Well its all set up and we are getting a 63 this morning. It has been a good signal since thursday. Yea! We will be moving monday and I hope it will keep the signal till then.

We had to make a trip to Walmart in Hastings friday and buy food. The meat here was not the best looking and all the prices are a bit high, more than we want to pay. I put gas in the car at $2.66.9 friday morning and it was $34.00. We will see what the prices are on the way to Hastings.

Made it back from Walmart with $143.00 in food and some cash. It was a bit longer than first thought. some 53 miles one way. And gas is the same price all the way up there. It didnt get any cheaper on the way back. Filling the mh tank with over 35 gallons at $2.66.9 will be expensive. We will check the mpg on this tank and see how we are doing. In may we spent $675.49 in gas, $252.85 in june, $593.00 in july, and the mileage for the mh was 69,462. We started with 66,664 the day we got the mh. We have paid $1.89.9 for gas. The highest so far has been $2.34.9 as I recall. The blog may say different and that will be the highest. So far for aug, we have sent $117.00 and have 71,716 miles on the rv.

We are swapping our rv parking with our gas in the budget. The gas will be low and the parking will be higher. For example, we spent $174.85 for parking in may, $253.26 in june, $99.50 in july and $35.50 so far for august. The more gas costs, the less we drive and the more we park, free to cheap where possible. On our very limited income, SSi only, we have to be a "free loader" when we can. Better planing next year will allow us to seek more free parking, cheaper rv campgrounds and boondocking. With our 2, 120 watt solar panels feeding the new 6 v batteries, 2-115 amp and 4-145 amp, we can park with sunshine for days. We do have to run the genset in the am and pm to get the batteries to full charge. There is not many places in this part of the world to boondock. Next year, plans are to go west.

Other tidbits from the budget, eat out $143.81 in may, $128.49 in june, $147.39 in july, and $71.83 so far in august. Rv repairs and maintance, inluding new parts, $850.69 in may, $990.37 in june, $75.50 in july, none so far in aug. We had a new brake controller installed and then replaced, new 6v batteries, a/c freon (and baby its COLD now), oil change, coolant overflow bottle, and bought some tools and a air compressor for the tires. Getting air for the tires was next to impossible. Was not reachable for us. We also bought a new double wire for the dish that I will install under the coach. This will allow placing of the dish at the front or rear and not have to do any wire disconnects in the coach or run the wire thru an open window.. The modem and router will be permently fixed and wired to the incoming wires at a splitter. The inside will be much neater and we can get rid of the box at our feet. And we still got to much stuff. Some of it will go to the kids and some of it will be donated.

More tid bits of our spending as we go. If and when I set up a page, I'll post the budget for all to see. Let me just say, it will cost a lot more the first couple of months and then it will still be more than you think. To all that add in the rising cost of fuel you buy and the increase in prices due to rising oil prices. The days of cheap fuel are gone and if those in the know are right, it will be $3-4 dollars soon. Most of the cost increase now is world events. In the very near future it will be because the easy oil has been gotten, now we have to pay for the more difficult oil to be reached.