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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

An Announcement

Laci (our granddaughter) and John’s last name is Fox—isn’t this the cutest baby coming announcement!!  Except there is one problem, it makes us GREAT Grandparents!!!!!  Me, a Great grandmother?????  To tell you the truth, I am thrilled--Katie and Laci have always accepted me as a part of their family and both call me Grandma—I can’t wait to hold this new little member of our family!!

We had a busy day—the cowboy decided the rig and the trailer AND the jeep needed a bath.  This park doesn’t allow rig washing at the site but does have a rig washing spot all set up with concrete pad, hoses, brushes, etc.  But, that meant we had to hook the trailer to the motorhome and move everything.  We now have squeaky clean everything! 

The cowboy gets the “husband of the year” award today!!  We have a Splendide washer/dryer combo unit in our motorhome.  At first I hated the thing but became a convert!  While in Texas I used the washer/dryer a lot, almost exclusively instead of a laundromat.  The dryer half of this unit does not dry like a home type dryer—it doesn’t get that hot but it does dry.  Toward the end of our stay in Texas, the dryer just stopped drying—it barely reached a warm temp, much less a hot temperature.  I told Michael and due to the fact the unit is very difficult to remove—he kind of blew me off saying it was doing what it was supposed to do. 

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Fast forward to this trip—yesterday I put “fix the dryer” on his honey-do list.  Again, he blew me off.  Well, this morning I put “fix the dryer” on his honey-do list AGAIN and I guess I was insistent enough—my cowboy fixed the dryer!!!!!  Greg White was instrumental in figuring out the cause—Greg said the first thing to check was the vent—was it stopped up??  Wow!!  Was it ever stopped up!  After Michael pulled the vent hose off, we vacuumed and cleaned and the dryer works like a charm!!  I even dried a load of towels!!

Rick left a comment on Sunday’s blog asking if our hydro-hot heating system took the place of a propane furnace—yep, it does—and as I was walking Emmi around the park early this morning, I came to the conclusion—our hydro-hot system is no noisier than a RV propane furnace.   Our little blue flame propane heater uses no electricity and has no fan making it a great boondocking heat option—Michael also made the blue flame heater run yesterday but it still isn’t operating just right yet—and propane stoves are nothing to mess with if not operating properly!!  The cowboy will get it figured out!

IMG_9664Our little heater.

We enjoyed a quiet, delicious New Year’s Eve dinner at home—filets on the grill, oven fries and a Cesar salad—much better than a meal out if I do say so myself!!

Hope you all have a fun, enjoyable and safe New Year’s Eve!

16 comments:

  1. First and foremost Congratulations on your new family status. Second have a Safe and Enjoyable New Year.

    It's about time.

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  2. Congratulations! We had our great Saturday!

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  3. Congratulations. That announcement is really cute. I love our Blue Flame. Ours does have a fan for when we are hooked up but it works great when we're boondocking. It gets a lot of use at Q.

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  4. Congratulations!! What a cute announcement:)

    I love my Splendi washer/dryer. I haven't used anything else for three and half years. Glad you figured out the lint problem. John cleans the vent tube often.

    Happy New Year!! Hoping to finally meet in 2014!

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  5. HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!! CONGRATULATIONS ALL THE WAY AROUND ON THE NEWS ABOUT THE BABY FOX ARRIVAL !!!!!
    Sounds like you spent the day busy as bees with all the " to do list " accomplishments ..... And the trip to the wash the rig site !!!!
    Sure hope 2014 is happy, healthy and fun !!!! Thanks always for sharing your travels !!!!

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  6. Congratulations on the Fox News :) Greats are wonderful. Our 7th will arrive in late June

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  7. Congratulations! I think we have more time to enjoy our great-grandkids than we did the grandkids. Doesn't matter whether they're "blood" related... they are YOUR grandkids and greats! Happy New Year!

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  8. Great grand kids.... That's scary... But then we have a grandson that's almost 12, so it will be in the future here too. Let's get him thru college first though, LOL.. Anyway Congratulations on the big news!

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  9. What great news on the future birth of the new family member. Congratulations to all.

    Hmmm, I too like to I get everything washed when out of the wet/snowy weather. I understand Mike's desire to do that.

    Happy New Year.

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  10. So, let me get this right, does this make you a "Foxy Great-Grandma"?? That sounds 'great' Janna! Congrats.

    Thanks for the answer on the heater. I think you're probably correct about the noise level of propane furnaces as they definitely do crank up the decibels.

    Good on Mike for getting that drier fixed and cleared out. I hope other RVers with dryers read your blog and clear the clogs out as that is one major cause of dryer fires. Good catch.

    Happy New Year.

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  11. When I grew up I had 2 Great Grandmas. That made for 4 Omas. But both Great Grandpas had passed before I was born.

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  12. What a coincidence, we are also going to have a baby Fox any day now. Grandchild number 8. Love new babies so I can hardly wait. I will show them your announcement.

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  13. A GREAT grand baby! But then all grand babies are grand! Congratulations!

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  14. That Cowboy is a handy thing to have around. Glad the New Year is starting with good news all the way around.

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  15. Congratulations on your new grandbaby! When I read the announcement all I could think of was the song "What does a fox say?" My daughters kindergarten kids love that song and the music video. I'm excited to see where you are planning to visit this winter. Love your blog, still try to read every night! Safe travels!! Oh, I see the monster in your pictures from tomorrow - hahaha, little code talk there!

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