Another prediction comes true. A few days ago Tom mentioned that the truck’s shell should be ready by today, and I said, nope, Wednesday. Well, he called them today and they said they couldn’t do it till then. Meanwhile, that’ll be the day he’ll list the furniture. He wants to do it when he can be available more often.

It said there was 23¢ postage due on the envelope I got today containing a couple of chapters from that religious book Mary’s been sending, but they never charged us for it. I guess it’s either because of all the packages Tom mails or maybe someone stamped it on by accident. Either way, I’ll tell her to go one chapter at a time. Also, not to bother sending anything after the 1st at the latest, since things are looking like they’re going to be on schedule after all. The last week is going to be crazy, though, with us trying to get rid of everything that’s not going with us. If worse came to worst, though, and we just can’t get everything to go, we’ll leave it here or put it on consignment and have them send us a check when it sells. I highly doubt that Huey, unlike the people who bought the Phoenix house, would put up a stink about it. Besides, what could he do with us 1000 miles away? He would simply have his people haul it away. This is quite different than bits of old roofing that individual owners have to deal with clearing away themselves.

I noticed Mary skipped a couple of chapters. Perhaps she felt that the ones she skipped would offend me. Like maybe it was full of anti-gay references. Religious people do tend to be as prejudiced against gays as I am with blacks and Mexicans.

I’m not only not going to miss the dust, but I’m not going to miss the ants and the intense winds either! Today’s the millionth time the hissing winds woke me up. The winds suck because they make outdoor activities hard. In Oregon, we may have rainy days delaying us from building, but we could still be cutting wood in the garage and doing other things. They don’t have such vicious storms there either, I guess. That’s why this particular forest isn’t at risk for forest fires in the way some others are. You don’t have so much thunder and lightning there which is what makes forest fires.

Tom went into Casa Grande for some taillight bulbs, a gas cap, and a few other odds and ends he thought the RV could use.

He’s also going to have someone come out to replace the windshield for $210, saying it’d cost us more than that if we were pulled over just once.

Anyway, just two weeks to go now, assuming we do leave on the 7th!

Later…

Went walking outside a little while ago. It’s so beautiful. When it’s hot, the wind can be as nice as it can be annoying.

We walked down to the big ugly water tank. It had a series of numbers on its side like a measuring cup. The thing can hold 3000 gallons of water. That’s a lot! They’ll need it when the pump breaks in ’06. The tank is made of plastic and I’m surprised it can hold all that water.

I shut the AC off and opened the windows when the sun dropped behind the mountain.