The Corona Virus has spread all across the world. There are now 1 million cases world wide. The governor has ordered a shelter in place order basically indicating that people stay home except for essential trips like going to the store for supplies.
At this time, Carol and I are both working from home. Both of our agencies are considered 'Essential' and so we both are working full time and collecting our full salaries at this point.
The dogs are enjoying the fact that we are working from home as they now have a greater opportunity to come and go from the house as they please.
Please stay safe everyone and if you have the opportunity to travel, please have safe travels.
In early March we attended Tommy Waites daughters (Courtney's) wedding in the Novato area. We were hard pressed to find a RV park in the area, but we ended up locating one that we actually later realized we had stayed at before. When we arrived at the park, the local Red Cross and Fire agency were checking with all of the park residents to ensure that everyone smoke detectors were in working order. The vast majority of the residents at the park are permanent residents.
Upon arrival we set up camp and then met up with a number of the family members for lunch. After lunch, we went home and prepared for the wedding.
Here is a video about Courtney's wedding.
The wedding was a very happy affair with everyone in attendance having a great time.
We spent the night in Novato and then returned home to Rancho Cordova the next morning.
In early January of 2020, a new corona Virus was discovered in Wuhan China which appears to have been contracted in a live food market.
The president has ordered that transportation between China and the United States. A lot of people in China who are contracting the Virus are getting violently sick and they are experiencing a lot of Deaths.
The city of Wuhan is on lock down. Hopefully this virus does not spread and cause problems to our country or world wide.
Earlier this month we lost our beloved Rosie to bone cancer. Rosie was always the dominate in the Charlie Rosie relationship, but after Rosie left us, Charlie definitely seemed to miss her. Even when she was put to sleep, he placed himself between Rosie and the Doctor as if to protect her from any harm the doctor might bring.
With Charlie not having a pal to go through life with, we knew it was time to start looking for a pal for him. Carol started looking at dogs that might be at the Front Street shelter where I film dogs and make adoption videos, and picked out a few for me to look at as possible buddies for Charlie.
One sunday that I was at the shelter, I met a few of the possible candidates, and one dog in particular, 'Pirate' stood out as real winner. He is a rambunctious puppy like guy who is supposedly 13 months old.
Pirate has done well in meeting most people and we are loving having him join us in everything we do.
In 2019, we cut the cord and have stopped using TV provided through any sort of subscription. We have used Cable TV, Satellite TV and TV over twisted pair (basically through the DSL connection). We've cut the cord and are not using any of them any more. Now, we are once again getting our TV service from over-the-air broadcasters here in the Sacramento area.
We find that we really don't miss the cable or satellite service. Though we have some pixilation problems at times due to foul weather, all in all, we are very happy with our over the air tv reception.
Within a year of starting our Full timing adventure, we adopted Rosie from the Amador county Animal shelter which is in California's Sierra foot hills, east of Sacramento. She was adopted in late 2010. Rosie enjoyed a loving life with us in our Allegro Bus motorhome. Fast Forward to 10 yeas as the year of 2019 wound on, we started to see behavioral changes in Rosie.
She was starting to show signs of increased anxiety. She was trying to escape the motorhome through the front door or a bedroom reason for no known reason. We took her to see a couple different vets, but they could not figure out what was going on. On thing that one of the vets shared with us made since. She said that anxious dogs, (which Rosie has always been) tend to experience increased anxiety as time goes on. So, after first trying a couple of different CBD solutions with out any success, we tried several different traditional medications for anxiety which eventually seemed to get her anxiety under control.
One night, in September, as Rosie was jumping onto the bed, she missed and fell to the floor and started limping. We got the next possible appointment in to see our vet, and she did some xrays. It turned out that on top of Rosie's arthritis that had been diagnosed a year earlier, Rosie had bone cancer. Though amputation might have addressed the bone cancer, her arthritis (or maybe even bone cancer) seemed to get worse for her each day. Arthritis doesn't normally spread over the course of a few weeks, but bone cancer can. So, we decided the time had come to remove Rosie from her misery. :-(
It was with great sadness that we said good bye to Rosie on this day and laid her to rest. The video in this post is in memory to Rosie.
We love you baby girl, we always have and we always will!
Our couch in our 2003 Allegro Bus, which is 16 years old, finally needed to be replaced. The original couch was comfortable for a lot of years, but we were really looking for something new, that did not always need to be covered with a couch cover and maybe even had a recliner functionality.
We looked at American Made couches by Layzee Boy, as well as lots of other local vendors. The biggest problem we ran into is that the vast majority of the couches that we looked at were delivered fully assembled. Those could not be brought into the motorhome because the openings into the rig are pretty small. There were a couple of rare instances where we might get the couch into the rig, but then the couch was either way too narrow, or way too wide.
We ended up getting a couch from RV renovation supplier RecPro in Indiana. We are very happy with the end result. Check out our video below.
