Townhouse

This truly has been a crazy week.

On Tuesday we visited with a realtor about finding a one level townhouse.  He gave us access to the multiple listings and we found 7 in the southern suburbs of Minneapolis.  Friday we went to look at them, three already had been sold!  One was a lot of steps to the door, one was in need of a lot of work, one smelled of cigarette smoke.  This sounds like the story of the 3 Bears.  The last townhouse was exactly what we had in mind.

Saturday we looked again at the last townhouse and put down a bid which was accepted.  So on June 15 we will be the proud owners of a townhouse where we plan to live part of the year and still go south for the winter.

We have no furniture so yesterday we looked at furniture and fount some we liked but will keep looking for awhile.  Today we went IKEA and found many possibilities for stands and storage, etc.

All this has left us tired.

Cold and getting colder

It has turned COLD and the wind is blowing - no sun anywhere...

Sheila and family invited us for a delicious spaghetti dinner this evening.  Good to see everyone!

Their Dog Lexi:

Arrived in Prior Lake

We left Osceola and arrived in Prior Lake, Minnesota today.  It was about 6 hours on the road and a easy drive except for traffic in Des Moines and the usual road construction.  It is good to get to our destination and know we don't have to travel for some time.  Brenda came over for a visit in the evening.

We had what is now the usual hassle with our Dish Satellite.  We got it aimed easily but it took too calls to get the local stations thanks to the first person not understanding English.  Then the directory would not download so another call which was transferred to a special technician.  She couldn't get it to work so decided our very old DVR needs to be replaced and is sending us one for the cost of shipping.  (Told us to junk the old one as it is so antique.)

Branson to Osceola

We left Branson today, a day earlier than we had planned to get ahead of the rain.  We had fog until just south of Kansas City, sometimes fairly thick fog.  The trip went well with the usual folks pulling out in front of us, etc.  We got to Osceola Iowa about 3PM.  We got sandwiches at Arbys for dinner and are set for a relaxing evening before heading on the last leg to Minnesota tomorrow.

I could use the energy about now---

Rain in Branson

It started raining in the night and has rained and been dark and gloomy all day.  We went to our all time favorite buffet, The Grand Country, for a huge lunch.  Then we drove around some of the Branson "strip".  We stayed home the rest of the day and had canned soup for dinner, still not very hungry.

It did stop raining long enough for Don to debug the windshield.

Cleaning, shopping and resting

We were still tired today but did manage to get the motorhome cleaned inside.  Outside will have to wait as it has rained all day.  We went to Walmart for a few groceries and then it was nap time.

We went for dinner at a favorite - Rib Crib and had great ribs for dinner.