On line sale

This is the front of the cabin

Sherri did some landscaping out front. Looks really good now.

Our home is gone and the RV port looks lonely 

Here is the new shop and art studil

Made a walk out to the new addition. New septic tank is still settling and needs some landscape

RV Port is empty so we have a very large patio

This is the new studio...I need to Paint! 

My shop has been useful while building our new digs.

Sherri and I are back to parting with S T U F F again. We still have stuff that we have not used in years...nor will we use in the future. So it has been put on line in our area for sale. I have already had a good response to the ads and I hope to unload some of this stuff before we leave for Louisiana next month.
Our project here is coming to a close this month and it will be good to have some time to do nothing at all. We have done just about all the projects we set out to do and for the most part they have turned out real good.
The RV is still out at the dealership waiting on approval from Forest River to fix the warranted items? Go figure...I never have to wait on Dodge to approve warranted items on my truck? I guess it is a new age of Warranties that has come into being.
I have to have my house back by the 10 of next month so I can go to Louisiana. We have reservations there for a few days to visit family. I am going to ask our Service Adviser if that is going to be possible. It has been gone for 8 weeks altogether trying to get a light installed and a vent fan in the bathroom repaired. I have built a cabin and a shop at the lake in that time...and they can't fix my RV? OK I know I have been on the subject for some time...I miss my home. Maybe they will get tired of keeping it and let me have it back...

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Got to paint today

Yes today I had a few things to help Sherri with and then I was on my own for a time. It took a while to find all my brushes paints and so forth before I could get started. By the time I found all that I knew it was useless to start a new canvas so I just started to finish one of my oils I had been working on for some time. 
I have several pictures that I took in Colorado last year and some pictures that others have taken and put on Facebook. There are plenty of material out there for me to work on. 
Last year I did not have a chance to do any plein painting but maybe this year I will have that chance. We plan on leaving a little earlier this year so we can catch some of the snow on the mountains and maybe catch some of the wildlife that have not gone back up in the higher elevations.
Until that time I will be in the studio working on the material that I have saved up...

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Weather Change and so did the time

Yesterday...the rain started about 3:00 pm and continued off and on all night long. The temps fell into the low 40's and boy was it a change from the 70's that we had been having. 
I got some projects done in the shop. 
Becky and Rick came by and visited for a while. We are planning a trip to Louisiana in April so we laid out some plans for that. It was nice having them come by. Not too often do we get visitors and when we do we talk their heads off...LOL.
After they left Sherri made some hamburger helper and we watched TV until time to go to bed. It was a nice day but the temps were falling all day and I know we will wake up to a real cold morning...

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Dropped off the RV

Sherri and I packed up and sent the RV to the Hospital for warranty work. They said it could be as much as 6 weeks before they get all the work done. 
We are having some furniture changed out due to bad quality so that in itself will take a long time. I wish they (Forest River) would speed up the process and get us an approval so we could get our house back.
We are OK in the cabin here for now but not having a full kitchen is going to wear on Sherri real quick. You know not having everything at your fingertips is hard when fixing a meal.
Well that is one of the things you have to put up with when you are having repairs done. They said it takes so long because they have returned the RV's to their owners and when the parts come in the owners are no where to be found. They are stuck with the parts and have to eventually pay for them out of their pocket. I need to take a look at their warehouse and see what they are holding...might be something we cannot live without.
Oh well as long as I get it back before we head out for Colorado. I don't want to spend one day in the heat here...

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Unexpected storm

I got up this morning after a night of storms and tons of rain. I did not know that it would rain...it was not on my forecast. 
It started about 3:00 am and I was made aware of that by a loud crash of thunder. I was up in a bound and ran to close all the windows in the cabin. I had moved out there to sleep for the night. When I had gone out there it was rather warm and having no idea that it was going to rain I had opened all the windows. Well after stumbling all over the place I got them all closed.
We have to take the RV in tomorrow to get some warranty work done. I had hoped that it would not rain because the road out front gets mud holes in it and now I will have to pull the trailer through it. Oh well such is life. I just hope that they don't have to keep it as long as the last bunch kept it...

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Might have a real nice day?

Woke up this morning to dogs barking...what sounded like they were under my bed. I am sleeping in the cabin and Sherri is in the RV. She says I make too much noise at night so she has moved me out. She is the only person I know that can sleep through a war movie but when I make a noise at night she wakes up...go figure.
OK after I ran the dogs off I noticed that the sun was trying to peak out of the clouds. I think if it makes it out we might have a nice day to work outdoors. 
It rained all day yesterday so the ground is a little mushy. Not real sure what all I can do outside but just being in the sunshine is good.
We met our daughter last night in Canton and had dinner. She payed for it...how nice is that...thanks baby we love you.
I just about finished my coffee and I am going over Kris's school work for the day. He is in the 5th grade and doing good with his studies. We are studding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Math is rounding fractions. Language Arts is Poetry. Not real sure how that will be used later in life. I know I studied it too but can't remember if I used it? 
Kris will be in our class room until Junior High and then he will return to public school. He is not to keen on going to public school but I think he will need to get use to the curriculum and the schedule that you have to keep.
Headed out see you all later...

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Working on desk top computer

I have been using my Chrome Book for some time now because my desk top is not hooked up. I have all my photos of the projects we have been doing on there and I need to get it back on line so I can post them to my journal. 
I need to get my phone line rerouted in the cabin so that it will reach the computer desk. That will take some doing but it will get done this week. I have been promising my family that I would show them some of the pictures so they can see that we really are working on the place and not just talking about it.
We have had to postpone some of our travels this year in order to get this placed fixed up. It is nice to have a little cabin to come back to after being on the road for some time. We will have our two bedroom cabin all ready for our return trip this summer. Sherri is still planning on putting in a kitchen next year so it will be self sufficient if we have to put the RV in the hospital for any reason. In the past we have had to spend some time with family if the home on wheels got sick. This way we have our own retreat to stay in and not bother anyone else.
Yesterday we drove to Lowe's to get Sherri some paint to finish the remodel in the den area. I spotted some St Augustine grass for sale and bought me 10 squares. I will be putting that in the front yard next to our new beds we made. We used river pebbles and mulch to do that. It turned out rather nicely. Those photos too are on the computer. Gee I will have a long post with all the pictures I have saved up. I wont bore you with all at once. Maybe I will scatter then out...

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Enjoyed the weekend

Sherri and I packed up the RV and headed over to the State Park on the lake here. It is a little more than a mile over there. Not a long trip but one that brought joy to our week. We have been without the RV for over 6 weeks and then a couple of weeks here just doing our projects led us into extreme hitch itch. 
Our friends from Longview Texas have just purchased a new RV and wanted us to show them how to set it up. You know they got the run through at the dealership that goes in one ear and out the other. You don't really learn anything in those walk-through you have to actually take it out and use it for some time before it all sinks in.
The plan was for them to hook up and meet us out at the State Park around 3:00 pm. Well has things would have it those plans went out the window when they had trouble hooking up the RV. They had only hooked it up once and that was at the dealership and the Tech was doing most of the hooking up. 
They could not get the pin in the hitch so the call was made. I tried to walk them through the steps but you know as well as I do that is not possible over a telephone.
Sherri could hear the desperation in their voices and suggested we just go ahead and drive on out to Longview and help them out. I know how it is trying to do something that you never have done before.
We made the trip out there and upon arrival found Rick and Becky in their truck waiting on us. We got it hooked up in no time and they pulled in behind us and we were on our way to the lake.
We had gone ahead and placed our RV in the assigned site and had their site tagged and waiting on them. We had secured two sites one directly behind ours so that we could walk back and forth to each others RV. 
We got them backed in and then our instructions began and we soon had them understanding how things worked. I worked with Rick outside and Sherri worked with Becky inside. Even I had forgotten how much there is to learn about using an RV! Today there is so much on RV's than we started with 43 years ago! My goodness it takes some time to learn all the ropes. I know they will have to use their's several time before they become use to all the bells and whistles. 
We headed to Walmart as all RVers do. You know you have to get all the goodies and the ladies have to have everything match and color coordinate. We spent a couple of hours doing that and then headed back over to the park to eat some dinner. We were famished by this time. We threw some brots on the cooker and Sherri made some salad and we settled in for the evening. Soon it was time to go to bed and we parted company for the night.
What a wonderful fun day. We enjoyed Rick and Becky and look forward to our trip to Colorado...

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Hitch itch got the best of us

Yes Hitch Itch has taken us over! We decided yesterday to take the RV to the State Park up the road to get away just for a couple of days. We have been here in the RV port for 6 months and it is time for us to go away and enjoy our home on wheels. 
We have some friends that just bought a new RV that are going to meet us there and we are going to give them several hours of instruction on RVing. They have never owned an RV and are really in the dark on how it all works. So we will be showing them all about their new home and letting them practice using it.
These are the friends that will be accompanying us to Colorado this year. We want them to be prepared for our stay up there so they can enjoy every minuet of their time there.
Waiting so late in the week to secure a spot we could not get two sewer sites so we will be taking the non-sewer site and letting them have the sewer site. This way they wont have to use the "Grayboy" to dump their gray water. This will be another block of instruction at a later time. 
OK it is getting late and I must get dressed and head to the State Park to make sure we get some good sites. I will not have WIFI so I might not be getting back to you for a few days. I will give you the full run down later...

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Changing Dealerships

As you know by now we had our RV in for warranty work in Cleburne Texas. They had the RV for 6 weeks and only fixed a small portion of the listed items. Well we decided to go and pick up the unfinished unit and take it home with us...with the intentions of finding a dealership closer to us that could do the work.
Yesterday we headed down to Canton Texas to Explore USA and talked with a service adviser there. He told us that they would make us an appointment and list what needed to be fixed and then order the parts and do the work. This is what Cleburne did but they never did get the correct parts in and they had the unit 6 weeks! Goodness I could build an RV in that time frame. They told us that they just had so much backlog that it was hard to get it all done. OK I'll buy that but when you have an appointment and everyone else is slid in front of you...seems to me its not that you have too much backlog it is probably the fact you don't know how to schedule your work.
Anyway to make a long story short we will be taking the RV back to the service center and leave it once again to see if we can get these items fixed.
So we will be back living in the cabin. I am glad we have the cabin now that we are having to take our home and drop it off for no telling how long. We have a roof over our heads and all the necessities to be comfortable for a period of time. 
The dealership is not but 30 minutes away so we can go visit our little home if we get to missing it...

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Should be a beautiful day

The weather person...see how politically correct I am...said that it will be a nice warm day here in North Texas. Good I need to be outside for sure.
Our friends Rick and Becky got them a new RV yesterday and are stocking it full of all the necessities that one needs to get started. Look out Walmart here they come!
We hope to meet them at the State Park around the corner from us. They want us to help them get lined out...you know show them the ropes. I guess after 40 years and 13 RVs we could probably give them some advice...

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