Wednesday, October 21 – Cold and Wet

This morning we awoke after it had rained all night to cold, wet and mud.

Remember I had told you that DJ had cleared a place for us to park the day we arrived. Well it was all loose dirt and when you mix wet with it, it makes mud.

You can image what the dogs looked like when they came in from their walk. They were sent to the tub to have their feet cleaned. What a mess!!!

After our coffee we got cleaned up and went to town. Because it was so muddy Jesse had to put the truck in 4 wheel drive to get out of the driveway. By this time there was even some ice mixed with the steady rain fall.

Our 1st stop was to pick up orders from the doctor for me to have some blood work done.

Then on to the Verizon store. It just happened to be the time to allow us to get new phones. We both got new phones and a new USB760 modem.

It really wasn’t a bad deal, because the phones and the modem cost $50 each with a $50 rebate each (FREE). So in the end we only paid for the car charger, a photo memory card and a phone case all for $60.

We also went back to Home Depot to return some stuff we bought on Monday and to get wire nuts.

We were home by lunch time, so we each tried a Ramen Noodle packet. They cost us $.16 each, and Jesse thought it was a great price to pay for lunch. We use to buy these for our children when they were young, they loved them. We found them to be pretty good, I had chicken and he had beef and soup was a good thing to have on this wet and cold day.

After lunch Jesse started to install the new modem. Having problems he called the Verizon help line and after about a 40 minute time frame, got connected. YEA!

Then he started to try to connect with the laptop via the Cradlepoint router. He couldn’t do it so he called the 3-G store. Another 40 minutes on the phone, but I am still not connected.

We can’t get the Belkin our network adapter to work. We have tried to uninstall it, but it will not do it.

So the outcome is until I buy my new laptop, we have to share. SHARING a computer is not some we do well.

Hopefully it will stop raining/snowing and dry up, because this mud the boys keep bringing in with them after their walks is really getting frustrating to me!

It is supposed to get down to 22 degrees tonight so Jesse filled our tank with water and unhooked the hose and filter just in case they are correct which meant he had to go out in all the mud.

Beth rented the movie Transformers II, so we watched that. When we got done watching and went to regular TV programming we had no signal. Jesse had to go outside and sweep the SNOW off the dish so we could watch TV.

Hugs to everyone.