Thursday morning Jack and Evelyn had to go for doctor appointments so we took our time and left there about 10AM for another easy day of about 166 miles to Waxahachie t
o visit our friends at Proud Meadows Ranch, Jim and Larry.
We got to the area and as usual I got us lost – for some reason I can never get to this place without going the wrong way and not finding it until I get 10 phone calls to get me there. We did arrive about 3PM and Russell was great in getting us to a place where we thought we would have sewer, electric and water! Low and behold, the electric plug would not work so I immediately thought, oh well, we can use the generator. Since it was Critch's b'day we gathered at Jim's for dinner with Larry, Susan and David and Critch and I - and Jim. Had a fun evening and so enjoyed visiting with everyone. They had quite a storm that night and everyone thought we were lucky to be on the generator as they all lost electricity!!! Ha ha, our generator didn't work either!!!
o visit our friends at Proud Meadows Ranch, Jim and Larry.We got to the area and as usual I got us lost – for some reason I can never get to this place without going the wrong way and not finding it until I get 10 phone calls to get me there. We did arrive about 3PM and Russell was great in getting us to a place where we thought we would have sewer, electric and water! Low and behold, the electric plug would not work so I immediately thought, oh well, we can use the generator. Since it was Critch's b'day we gathered at Jim's for dinner with Larry, Susan and David and Critch and I - and Jim. Had a fun evening and so enjoyed visiting with everyone. They had quite a storm that night and everyone thought we were lucky to be on the generator as they all lost electricity!!! Ha ha, our generator didn't work either!!!
By the time we woke up in the morning all our batteries were totally dead, including the chassis batteries. Our friend Jim said why don’t you just go where you were last year and hook up to the 30 amp. (No sewer but oh well, I had just dumped) Well by the time we could get the battery charge (after about 5 calls to Supreme RV service) we were able to start the engine (1/2 day gone). The ranch was preparing for a large breeding show so everyone was so busy getting ready for that. In the meantime, our toilet would not work (great to have electric toilets!) and had no idea how to fix that but again after 3 more calls to Supreme RV they explained that it was a fuse – great, not only I couldn’t get cell service in the RV (had to run to Jim’s house each phone call), Russell was busy so I dug in and decided I better figure this out or we were not going to stay in the coach. Supreme told me to get needle nose pliers (I knew I had those, thanks to Mike Rogers), got a flashlight cause I couldn’t see the writing as to which fuse was which. I even had to get a stool as it was too high to see. I got really brave, pulled with my pliers the fuse and stuck one in that place and low and behold, the toilet worked!!! I was so excited that I accomplished that all by myself. Just about that time, Russell came over to say he had some time and would help me. Isn’t Rv’ing fun? Needless to say, we still had all kinds of problems with being able to run the generator and also using 30 amps. I kept blowing circuit backers but when I turned the electric off I could only get 1 air conditioner to work. Needless to say it was the day from hell and I worked on the coach for 12 hours. 
Just about the time Critch and decided that we should probably go get a hotel room, it was hot and miserable but Russell and David said go get some dinner then they would watch the dogs and if the generator went off again by that time we would go get a room.
We ran into town and had dinner and when we came back the air was still on and so was the generator. I got Critch to bed as he was tired for me so I joined a whole group of people that were here with the breeding show over at the ranch house. Had a really fun evening and took a lot of teasing – but in my mind I was sure my RV’ing was coming to an end. In fact Jim decided that I should buy a double wide with no engine in it!!!
The breeding show was very interesting and we were waiting for Joe and Kay to arrive on Saturday afternoon. Obviously, Joe as cool as he is, couldn’t understand why I was having so much trouble – everything should be so easy. We got them settled in right next to us behind the arena and watched the Belmont horse race before we headed for the arena for a party. It was very nice and the caterer was also the caterer that did Jena Bush’s reception dinner. The food was excellent and so was the service. They had a DJ for dancing. Critch left pretty early then Kay and I and then Joe left after awhile and saw quite a show – you can ask him about that!!! Apparently, a gal there with quite large breasts, used to be a stripper – she married an executive from Enron that sold all his stock for 300 mil before Enron came down – she put on quite a show, but was really there showing her 3 horses!!!
We got up in the morning to watch the rest of the breeding show. It was very similar to a dog show but obviously these horses were absolutely beautiful. The show ended early and most people retired to rest after a very busy 2 days.
Monday, we needed to wait until the oxygen was delivered to Critch and by noon we all congreated at the arena and had some lunch to just watch some of the horses being worked with. Larry just purchased “James” a beautiful Friesian and he practiced with him. For a 5 yr old he was fantastic. We also saw “Becall” being rid by Susan and she was a fabulous rider with great talent on Becall. We finally got out of there about 3:30Pm to drive over to Lake Lavon where Joe’s cousin lives to visit here for 4 days.
Just about the time Critch and decided that we should probably go get a hotel room, it was hot and miserable but Russell and David said go get some dinner then they would watch the dogs and if the generator went off again by that time we would go get a room.
We ran into town and had dinner and when we came back the air was still on and so was the generator. I got Critch to bed as he was tired for me so I joined a whole group of people that were here with the breeding show over at the ranch house. Had a really fun evening and took a lot of teasing – but in my mind I was sure my RV’ing was coming to an end. In fact Jim decided that I should buy a double wide with no engine in it!!!
The breeding show was very interesting and we were waiting for Joe and Kay to arrive on Saturday afternoon. Obviously, Joe as cool as he is, couldn’t understand why I was having so much trouble – everything should be so easy. We got them settled in right next to us behind the arena and watched the Belmont horse race before we headed for the arena for a party. It was very nice and the caterer was also the caterer that did Jena Bush’s reception dinner. The food was excellent and so was the service. They had a DJ for dancing. Critch left pretty early then Kay and I and then Joe left after awhile and saw quite a show – you can ask him about that!!! Apparently, a gal there with quite large breasts, used to be a stripper – she married an executive from Enron that sold all his stock for 300 mil before Enron came down – she put on quite a show, but was really there showing her 3 horses!!!
We got up in the morning to watch the rest of the breeding show. It was very similar to a dog show but obviously these horses were absolutely beautiful. The show ended early and most people retired to rest after a very busy 2 days.
Monday, we needed to wait until the oxygen was delivered to Critch and by noon we all congreated at the arena and had some lunch to just watch some of the horses being worked with. Larry just purchased “James” a beautiful Friesian and he practiced with him. For a 5 yr old he was fantastic. We also saw “Becall” being rid by Susan and she was a fabulous rider with great talent on Becall. We finally got out of there about 3:30Pm to drive over to Lake Lavon where Joe’s cousin lives to visit here for 4 days.
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