Could you do this?

My sister took possession of her new home today. Sounds normal, right? But her new home is 38 feet long, with tires and a horn! And they're giving up solid floors and walls and heading out on the road full time. Could you, would you want to do that?

I'm torn between envy and worry about this. I think I'm channeling my mother now -- but I just worry about her being out there on the road every day. Now, I know that she and her husband are grown adults and they aren't careless, or whatever -- and that in their everyday existence until now they've been out there doing their own thing. Why now does the fact that their home is moving make me so nervous?

Envious because I think I'd love to go where I wanted to go, stay for a day, a week or a month, and then move on to the next place. See all the sights, meet all kinds of people -- and see the United States and Canada the way it should be seen. Sounds wonderful.

But -- don't think my five dogs and six cats would be very comfortable in a floating home -- no yard to run around in. And DH is certainly not the gypsy type -- he likes solid walls and floors around him. And I'm not a chance taker like my sister is, so the idea of change pretty much sets my stomach on edge.

But I envy them the change in this part of their lives. Sounds fun, educational and relaxing all at the same time.

Of course, thinking about sharing 38 feet of RV with DH -- hmmmmm, we might kill each other before Bakersfield.

I haven't blogged all week -- it's been a tiring, long week -- and I only worked four days. Internet has been down at work most of the week -- and all our programs have to have the internet to talk to it seems. So it's been a grind to do everything the hard way -- and customers have seemed pretty grumpy as well. I think we're all tired of summer -- it got hot again this week, and the winds are due back by Thanksgiving. I think we'd all feel better with some 70 degree days, a little rain and NO WINDS.

This weekend I'm listing my wares on eBay -- with Christmas right around the corner it's now or never for these collectibles. I have Precious Moments, Willow Tree and other 'stuff' to put up for sale, so be sure to visit us on eBay if you're doing your Christmas shopping online this year. Hopefully I have a link on this blog page somewhere to my listings, huh?

I'll show you one item and you can go from there -- I'm listing two Thomas Kinkade prints for a consignment customer this week. I didn't think I was a Kinkade fan, but since having them in my house for photos and all last week, I did find them very pretty, very comfortable to be around. They're all boxed up and ready to send now, and I miss having them out where I can look at them. Anyway, here's one of them -- check my store for the other - smaller - one.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260182217260

And so that's it for now -- back to eBaying before I run out of energy.

Have I mentioned that I'm a TV addict?

Time flies when you're having . . . . marriage

This time twenty five years ago I was at my folk's house, getting ready to get married the next day. As much as my family believed that you marry once, forever -- I'm not sure how many of us thought I'd still be married twenty five years later. And there are days I'm not sure why we are -- but probably because there hasn't been time to do anything else but stay married. Seems there has always been some low level or high level crisis going on with us -- plus we had all the furkids, and neither of us wanted custody of all of them by ourselves. Or I guess it could be because no matter how irritated we get with each other -- we do down deep love each other, and are still -- after all these years -- friends who trust each other.

I guess that's as good a reason as any to be married.

Remind me of that next time I blog about what a knucklehead he is, would you?