Furniture Shopping & House Decorating Notebook

Saturday I took Tinker to Muttlee Crew Pet Care to get his 3-year rabies shot at the mobile vet that was there and it cost $30 for the shot. Tinker isn't due for the rest of his shots until April and by then we will have gotten a vet in Sebastian.

I signed up for Angie's List this week for the Sebastian-Vero Beach area and got a discount for the annual cost by using PayPal ($16 instead of $20).

Sunday we went to Perkins and met my brother and family and our friends Mary and Bill for lunch - which is what we usually do on Sundays. Afterwards we stopped by my brother's house and visited with him, Elaine and my nephew David.

Mike has been checking prices on rental moving trucks for when we go back up to Dothan to get our stuff out of our storage unit. He found out

Day Trip to Vero Beach & Shopping for the house

Last Saturday when we were at HHGregg, we saw Muttlee Crew Pet Care in the same shopping center and decided to have Tinker groomed there. We called and made him an appointment for yesterday. They did a great job grooming him and charged us $45 which is about the average we pay. They are having a mobile vet clinic on Saturday and I'm going to take Tinker in to get his rabies shot which is due this month.

We left Kissimmee this morning a little before 9:00. Since we were going to be gone all day, we took Tinker with us. We stopped in St. Cloud at a 7-Eleven to get gas in the car and paid $3.459 a gallon. Gas prices in the area have been rising and this was the cheapest gas around today.

We met our friends Christine and Carol at JP Matty's in Sebastian for lunch and had a good visit. They both use the same electrician and are going to e-mail us his contact information.

After lunch we drove over to the title company in Sebastian that will be handling our closing and got the information we needed so we can have the funds for the closing costs wired to their bank.

We drove by the house and saw that the owners had a rental truck there and were loading items into it. We didn't stop and continued on down to the south end of Vero Beach.

We had seen a dining room set at the Kaleidoscope Consignment shop when we here last month and were hoping that it was still there.

Shopping & Eating Out in Kissimmee

Last Saturday we went to Sam's Club, BJ's and HHGregg looking at TV's. When we were at HHGregg we were looking at 2 Samsung TV's that were next to each other and trying to decide which had the better picture. The salesman went into the menu on each TV and changed 1 of them so they both had the same settings. That was a great help in comparing the TVs and this was the first ever salesperson who ever offered to do that.

We stopped at Olive Garden for lunch on Saturday and had their unlimited Soup and Salad. Mike ordered the Pasta Fagioli soup and I had the Chicken Gnocchi. We normally change to a different soup for our second helping, but didn't this time.

Monday Mike took this photo of Tinker with his favorite pillow.

From Kissimmee 2013

Yesterday we had a craving for Mexican food, so we went for dinner at Abuelo's. We weren't hungry enough for the

Breakfast & Shopping at Ikea

Tuesday morning we drove up to Ikea in Orlando and arrived there at 9:30 before the store opens. We went up to the restaurant and had breakfast. Ikea offers their small breakfast plate (scrambled eggs, bacon & potatoes) for free Monday thru Friday. We ordered a couple of other items from the breakfast menu in addition to the small breakfast plate so our total for breakfast was $2.43.

We walked through Ikea looking at living room tables, chairs, beds and office chairs. We made a list of the items that we liked in case we decide to buy those items at a later date.

Before going back to the RV we stopped at a RaceTrac and paid $3.199 a gallon for gas in the Vue.

Before we move into the house after the closing, we want to have our 50amp electric box installed and have the house and carpets professionally cleaned. So we decided to extend our reservation at Sunshine Travel RV Resort for a second week at the $120 a week rate. We may not need the extra week, but it will give us additional time in case we can't have the work scheduled right away.

Not much going on

We haven't done much the last few days that would be news worthy. I did a few loads of laundry at the campground's laundry. They have 4 washers and 3 dryers. The washers cost $1.75 a load and the dryers cost $.50 for 30 minutes  (1 dryer) and $.75 for 45 minutes (2 dryers).

Last Sunday we joined my brother and family for lunch at Perkins. Their friends Mary and Bill (& now our friends) were there also. We always have a good time visiting and Sunday lunch at Perkins is now a habit.

Mike went online today and made a reservation at Sunshine Travel RV Resort for a week starting Feb. 26. They are running a special price and it will cost us $120 for the week. We are having the house closing on Feb. 27 and that will give us a week to have a few things done before we move in.

Mike also ordered a house filter system from Vitasalus, Inc. for our new house to supplement the water softener system that is already there. Since the filter system is fairly large, we are having it sent to my brother's house to store for the time being.

Moved to Aloha RV Park

We didn't have much to do this morning to break camp since we weren't connected to any hookups. We drove the 4 miles from the church property to Aloha RV Park. The owner Ray wasn't in the office and one of the residents drove his golf cart to where Ray was working to tell him were at the office.

We paid $395 for the month which included a $15 deposit for the security gate remote. Ray gave us a calendar of events for the campground and told us that they were having a spaghetti dinner tonight at the Rec Hall at 5:00.

Then we followed Ray down to our campsite and he directed Mike as he

Moving to Aloha RV Park tomorrow

The last couple of days have been interesting and hectic to say the least. First we called the Osceola County land use enforcement inspector yesterday morning (Monday was a holiday) and explained to him that we had my brother's permission to park on the property. We told the inspector that people had been dumping trash on the property and someone had even dumped a kitchen stove there and that my brother wanted us there for security purposes.

The inspector said we would need to file for a permit with the Zoning Board and he would give us a week to start the process and we could stay on the property while we waited for approval.

Long story short - we drove down to the county offices yesterday morning to pick up the paperwork from the Zoning Department  to start the process for us to get a permit to park at the church property. It was going to cost