Week of 27 June

It was nice when I woke Sunday morning, but heard thunder in distance. So it soon started to rain and rained off and on all day and night, sometimes very hard. The weather was bothering Loretta's artheritus, so she opted out of going to church with me to the Adrian, MO UMC Church. She was missed.

After church, I stoped by and got her and we went to Harrisonville for lunch and some shopping. While we were out, we decided to go to the next exit at Peculiar for fuel at the Flying J there. What with the wet roads and construction areas, we saw 3 accidents in just a few miles. Heard truckers talking about several more in the area also.

I have been having problems opening several Web Pages on the internet. Problem seems to be in our computer and I had hoped to call Microsoft or Hewlett Packard to follow up on the work we had done last weekend. However for some reason I ran out of time and never got to it, so in the evening, I called our ex-business partner Russ Pillsbury to tap his vast computer knowledge Russ built his first PC from scratch when they weren't available and now works with computers and software for a living.

We went over what had already been done. Then he suggested downloading 2 files. The first CWShredder.exe searched our computer for certain objectionable files. As far as I could tell, it found none. The second Highjackthis.exe found a great number of files that had been attacked. Apparently the Windows XP Firewall is far from perfect.

One page I could not get to was the Windows Update page. I found that on the list and fixed it and was then able to find and download the latest Critical Updates. I also located several others on the list including my Homepage and Yahoo Mail which I had the program fix and can now access these pages also. There are many others but will wait and study these out before accidently deleting any needed files.

June 23

No travel today. Spent day with Cliff and computer. Also gave the 5th Wheel a good cleaning inside. That takes quite a while.

Andy and Loretta

Trying something new

We are trying something new on our RV Travel postings.

At this time, we have been at Crescent Hill Farm (Cliff & Lorraine (Loretta's sister) Steffee near Adrian, MO for 2 weeks.

Have as usual done a lot of visiting and catching up. We also have done a few trailer projects. The most pressing was a damaged hose connector for the drain hose. This made it difficult to get a secure connection when draining. As occasionally there was also a seepage from the black water tank, I installed an additional drain valve with a new hose connection external to the trailer. Hopefully this will solve both of these problems.

For health reasons we have not engaged in the usual "Dining Out". Weather has been changeable with some strong but quite short storms, some hot,humid days, and some beautiful weather.

We will probably move on in the near future as we do plan on some sightseeing and perhaps visiting on our way to the Avion Travelcade Club rendezvous in Boise, ID.

Andy & Loretta