Need some feed back

Sherri is working this week and I am here alone. I have plenty to keep me busy with the screened in porch project and the biggest of all tasks cleaning out my shop.
I got up this morning and made coffee went in the bath room and took my shower. Ready to face the day and get to work in the shop. WOW! what a daunting task this is. Upon opening the door to the shop I realized that there was more to this than I had imagined.
I use to have a 16 by 32 foot shop with all the power tools in it that a guy could want. Now I am down to 14 foot by 14 foot and no room to walk. Much of this is my fault...I should of got a larger building but with my budget at the time it did not allow that. OK WAWAWA I need to get to work and get some room out here so I can work with out tripping over something.
I talked to my good friend Mark Hall the other day. http://rvingwithpoppa.blogspot.com/ He had called me in response to my post about the new Jeep. Seems he and Dortha had purchased a new Jeep sometime back and he was calling to find out about mine. Mark and Dortha have been our good friends for almost 13 years now. We have shared many good times together and look forward to many good times to come. Mark has been my adviser on MH...Jeeps...and much more over time. Now he and Dortha are into target shooting and motorcycle riding... so I guess I will have to get with him on what type of pistol to buy. I will have to draw the line on motorcycles. I had too many misses when I owned mine...so I will have to just stick with the Jeep.
We are still tossing plans around on where to go when we leave here. Not even sure what the date will be when we pull out but it will be in February for sure. I know that time of year we will be moving south but where is still a question mark.
I guess I better get to work out in the shop and get it in order. I hope that it stays cool today...I have no AC in the shop and depend on cool weather to keep me from melting out there.
I will check back in with everyone as soon as I get caught up on all that I have to do here...

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A dream fulfilled

I know it is dirty but it has been raining 

When the rain stops I will get some pictures taken outside 

For the longest time I have been wanting a real Jeep. You know like the ones we had overseas in the war. The ones that had no top no doors and the windshield laid down! Well I found one...not quite. Sherri did have some input and she drew the line at the small Jeep but did compromise for the larger Sahara model.






Yes I went and bought a new Jeep Sahara Wrangler. The top and doors do come off and the windshield lays down but we have room inside for Kris and some supplies.She let me test drive the two door but told me that I would not have one of those in this lifetime. I settled for the other and still think it is the coolest thing since sliced bread.
It has the navigation system built in with plenty of speakers for the radio and telephone. MP3 player hook up and DVD player. What more could a guy ask for. I guess I could ask for an Inverter but it has one of those built in too. OK life is good.




I am biting at the bit to strip her down and head to the mountains for my first road trip. It will be just me and Kris in the mountains. Sherri says it is too cold up there with no roof doors and windshield. I could not talk her into riding with us if we ran the heater and she wrapped up in a blanket. Oh well I think she will give in when we get there. Maybe we will stay down in lower elevations until she gets use to it.
I already have some trails picked out up around Creede Colorado that look interesting. There are some lakes up in the mountains that are calling me and my fly rod. Stream too that want me to try them out. Kris and I will be spending a lot of time looking for the next fishing hole...

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Lining up some projects for the week

Sherri and I are planning on taking the week off from work to get some things done around the MH and also some doctor appointments that Sherri needs to make. We have three months left to get things done so we can leave on our first journey. Seems like a long time until you start listing all the things that you have to get done before you can leave and then you realize that there is not that much time to work it all in.
I have an electrical project for the back screened in porch. I am putting in some lights wall plugs and a ceiling fan. I will have to do a take off on all the material that I need so I can go pick it up at the first of the week. Looks like the weather will be cooperating with me. Weather man says the temps should be cooling off for the next few days and that is good.
I am sitting out here in the barn/office/laundry room reading journals and listening to my Native American music that I love so much. I can't wait to head out to the desert and crank up my music as I discover new places that I have never seen before. No music is as peaceful as this.
While out here I managed to type out this post. I have been slow in posting here of late due to the work schedule that we have been working under. I know it is for the short term and I will be free to roam before long and when that time comes I will be able to write more. It is hard to relay the day to day drudgery of working. Who in their right mind would want to sit down and read about that. I can promise you this my adventures will be worth reading about and maybe some day my kids can follow in our footsteps as we travel this wonderful land.
Until then I will continue to sit here and listen to the heavenly sounds of the Sioux and Comanche flutes as they fill the air with the mystical sounds of long ago...

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Off for the week

Sherri and I made it back home last night. We arrived here about 7:00 pm and unloaded the Jeep. It sure was good to be back in the MH. Hotel rooms are not my favorite place to be but we spend so much of our time in them that when we get home it is so sweet.
Our company let us know upon leaving our last assignment that they did not have any sets coming up so they would have to assigns us some merchandising jobs close to home if we needed the hours. I let them know that I did not need the hours and I would take the next week off. Sherri is still pondering the idea of working.
It is never hard for me to turn down work. I enjoy the time at home doing my projects that are getting me ready to leave next January.
January is not that far off! October is here so that means I only have November and December to go. Sherri will be signing up for her retirement this month and then we can settle on our budget and get ready for the maiden voyage out and about.
We have not made any decision on where we will be heading but it should be fun no matter where our plans take us...

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