Another Slow Halloween

One huge difference between living in a 55+ adult neighborhood vs a family neighborhood is Halloween night. There hasn't been a time yet when we have had a trick-or-treater knock on our door. That is both good and bad. It's bad because we miss the little kids in their cute costumes and we always end up eating the little bit of candy we buy in case we do get trick-or-treaters. It's good because we have another quiet evening at home. Also, it's good that we don't get to see the big kids that stay out to all hours of the night getting as much candy as they possibly can, and doing it with little or no costumes or Halloween spirit and playing havoc with the little kids.

It always seems like Halloween greases the skids for Christmas. The time between Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas flies by every year. Actually, we have been seeing Christmas goods in the stores for a couple weeks now. I can't believe that people are putting up trees this early, but we've seen some (artificial) being carried out of the stores already. Maybe they are just buying them now while they have the money. It certainly isn't a good time to buy at this time of the year to get the best price.

We have an appointment today with an RV Mobile Repair service that is going to replace the "dead" water pump we have. This is the fourth time that we have had a pump fail and the tech told us that Shur-Flo finally has discontinued the model that we have been using. We've been forced to put in the same model up to now in order to satisfy the warranty requirements. It was the top-of-the-line model that they had and we're sure we aren't the only ones having a problem with this model. Now, we are getting the new pump under the extended warranty we purchased on the entire fifth wheel. We are hoping that it goes smoothly as this is the first claim we've had with this warranty. That appointment is early this afternoon, so we have to make sure we are home. Actually, the only thing we have planned for this morning is our trip to the fitness center, so it shouldn't be a problem...