Tuesday night - We went to do the Candlelight Tour of the Brown Mansion here in Coffeyville. www.brownmansion.com The Browns moved to Coffeyville in 1890, and turned an old carpenter shop into a lumber company. Several years later, Brown smelled natural gas outside his company’s building and, six months later, he discovered one of the largest natural gas wells in the country. You drive by the large stately looking house when you enter Coffeyville from the south.
The Candlelight Tour is a fund raiser for the preservation of the home and property. Local businesses and groups decorate all the rooms for Christmas, it really was pretty with the decorations and lights on. The third floor of the home is a ballroom, with two fainting rooms for the women, two smoking porches for the men and a cable pull elevator to get up there. There is also a stairway we used, they have not used the elevator for years. He owned the lumber yard, so the woodwork was beautiful. It was nice to see a home with Christmas decor and we enjoyed seeing the lights on the homes when we headed home. We stopped and had supper at Cielito Lindo, one of the Mexican restaurants in town. A family owned place, we had a good meal and brought some home.
Wednesday - back to work. Everyone is counting the days now, most are really excited to leave soon for warmer weather. Amazon has offered an extension to the Camperforce workers, they want to keep anyone that wants to keep working here through the month of January. Amazon will continue to pay the RV site fees, the same wages and the same bonus for hours completed and give a week off for the Christmas holiday. There are a few that are going to stay on. Not us.
Thursday morning, we woke up to hear it raining. It rained throughout the day and by the time we were off work, it had stopped and the snow was all gone! Hooray!
Friday morning I woke up and felt like I had a cold coming on. Sneezing and blowing my nose. I grabbed a allergy pill to take along to work and extra tissue. Good thing I did, by first break time my nose was running constantly and I was about out of tissue. I took my allergy pill, which helped for the four plus hours it is supposed to, but not long enough to last the work day. There were others sniffling too, one of our workers from Texas told us we had "Cedar Fever". She said the pollinating cedar trees causes it. I read about it and they say it is one of the most allergenic pollens.
I believe it now, I am suffering. Usually my allergy pills take care of my congestion, but I am fighting this time with the pain and pressure in my sinuses too. We stopped after work at Walmart and the pharmacist suggested Zyrtec. I took that and it slowed down the running, but not the congestion and pressure. Did not sleep very good that night.
Saturday AM was a little better. Made sure I had meds and tissue for work. As soon as we got to work they told people that they could take the day off if they wanted, said to not even check in, but go home. They call it VTO, voluntary time off. That left us with a small crew and they let a few more go during the morning. Just before lunch, they told us they were calling the shift. Everyone was to go home - there just was not enough work to do for the day. That was great. We stopped at Walmart again and I got maximum strength allergy sinus pressure pills. They have always worked best for me and hopefully now for the pressure too. Then at home, hot packs and a nap.
We decided to drive to Independence, KS for supper, just 12 miles away. Went to Uncle Jack's, had good prime rib for supper. A nice place, the owner/chef greeted us at the door, checked on us several times during the evening, great customer service. We drove around to see Christmas lights there before heading home. Cold again tonight, but is supposed to start warming up.
Sunday - Mass at 10:00 and then home. Gary worked on getting our income tax information ready to take home to our accountant and I did some mending on jeans and household things. I was still fighting a headache and pain in my sinuses, but it did get better through the day. I did go out to Walmart to get some groceries for the week. The Kansas City Chiefs game at 3:00 was not broadcast here, so I watched the Green Bay/Dallas game on TV and listened to the KC game on the radio. Of course in Kansas, they have the Chiefs network and the announcer is very animated in commenting during the game, so it was fun to listen to him. For supper, we had the rest of the salmon from our freezer - we are trying to use up all our perishable food supply before we leave next week. We will be winterizing the motorhome, which means turning off all the appliances and pulling antifreeze through all the water lines, to keep everything safe while we are gone for Christmas. Sunday night we watched "White Christmas" - we stayed up later since we were not working overtime on Monday.
Monday - slept in. I woke up feeling much better - hooray! Gary worked on financials and I got the laundry done. By noon it was much warmer and sunny, we were in and out, trying to enjoy the nice weather outside. Ran some errands and organized things to take home for the holidays. By the time we sat down to watch a movie, we were both tired and went to bed early.
Tuesday - packing day! Gary got the suitcases out of the underneath storage and we packed for our Christmas trip to cold weather. It was fun to see our summer/warm weather clothes again that we stored in the suitcases, hopefully we will be wearing some of the in less than a month when we get to Arizona. Then we buttoned up everything one more time to go and get the propane filled up in the motorhome - we want to leave here on New Years Day and nothing will be open then. So bring the slides in, secure everything for travel and off to the propane dealer. Then home again and bring everything out again for living for another week. Then we will do it again. We found out from the RV park that we can leave our home on our current site, that is good because then we don't have to put every single thing away so we can use things when we come back on New Year's Eve. It was another sunny, warm day - what a blessing when we had to unhook and hook up again.
We went to Pizza Hut for supper, all sales this night benefited the Catholic School here, so a treat for us and help for them. And we had leftovers for Wednesday night supper!
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