Laundry and May Expenses

This morning was cloudy, damp and humid and (61F), not a particularly nice morning for a walk but at least it wasn’t raining. I noticed that the irises are starting to come out in the campground garden as you can see from the photo below.

I decided today I needed to get off the couch and the laundry had to be done so off I went to the Laundromat in Carleton Place. That took about 1 ½ hours. I stopped and picked up a few groceries then came home.

It was really humid today with a lot of mosquitoes around – not one of Ottawa’s nice summer days!

Late in the afternoon I went out to get some pictures so I’d have something to post on my blog, so here you are:

This is the owner of the campground going about his duties

The lone iris

This little guy was trying to hide from me

Beautiful, lacy lilacs

Our RV site with all the trees in bloom. Pretty spot, isn't it?

May Expenses

• Campgrounds - $716.60
• Groceries/Wine/Spirits - $517.77
• Laundry - $37.50
• Entertainment/Parking/Restaurants - $286.77
• Truck Fuel -$215.90
• Propane - $25.64
• RV/Truck - $1231.41
• Fixed Expenses - $406.17
• Medical/Dental - $347.75
• Gifts & Misc – $734.31
• Total - $4519.82

Quite a month! You’d think we still had a house and were paying property and school taxes.

However, we did have to replace the truck tires and get a wheel alignment. That was just over $1200.00. We also bought a new UPS battery backup for the computer equipment as our other one calfed.

We also had our weekend in Toronto/Kitchener/Cobourg which was over $300.00 including hotel, food, car rental and the Butterfly Conservatory.

There was also the excess over and above our extended health care for renewing prescriptions, chiropractor, eye doctor and a couple of lab tests.

We renewed our Good Sam membership, Passport America membership, our RV Explorer membership and our ERS as well as Gordon’s domain for gordonwolford.com. (over $360.00).

When you add up all the above items it comes to $2207.75+. If you subtract that from the total you get $2312.07 which isn’t bad for a month in Ontario!