1-12-09 Monday (Hide The Kitty!)

It's official. The train whistles through about 1am and then again around 9am. I saw the 9am one and it was Amtrak. There might be other train lines, who knows.

I walked Dasher and met the manager Sherry and chit chatted with a few people. I was informed that the park rules only allow for 1 pet. She lowered her voice in her best top secret agent mode and asked that I keep them out of sight and if anyone should ask, I only have a dog. Hmmmmm. Sherry is very nice though and I do appreciate the heads up..... even if I think it's a stupid rule to impose on RVers. This is a mix of mobile homes and RV's. They are phasing out the mobile home spots. Speaking of, the spots here are so nice and wide and paved. I like it. Anyway, back to hiding the kitties - the best we could do is put up the screens that go over the windshield. If the cats go between the window and the drapes, at least the screens will help "hide" them. Here's hoping they don't accidentally hit the seat eject button. That tends to be so expensive to reinstall.

With the temperature a BEAUTIFUL 73 degrees, it started to heat up in our big box fairly quickly. It rose to about 83 so I opened up a bunch of windows and opened the roof vents. It's damn nice, yes I said, damn nice.

Jim got up on the roof to install those screens and found that the patch that Bountiful created was coming off. That's the patch that was done for an inch slit in the rubber roof that they used a foot of patch on! Don't get me started.

I took the opportunity to vacuum out the cat litter and food area and clean some other stuff. End paragraph.

We'll probably start our 7 day pass tomorrow. We'll have to plan our days out so that everything is within the same area. I'm excited that there's some bay boat tours like we did in Seattle. One of which is to see some whales. The pass also included Six Flags. Jim found that it is closed until the end of February. We so hate Six Flags. I think we'll never go to one again. Years ago we had awful experience at one in Georgia, and then the St. Louis one was closed, now the one in California. California????? Closed???? Disney doesn't close. Argh.

So the other day I got my vet to release auth for pet's scripts. They say they don't release to 800PETMEDS, I explain that we're on the road and that was the point to having all 3 pets treated etc, etc. They call back and say the vet remembers my circumstances, OK, no problem, etc. Everything was cleared up but now 4 days later there's a problem. I spoke with 4-5 different people at PETMEDS and insisted on a supervisor. Finally it may be resolved.

Strangely, with us NOT smoking anymore, we seem to have so much time available. Since we didn't smoke in the RV, we'd go out and smoke which took 10-15 minutes. Let's take 12 minute average, times 15 cigarettes. That's 3 hours of smoking a day!

By the way, I'm OK with talking about not smoking. It's been 12 days so I'm fine. I want to explain that there's nicotine cravings and then the habitual craving. The nicotine craving is well gone by now. The habitual craving is a bitch. A cigarette seems like something I should do because it's so nice out today. I washed dishes, I should have a cigarette. It's crap like that. Strange.