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?

As the dust settles

It's been a long week, but we're at the end of it, thankfully. The skies are blue here, the wind has died down -- and although the temperatures are up, the sun sets early so the heat dissipates quickly. Thank the Good Lord!

We started cleaning up from the winds. DH and the landlord made quick work of dismantling the dog kennels from the trees where they landed. We don't use them much, but they have to be back up for the kennel inspection early next year. Then they leveled the ground a bit -- we had sand dunes that would have made Laurence of Arabia weep!

I ladled out the washing machine tub, and washed it out a few hundred times. Finally did some laundry, hung it on the line, and it dried quickly in this heat. Nice to have clean clothes again.

There is so much more to do -- but I started by cleaning the kitchen. Washed dishes, washed down counters, put the curtains in the washing machine. Made crockpot beef stroganoff in our new slow cooker -- yummy.

My boss surprised me by volunteering to work tomorrow -- and offering me first choice to work or take the day off. I chose the latter, of course. So now I have the next three days to try and accomplish all that I had planned for last week.

We've really felt Serena's absence this week. DH has had trouble adjusting to food preparation - she was such a big eater that he keeps making up too much dog food. Lexie seems much more anxious - in our house Coco and Quincy sit in the office with me, Lucy in her crate, Nellie goes back and forth between rooms - and Serena and Lexie together in the living room with DH. Without Serena, Lexie seems a bit lost. They weren't particularly close, but greyhounds seem to be comforted by other greyhounds. And, at least with my greyhounds, they NEVER seem happy alone. When Lexie is alone in the living room -- she just doesn't seem comfortable. Hopefully she'll adapt -- and we need to concentrate on paying more attention to her.
So all in all, calmness has descended.

It's time for the nightly news -- and then to bed. Have lots of eBaying to do tomorrow -- need a good night's sleep.

Thar She Blows!

 

This is what it looks like when you live in a place surrounded by dirt! We are awaiting development of tons of new expensive houses turning our rural horse area into a city I guess -- oh joy -- but in the meantime we have empty fields of dirt. And today we're having winds of 45mph and they are predicting they could go as high as 80mph.

We live in a very old mobil home -- built the year I graduated from high school, so it's really old --- and it is not exactly well insulated. So we're eating dirt a lot today -- inhaling dirt -- and the window sills are covered with dirt, it's coming in from every corners, every window, every door.

We let Serena go on Friday - probably good timing since I'm not sure she'd have kept her balance outside with this windstorm. She was brave to the end, she died with her head in my lap while the tech gave her the last shot -- well, not the last shot. As it turned out, her heart just kept beating, they ended up having to give her more. Without the cancer, I swear her heart would have gone on for another decade. She's left such an empty spot here -- we still have five dogs, which to most people would seem like a lot, but Serena was a large presence, and she sure is missed. I trust she's made it to Rainbow Bridge and met up with Tora, Flash, Dulce, Muddy and the rest. When we get there, we'll be bowled over by dogs -- can't wait!!!!! (Well, I can wait until it's my time -- but you know what I mean -- I look forward to seeing my furkids again).

Here's hoping we don't wake up in Kansas tomorrow morning -- not that Kansas isn't a lovely place, one of my favorite people live there -- but . . . This place is not my favorite place I've ever lived, but it's home for now, and I'd rather keep it in one piece.