RV Blog--Life in a Box. This just ain't 'camping' any more....

Tuesday, April 29, 2003:

Well, the box is getting too small...no doubt about it. I started sorting my quilting stash, taking out part of it to make room for clothes! LOL! In lots of RVs, you can pull out drawers and put fabric below the bottom drawer. Not here. They've filled all those spots with duct work and such. :(

Dinah // Tuesday, April 29, 2003
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Saturday, April 26, 2003:

It's a beautiful day! To make up for the steady rain all day yesterday! But, today I saw a MOSQUITO! Yuck. Now I'm sure it's time to move out. But, we'll wait for our truck parts and a week in the shop. Her insurance company already sent us the check, for the full amount of the only estimate we gave them!!! No quibbling--just paid up. AND we get a rental pickup, too!

Dinah // Saturday, April 26, 2003
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Thursday, April 24, 2003:

Too cool! My favorite neice has linked to my blog! :) Now I feel like I belong.... LOL! You can visit her knitting blog and read all about her adventures.

Dinah // Thursday, April 24, 2003
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Hubby and dogs are sleeping peacefully, dehydrater is doing it's thing, the coffee is fresh and hot.... :)

I'm thinking that today I should clean out the basement. For those of you who don't know, fifth wheel trailers have a trap door in the bathroom, over a big storage area we call a "basement". Mine is pretty full, and I'm not sure I need everything that's in there. Bread machine stays, of course. So does the crockpot and the bag of canned goods. But there's a lot that should go. I already sent my sewing machine home with Lana--I'd carried it for 2 years and used it once. I replaced it with one of those little $19.95, battery operated ones. The big Rainbow vacuum cleaner and all it's parts is coming out, too. Now that I have my Oreck, I can live without it! :) I'll replace it with the little Shark car vac that's in storage in SD. (The Oreck being an upright that doesn't do corners and such.) We'll see what else I can eliminate....

Supper last nite was fun. Called Donna and we took a bag of salad fixin's to their house, to go with John's pot of beans. Had a great visit and she got the dishes--but she has a dishwasher, so I don't feel a bit guilty! :) They are among the folks we miss the most when we're out West.

Dinah // Thursday, April 24, 2003
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Wednesday, April 23, 2003:

It sure is quiet with my daughter, the yarndiva gone off to Florida. We do spend a lot of time on the phone--her being one of my bestest friends and all.... :)

Well, it looks like we could be stuck here a bit longer, waiting for parts to fix the damage to the truck. But the good news is that the woman's insurance company is being ever so obliging! I'm in shock! He looked at our dually and shook his head and said, "I don't know if I'll be able to find one of these for a rental, but I'll try. I doubt in Enterprise has one..."! YIKES! I let him off the hook and told him we'd be just fine with a regular truck. :) He agreed to everything on the estimate and anything else that turned up that needed fixed! And I was all ready for battle--and will be grateful not to have to fight for repairs. Maybe the SD license plate did it. He may be thanking his lucky stars that they aren't having to pay for a campground, or to get us out to SD?

Yesterday, Kizzee the Cat-dog came close to a tragic end--when I came home to discover that she had hopped onto the table, knocked down the rubbermaid container fullof freshly made deer jerkey, gotten the lid off and consumed all but 3 pieces. Oh, lordy, I was pissed(pardon my language).She doesn't know it yet, but that little stunt was the last straw. From now on, she gets to wait for us in her carrier when we leave them indoors. Molly-the-good-dog can stay loose in the coach, but Kizzee's days of getting into the trash, onto the table, onto the kitchen counter are finished. Gotta laugh, tho. She has been drinking a LOT of water since she ate the jerky! And I doubt she'll enjoy 'passing' that pepper.

On today's "To Do" list is buying ground beef and making another batch of jerky. Won't be as good as the deer...

Dinah // Wednesday, April 23, 2003
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Tuesday, April 22, 2003:

And so, we will be bugging out around Cinco de Mayo, headed for the Black Hills of South Dakota. Now, you'd think that living a "mobile life" would mean that there wouldn't be much packing to do. WRONG. We've been sitting here for 4 months and our stuff seems to have exploded all over the interior of the rig. *sigh* All the chotskies have to be packed, and the 'extra' stuff stashed in the garage. There goes my dryer. :( And some of my computer stuff goes into a box. Winter clothes have to be boxed and stored in my favorite daughter's garage until she send them out next fall. Busy, busy. Needless to say, I didn't have time for a car wreck yesterday. Bluck! Dumb woman look right at me, going down the highway minding my own business, and then pulled into the side of the truck. Trashed the front of her car, uglied up my dually bed, and really entertained the grandson. No one hurt, but now we have to wait for parts and get the truck fixed. Back to the packing....

Dinah // Tuesday, April 22, 2003
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Sunday, April 20, 2003:

Life in an RV is pretty cool. This is our third year, and, altho it took some adjusting and we still have to have places to store our 'stuff', it's easier than living in a 2 story house! The laundrymat gig has been the worst, I think. But, now I can wash in the RV and I have a nice big dryer on site, so life is way better! :)

Dinah // Sunday, April 20, 2003
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Saturday, April 19, 2003:

I'm not sure what I'm doing here.

Dinah // Saturday, April 19, 2003
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Friday, April 18, 2003:

Hi, here is my test blog! My daughter, the Yarndiva, made me do it! :)

So, I really live in a box. A very expensive, comfortable box, with wheels. We tow it around with one of those BIG pickup trucks with extra tires. We're Gypsies, more or less. Sometimes we live in IL, and sometimes we live in SD. Right now, we're getting ready to head back to the Black Hills so my hubby can drive great big pieces of equipment and build highways and such for the next 6 months.

My main obsessions are quilting and our one and only grandchild. Much more on those later! :)

Dinah // Friday, April 18, 2003
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