Tough Day

We have decided that we must be getting old. Today we went for our ten-mile bike ride to the state park. When we got home, we decided to borrow the neighbor's tall ladder and see about removing some cacti that are growing in a channel along the edge of our canopy.

The ladder isn't really quite tall enough, so I was reaching overhead, getting cactus spines in my hands, and cussing the cacti. I finally managed to break one off, unfortunately leaving the roots intact. Admitting defeat, we decided to wait until we had a taller ladder so we could see what's going on up there. At least three more of the darn things are flourishing up there.

Next we moved the ladder over by the rig to replace some burned out bulbs in our exterior lights (referred to as "scare lights" on an RV--what we do not know). Of course this also involved reaching overhead and wrestling with recalcitrant hardware. Between us we finally got the bulbs changed and all of the lenses washed, so now we have lights again.

At that point we barely had enough energy to return the ladder to the neighbor before going inside to collapse for a while before fixing lunch. We did manage to go through our recent package of mail to figure out which required action and which could be recycled.

Texas is in the process of integrating its vehicle registration and safety inspection sticker process. We got a notice that we will not be able to register our fifth wheel until we get a valid safety inspection report. Then we have to take that report and the notice to the tax office to renew our registration. The new registration sticker will include and supersede the former inspection sticker. In the long run this will simplify life, since we are always in Texas in the spring and will be able to have both of our vehicles inspected and then registered at the same time. (For some RVers who are not in the state in the 90 days before their vehicle registration expires, there might be a problem. The online information doesn't address that possibility.)

Finally we spent some time on planning our getaway--er, our itinerary when we leave our winter home and head north. When we pull out of Green Gate Grove, we will go to Bert Ogden RGV RV Center to have our annual refrigerator maintenance done and get our Majestic inspected. Then we can get our new registration sticker before we head north.

Ken juiced the remaining lemons from our tree. He's been making some great lemonade. I don't know what we'll do when we no longer have a seemingly endless supply of delicious citrus fruit.

We had a very unusual dish for dinner tonight--and Ken pronounced it excellent! I had some cauliflower left over after making an Indian fish curry. What to do? Ken does not care for cauliflower. I checked online and found recipes for cauliflower "fried rice." Interesting concept, and it turned out delicious. I used Gina's Skinnytaste recipe (modified a bit of course). We always like her recipes. To make it a meal, I added turkey ham cubes, slaw with peanut dressing, and fresh pineapple chunks. I think I'll buy cauliflower again!