A Couple of "duh" moments

Maggie is the queen of the couch but also likes to sit in our laps when we have an afghan over us.  Last night, she was on Roger's lap, he had to get up to use the facilities, and when he came back Maggs had taken over his chair.  He was relegated to the couch for the evening!  

I sometimes feel like we live the Seinfeld series - a story about nothing.  Well, that's the last few days in a nutshell.  I'm always willing to write something - I do love to prattle on - but I'm not sure anyone else cares, so sometimes I just don't put anything down. So, some random items for tonight.   Sorry, Pam.  I'll try and do better :-)  

Today is, as is the 25th of November every year, a day of contemplation on age.  Our three children and three of our four grandchildren, as well as Roger and I,  have birthdays in October and November.  The last of them was today - our youngest son, Andy's day.  I never (well, almost never) really feel my age until our "baby"  has his birthday.  I can't possibly be old enough to have children in their forties and a grandchild in her 20s.  Where has the time gone?  

When we travel in the RV the parks we stay in are filled with vehicles from all over the country!  It's fun to check out the license plates and see where people are from.  When we go shopping we are always on the lookout for Nevada plates.  When we travel our mindset is we aren't home, right?   Herein lies the "duh" moment.  Yesterday at the commissary (never go the few days before a holiday that involves massive amounts of food) Roger saw a car backing out and noted it was a Nevada plate.  I mentioned that there sure were a lot of them in the parking lot........    Where are we?   Las Vegas.  Duh.

Roger's been having an issue with his blood pressure for the last few months and, although, it is now stabilized, we have drastically reduced our salt intake.  What this means for me is that I'm having to learn to cook and not fall back on processed foods as I have been doing more and more over the years.  So, in my quest to become somewhat proficient in the kitchen and make sure we get enough protein, not too much salt or calories, enough fruits and vegetables and go easy on the tiny seeds found in multigrain stuff, I've had to resort to finding recipes and actually following them.  This is hard for me.  Tonight I made a new quinoa dish that called for pistachios, orange slices, and pomegranate seeds.  Sounded as if it would be good - and easy.  It worked for both criteria.  We've never had pomegranates before.  I've read wonderful things about the benefits of indulging in the fruit and that the little seeds are plump and juicy and will keep you healthy.  Well, they also have little seeds in the "seeds".....Duh, who would have thought?   Oh, well, Rog ate around the seeds. 

As I mentioned in an earlier post, the RV sites here are large and fairly private from the neighbors.  We like that - we aren't on display.   It also means none of the neighbors are visible to us so we can't see what is going on and who is doing crazy things.  It's a bit boring.  Roger sits out in his chair listening to his audio book, soaking up the sun and watches nothing.   This park is particularly dull.  The place is pretty full and has a mixture of motor homes and 5th wheels.   Most are of average size and affordability but there are a few of the very expensive ones.  There is one site that has a Prevost (the kind you see on TV that the stars and rich people have) and it has a trailer behind it almost the size of our RV that hauls their little car and motorcycles.  A few sites down from the Prevost is a pop-up pull-behind trailer.  An equal opportunity RV park!  Most of the folks that a we have seen are geezers like us, but there are a few active duty folks here with kids and the only time we hear any noise other than the airplanes and the speed demons down at the speedway is when the kids get home from school and ride their bikes around the circle we live in.  Our neighbor on the patio side has come over and visited with Roger and told him his life story as an Air Force pilot (he retired as a colonel so we really don't have much in common but he likes to talk non stop - Rog just sat there and politely listened. )  Now when Rog sees his feet coming down the stairs of his RV, he hurries into the house and hides!!  We see a few people walking their dogs and occasionally we glimpse someone taking their trash out, but other than that there seems to be little to no activity here.  We have been trying to figure out what these folks do all winter.  

Speaking of chairs - since we have been here Roger has had the seat of the two camping chairs we have give out on him as he was sitting in them - watching nothing.  Fortunately, there were no injuries in either incident.  The "recliners" are still packed in the back of the truck buried under some heavy stuff and won't come out until we reach Santee.  So, today our entertainment was going to Wal-Mart and buying two new chairs for outside.  

Tomorrow afternoon we're going to a dessert pot luck at the park clubhouse.   We figure we will get all our dessert tasting and calories tomorrow afternoon instead of Thursday.  Heck, what's a few calories!  Our Thanksgiving plans are the usual - just the two of us enjoying vegetable pasties (a Cornish dish usually made with pork and beef but vegetarian in our case) and a pumpkin pie.  Let's hope my little toaster oven is up to the task! 

Well, let's see. . . .  guess that's all I can come up with tonight.