More ramblings

My mom is in the hospital.  We are going through all those decisions everyone goes through when a loved one is taken ill.  Do we alter our plans and head back, do we keep going and wait for developments, do we stay the course and hope for the best????  On the good side she is still in good spirits, and the docs haven't raised alarms, more testing they say.  But on the poor side, she is more tired than she has ever been.  She's pretty frustrated.  Fighting cancer is tough.  We are staying in constant contact and waiting for developments.  She has wavered before and sprung right back up.  We're praying that is what will happen this time as well.

There are many plans that are starting to be implemented.  Karen is about to launch from Louisville with her new motorhome to get it in place in Denver, so she can fly back out and drive to meet us in Boise over Labor Day.  We have reservations on a jet boat trip up the Snake River in early September, and then will travel together to Missoula and Yellowstone.  We then will head south into Utah to meet Nancy and CT at Zion to hopefully do the Narrows hike up the river, then to Bryce, Capitol Reef, and Moab before N&CT have to return to Albuquerque.  We plan to go through Durango and then meet up in Albuquerque to see them, Jan's mom, and maybe Karen, before heading east in late October.

As I said before sitting here in Montrose is the longest we've sat other than working and Florida.  It's been 3 1/2 weeks and man are we antsy to get moving!  Funny, as we came into town we found that a truck stop, which is always a little high on its diesel price, was $3.89/gal.  So we decided we would fuel on our way out of town since diesel was trending downward.  Ha!  Last week their price went to $3.99/gal and yesterday was $4.29/gal!  Great timing, huh?  We're heading to Salt Lake City from here and there is nowhere to fuel along the way.  Gladly we only need about half a tank, but that's about 80 gallons:)

We started on the grout project.  Since the new grout was the wrong color we had planned to remove all the grout in the shower, all three walls and regrout so everything would be one color.  As we tackled removing the grout, we found several tiles loose and ready to fall out.  Then we get the idea, since we really aren't in love with the tile accents in the shower at all, we would completely replace ALL the tile with something we both like.  Yeah, I know, another huge project.  Hey, ya gotta have something to do in retirement, right?  We did decide rather than do it now we would wait until we are in Florida for 4 months this winter.

We discovered one glitch with the AC project.  Seems the footprint and cover on the new AC is slightly larger than the old unit.  Our automatic satellite antenna when it raises and lowers hits the the new unit.  Maybe we mounted it just ahead of where the old unit was?  But there is no moving it now unless we completely remove it and get new gaskets, also we found there is hardly any wiggle room anyway.  I guess we are going to live with it and see how it fares.  It is plastic on plastic so hopefully nothing will break, cause if it does it will be the antenna that will lose.

Off to Telluride!