What a wonderful RV Park

Sherri checks out the lounging pool. Chairs in the water looks inviting 

This is worth the extra you pay for the month stay.

In the background is the new office

The view from the pool...across the road is the Gulf

This is the view of the pool from the office deck.

Sherri says she thinks she could enjoy this for several months

You could spend some long hours on this deck enjoying this view

Stella Mar is quite the park! Galveston has needed another RV Park for some time and now they have one. If you are ever in Galveston and want some real luxury try this park. I think you will like it!
We are here for the last day and soon will be packing up and moving...way across the street. Not very far but it still takes the same amount of time to pack everything down and get ready.
We are headed across the street to Dellanera RV Park. We had a week transferred from another reservation we made last year that we did not use. We decided to tack it on to this trip and use up that week before we head back to our lake property.
This coming week we hope to spend time visiting with Jim and June at their home on the bayous at Bayou Vista. They have a beautiful place there and we love to see them and share so many memories. It will be a peaceful and relaxing week away from all the projects that we have waiting for us.
Yesterday we did have a chance to go by and see them and visit for a short time and then we headed to shop for some souvenirs on the sea wall. 
WOW was that a trip. I have never seen the amount of motorcycles in my entire life. They say there was more than 450,000 bikes here...and I believe it. Everywhere you looked bikes were parked and more going up and down all the roads! This rally is second to Sturgis. 
We finally found a shop that sold souvenirs and I bought me a T-shirt that had Galveston on it. I now have 2 shirts that have my two favorite places on them. Colorado and Galveston. What more could a guy want for.
Yes today is a moving day so we will have to pack up and move on and I guess I should get started doing so. Just getting started is the hard part but once you get in gear things go pretty fast...

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Here in Galveston

We made it down here...without any problems...thank the good Lord. We got off a little late waiting on our travel companions. They did not get all their stuff together in time and we ended up leaving at 1:00. That put us in Houston about 6:00! Yea I know that is not a good time to be coming through that town.
We pulled into Stella Mar at dark thirty and had to back into our site in total darkness. Not the most favorable way to park but we got it done. Sherri is a great director when it comes to back me in. She has got me into many a site without any problems. I hate parking in the dark but she put me right where we wanted to be.
We did not go anywhere...just hung around and fixed us something to eat. Tomorrow will be breakfast and Sherri will be headed to the Strand to shop. If she gets back in time we plan on going over to visit with my Sister and BIL. 
This will be a nice week for us...no projects...just relaxing and enjoying...

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New addition to the homestead

She came in on time

Leveled up and ready for me to load up

We have had a storage problem ever since we made our storage building into a Tiny House. So to remedy that problem we ordered another red building. This one is a 12 X 16 with an overhead door and one window. I plan on  taking the old door to our old storage building and putting it in the side you see on the lower picture. 4ft of the end where the roll up door is will be walled off for the yard tools and lawn mowers. This will give me a 12 x 12 room to store all my tools and art studio. For now all we have time to do is get loaded up for our trip...

We are getting ready to leave for Galveston. Our kids are going down to the Lone Star Rally there and we decided to go early so we could visit with them and hang out with all the other bikers...LOL. This will give us a break from working on our project here on the lake. We love the coast and love to see and visit with our family down here. June and Jim have always been one of our favorite people to be with over the years. We have always enjoyed our stays there with them and this will be no different this year. See ya soon.

OK we are excited about getting down to the coast and setting by the Gulf...

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Halloween

Kris is playing the part

Franki wanted to know what exactly is a gypsy

What a crew

We have a lot to do but not so much that we can't stop and get into Halloween. Kris is a vampire this year and Sherri went into make-up mode so he could be transformed into a spooky looking vampire. I think she gets as much excitement out of this as the kids do. 
We have Franki with us most of the time. We are homeschooling her too and so she had to be dressed in her Gypsy outfit. What a pair these two made. The Gypsy and the Vampire...didn't they all come from the same area in Europe?
We took them to Hallelujah Night at the church. They put on a fun night for the kids so they can dress up in their costumes...play games and get candy for playing. Most of the games have a religious theme to them so the unholy theme of Halloween is played down. I never thought of it as unholy but then in this day of political correctness you have that mentioned a lot.
The kids had a blast and we had free hot dogs and cold drinks while they ran up and down having fun. The nice thing about all this is that they get to have fun and we don't have to walk up and down some busy street worrying that they might be run over are harmed. It was a good night.
Today my barn arrives. Hey!! It will be so nice to clean up all the mess around here and hide it in a barn where I don't have to see it. Slowly but surely we will be getting rid of it so I will have a clean barn too. 
Well the sun is just about to come up over the eastern trees and that means I need to get through with my coffee and head outside to get things ready for the arrival of our new barn...

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More changes

We had some changes to take care of before we could start anything new today. Sherri has decided to keep the kitchen on the west side of the cabin and she also wanted the stairs to the loft a little wider. Along with that we framed in the closet in the laundry room. 
Unlike when we were both working we take our time and do things at a comfortable pace. Sometimes I get in a rush and Sherri has to tell me to slow down...no need to rush. That has made this project easier to deal with than some in the past.
We are planning on heading out to Galveston to visit with my sister and BIL. We enjoy being with them and always have such a good time. We will be down there during the motorcycle rallies which our kids are going to. We all will be traveling together down there and some of the grandgirls will be staying with us. 
Today I am going down to get some extra suspension put on the Dodge to help with the ride. Then it is on to Brookshire's to get my free tank of diesel. This will help us on the trip immensely!
Our storage barn should be delivered tomorrow or today if I can get them to deliver early.
Everything is coming together...

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What a mess

I guess you know sometimes you have to make a big mess to make things better. Boy have we made a mess!
All the building materials scattered to the 4 corners and the tools everywhere you walk. I just can't take so much disarray at one time. I know that it will all come together but until it does I just get out of sorts with things.
As bad as all the building things our S T U F F is every where. We decided to go down and buy another barn and have it delivered. We just could not continue to leave all our S T U F F in the RV port any longer. It is all stacked along the sides and when people drive by the front of the property that is all they see in here is S T U F F. 
Now don't get me wrong this is S T U F F we absolutely need you understand. We just don't need it out where you see it all the time. So the new barn will be here Tuesday...Monday if I can get them to deliver it early.
On top of all that our house had to go in for some warranty work. We had to leave it at the service center for 3 days and that means we did not have a way to shower. We have a porta potty but no shower. We had to drive over to our daughters house to shower and that was very inconvenient you know. Thanks Jenny.
So here we are living in our Tiny House while we are trying to finish it. Now that is a no no when you are remodeling. You never try to stay where the work is going on. So we had to shut down the remodeling while we were without our RV. 
Our RV is back in the port and we are going to get back on track this morning. We have to move all our goods back into the RV and out of the Tiny House. This will take most of the morning and then I will have to get busy finishing up some of the projects that need to be done. 
I know it will all come together...

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Still here just been busy

Stairway to loft

This will be the bathroom

Nice size loft

New panel box

Front door...notice all the mess. 

Sherri and I have been working on our Tiny House for some time now. We have just about got the bedroom finished and the loft for Kris lacks the paint and the light fixtures. 
I completed the stairway to the loft and it turned out nice. I think anyone can get up to the loft without too much problem. The kids...well they have no problems climbing anything...I was thinking more about the grown-ups.
I will try to supply you all with some photos to show you what we are up to. 
We have had problems with our home on wheels. The black water gate has been very hard to pull here lately and yesterday I could not get the tank to drain at all!! Yes we have a new septic tank and now the tank wont drain...what kind of a deal is this??
We have an appointment to have it fixed Tuesday morning. This will be our second trip in the last two weeks. I hope we can get it done by Wednesday so I can have my house back. 
Better get going this AM...I have a lot to do before we head off to the Punkin Patch. We are taking the kids there for the day. Maybe I should say they are taking us. It should be a good day...

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New gate built for RV Port

I can't say it has been cool here at the lake. I can tell you that we have been busy as bees remodeling everything. As hot as it is we get up every morning before the heat and start on our projects. 
As you know we got our septic tank in and now we are planning out and building our home away from the road. Sherri has been working feverishly over the plans for a new "Tiny House"...which by the way is looking real nice. Don't know if any of you watch "Tiny Houses" on TV and if you do you will know what we are talking about. Along with the tiny house we pull behind the truck we will have a tiny house here that we can share space with when we are off the road. 
We will have a den...kitchen...laundry room...craft room...bedroom...bathroom. All of this in a 14 x 24 building. I know that sound small but it all fits!
I will be posting pictures of our progress in the next few days...if I don't have a heat stroke!
We are really enjoying our time here now that we don't have to go off site to dump our tanks. Having the septic tank is so great. Who would ever thunk it. This much excitement over a septic tank! How funny is that?
Hey better hang it up here. I need another cup of coffee and then it is back outside to get some more done...

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Septic Tank Going In

They showed up around 9:00 with a lot of equipment

This should be enough tank

Took the old screened porch down

We will be putting a new screened room here

Trenching in the yard lines 

The yard lines had to come through the back of the RV port

Even with all this going on we still have to have school

Today they are putting in our Septic Tank. We have been waiting for a long time to get this done. The time has come and we sure are glad to get it done.

We are also tearing down the old screened in porch. We will put a screen porch on the front of our "Tiny House" Sherri is working very hard to design the interior of our little Casita behind the RV port. We will have a den...kitchen...laundry room...bedroom...and a bathroom. Also we will have two lofts for extra overnighters. I think it will be really nice as soon as we get it finished...

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Back at the Lake

We arrived back at our lake property Tuesday afternoon and have been getting things back in order. We have the Internet connection... the Direct TV...trash service and the mail to tend to before I could even think about getting online to post. 
We are doing some remodeling here to make this a better place to come to when we are not on the road. We are taking down our screen room under the RV port and rebuilding it on the front of our little house. Our little house was a storage shed we bought years ago and we turned it into a residence. If you have been watching "Tiny Houses" you know what I mean. It is working out real great for a place to live while we are at the lake and it gives us more room to move around in. We still live in the RV but with the house extension we don't feel as trapped.
We are also having a septic tank installed which will make a great bit of difference when we are here for long periods of time. We have been dumping at the State Park just a mile from the property and that was very inconvenient. 
This next week will be very busy for me. I have so much to do to get everything ready before we pull out again to head south...

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