Hanging around the house

The morning started out with coffee and the usual Sherri playing her games on line and me reading journals. The weather was going to be nice today so after coffee I headed out to the garage to work on getting it cleaned up and ready for my work bench which I will be building. I have a whole barn full of woodworking tools that will need to be brought over and I have to have somewhere to stow all the odds and ends I have.
This is just one of the many projects I have to do before the real hot summer weather moves in. I want all the exhausting jobs done before the temps go up.
We started painting the living room and the entry this past weekend. It is hard to cover the peach color. It was a satin finish and we are going over it with a flat, which makes it that much harder to cover.
Our furniture will be here this week and we want to have the painting all done before that. I bought me a 7ft ladder from Wally World to paint the vaulted ceiling in the living room. I don't look forward to being up that high but it has to be done.
The kids bought me a 50 inch TV for my birthday. WOW is it cool or what! I can sit there in the den on one side and see the TV all the way across the room. It is also a 3d TV! Talk about neat!
OK nuff said this morning I need to get started on the next project before its time to hit the hay...

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Sherri is gone shopping

I wont be using green but I will be painting 

While Sherri was out shopping with her sister in law I stayed at home and caught up on some journal reading. That did not take that long so I watched a little TV which I don't normally have time to do during the day.
Really over all it was a do nothing day so that is exactly what I did....nothing.
We are slowly moving into the house now. Like I said Sherri is out looking at furniture and all kinds of homey stuff. We went out the other day and ended up with more stuff for the RV than we did for the house. Go figure!
Our truck will not fit in the garage. All the garages I have ever built were 24 foot by that again and you could get a truck in them. Not this one. I guess with all the little compact cars now days they don't build them that large anymore. Oh well we might take in the laundry room and then we can get the truck in there. We would still have room for a stacking washer dryer combination on the other side of the laundry room that we don't use. This will be a project down the road.
Painting is our big thing now. Seems like the couple that owned this house before us was from Florida. They like the peach colors down there and that is what they painted the insides here. Not that we don't like peach it is just too much, So much of our time will be taken up painting the house.
I have several things outside I need to do but they will have to wait until the weather warms up.
For now I will just wait for Sherri to return and see what great bargains she has found out there...

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We closed today

We are at the closing 

We closed on the house today. Sure hated to see all that money go out of our account! Oh well we sure got a lot in return.

There is so much for us to get we just don't know where to begin. I am sure Sherri will know where and what so I will just leave it all up to her. 

I will spend all my time getting the RV ready and she can tend to the house. I kind of laugh when I went on
Craigslist to sale all my hitches. After 13 different RV's over the years I have every kind of hitch in my garaged waiting to be sold. I just think of the money we spent buying all these hitches and having them installed. Now they are all for sale and we are back to our original hitch we bought for our second trailer we owned. We have made a full cycle in our lives and we are back to where we began. 

This weekend I will get some pictures of our newest RV and post them on our Journal.

 Hall bath

 Kitchen

 Kitchen

 Dinning

 Den

 Master

Kris's bedroom

Back to the house...we are going to change some things...LOL. Sherri wants to open up the kitchen to the living area. This is what they call the Open Concept? There is so much we have to do this may have to go on the back burner until we get the money to do it...

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We close on the house this week

The time is near and we are excited about closing on the new house. Kris loves the backyard and is ready for a soccer game back there. We have a fenced yard so we can contain the wild kicks that seem to always happen when we practice our game.
Sherri is more excited about changing the color inside and buying furniture to fill all the rooms. It will be nice to have place to sit when watching TV. After living in the RV for 7 years we have lost all our furniture to the kids and garage sales so it is time to head to the furniture store.
On top of decorating the house we are decorating the new trailer. Oh yes that all has to be done too. We have been living in it without matching bedspreads and dishes!!! I just can't see how we can go on without some new things for it too!!! LOL
I started pricing the hitch for the trailer and was shocked to see how much a hitch for a trailer cost!!! I had a trailer back in the 70's and a hitch for it was somewhere I just could not remember where we had stowed it away. It came to me later that maybe I had left it in my brother-in-laws barn out at the lake. Sure nuff after digging around in the barn I found the hitch...equalizer bars and the sway control!! What luck! That should save me a ton of money.
OK we have our week pretty much cut out for us. Paint to buy...furniture...and lord knows what else we have to have.
I guess it will all work out...

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We got the house

We got it and now we just have to dot the i's and cross the t's and we can move in! Needless to say Sherri is very excited about all this and she is now in hyper shop for furniture. I will have to go along to put in my two cents worth which will be ignored and then we will get what she wants.
I sure wanted a recliner like I had in the Carrie lite. I sure did love that chair. Man could I sleep in that recliner! I'm pulling for a recliner but Sherri is not real hot on that?
The RV does not have a chair in it but a J-Sofa. By the way I need to get some pictures of the RV and put them on the journal. I will be working on this coming week...

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A Bitter Sweet Day

9/8/13

I wrote this post the last day we were in Colorado. We did not have internet so it did not get published while we were there. I just found it in my drafts and felt like I should post it so I could remember my feelings that day when we departed.


It was 10:00 am when we finished hooking up the Jeep and started to pull out of the RV Park. The day was clear and the sun was high in the sky.
I did not take the short cut to the highway but instead headed out toward town to say my last good-byes to the all the shops and places I had frequented over the last two and a half months.
Good-bye mountains...good-bye streams and lakes...good-bye Jeep trails and last but not least...good-bye cool weather!
We headed on down hwy 149 and all the way I was telling all the beautiful scenery good-bye. It would be hard to get back to the flat lands in Texas and the extreme heat we had escaped from before the summer started.
We knew this day would come and non of us were ready for it but it had to be.
We arrived in Santa Fe around 3:00 and settled into our new site for the night. It would not be easy to continue on but continue on we must...

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Cold weather hanging on

Yesterday the temps got down in the teens and you could really tell it. I went outside to load some things in the truck and with the wind blowing it felt like I was at the South Pole!
Once again we have to venture out today to get some things. We wont be lingering long so we can get back and hunker down.
Not much more to write about today but I will come up with something...

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Weather change

Good morning to all It is 12 degrees here this morning and that is cold I don't care who you are.
I got up this morning and got Kris ready for school. Yes it is that time again. Kids are back in school and us parents are OH so thankful. We now have time for that hot cup of coffee and time to read some journals to see what is going on in the world.
Today I have to head out to Forney Texas to get my side rails put on the truck. That was part of the purchase I was to get rails. The best thing I got was the back up camera. That is the coolest thing in the world. I can see to back up and it also shows the ball hitch on the back. Now hooking up to the trailer will be a breeze.
Well better sign off here. Time to get on the highway. We also need to make some stops to take back some stuff Sherri bought and decided not to keep.
We will return...

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We made an offer on the house

Here is our new truck

The offer was submitted on the house and now we just have to wait. 

Sherri of course needs to find a house full of furniture before we can even think about moving out of the trailer and into the house! She is in frantic mode so I am sure all will come together when she gets her sights set on it.

I am sure I will be drug through many a furniture store before it is all over with. I will be asked what do I think...knowing all the time it does not matter what I think...I am just a guy with no taste LOL.

I will have to say she is much better at putting things together than I will ever be so I let her do all the design work.

Many have asked if our travels are over..NO WAY. We still plan on seeing many things when Kris gets out of school. Certainly not the plan we had in mind but one that will still get us out where we love to be. 

Right now Kris is number one in out life and that will come before any thing else we have going.

The trailer we have will be great for traveling in and the truck will pull it with no problem. We have all that to get ready besides the house we are buying. We will be very busy folks in the months ahead.

Better get going now I hear a furniture store calling...

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We have found a house

For some time now we have been contemplating buying a house here in Wills Point. Since Kris has started back to school and is no longer being home schooled we thought it would be good to move closer into town. He has really been doing good in his school work and has become interested in sports...soccer to be his number one choice.
Now that we can only travel when school is out we have resided to the fact that we need more permanent roots for him. We will spend our summers in Colorado as usual or any place up north where the temps don't melt your brain. In the winter months when schools out we will travel south to the coast to get our ocean fix we so badly need!
Getting back to the house it is a 3 bedroom 2 full bathes 2 car garage single story in the city limits of town.
As soon as I can I will get some pictures posted so that you can see it. OH...I still have to post some pictures of our new RV and truck. I guess I need to get busy with the camera.
I am sure we will be busier than ever now so until I can find my camera wish us luck here...


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The Holidays are almost over

I love the Holidays but enough is enough. I am now looking forward to school starting up again.
Yes I love my son but I really need a break from Sponge Bob Square Pants!!! I enjoy my alone time sitting down in the morning and drinking my coffee and reading a good book. This is not happening while kids are out of school.
We have not yet got to stock the new RV. With family and friends popping in for the Holidays we have been so busy entertaining and feeding the flock. I am looking forward to some warmer weather soon so I can get some things outside done.
I hope everyone out there had a great Christmas and a wonderful new years night. We hope that your New Year coming up will be good to you. Stay safe out there and above all have fun...

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