Long day, Texas

Aledo, Texas - Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Morning 59 Degrees, Wind SE at 1 to 2 Mph, Humidity 91%, sunny.

Marthaville, Louisiana
Afternoon 90 Degrees, Wind NNE at 1 to 2 Mph, Humidity 40%, sunny.

That was a rough day’s travel. Started great, early we were on the road before nine and we made good travel time thru fort Worth and Dallas. That is all posted seventy miles per hour and in the country to the east of the cities it is posted seventy five miles per hour.

I am in the right lane

I was in my plan but there was a Bucee’s ahead so we stopped there. That sign was noticed a short time after the right sun shade came down. We were on a wash board type road where we were bouncing around the lane. We made the Bucee’s exit and got diesel fuel, I checked the sun shade but could not do anything until I am able to purchase some screws. 

Now we are in the left lane

As we neared the state line all the traffic east bound traffic came to a stop. We inched along for almost three hours. At first the left lane was moving better than the right lane then there was a gap so I took the left lane then after a gain of one truck we were parallel the rest of the way. Then all traffic had to exit the highway merge with the service road traffic and reenter the highway got Buster up to speed and then another slow down for an over turned truck. I then was going to stop and top off the diesel fuel at the planned fuel stop. After exiting and turning right I needed to turn left (for diesel fuel stop) the turn lane was coned off and police directing traffic. There was traffic coming from the right (US 80) vehicles that were trying to avoid the interstate slowdown and had gotten of at an earlier exit.  Buster is forty feet long and the car is behind there is no backing up only forward so I pulled into a parking lot to u-turn and now there is a line of traffic that lets me in. Now another left (where the police are directing traffic) and reenter the interstate. Traveled two hundred eighty-five miles mostly interstate twenty also interstate forty-nine south, tiring.

Aledo, TX

Big Spring, Texas - Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Morning 58 Degrees, Wind S at 1 to 2 Mph, Humidity 88%, sunny.
Afternoon 85 Degrees, Wind SE at 1 to 3 Mph, Humidity 49%, sunny.

We had rain yesterday after five in the evening just before arriving at Buster after going into Big Spring for some shopping and dinner.

Today just interstate highway twenty east bound. After one hundred miles a diesel fuel stop in Tye, Texas then onto Aledo, Texas for the night. After parking Buster we went further east into Fort Worth to eat dinner and some shopping.

First day traveling

The SKP Ranch Lakewood, NM - Monday, May 13, 2019
Morning 56 Degrees, Wind SW at 1 to 2 Mph, Humidity 72%, partly cloudy.


WE were leaving the Ranch a little after ten o’clock. Still had some things to put away in Buster and the shed, disconnect the water dump, put in the slide outs,, and electric cable. At the office I paid the electric and put air in the tires. Then it was connect Tan Jan to the towbar.

Today we went thru Hobs on US 180 to US 87 south to Big Spring as my mapping program suggested this way as it showed a half quicker than I normally take. The other way was shorter mileage but slower so I decided to take the fast route for the first day out on the road. We were at the RV park in Big Spring, Texas by two thirty and there was an hour gain in time. At the Texas state line we came back into central time for four nights. Two hundred five miles for the first day of travel this year.

There are a lot of crop fields with crude oil tank battery's that collect the oil from the wells. They just plow around them. 

Crude oil pump jack in a crop field

Getting Ready to Move Buster

The SKP Ranch Lakewood, NM - Sunday, May 12, 2019
Morning 47 Degrees, Wind w at 1 to 3 Mph, Humidity 96%, partly cloudy.


Busy day, getting ready to travel tomorrow. Putting stuff away in the shed making Buster ready to move by doing things that didnot need moving while Buster was sitting still. Overall a more active day than usual.

wind gusts to 43

The SKP Ranch Lakewood, NM - Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Morning 46 Degrees, Wind SSW at 10 to 15 Mph, Humidity 61%, sunny.
Afternoon 63 Degrees, Wind W at 15 to 43 Mph, Humidity 22%, sunny.

We never got the high winds only gusts up to forty three miles per hour. My wife and I pulled in both left slide outs last night when the weather started (about five). I put the bedroom slide out, out when I went to bed so I could walk around the bed. The topper was flopping around in the wind, making noise, I put up with the noise last night and tonight. After getting out of bed this morning I put the slide out in again.

At bed time the slide out went out again and as the evening went on the wind went down. The slide out topper noise decreased with the decrease in wind gusting. 


The SKP Ranch Lakewood, NM - Thursday, March 14, 2019
Morning 37 Degrees, Wind WNW at 6 to 7 Mph, Humidity 33%, sunny.
Afternoon 59 Degrees, Wind WNW at 4 to 15 Mph, Humidity 11%, sunny.

A nice day to got to Roswell (sixty miles) for our weekly shopping. I stopped in Artesia for a propane gas tank refill. I was able to put out the front slide out today after living with it in for a day and a half.

Winter Weather

The SKP Ranch Lakewood, NM - Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Morning 50 Degrees, Wind ESE at 1 to 2 Mph, Humidity 97%, cloudy, rain.
Afternoon 65 Degrees, Wind SW at 6 to 23 Mph, Humidity 60%, cloudy, rain.

We were lucky today, the weather was south and north of us today. So we stayed inside most of the day. There was rain in the morning and late afternoon, the latter after five. It got very dark with heavy rain and high wind. There were tornado warnings for the county but none here, there were reports of them north of us. Tomorrow we are in for more wind event with gusts to eighty miles per hour.

bonnie aka bon

I'm not a weather girl.It has been nice not to hot or cold.        colds are rampant here at the ranch.Personally I've been blowing& coughing for 2 weeks but much better today.Geo came along for the ride last Fri. So he hasn't been going to the ranch house for happy hour.It's not my thing so I take advantage of him being gone.vacuum quickly we have a cat who sheds so need to vac daily. Have my prayer time Bible reading after vacuming. Some times we eat a late lunch between 1;30-3;30 then don't eat maybe a mandarin orange aka cuties until breakfast.Haven't needed antacid in weeks. Iwas walking 3 days in a row 30 min ea time. oops to much my hips were hurting Burcitis
 so want to get back to walking every other day.might have to adjust accordingly to not flare up the Burcitis. we had our 1st eat out in mos. last Thurs.Red Lobster. Thanks to our kids.we are following the keto plan. we don't join the group for eat outs as not keto friendly.We have been eating mostly Jewish penicillin aka chicken soup.Haven't volunteered at the soup kitchen in Carlsbad for 2 weeks sure looking forward to going again Mon.Looking forward to a massage again by andrew a student of massage.Looking forward to getting out last time I was out was last Thursday our weekly Roswell trip. G has been taking the garbage getting the mail so gets out a little.I'm a home body doesn't bother me to stay in. I grew up in Mn. so being in doesn't bother me. tomorrow will open everything up and  spray disinfectant all thru out. Hope the cat play yard will be here soon our cat loves to run out given a chance. Hoping the cat yard will satisfy his outside craving.