Life as I live it

Ever wake up to a low tire and have to change it or risk ruining it by driving to have it looked after. We need a small air compressor for j...

Well I have lived to see another birthday. How the hell can I be 62 years old. My dad died at 57 and my mom almost made it to 73. My sibling...

Not many people write checks anymore and after we hit the road we will only have our mini-storage that will need a check sent. All reoccurri...

Yesterday I saw a late model Ford pickup stop in the street and turn on the flashers. I didn't see any fluids or steam leaking so it app...

Remember back in January I mentioned our weight loss program at work, well it is only about a month until our weigh-in. In January I weighed...

While there has been hundreds of books written about 12 volt dc power and I own a couple of the popular ones used by rvers. For a complete o...

What the heck is a TriMetric 2025rv meter? The simply answer is to call it your fuel gauge for you batteries. The fuel in your batteries is ...

Living in a RV in a campground with "full hookups (water, sewer,and electricity)" is the same as living in a regular home, albeit ...

The weather has been beautiful this week and I took this photo today at my usual rest area just south of the Gurdon exit on I-30, on the eas...

I stopped at the rest area just south of Gurdon, Ar. today and noticed a Chevy work van (van with no windows). It had tags from the Pacific ...

As I walked by the guard shack at work today, the guard came out with a large smile to show off the new used car he had purchased. Now he is...

My company is challenging everyone to loose weight and they are putting their money behind the challenge. The contest weight-in was January ...

I am rather slow to come around to "change", as a matter of fact, I am against most of it. However, SKYPE the free internet based ...

No my son Zac does not have an awful disease. As long time visitors know, Zac has been at Penn State studying for his PhD in French. Well he...

My wife had a "total knee replacement" (her second) four weeks ago today and she is starting to show real improvement in the last ...

Mary Harris Jones "Mother Jones" is not a name that many of you have ever heard , but she was one of the most famous women of the ...

We took some time off and did a little roaming around last week and took a picture of the worlds largest catsup bottle. It was built as a wa...

Can I apply for a bailout? Two years ago, I bought a 2006 Dodge 3/4 ton diesel truck. It is now worth less than I gave for it. That's li...

About three years ago while on vacation, I wrote about the wind farm we spotted in Iowa. http://1948model.blogspot.com/2006/06/windmill-farm...

Look just below the American flag and you will see "your sign".