We decided today we would get the cleaning done so we could play all weekend since it's supposed to be in the 60's. Jack washed the outside and I took care of the inside. Cleaning a 5th. wheel is much different than cleaning our home. To clean the house on a weekly basis it would take almost two days to clean everything e.g bathrooms, floors, dusting, and the little extra things that only needed done perhaps once a month. To clean the RV takes all of an hour or so. My biggest concern living in an RV was having the feeling of being cooped up in a small place and Jack and I getting on each others last nerve. I'm happy to say so far so good. Being able to get out and ride bikes or take long walks helps us both clear our minds of any stress. We feel very blessed to have this opportunity to be out here on the road, exploring, learning and living our lives as best we can. Really still not thrilled about sharing a bathroom but then I remind myself that I have only one bathroom to clean. The sharing becomes a little easier every day.
I still miss my sons and family very much. My sister and I have always spent tomorrow together since our mom passed away 7 years ago. This will be our first year apart on mom's date of death. Things like that still hurt and make me tear up some days. But then I get good news about Bear, my sister-in-law; her hair is growing back and that makes her very happy, which makes me happy. Or pictures from our niece who lives in Pennsylvania with lots of snow which made for a very beautiful snow gal pal, dress and all. It was so cute to see Ellie and a snow gal pal as tall as she is. We are not guaranteed a tomorrow so spending today with Jack makes me glad to be alive and where I am in life.
Some of you have asked about our RV and how we live in it. Many people who have never "camped" picture us pitching a tent or popping up a camper. While we have "been there, done that" through the years and wouldn't trade those times with our sons for anything in this world, I couldn't live permanently in that situation. So we've taken some pictures to share with you. The interior pictures were taken this past summer and Jack took the exterior pictures today.
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| Our bedroom |
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| Kitchen |
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| Bedroom dresser |
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| Coat closet and water closet |
Oh. And one more thing....Here's poor Sydney after her bath today before and after her top knot.
We enjoy all the comforts of home in our 5th wheel even in fairly remote locations. We have satellite TV so we get about 130 channels that include all of the network channels for New York City and San Francisco. All we need is a somewhat unobstructed view of the southwest sky at about a 45 degree angle to lock on to three satellites. When close to larger cities we would also pick up those local channels on a different antenna. We watch these channels on one of three tv's. We have a 46 inch tv in the living room, a 22 inch in the bedroom and a 20 inch in the basement ( 5th wheel lingo for the underneath storage area) for using outside. We have a 5500 watt generator that can run all of the electric appliances, air conditioners etc. for short periods when we don't have electricity. We generally only use this for lunch when we pull off the road or if power in the campground goes out. We have a built in lp furnace and an electric rooftop ac and we carry smaller electric space heaters.We have a convection microwave and a regular oven plus a three burner stove. We have a 100 gallon fresh water tank, 75 gallon grey, and 50 gallon black water tanks in the event we can't get water or sewer hook ups. The 5th wheel has six hydraulic leveling jacks that eliminate the need for using wood blocks etc. to level the unit. We have a 12 gal water heater. A stainless steel refrigerator that had an ice maker until I removed it (we didn't like the ice using the campground water in some locations so we make ice cubes using bottled water). The refrigerator automatically switches from electric to lp gas if we aren't hooked up to electricity. If anyone wants to know anything else I forgot to mention send us an email and I will answer in a later post. Thanks Jack
Good night all. Jack is working on our Montgomery trip blog. I needed his help desperately.
PS. It's been almost one month since Jack has really looked at the stock market but this week he said he has started to day trade (short term trade) closed end mutual funds. He said this adds that little bit of "juice" that he likes. Go figure.
