We Are Ready to Try Our New Bed Tonight

We woke to sunny skies, cold, but sunny.  A good day to get rid of the old mattress.  Up until now it has been to rainy to take outside.  I called the Salvation Army store here in Santee and they said they would accept it "with no rips/tears and no stains."  OK.  We are good there.  

Roger opened the box with the bed parts in it and spread them out in the living room.  We figured that we needed to build the new bed and make sure it worked before we got rid of the old one!  










Next was to pull the old mattress off the platform in the bedroom and move it to the living room!













Then we assembled it.  As we have a similar bed at home, we had no problems figuring 
out how it all went together.  







We inflated one air bladder at a time, then put on the foam top and the cover.  Voila, a new bed!




So, then the challenge.  How do Roger and I get the old mattress out of the RV and into the back of the truck.  We had lunch while we pondered this problem.  Mattresses are unwieldy and heavy and have no handles to grab.  I noticed while we were eating that across the street were two guys in their 30s (I don't know - I have a hard time with ages).  They and their families are here to camp for the holidays.  So, I just went over and asked if they would help.  Sure enough, they came over, picked up the mattress as if it were nothing and put it in the truck for us!  Once we got to the drop off, the workers there removed it from the truck.  Piece of cake!  

Now we are all set and hope we like the new one because the old one is gone and Roger cut up the big box the new one came in.  Stay tuned!

Christmas Day for us was very quiet.  Too quiet.  It was partly sunny but with a brisk wind.  Roger sat outside in the sun, blocked from the wind as best he could, for about an hour.  He was happy to be outside after so many rainy days.  We did connect with our children and sisters by phone but other than that not much happened.  

We made a special dinner - pastry puffs filled with vegetables simmered in pumpkin.  We topped it with some tomato sauce and had a cuke/mozz/tomato salad to go with it.  Roger had made a blueberry/lemon pound cake earlier in the week, so that was dessert.  A very nice vegetarian Christmas meal.

We put away "Christmas" this afternoon and got the RV back to normal for another year.  It's nice having everything in it's proper place.

Maggie and I got out for a long walk today.  Wow, we've been slacking and I sure could notice it. Feet and legs were talking to me by the time I got back. We are going to have to start back to a routine, but when the rain comes it messes us up.  I think we are good now for clear skies until the weekend.   Maggie did her "I don't want to go that way" routine this afternoon.  Some guy sitting outside of his RV witnessed her behavior and had a good belly laugh.  His comment was, "That dog certainly has a mind of its own, doesn't it?"  Yep!!!

No real plans for tomorrow, but we shall find something to do as it will be sunny and warm!