New Sofa and Selling STUFF

We are so excited to announce the new sofa came today. The store called us to pick it up. Dawn had the utility trailer hooked up to the truck when I got home. We drove to Garland and picked up the sofa. Dawn is worried that we won’t be able to get it into the trailer. I told her “where there is a will, there is a way”! We had to put the sofa in the house for now because the trailer is in the garage. Maybe this weekend we can pull the trailer out and put the sofa in.

Again, Dawn, said she loves the new sofa, and she really hopes we can get it in the trailer!!! I just keep telling her, No Worries! If it won’t fit through the door, I’ll just cut a hole in the roof!!! That's not what she wanted to hear. I feel pretty confident it will fit through the door. Maybe I’ll just cut the sofa in half!! I don’t know why she worries so much!? Just kidding! I wouldn’t cut a hole in the roof or cut the sofa in half. It’ll work out fine.

We had a lot of calls and emails from our craigslist ads yesterday. Within the first hour we sold one of the large curio cabinets and the lady said she might take the other too. Wow, that was fast! We have a lot more we can place ads for. We have decided to only place a few items at a time to keep the amount of calls down. We have added photos and measurements with each item and we think that helps to sell things faster.

We are making more progress!!!!!!!

Boring Weekend

This weekend we did some odd and in things around the house. I spent some time scraping the ceiling in the spare bedroom. I didn’t get finished but I did half of it scraped. Took some pictures of some furniture we are going to place of craigslist.

We trimmed Abbey our little Shih Tzu. She hates to be trimmed but it is one of those things that have to be done. She loves to run with the boys outside and get all dirty but like any other kid she doesn’t want to get a bath or a hair cut!

We did the usual weekend stuff such as laundry and grocery store run. We tried to mow the yard but the belt on the mower is broken. I will miss mowing. It is relaxing to hop on the mower and mow our two acres. The weed trimming, I will not miss. What, am I talking about! I don’t really trim. Dawn does the trimming because she has a nice gas powered trimmer. My back just doesn’t allow me to do the trimming thing. The yard really doesn’t need to be mowed anyway. It has been so hot here the grass is just about dead. Somehow the weeds seem to be surviving the heat just fine.

This is our almost dead back yard

The weather is starting to cool down some. This is really great news for us. We have so many things to do outside and have been waiting for some cooler weather.

Anyway, I placed some ads on craigslist and an hour later the calls started for two of the three curio cabinets we have listed. If these people come through, we will have them sold and out of here tomorrow!

Greetings Followers

We were surprised when we noticed we had 32 followers. We didn't think anyone really read our blog. We don't really have anything interesting to post yet. At this point we are just keeping a journal of our efforts to prepare for our big move. All humdrum stuff!

We are ecstatic to know there are fellow bloggers out there that are following our journey. We promise that our post will get much more interesting in the near future.

As you can see by our list of interesting blogs, we follow a lot of fellow RV bloggers. Reading those blogs has really educated us to what our RV future might entail. We have also made some new friends along the way. We have had a lot questions answered and at times, have received much needed encouragement.

We see our fellow RV bloggers as expedition leaders. As they post about their RV life-style and their exploring, they are providing us with very useful information. Reading your posts has been the best education for us. We have read about great places to stay, sights to see, workamping, technical advice, the list goes on and on. We can only hope that one day our postings will inspire and educate as well.

Even though we are not on the road yet, we sense we are a part of a great community. We would like to say “Howdy” to all our followers and “Thanks” to all the bloggers we follow.

New Kitchen Sink and Faucet

We need to pull the trailer out and install our new kitchen sink and faucet. We currently have a stainless steel sink that is a bowl and a half. We are not sure what purpose the half bowl serves. It is way too small to be of any use to us. We found a great deal at Lowes, a double bowl stainless steel kitchen sink for seventeen dollars. That is a real bargain. We will have to cut into our counter top since this one is larger than our exisiting sink. 

Dawn wanted a veggie sprayer too. We found a kitchen faucet on sale for eighty-eight dollars. It is a Price Pfister brand and it happens to be a brushed nickel finish which is the finish we have on all our other fixtures in the fifth wheel.

Good thing I have friends in the plumbing business, I might need a little help installing this. But I will give it my best shot before I make a call for help!

We spent the evening packing up the crystal that is in two large glass curio cabinets. When I say large, I mean they are approximately three foot wide and six foot tall. We have two of them that sit side by side. They are full of crystal that Dawn plans on keeping.


We are going to sell the curio cabinets so we decided to pack the crystal now. When we were finished, we had ten boxes of packed crystal. Wow, glad that is over. It is nerve wracking trying to get that stuff wrapped and finding boxes it will fit into snuggly.

We finally are getting a break in the weather and it has cooled down to ninety-seven degrees. It is cloudy and we did get a small amount of rain. Maybe we will see some cooler weather so we can get back to having our weekend garage sales. The garage is busting at the sems with STUFF that needs to be sold.