Ya'll Come Back Now...

Goodbye Nashville Country RV Park. Good riddance pet release area and doggy poo bags. Won't miss you shower that gives 5 minutes of warm water. Don't follow us evil squirrel! It is time again to move. Tonight is our final night sleeping in the camper. We just did the final walk through on the house, now we only have to fork over a chunk of change, sign a bunch of papers and we will be home owners again!

Which means, the end of the blog. We didn't quite make it to 20 days. And I have to say, we are just a little bit glad to be moving out of the camper early. Just a quick thanks to everyone who has helped us out with this whole episode. Camper owners and people who are currently storing out belongings in their garages, thank you, thank you, thank you!! Also thanks to all the readers and feedback who made this fun. :) Hey, maybe I'll find something else to blog about someday.

The End

Forts, Books & Generators

It seems like we build up more laundry while camping! We did laundry for the third, and final, time today at the RV park. While we were letting the loads run we gave Echo one of her zillion walks. The last few days, she has become increasingly restless. But I can't blame her. Even the cat has had a few episodes of crazy, darting around the camper. All four of us are ready to be in a larger space. It really showed today how antsy Echo has been. Typically she is the biggest scaredy cat! She'll barely jump into the car without a little whining and pacing to check the situation out. Today, Sam climbed up on the children's play fort and yelled "up". Neither of us imagined she would even attempt the jump. It's about 4 feet off the ground! Without a seconds hesitation she leapt up and grabbed the floor of the fort with her two front paws to pull herself up. With a little push from behind by me, she was standing quite proudly up there with Sam. :) she even ran straight down the slide to get down.

Today, I finally finished a book I've been reading for months! Every time I would attempt to read I would instantly fall asleep. But I was determined to finish it. A robot murder mystery - I know what you all are thinking.... You'll have to get in line to borrow it. ;) next on the reading list is Abraham Lincoln-Vampire Hunter.

While I was finishing my book, Sam went next door to the Shell station to get a Sprite. While there, a local citizen was asking everyone in the store if they had a large generator for sale. Apparently he needs a generator to run his dryer. I'm not sure, but is that the most convenient way to run a dryer? And if you need a generator, is the best place to acquire one at the local Shell gas station? Maybe it is. Maybe it's the local shop for black market generators.

Pizza Alone

We decided to order some Papa John's for dinner tonight. I remembered seeing coupons in the camp office, so Sam ran over to get them and asked the office girl for the local number. He got back and we started placing our order online. I gave Sam the coupon code to enter and that's when we realized our coupon expired in August, 2012. I'm starting to wonder if anything in the camp office didn't expire in 2012.

We have had the same neighbors right next to us since day one of being here. I think it became an unspoken competition to see who could stay the longest. They gave up and left today. I think we won... Didn't we?

We thought we were about to get some new neighbors early this afternoon. Someone was looking at the site right next to us...where Sam had just parked my car. When Echo started barking I told Sam he might need to move the car. So we went out and talked to the potential neighbor, who started asking Sam if he was here alone, and other questions. For some reason, Sam decided to speak to him in a pirate voice. Every other word was arg or aye matey. Next thing ya know, guy is driving out of the campground. Oh well, we didn't want new neighbors anyway.

We also drove by the new house today, sellers were moving out!

Hoo Who Owl?

We heard something last night after we went to bed. No, not wrestling music. Sounded kind of like a hoot owl. Sorta creepy.

So I went to work today as usual. Sam actually had today off - so got to spend a long, boring day in the camper. With Coach, who must think she is filthy, because all she does is clean herself. The noise drives Sam bonkers!!

Anywho, about 11:00 Sam sends me this picture of an owl!! He is just chilling in the tree on the spot next to us. I couldn't believe it. Sam goes on to tell me he saw the owl fight one of the stray cats for a mouse this morning. He heard the ruckus, but by he time he got his camera out the owl had won and flown off with the mouse. The owl, which we have named Frederick, also delivered at least 6 letters to neighbor campers. I guess that's how you get mail here. He's such a great neighbor to have. Killing off the rodents and delivering mail - all in a days work.

p.s. we aren't going crazy, yes, we know he's plastic. But what the heck is it doing up here!?

Good News Today!

I should have known today was going have a nice surprise when I saw that amazing sky on my way into work today.

We heard today we get to close on our house 2 days early!! Hope you all aren't too disappointed, but this means the blog just might end a wee bit earlier than planned.

I am pretty excited. I probably look on Zillow at the pictures of our house at least 5 times a day. Sam and I have been discussing colors and new furniture options for days. Fun!!

This isn't going to come soon enough. I drove up to the camper today and reached over for my garage door opener. Just in case you are wondering, no, our camper does not have a garage door, and I currently don't have a garage door opener. I have just gotten that comfortable driving home to the RV park. Yikes!

It's so cold, let me count the ways..

When I told my mom we were going to be living in a camper until we could move into our new house, one of her first comments was “It’s February, it’s going to be cold”. Mom lives in northern Indiana. She owns a snow blower. I think, but not sure, but I have heard rumors they don’t even close schools when it snows up there! So, I can see why she would be concerned. When she expressed her worry to me, I just laughed, “Mom,” I said, “we live in Tennessee! It doesn’t get cold here like it does there.” Well, the jokes on me (and Sam) I keep wondering if it got this cold last year. I don’t quite remember it like this. Although, I did have a garage to park in, and a nice insulated home. I didn’t have to walk a dog a zillion times a day because we had a fence. I’m vaguely remembering those days, they feel so long ago.

I absolutely DREAD the morning time when I have to get up and start getting ready for work. It never really gets warm enough in the bathroom. You can’t leave the hot water running to warm up the room – because, let me tell ya, there just isn’t enough hot water for that. Sam uses Dr. Bronner’s shampoo. It’s this huge, clear plastic bottle that lasts forever. Well, I’ve noticed the last few days his shampoo is a different color. I started to wonder if it had gone bad (can shampoo go bad?). But in the afternoon it looks normal. So, it’s not exactly frozen, but there is some form of chemical reaction happening. Does that tell you how chilly it is in the morning? Brrr - 8 more mornings… I can do it.

Ugh, I can’t wait to be parked in a garage again. I have been so spoiled! I don’t even know where my ice scraper is…or if I ever had one. I just go out and sit in my car in the morning until the windows are defrosted. Maybe my alarm won't go off tomorrow. ;)

Some of you may have been wondering how our house plants have been fairing in these lovely temperatures. The two who had to attempt life outside, gave up about a week ago. Maybe they go dormant, they could come back, right? My only plant left, is a spider plant that I am keeping at my desk at work. He is doing just fine.

Needless to say, Mom, you were right. It is COLD!!

Photos of Nothing

Sorry to disappoint everyone today, but nothing crazy or wacky happened! Can you believe it? Maybe we are getting way too comfortable and good at this. Well, so as not to bore you all with rambling, I thought I could just share a few random pictures I've taken.

Enjoy!