Second Time Around

 Oh what a night!  Every day I'm thankful I wake up alive.  On this night I saw 10:15, 11:35, 2:02 and 4:11 before finally waking up at 4:38 from one of my original horrific dreams.  This was a doozy!  My husband was driving the big RV up a winding hill looking for Patrick Mahomes house.  The road got narrow so I got out to take a look.  In an instant I yelled NO ... ELEVATOR!  He drove the RV right into the elevator shaft where it crashed five stories to the ground.  You can't say I don't have a good imagination.  

There was lots of screaming and yelling as folks below tried to extract someone from the wreck that I didn't know.  They couldn't find my husband.  I'm telling you, something goes wonky in my brain when I sleep.

A few hours later, I walked outside to see this beautiful sunrise.  It instantly made my day all better.

Time to feed the kids, whereupon I realized I did not have enough bird biscuits to last Jonathan on our trip.    I whipped up a quick batch full of yams and sunflower seeds.  Yucky pooh!  But Jon loves them.

I ate one of my cinnamon rolls for breakfast.  I was less than impressed.  Enough so that I got out all the ingredients to make a SECOND batch.  Maybe the second time around will be better.  And better they were.  This time I added butter to the pan bottom and more sugar to the middle.  They came out perfect!

Once done, you turn them upside down on foil to let all the goodness flow out.  When cool, they will go in the freezer.  This is a sugar fest for Christmas morning!!!

Lucky for me, they had just come out of the oven before I got the call.  My friend Renate from Germany who is ever so hard to understand with her accent, called to say her van battery died.  Oh girlfriend ... do I ever have experience with that!

She loves to travel, so when her husband passed away, she bought the same one I have.  One difference, her chassis is the same, but her van build is 2023 while mine is 2024.  Lots of changes there.  

Anyway, I said SURE ... I'll come over and give you a jump.  She had one of those "jump your battery one time" things, but it would not work.  Anyone have experience with those?  It kept beeping at her.  Do you leave it on for a long time before starting?  I pulled into her driveway (thankfully there was room) and got out my jumper cables.  I was a little nervous, as I always think I'm going to get electrocuted.

Did I mentioned it rained all day?  Oh yes, hooking up jumper cables in the rain is such fun!!!

I left my engine running and hooked up the cables.  I told Renate to wait for a few minutes as I had been told.  I finally asked her to start it up and VOILA!!!  It worked!!!  She looked at me funny and said "where did you learn to become a mechanic?"  Honestly, I was just hoping that unlike mine, her lights would work.

An hour later I got a call.  She had a battery light appear on her dash.  Funny, I didn't get that one.  She called and now has an appointment at Mercedes to get it checked out.  Way too much electronics on these things that can get screwed up so easily!  Hopefully I didn't do it when I jumped it.

I spent the rest of the day watching the news and Holiday Baking.  If that doesn't get you baking, I don't know what will.  Here's an interesting one ... rolls in your crockpot.  I'll try it out after Christmas so you don't have to.  I mean what could go wrong?  Besides everything .........

I don't think I have a spare minute this week before I take off.  Lunch today, BINGO, Senior Dinner, Lodge meeting, client year end bookkeeping, packing ..... oh and the RV shop called to say my new shade was in and could I please come get it installed before I leave.  I do not have a minute to spare!!!