did i have to loose? you know... So I went out to the trailer and got the duct tape, masking tape, and found a spray can of 3m spray adhesive. hehe the mattress has fuzzy top so I cleaned it the best I could with some strips of duct tape to get any dust,lent or whatever off. Then I sprayed it with the 3m and then got to putting strips of duct tape on it. 2 alternated layers of it actually in about a 8 inch square over the hole!! waited for a while, aired it up about 3/4 of the way and it held air!!! waited for a bit longer, made the bed and crawled in it with cricket and patches and went back to sleep!!! I really figured I would wake up with it flat and duct tape stuck in all the wrong places but I didn't. It's still up yeehaaa!! Going to see just how long it will last :O) So now you know how to enhance the already great ability's of duct tape, 3m adhesive spray is the chit lol.