My little buddy came out after the rain. The toads sit under the solar and porch lights and catch bugs!

The severe thunderstorm that was forecast for Thursday night began to announce it’s arrival about 10 minutes after I finished scheduling yesterday’s post. When you hear a nonstop rumble of thunder getting louder and louder, you first glance at your phone. Is it going to scoot past us this time or are we in a direct line. Before I even looked at the radar, my gut said I’d better get in the house. I wasn’t in there ten minutes when it hit with a vengeance!

Pretty good sized hail for these parts but not a lot of it right here at the house. The wind drove the heavy rain straight sideways which drove the hailstones into the glass storm door. We were mesmerized. But it was over as quickly as it came. We only got about a half inch of rain so we were ok.

Yesterday was such a busy day, I had a hard time keeping up with everything I accomplished. I fixed our favorite breakfast…grits and eggs. Then I went out and started working on the camper. I needed to de-winterize it which entails turning off the hot water heater bypass, filling the freshwater tank with filtered water and an ounce of bleach to sterilize it. I flushed out all the water lines and put deodorizer down the drains and the toilet. I sat and looked at the bed and wondered if I could get it converted to two twins before we leave next Wednesday. Jury’s out on that one.

I went back in the house and fixed an early supper. We were both working on projects outside so we didn’t want to have a heavy dinner. I just fixed ham sandwiches and air fried french fries. Quick and easy. I did a load of laundry, brought the tubs of camping gear out of the storage room downstairs, and brought them upstairs. Then I decided to go ahead and print out our itinerary from RVLife.

You know how computers and I get along. First, I tried to print them from the app, but there isn’t a button to select. So I went on the desktop. I could sign in, but I could not open the trip to print it. Every time I tried, it logged me out and I had to go through the whole thing again. After about four tries, I decided to get my laptop out and try it. Even that was difficult, but after three tries, I was in.

I clicked print and nothing happened. I looked at the printer queue and it showed there was a document waiting but eventually it just gave me an error code. This is where my mom would said she “was about to lose her religion”…meaning she was about to say a bad word. I have to laugh because Mom’s “bad words” were like, heck and darn. I was thinking all the words a sailor would say, but out of deference to my late mother, I bit my tongue.

I looked online to see how to fix it and it said to remove the printer and reinstall it. Cool. I deleted it. The next step was, put the CD that came with your printer in the slot on your laptop. Ummmmm…sorry, this laptop doesn’t HAVE a cd-rom on it! Now I was in a pickle. But after going to the source…the Epson website, and doing a little digging, I found the instruction on how to download the drivers to install the printer.

Awesome.

Remember the two possums and a squirrel that run our internet? Well, those little suckers were nowhere to be found. Buffer, buffer, buffer. I went through the entire process and wouldn’t you know it, I got an error reading because the power went off last night (did I mention the power was off from 8:30 last night to 8:30 this morning?) I hooked the printer up to the WiFi again and tried again. This time…after about 30 minutes of buffering…the first step completed.

The second step wasn’t “throw the whole shebang out the window!” I dutifully followed direction and updated the firmware in the printer itself and FINALLY…after a total of three whole hours…I was in business and printed the itinerary. So much for getting anything else done last evening. 

Mr. FixIt is taking the grandson today to pick up a Jeep he bought. I’m really happy they get to spend a little one-on-one time together. He’s such a hard worker and is gone for long stretches of time with his job so he’s not around as much these days. So this morning, I’ll get back to work on the camper. I want everything done ahead of time this trip. None of this “throw everything in the truck, we’ll sort it out later!” THIS time I’m going to be totally organized.

You can call your favorite bookie and get in on this action and make bank! 

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”But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way.“

1 Corinthians 14:40 NIV