Catching up

Yes, it is time to catch up on this blog. It seems like there is nothing to write about, Stanwood is not a very exciting place. This past weekend found us sitting in our garage trying to sell all the things we no longer want. The town of Stanwood had their "city wide garage sales". It was suppose to be on Saturday, as we found ourselves getting ready on Thursday afternoon, we decided to open one day early as we were all ready. It sure paid off, made close to $150 that day. Then Saturday was a great day also and made a total for the 2 days of $400. The left over things were loaded into car and taken into Cedar Rapids and dropped off at Good Will.

Roger put his 1990 Mazda pickup For Sale and we had quite a few looking at it, or knew somebody that would be interested, it is still sitting next to garage with the For Sale sign on it. We use to pull it behind our motor home and is set up for towing, even has the tow bar to go with it. We also placed a FOR SALE BY OWNER sign in our front and back yard, as we are going to try to sell this place. Have had some phone calls on it, but nothing to get excited about. Only one showing at this time. With the house up for sale, I have been doing some deep cleaning and decluttering. Roger says I watch to much HGTV and that is why I am doing all that. I say, what can it hurt. If we move we have to get all this stuff out anyway. Yesterday, I cleaned out our bedroom closet. I must say, the place looks pretty good, I would be interested in it if I were looking. Roger's worried people will not be able to get a loan on a mobile home, I told him, that wasn't his worry. If it happens great, if not, we will wait till it does. No hurry.

Every morning I turn on my computer and log onto the Internet, read my mail, go to the Good Sam website and sign in for free monthly giveaways........still haven't won anything and been doing it for over a year.........and then start reading all the blogs I follow. It is really fun to see where all our friends are now and what they are up to. I follow about five of them right now and I guess that is why I decided to write in mine this morning. Some of them do not write every day and I start wondering what they are doing, so guess I should keep mine up for the few people who read mine.

We were in Cedar Rapids on May 19th and at Menard's (home improvement store) and decided to get us a counter top ice maker. It was on sale $98 so we got it and took it home. After reading the little book of instructions that came with it, we decided to get some distilled water to put thou it the first few times. After getting the water later in the week, we plugged it in and gave it a try. I say try as that is what it was. The darn thing kept coming on with a red light telling us to add more water. Well the book said to turn it off, wait 3 min. then turn it back on, the water was working its way up into the machine. So this we did.......and did.........and did.......and did.....and did. You get the idea, we did that for over an hour, then called the help phone number in the book. The tec told us to take it back, it was not working. This we knew, that's why we called. We took it back to the store and they didn't have any other ones so they credited our debit card back. They did call the store on the other side of town and they had one. On our way home we stopped at the other store. They had one left however.............it was not for the same price we paid before. I asked the clerk about it, he said it has never been at that price. After much go around with them, and a number of people to talk to, they gave us that one for the same price we had at the other store. There should of been a flash of light go off for us, why was it so cheap at other store ( didn't work). We took the new one home and tried it right away and guess what, it made about 4 ice cubes then started doing the same thing the other one did. WE TOOK IT BACK TOO. We won't buy one of that brand again........EMERSON.

Roger is so excited, he went to a foot DR. place in Cedar Rapids on Monday and they did measuring of his foot and told him they think they can get him in regular shoes. He won't have to wear the Frankenstein boots. He goes back next Monday and they we set him up. They had to get approval for new shoes from his DR as he is diabetic and Medicare pays for a new pair every year. He only has one pair of shoes to wear and if they get wet, or something happens to them, he is out of luck. Hope it all works out for him.

I will keep reading all the blogs and if any of you get close, please stop by to say hi. Till later............Happy Trails