The day started out pretty nice. Lots of blue skies.
Showing posts with label 2018 March Knoxville/STL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2018 March Knoxville/STL. Show all posts
Monday, March 19, 2018
3-18-18 a walk through Carl Cowen park with Tim and Faith and Jesse:
Since it was Sunday, we spent another day with the "kids". It was a nice sunny day for a change, so we decided to take Jesse for a walk. With Carl Cowen park right down the street from their house, we headed there.
Spring is on it's way in Knoxville! Even have wildflowers growing
Since it was Sunday, we spent another day with the "kids". It was a nice sunny day for a change, so we decided to take Jesse for a walk. With Carl Cowen park right down the street from their house, we headed there.
Saturday, March 17, 2018
Friday, March 16, 2018
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
3-13-2018 a disappointing trip to the Social Security Office!
No pictures today, but I feel I have to mention today's fiasco! Now that I'm about to turn 62, I was excited to sign up for Social Security benefits! That is until I did!!! I actually did it online back in Georgia, but they sent me a message saying I had to bring my proof of birth to the Florissant office before it could be completed. Hadn't needed them in quite some time, so it took a while to find all our papers. Some were here, some were there ... . But eventually I had my SR-240 Certificate of Child Born Abroad of American Parents. Until I got a passport (which was left in Georgia), that was the one and only proof of US citizenship that I had. So imagine my shock and aggravation when the worker at the office said she couldn't use it since she needed a 6 digit number to put in the form on her computer! So they revamped their forms about 10 or 15 years ago, rendering the old original forms useless! Plus, when my Social Security card was issued, someone didn't do their job right and didn't tie it to US citizenship. Could they call someone in Washington???---No---"they are the government!" I can't believe I'm the first child born abroad of US parents that they've come across!!! So I left unregistered and really ticked off! --- and, according to them, not a US citizen! Hopefully it'll all be corrected when we're back in Georgia and I can show them my US Passport---which, by the way, I had to use that SR-240 form in order to get!
And if that wasn't annoying enough, I had a couple RCI wait list exchanges come available and when I called to accept one of them, the first gal tried to tell me if I didn't have the cancellation insurance and cancelled, it would cost us the points and about $800. I told her I'd call and talk to someone else. I did and that person told me I had to deposit the points first, which I know I don't since that's a VIP privilege. So I decided to see if I could book it online by myself. I could and I did---no fee for cancellations and no need to pre deposit the points. I'm really beginning to wonder about the world and all the incompetent people we have working in it!
No pictures today, but I feel I have to mention today's fiasco! Now that I'm about to turn 62, I was excited to sign up for Social Security benefits! That is until I did!!! I actually did it online back in Georgia, but they sent me a message saying I had to bring my proof of birth to the Florissant office before it could be completed. Hadn't needed them in quite some time, so it took a while to find all our papers. Some were here, some were there ... . But eventually I had my SR-240 Certificate of Child Born Abroad of American Parents. Until I got a passport (which was left in Georgia), that was the one and only proof of US citizenship that I had. So imagine my shock and aggravation when the worker at the office said she couldn't use it since she needed a 6 digit number to put in the form on her computer! So they revamped their forms about 10 or 15 years ago, rendering the old original forms useless! Plus, when my Social Security card was issued, someone didn't do their job right and didn't tie it to US citizenship. Could they call someone in Washington???---No---"they are the government!" I can't believe I'm the first child born abroad of US parents that they've come across!!! So I left unregistered and really ticked off! --- and, according to them, not a US citizen! Hopefully it'll all be corrected when we're back in Georgia and I can show them my US Passport---which, by the way, I had to use that SR-240 form in order to get!
And if that wasn't annoying enough, I had a couple RCI wait list exchanges come available and when I called to accept one of them, the first gal tried to tell me if I didn't have the cancellation insurance and cancelled, it would cost us the points and about $800. I told her I'd call and talk to someone else. I did and that person told me I had to deposit the points first, which I know I don't since that's a VIP privilege. So I decided to see if I could book it online by myself. I could and I did---no fee for cancellations and no need to pre deposit the points. I'm really beginning to wonder about the world and all the incompetent people we have working in it!
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
3-12-2018 Knoxville - St. Louis in a snow storm:
Our weekend of pet sitting went quickly. In addition to a trip up to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, we also went to a movie and ate at a couple of our favorite places in West Knoxville. We even got to visit with the kids 2 nights.
When Monday rolled around, Tim headed off to work and Ken, Faith, and myself headed off to St. Louis. Faith's step mom had cancer surgery and Faith wanted to go and help Brenda and her Dad for the 5 nights we were there. I'm sure Brenda appreciated it! We sure do have special daughter and son -in-laws!
On to our 8 hour drive to St. Louis----another first for us---snow in the East Tennessee mountains!
It was almost a white out with as hard as it snowed.
Our weekend of pet sitting went quickly. In addition to a trip up to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, we also went to a movie and ate at a couple of our favorite places in West Knoxville. We even got to visit with the kids 2 nights.
When Monday rolled around, Tim headed off to work and Ken, Faith, and myself headed off to St. Louis. Faith's step mom had cancer surgery and Faith wanted to go and help Brenda and her Dad for the 5 nights we were there. I'm sure Brenda appreciated it! We sure do have special daughter and son -in-laws!
On to our 8 hour drive to St. Louis----another first for us---snow in the East Tennessee mountains!
Friday, March 9, 2018
3-8-2018 heading up to Knoxville
Time to head back up to Knoxville and watch the pup and kitty while Tim and Faith went to Asheville for the weekend. It was about a 3 1/2 hour ride, but a rather pretty one. Georgia is looking like Spring is here. At least Spring is starting. Of course, we'll be continuing on to St. Louis after the weekend in Knoxville and back to winter! So I'm enjoying the little bit of spring along our way.
This time we took SR 20 straight to I-75----no stopping at gardens or waterfalls. Probably would have if I hadn't gone to the gardens yesterday.
Time to head back up to Knoxville and watch the pup and kitty while Tim and Faith went to Asheville for the weekend. It was about a 3 1/2 hour ride, but a rather pretty one. Georgia is looking like Spring is here. At least Spring is starting. Of course, we'll be continuing on to St. Louis after the weekend in Knoxville and back to winter! So I'm enjoying the little bit of spring along our way.
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