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We arrived in Stanwood on Sunday afternoon. While stopping in Des Moines to fuel at Flying J, we had called Roger's brother (Larry) who was camped at Saliorville Lake and he met us at Flying J and we had a nice visit with him while we ate our lunch.

I can't believe all the things one has to move out of RV and back into the house. I keep telling myself that everything is duplicated so no need to move it........ya sure. There just seems to be things that still have to move. Like food, dirty clothes, laptop, printer........and the list goes on. I don't know how people keep an extra set of clothes in their RV, it seems like there is always something left in RV that I want to wear. We take out all the food also, as when we leave here in the fall, we can't leave anything that is going to freeze so have to make sure we have enough room in RV and if we had duplicates of everything, it would never all fit.

Getting set up at home wasn't all that pleasant this year, first while hooking the water back up, there was a leak under our mobile home............so a phone call and some time later the guys came to fix that. No cost and they are the same ones who blew out our water lines last fall....so sort of their falt. The next challenge was getting our DirectTV set up. The dishes are set up on side of garage and I called to get our local channels changed from Mission to Stanwood. Guess what, still can't get them. They lined up a service guy to come tomorrow and fix that problem. I spent 2 hours on my cell phone (no land line telephone) and that's what I ended up with. While in Texas we changed to a DVR and that takes two satellite cables going to it. We had three dishes installed here last fall, so do to the fact we cancelled one of the boxes, we decided we could just take that extra line and run it to the DVR that is located in the living room. Roger got under mobile home and found the cable running into the bedroom where we will no longer have satellite and cut it and ran it up the hole into living room. Then he had to put a new end on it. Okay.........now I hook it up and it won't work. That was part of the 2 hours I spent on phone with tech support. Matt (our son who lives a half a block away) came by last evening and showed Roger how he goofed putting on the new end........fixed it and I now have the DVR working, just no local channels.

We made a trip into Cedar Rapids this morning. I had gotten information from the school district about my health insurance and needed to make a trip to get it cleared up. Then it was off to do some shopping. We had tried to eat most of food on way home................makes the RV lighter going over the mountains............LOL. We needed to stock up. We live about 30 miles from Cedar Rapids so try to stock up and not have to make that trip to often. There are stores closer and sometimes we go to them.

I am keeping busy catching up on laundry, had all the sheets I use to cover TV's and other things while we are gone and our other clothes. It will take awhile to get caught up. Hope this finds everyone enjoying the spring weather and if you are planning any vacations or trips......................Happy Trails to you.