Back home, I watched the game and mixed up the pumpkin pie. My convection oven seems to be working well, the pie turned out not quite as firm as usual, but otherwise good. The second crust I made into scrap pie, a little butter and cinnamon/sugar on it. And Kansas City won big! And the Dolphins won too! And some of the other teams played in snow furrows, like the Detroit Lions, yuck. Then in the evening we watched some of our Chrismas movies, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "White Christmas"
Monday, we were signed up for our last overtime day. This week all employees, full time or Camperforce, had the option to sign up for overtime, it was not mandatory. After the last week of mandatory overtime for full time employees, there were some that did not sign up. As a result there was a smaller workforce this morning. We were both assigned to stowing and to our delight, the bins were open (a lot more room in them) after all the picking activity. Lunchtime, there was a hot Christmas lunch again, we had our dinner on Saturday for 3rd shift, so we did not participate. We sat by another workkamper couple at lunch, they told us about another workkamping opportunity they have been doing. Many ideas out there - it is good to have a network to learn from. We found out at after lunch stand up gathering, that the trucks had not been able to get to Amazon because of the icy, snowy weather south and north of us so they were letting people sign up to go home early. We were there on an overtime day, so we signed up. Gary was picked in the 10 people to go home, I was # 11. I could not go, so Gary stayed and we let #12 go home. Then about an hour later, 12:40, they told us we could leave. I'm guessing they let others go because they were running out of work for everyone to do.
We left work and decided to drive up to Independence to find a propane tank gauge Gary wanted. We did not find one but we stopped at a couple stores and a stop at Walgreens for me. Once again we tried to find a beverage place, but they don't open in Independence until 4:00. Driving home, the snow started and blowing snow across the road. In the evening, the water faucets started running slower, so we turned faucets on to keep a steady stream flowing. About 10:00 we noticed the water bay heater temperature had dropped. Gary went out and found the heater had stopped working, so he made a trip out to Walmart to get a new one. It kept snowing through the evening and we ended up with about 3 inches overnight. ( And 6 degree temps!! Why are we living in a motorhome in this kind of weather!!??)
Tuesday - up and glad to know everything had kept working overnight. We were thinking we would need to go get propane in the motorhome, but with the three inches of snow, that would be a real challenge to unhook the cold hoses and button up everything to go. And driving the motorhome in the snow and reparking, yuck! So I called the office and the Buckeye staff picked up the tank and got it refilled in about an hour - thank goodness! In the meantime, Gary went out and up on the roof to brush off all the snow from the slide awnings and roof. The sun is out and melting will happen today! Gary swept off the patio mat, the picnic table and made sure the hoses were cleaned off.
I, in the meantime, got to update my checkbook on the computer for the year - time to get ready for the IRS. Easily done and I listened to Christmas music - what a treat! Talked to Benjamin on the phone this afternoon and got the laundry done. We are really watching the weather forecast now, it will only be cold here for a few more nights. And, we can almost see the ten day forecast for our drive home on the 22nd! We are in total preparation mode for going home in 12 days! Can't wait to see family and friends!
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| RV Park snow - 3 inches Monday night |
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| Snow in Kansas |
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| You can see the inches on the picnic table - Luckily the sun is shining! |
Announcement - we have a summer job for 2014 lined up! We have accepted a position to host at a Bureau of Land Management park in Oregon for the months of May, June & July. Wildwood Recreation Area - near Welches, OR. We will be hosting with other couples in a day use area northeast of Portland, OR. A beautiful area in the forest, not far from Mt. Hood where we honeymooned. There will be tons of things for us to do there and Gary's sister and families live in Salem, about an hour away. Also, wineries in abundance in that part of Oregon! Attention: A great place/opportunity for all of you to vacation to this summer if you have not seen the Northwest!
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