Our walk was a little brisk this morning…a slight breeze.
We spent the morning doing research on interesting properties in the area. We think we might like to have a winter home here…time will tell, but we like researching and then viewing the different homes.
We got to take a break from all that when I discovered the toilet wasn’t draining properly, so that took about an hour to get working again. We had quite the block in the pipe from the toilet and then once that broke loose Larry was concerned that it would then block the pipe out of the holding tank…they are the same sized pipes. I assisted by turning water on and off in various places and telling him how the flow looked…we have one of those clear pipes coming from the holding tank…it was a shitty job, but we are all full of it, so no big deal…laugh. Larry lay under the trailer and carefully pressed the tank up and down to keep things moving and out and not resting on the bottom. We are pretty sure we got it all flowing as it should.
Now why after almost 6 years would this happen you ask…well we had guests the last week or so before we hit the road and people don’t realize that they have to keep the pedal depressed to let plenty of water go down with the toilet paper etc. We usually go behind and run more water but we both forgot, so we think things just got built up until it just about completely blocked. Larry had some old hose that he shoved down there and eventually got it, with lots of water, to break loose.
Just as we were finishing, a man two sites over offered us the use of his “snake”…he had just got done doing the same thing in his trailer…funny how things happen to people at the same time. See no matter what “crap” in life you are dealing with there is always someone out there going through the same thing!!!
After that little project we finished our research and then headed out look-de-looing to see which homes had promise. We have certain criteria…we want natural shrubbery and not a lot of weeds and we don’t want the property all scraped clear, because then it is just a big dust bowl or mud hole depending on which way the weather is. We don’t want to live next to people who collect massive quantities of stuff…if you know what I mean…etc, etc. We want natural and peaceful and that is all before we even look at the house…
We saw everything on our list and ended up with a very short…of interest list. We decided to eat out and tried a New Mexican cuisine restaurant that seems very popular. We eat at odd hours, so it wasn’t crowded…3 p.m….after lunch and before dinner. It was beautiful inside, the people were great and the food was excellent. The chips and salsa were both good…lately everywhere we have tried, the chips or the salsa or both just haven’t been that good. We couldn’t decide what to try so we went for the appetizer tray so we could sample and see what we liked. Wow…very good and the first time I have ever had beer-battered fried avocado….YUM! The three dips were perfect…spicy without being over the top. Needless to say we were very pleased. The sopapillas were really yummy too…they brought us each a large fluffy hot puffy one which we drizzled with the honey that they have on every table. We
will be going back there!
Another great day! At the last minute I remembered to snap a picture of where we’ll be the next month…we are the Nash, the one in the middle…the Montana snuck in today while we were out. An older couple are in the place to the left of us…I can’t imagine two people living together in that small of a space, but we have seen some in even smaller…amazing.
We spent the morning doing research on interesting properties in the area. We think we might like to have a winter home here…time will tell, but we like researching and then viewing the different homes.
We got to take a break from all that when I discovered the toilet wasn’t draining properly, so that took about an hour to get working again. We had quite the block in the pipe from the toilet and then once that broke loose Larry was concerned that it would then block the pipe out of the holding tank…they are the same sized pipes. I assisted by turning water on and off in various places and telling him how the flow looked…we have one of those clear pipes coming from the holding tank…it was a shitty job, but we are all full of it, so no big deal…laugh. Larry lay under the trailer and carefully pressed the tank up and down to keep things moving and out and not resting on the bottom. We are pretty sure we got it all flowing as it should.
Now why after almost 6 years would this happen you ask…well we had guests the last week or so before we hit the road and people don’t realize that they have to keep the pedal depressed to let plenty of water go down with the toilet paper etc. We usually go behind and run more water but we both forgot, so we think things just got built up until it just about completely blocked. Larry had some old hose that he shoved down there and eventually got it, with lots of water, to break loose.
Just as we were finishing, a man two sites over offered us the use of his “snake”…he had just got done doing the same thing in his trailer…funny how things happen to people at the same time. See no matter what “crap” in life you are dealing with there is always someone out there going through the same thing!!!
After that little project we finished our research and then headed out look-de-looing to see which homes had promise. We have certain criteria…we want natural shrubbery and not a lot of weeds and we don’t want the property all scraped clear, because then it is just a big dust bowl or mud hole depending on which way the weather is. We don’t want to live next to people who collect massive quantities of stuff…if you know what I mean…etc, etc. We want natural and peaceful and that is all before we even look at the house…
We saw everything on our list and ended up with a very short…of interest list. We decided to eat out and tried a New Mexican cuisine restaurant that seems very popular. We eat at odd hours, so it wasn’t crowded…3 p.m….after lunch and before dinner. It was beautiful inside, the people were great and the food was excellent. The chips and salsa were both good…lately everywhere we have tried, the chips or the salsa or both just haven’t been that good. We couldn’t decide what to try so we went for the appetizer tray so we could sample and see what we liked. Wow…very good and the first time I have ever had beer-battered fried avocado….YUM! The three dips were perfect…spicy without being over the top. Needless to say we were very pleased. The sopapillas were really yummy too…they brought us each a large fluffy hot puffy one which we drizzled with the honey that they have on every table. We
will be going back there!Another great day! At the last minute I remembered to snap a picture of where we’ll be the next month…we are the Nash, the one in the middle…the Montana snuck in today while we were out. An older couple are in the place to the left of us…I can’t imagine two people living together in that small of a space, but we have seen some in even smaller…amazing.
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