It is almost time to wind things down here in Coffeyville, Kansas. We are tired and ready to hit the road. I keep hoping they will tell us that they are done with us but no such luck as of right now . We will be finished on Wednesday at the end of our shift.

The work here has been slow and they are sometimes finding things for us to do. Usually we are stowing books or product on shelves. But the other day they had double shifts on Wednesday all day so Bill, I and a couple of other people got sent to "VDF"..we still haven't figured out what that stands for! But we packaged single items to be mailed. Each of the items were in totes that came down on a conveyor belt. We grabbed a tote and entered each item in the computer. Put it in a padded envelope, then added a barcode sticker on the outside of the book "holder" or envelope and sent it on another conveyor to have a mailing address label added then out the door I guess. We did this for 10 hours the other day. The time did go by pretty fast and we both enjoyed it. It was something different anyway.
We were scheduled to have overtime Thursday but they cancelled it so we have had a nice 3 days off.

We plan on leaving Coffeyville Thursday morning for Topeka. We are really looking forward to spending time with the kids. It will be a short time and busy. We are meeting Patty and Cecil for lunch on Friday.

We will have Christmas day dinner with the kids at Erin and Ryan's. They will then to Ryan's family for supper. We will leave Sunday morning to begin our journey to Arizona. Hopefully the weather will remain halfway decent for us to travel without worrying about the weather. The outlook looks fairly good so far.

Do you like our Christmas tree outside made from our satellite stand? Thanks for the great idea Bobbie and Jim! :) I must have left 1 other Christmas tub in Lawrence because I couldn't find some of the things I was looking for...oh well...we had plenty out...

I have been busy making a stuffed monkey doll for Lauren. She loves the story... " Eight Monkey's Jumping on the Bed". This weekend is the first weekend in a few we have had an extra day to get some things done.

We haven't had much moisture since we had the rains several weeks ago. We missed all the ice and such last week...thank goodness as we had our share of frozen water hoses. Our sewer pipe didn't freeze anyway but our hoses did. We are not cut out for the cold weather in our RV's. Everyone at work that we talked to had frozen hoses and some didn't have all season RV's the way ours is. That means no extra insulation for warmth...which means more problems for them.

More RV's are beginning to leave the park. It will be a mass exodus on Thursday morning I'm sure as that is when our contract is done.

So this is what has been happening to us lately.... not much ....just biding our time so we can "get the heck out of Dodge!"....

Until next time!
BJ