cataracts

The SKP Ranch Lakewood, NM - Friday, October 25, 2019
Morning 29 Degrees, Wind SW at 1 to 2 Mph, Humidity 75%, sunny.
Afternoon 61 Degrees, Wind NW at 2 to 5 Mph, Humidity 21%, sunny.

I am on the schedule, we made our trip to Roswell and were there on time at nine o’clock, we left home just before eight o’clock for the nine fifteen anointment. Called almost right away looking into three machines and them taking pictures of my eyes. It might have helped that back in September when the appointment was made I was given the forms to fill out. I did that at home and the next week when I went to Roswell shopping I dropped off the filled out forms. Today I only had to show the insurance and Medicare cards with my license all to be copied by them.

Then back to the lobby for a short wait and called again seeing the doctor. Then the doctor put drops in my eyes to dilate them another round of pictures another after a short wait in the lobby and then the doctor again after another short wait. More forms, they filled out and I signed and initialed. The left eye lens will be done December fourth and the right eye on December eleventh. 

Propane Tank is Installed

The SKP Ranch Lakewood, NM - Monday, October 14, 2019
Morning 57 Degrees, Wind W at 1 to 3 Mph, Humidity 72%, partly sunny.

Propane Tank, they brought the propane tank and placed it on our lot. Then they ran a plastic pipe in the trench and used different types of end pieces to complete the installation with a shutoff valve at the back and flex hose to connect to Buster. We have a thirty-five percent (full) in the tank and they will be out to service and refill tanks the first Wednesday in November. We should have enough gas until then or they will come out for an emergency propane gas fill.

Our Propane tank

The SKP Ranch Lakewood, NM - Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Morning 59 Degrees, Wind WSW at 1 to 3 Mph, Humidity 90%, partly cloudy.

Cover pipe, now it is fill in the trench covering the propane pipe. It is easier pulling the dirt into the trench and raking it out compared to digging.

The SKP Ranch Lakewood, NM - Friday, October 18, 2019
Morning 55 Degrees, Wind SW at 1 to 2 Mph, Humidity 80%, sunny.
Afternoon 80 Degrees, Wind WSW at 5 to 20 Mph, Humidity 14%, sunny.

Waste basked and brick on the water 

Windy in the afternoon, but this morning “we” men in the park and the water committee place insulation and a waste basket with a brick for weight over our water pedestals to prevent them from freezing in the winter. With the man power and help it only took a half an hour to “get er done”. We did this last year for the first time (park wide) and it worked well.  I our our winter hose (blue cover with electric heat) on yesterday.

Hose connection at the back of Buster

The SKP Ranch Lakewood, NM - Thursday, October 24, 2019
Morning 49 Degrees, Wind NE at 9 to 15 Mph, Humidity 52%, cloudy.
Afternoon 57 Degrees, Wind N at 9 to 27 Mph, Humidity 37%, cloudy.

Roswell shopping day, only three stops today but it is still sixty miles one way. On our shopping trip September twenty-seventh we both went to the local Eye-Mart in Roswell to get our eyes examined (new prescription needed) and new glasses. My wife got her’s but I did not. I was having trouble with the “machine” and when the doctor examined me said I needed cataract surgery and to come back after that is done. They made the soonest appointment and that will be tomorrow another trip to Roswell. We did the shopping today as the appointment is for nine fifteen in the morning and we have a one hour drive to get there. So we do have to be moving at eight to be there on time. I do not know as I write this what condition I will be in. I think it will only be a pre op look see but there might also be eye drops and what else I do not know.   

The propane tank system is doing he job and there are no problems. Gas use has been good as of this writing at about thirty-one percent, that is good.

Trench

The SKP Ranch Lakewood, NM - Thursday, October 3, 2019
Morning 67 Degrees, Wind NNE at Calm Mph, Humidity %, mostly cloudy.

Checked on propane tank installation, I had preciously made an application for the tank to be put on our lot. This will mean I will not have to refill containers (I have four, one is built into Buster, and I have three portable tanks) as we use propane gas to heat the coach. While parked long term we do not use the built in propane tank as that would require moving Buster just to fill the propane tank. We did that once on 2008, about a thirty three mile trip to only fill the propane tank. Sometimes the bottle runs empty during the night that is a pain changing on a cold dark night or cold early morning. They said they will be out to The SKP Ranch today.

The SKP Ranch Lakewood, NM - Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Morning 61 Degrees, Wind SSE at 2 to 5 Mph, Humidity 85%, sunny.

Trench for propane gas pipe line, well the propane company people were out last Thursday and we noticed some paint reference points on the ground, be we had not heard anything and no propane tank placed at our lot. Today there was a truck delivering (servicing/refiling) to propane gas tanks. I asked the driver about our installation? He said “we (the propane company)  need (me) to dig a trench between the two marked points to bury a gas line pipe. They will not run a flex hose on the ground from a tank at the front of the lot to the back of Buster (our coach). After we have the trench they will come and install the tank, gas line pipe and connect to Buster with a flex hose. I did dig about ten feet twelve inches deep with four rest periods. Them I had a guy come in and do the rest of the trench to the back end of Buster. The rain at the end of last month helped to make the digging “easier” the ground did not act like I was breaking cement. It was still partly wet and heavy digging.

Trench for propane gas pipe

The SKP Ranch Lakewood, NM - Thursday, October 10, 2019
Morning 64 Degrees, Wind SSW at 1 to 2 Mph, Humidity 49%, sunny.

On our way to Roswell to do our weekly shopping I stopped in Artesia at the propane gas company letting them know the trench is there and we are ready for the tank. Friday or most likely Monday they will come out to install the tank and piping.

Trench for propane gas pipe

little more ketchup for the blog

The SKP Ranch Lakewood, NM - Saturday, September 14, 2019
Morning 69 Degrees, Wind SE at 4 to 5 Mph, Humidity 80%, partly cloudy.
Afternoon 86 Degrees, Wind SE at 7 to 22 Mph, Humidity 22%, mostly sunny.

New Electrical Pedestal and wires

It never ends, we traveled to Roswell, New Mexico doing shopping for a weeks groceries and I purchased some wood to make a larger outside deck for sitting out.
(seven stops, grocery three and gasoline, hardware there was another one but can not remember what). It is a sixty mile trip, one way Walmart being on the north side of town is the far as we go then make our stops coming back.

Rain puddling in front  

The SKP Ranch Lakewood, NM - Sunday, September 15, 2019
Morning 67 Degrees, Wind SE at calm, Humidity 65%, partly cloudy.


The park has been having problems with the electrical system. During the years we were away in Texas one section (lots one thru thirty-four) the system was changed to provide additional feed from the power company to our distribution system. Another time the lots eighty thru one hundred twenty was another project done about 2011. Now another project is “being done”, we have been in a six week hold waiting between companies to get a pole set scheduled. This project effects our lot. The project required the addition of a new distribution box and replacing the old box that as for about sixty lots. Originally the expected (designed) load was thirty amp use at each lot. But new RV’s are 50 Amp connection and many of the sheds on lots have electric added the load per lot is higher. The old distribution box has three hundred amp fuses and these are blowing during high loads. The system was put in service thirty-six years ago. There were new wires laid and new power pedestals but that is as far as they have completed. Nothing is connected up as of this writing.

The SKP Ranch Lakewood, NM - Saturday, September 28, 2019
Morning 66 Degrees, Wind W at calm Mph, Humidity 96%, mostly sunny.

Thunderstorm last night 0.46 inch of rain measured

The SKP Ranch Lakewood, NM - Sunday, September 29, 2019
Morning 69 Degrees, Wind SSE at 1 to 2 Mph, Humidity 89%, cloudy.

 Rain last night 0.04 inch
 Rain between four and five 0.188 inch

The SKP Ranch Lakewood, NM - Monday, September 30, 2019
Morning 68 Degrees, Wind SE at 8 to 10 Mph, Humidity 88%, partly cloudy.
Afternoon 83 Degrees, Wind SSE at 10 to 24 Mph, Humidity 53%, cloudy.

Rain this afternoon after four thirty 2.87 inch measured. We have had a lot of rain (for the desert). A little more ketchup for the blog.

the end of our trip east

Tom Sawyer's RV Park - West Memphis, Arkansas - Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Morning 75 Degrees, Wind S at 1 to 2 Mph, Humidity 87%, mostly cloudy.

We moved Buster out of our site before nine o’clock rolling onto the hard top and connecting Tan Jan . We drove some (five miles) on the local streets to get to interstate forty west.  Continuing west to interstate thirty south towards Dallas, Texas. Buster got off on exit seven for diesel fuel and then we motored around a short ways to the new campground done for the day.

 
Sunrise RV Park - Texarkana, AR
Afternoon 95 Degrees, Wind SW at 5 to 8 Mph, Humidity 93%, mostly cloudy. 

Covered two hundred sixty-six miles today.  After setting up Buster in the camp site we headed into Texarkana for dinner.  Getting back to Buster and a while latter we had a rain shower giving everything a rinse off.


Sunrise RV Park - Texarkana, AR - Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Morning 70 Degrees, Wind NW at 1 to 2 Mph, Humidity 87%, sunny.
Afternoon 92 Degrees, Wind W at 5 to 9 Mph, Humidity 31%, mostly sunny.

Continued on interstate thirty making a decision to get off and travel south to interstate twenty west via TX 34 (about thirty-four miles) to get Buster diesel fuel at Bucees in Terrell, Texas. We had stopped there going east in May. Today diesel fuel price is $ 2.489 per gallon.

From there we continues west on interstate twenty to Aledo, TX where we stopped for the night. Covered two hundred fifty-four miles today interstate thirty to TX 34 to interstate twenty.

Bucees Gasoline and Diesel Fuel, good place to stop when traveling. I have always found a fuel pump available (there two islands with thirty pumps at each island). There is also plenty of parking.

Buc-ees

Cowtown RV Park - Aledo, TX - Thursday, September 12, 2019
Morning 70 Degrees, Wind NE at 2 to 3 Mph, Humidity 90%, sunny.

Interstate twenty west, a mundane day driving interstate twenty west to Big Spring. But we did stop in Tye, Texas for diesel fuel. Two hundred forty-five miles today.

Hat Creek RV Park - Big Spring, TX
Afternoon 91 Degrees, Wind S at 7 to 17 Mph, Humidity 35%, sunny.

We had dinner at a BBQ place that is just south (a mile) of interstate twenty and US 87 exit while the RV park is a couple of miles north.

Buc-ees C-Store

Hat Creek RV Park - Big Spring, TX - Friday, September 13, 2019
Morning 68 Degrees, Wind E at 4 to 11 Mph, Humidity 79%, cloudy.

Today we went back the same way we went east in the spring going north on US 87 to Lamesa, TX where we turned left onto US 180 to Seminole, TX where we changed to US 62 west to Carlsbad, NM. Before getting to Carlsbad, turned right onto the relif route (SR 200) avoiding going thru town coming out on US 285 going to Lakewood, NM. We are home after a four month trip.

Now get (meet people at the front, they ring a bell for arrivals, sign back in) busy time and get backed into our site and parked and setup.

Well I have been lazy and I am trying to catch up