New Friends and Joplin

We had a very nice time having dinner with Jeanne and Jack Albers. We decided to go to Lannings and local restaurant downtown. As we were getting into the truck here comes a car that stops and a lady comes out saying "Chappy, Chappy is that you?" Turns out to be someone we have "chatted" with on Workampers News discussion forum with the handle "hisgirl". Her name is Monica and she was visiting relatives in Santa Fe the same time we were seeing our daughters there. We missed each other by one day from meeting there. So we invited Monica to join us for dinner and she did. So we had a table full of seven.

We munched on burgers and sandwiches and it was pretty good. Lannings is one of only a few independent restaurants available and it is frequented by locals. We had a good time "introducing" ourselves and telling our story of becoming fulltimers. Monica works the same shift we do and the Albers work days on the "donut" shift - Monday, Tuesday, off Wednesday and work Thursday and Friday, thus it is called the "donut" shift.

Today we took off for Joplin to return the XM radio boombox we bought last week. It was nice to just get out of Coffeyville for the day. After returning it we stopped and ate at Ryan's Buffet and I savored their pulled pork and fried chicken.....they do them very well.

Now it is just lazing around, napping and enjoying a sunny day. Got a call from Larry and Claudia King who work for amazon last year. They are on their way in from Joplin and called to see if there were any spots opened here in Heritage....sadly there isn't, so they will have to go to Walter Johnson. Spots are getting hard to find now.

Jim walked the dogs and heard one of the amazon folks say that he was told last night that Stowers were going to go to mandatory five day weeks - hopefully it will only be ten hour days. The week after that we are suppose to go to eleven hour shifts in In-Bound.....they will have some problems if they impose mandatory 55 hour weeks.....I can't do it, I know! Overtime money would be good but-t-t-t-t....the body can only do so much at my age. I'll let you know.

Remember, you are loved.