Are we in the home stretch yet?

The first week of Sept. was nice temperature wise and we took another night ride on the bike to Carefree Hwy and back and the temperature was a nice 78º.  We are looking forward to cooler weather so we can actually SEE the countryside when we ride!

The second week of Sept. we received an offer on the Prescott house and after several back and forth’s we finally agreed to a price and are waiting to close in the next week or so.  It will be nice to have one 'stress factor' out of the way.

I first had a pick up pizza shop and then I had a pizza delivery shop and third we went to a Mexican restaurant in Scottsdale for a nice evening meal for another shop.  I have decided three shops so close together in two weeks was more than I care to do again so I am planning on taking the month of October off from shops.  We did enjoy the food though!

Pizza from the pick up shop

When I went out to dump the MH I found the black valve leaking so we quickly ordered new valves through Amazon and they were delivered the next day (with Prime) so that evening Larry  replaced both the black and the gray waste valves since they are such a pain to replace.  It got dark before he finished so I 'helped' by holding a light.  He was really glad when that job was done and hopefully it won’t need to be done again anytime soon.  He last replaced them in 2008.  It is one of the “less desirable things” about RVing but not enough to make us quit.

Our five year old printer died (it was printing brown instead of black even though we put in a new black cartridge) so we bought a new one.  So far we are pleased with it and it is much faster than the old new.

Dawn and Vince’s new house broke ground on August 24 and on September 24 it looked like the following picture.  Once they started on it, it has gone like gangbusters!  Larry was talking to one of the framers and he knew our son Todd from Schuck & Sons days in 1990 and was there when Todd was injured on the job.  Talk about a small world!

What the property looked like Aug 24, 2015

Lowering a tress onto the roof with a crane

The property on Sept 24, 2015

We ended the month by meeting our grandson Alex and his mother at the bank to get a bond settled that his great grandmother bought him in 1996.  It was good to see them.