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

Of course, as usual, it's been revised! Like, we were supposed to leave Nov. 2, but it'll be more like the 5th or 6th before we get outa here! The 'dog box' for the truck isn't due to be finished being painted until tomorrow, and then it still has to have the windows installed, rear window has to come out of the truck cab and a 'boot' installed between the cab and the sleeper, the generator is ready to be installed, finally...and then we were blessed yesterday by 'unexpected' meat to process quickly, thanks to the unusually warm weather! Not that I'm complaining! I'd been telling everyone that we couldn't leave here with an empty freezer..... LOL! Guess they want us to leave????

Meanwhile, I've been slowly filling every little nook and cranny in this 'box'! Took out a bunch of unnecessary clothes, brought in a mountain of quilting fabric--priorities, ya know! :) I've about decided that the Christmas tree will have to be wrapped in plastic and tied to the rear ladder on the fifth wheel tho..... LOL! I'm thinking that we can probably put the down parkas and the boots in storage for the winter, tho... along with the insulated gloves, stocking caps, long underwear, wool socks (I love my handmade wool socks!), and the arctic weight down comforter.... Put all that in a box marked SOUTH DAKOTA! And then filled the space with all the accumulated photos, negatives, and old albums which are going to be my winter project. Gotta sort, and put stuff into new, acid-free albums and throw away or send to friends a lot of the pics that won't mean a thing to our kids....

Do ya remember the singing "Billy Bass" from a few years ago? "Don't Worry, Be Happy"! "Take Me To The River"! Our grandson had to have one when he was about 3--only his daddy made us bring it back to our place for him to play with. So, it's been hanging in the garage and he plays with it some. The other day he took it out to the storage 'shed' (read-- old mobile home)and carefully set it up so that the next time I went out there to store something away and opened the door--I was greeted by a singing fish! I nearly dropped the stuff I was carrying! Decided to leave it for anyone who gets nosy and wants to see what we've got stored in there this winter..... lol! He's only 7. I wonder what teenage has in store for us......!

Time to turn the jerky in the dehydrator and then make ready to go to the nursing home and visit Mom on her 77th birthday.

Don't worry--be happy now.....

Oh my gosh! A whole paragraph without a single mention of our beautiful little granddaughter! She's 3 weeks old today! And beginning to focus on faces and wave her arms and show hints of her personality! It is going to be soooooo hard to leave here!!!

Meanwhile, the truck 'sleeper' is in the process of getting windows installed, so the driver can see behind him and the dogs can see to bark at anyone and anything! Truck itself is pretty much functional, and by the weekend we should begin piling stuff into all those lovely, expensive aluminum storage boxes! Even got a spot for our 2-year-old-never-had-gas-in-it generator!

Our talented daughter and s-i-l are going to smuggle us into their band's big gig on the 30th. A block party! We'll get to see the "vintage people" in action, hear some old tunes and watch Josh work his magic with the sound equipment before we leave town!

And now, off to put more chatchkees into boxes and find a place to put the boxes....

Meanwhile, hubby is temporarily employed driving one of the above trucks. He's also working frantically on finishing his Big Bird. It now has a fifthwheel hitch!!! Now he's overhauling the sleeper that will sit behind the cab and give the 'girls' a place to snooze while we're on the road.

My job is to overhaul the inside of this 'box' and make it ready for travel. After the summer we've had, that's a CHORE! Today's project is to find a place to store the massive piles of albums and boxes of unmounted pictures. That's my "winter project". I plan to return in the Spring with everything sorted and stuck into albums for each of the kids, complete with names and dates. We'll see how that goes.....