Bathroom, kitchen and dining room.

Today we finished moving everything from the RV to our new home in Yuma, AZ. It was bittersweet walking out of the RV and leaving it primarily empty.  The next step is to clean it well and put it up for sale. 

 Here are pictures of the rooms that I've finished setting up in our new home. The cupboards will be a constant battle of what will go where. Mark is already complaining about where to find what since it's been moved so many times. hehehehe Hey, I'm not sure where everything is either. So for awhile it will be a real challenge to find what we want. Ater more of our things from storage come here, it will really be a challenge to find room for it all.

Two unfinished rooms in our new abode.

The bedroom and living room are not quite done. I'm waiting to get some things from storage to finish the rooms.

February 8, 2018

A chilly morning for AZ. Sunny and a low of 47. We don't get up early enough to see that, so it was 57º when we got out of bed. But I left some windows open last night and it was a bit brisk inside when we got up. Even Lola got up early for a change. Although once we were up and she gave us each her morning breath kiss, she went back to bed. She is snoring away right beside me.

Yesterday we got more stuff moved out of the RV. That seems to be all that we have time to do lately. But we only have a few more days to get the RV out of the park and into storage. Today we should have everything out of the inside, but Mark still has to go through the basement.

We looked and priced storage sheds, since the one here is quite small and we have more stuff in storage back in MN to make room for. We did manage to find a couple more metal shelves for the deep and wide kitchen cupboards and a towel rack for the bathroom.

Around 4 my stomach was having a hissy fit. I hadn't eaten anything but one piece of toast all day. So we stopped at the Golden Corral and indulged my growling tummy. There were a lot of people that must of had tummy trouble too because even at 4 the place was very busy.

After everything was unloaded, unpacked and put away from today's packing, it was time to sit back and relax the night away. Aaahhh, my power lift chair was calling my name. But the darn thing was only teasing me. The transformer went out so no comfy sitting for me. Luckily Mark found a new part on Amazon and it will be here on Saturday sometime. That seems like an eternity away to my aching back.

No nice chair to sit in and my back was so sore, I decided that a nice hot shower was in order. Mark said the water pressure here is great so the shower would feel really good. Turning on the shower it really blasted and the hot water felt great. But after less than 10 minutes I had no hot water. What the heck!!!!!!!!! Jumping out of the shower spitting mad, I toweled off and found my jammies. Turning on the tv I found nothing worth my time to watch. Geesh what a night. Time for a whisky water on ice, or two, or three......

All ready to crawl in bed and reached to turn off the light on the ceiling fan and the light pull cord would not work. Mark likes the fan on low at night to circulate the air. He breathes  better and then I sleep better. hehehe So much for the fan tonight. This was not a night that I wish to have again anytime ever again.

As always, it's an adventure. Not always a wanted adventure but an adventure nonetheless. hehehe

First things first.

Anyone who has a beloved pet understands that their needs, or at least to the pet, come first. Well we needed to make sure that Lola was safe in our new home. So the very first thing that was done was to make the 30 plus porch Lola safe. We purchased latis and two baby gates. Mark turned the porch into an attractive Lola proof space. She now can go in one door and out the other with ease. We do need to learn to close the gate more often. Lola loves to visit with people and a few times she managed to do just that when the gate got left open.

At the apartment and the RV I had a coffee theme going that I bought from a close friend. Since I really loved that, I wanted it in our new home as well. The curtains were almost new and purchased for the RV. They fit into our new home so I used them here. Here is one area that is done. It's above the kitchen sink.

                      As I finish with my "decorating" I will add more pictures.

We still have a couple small loads at the RV to move and then I can clean the RV and it will be going up for sale.  There is also a storage unit that we need to get loaded up into a large trailer and moved to AZ. Many items in there will be sold, donated and rehomed elsewhere. We can only keep so much. But our motorcycles will not be sold. We are looking forward to riding them year round.

Lola thought we should keep this blue chair but mom and dad took it to a charity. She will have to settle for her new bed.

                                                 
                                                 Our dining area. 

Before we moved into our home in Yuma

Just another day in paradise.

We have been so busy with the move to our new home that I did not get a chance to share what a Great
Day I had on Sunday!

#1 Oops
So it started out at 4:56am when I got up to use the bathroom and heard the familiar sound of the alarm on the fridge which tells me that it is out of propane. Ok so I have to go out to turn the regulator to the other tank, no big deal except as I come down the stairs to shut off the alarm I pass the front door and feel a cool 54 degree breeze against my bare skin. Oops, as closer inspection revealed, we had left the door wide open all night. So our new furnace had been blasting away all night attempting to do what the sun does in Yuma during the day. You might say we were heating the foothills one BTU at a time.

#2 Oops
Once up for the day we were going to start loading for the move so I went to reposition the truck to make it easier to load. Well if you have not seen our truck, it is a Super Cab Dually LONG BOX which like the description says makes it quite long! I must have forgotten this point as while backing up I ran right into the left leg of the awning and bent it to the point it now resembles a pretzel.

#3 Oops
So we take several loads over to our new domicile and while waiting for my bride to empty the tote and two egg crates I am looking out the open sliding glass door. When she says she is ready I start to walk out the door ahead of her. It wasn't until the screen door, now completely bent and knocked out of the track that I noticed it was closed.

(On a side note the previous owner had made a point of telling me how meticulously he had maintained the door to keep it worked so well) Remind me to thank him again!

#4 Oops
We have been hauling stuff all day and now need to stop at Walmart for some supplies. I mention to Cindy how hungary I am and she tells me there is a McDonalds inside this Walmart and we might as well take a break and eat. Now I am not a big fan of McDonalds but am famished so her idea strikes me as a great one. Wrong, as once inside and approaching the McDonald entrance ,they choose to close their gate. Now this is mid afternoon, what is going on? They ran out of FRIES. Really? Run out of Fries and you descde to shut down the Store?

#5 Oops
The Walmart is packed and we picked up enough stuff that Cindy did not want to go thru the self checkout so we get in line at one of the 4 out ot 20+ checkouts that are open. One of the ladys ahead of us had severel liters of pop, so she, because of there weight and not having a cart had them on the floor and was pushing them inch by inch with her foot, ahead as the line slowly moved forward.

#6 Oops
We get thru the line and are headed out of the store when we notice that McDonalds has reopened.(sill no fries) And as the old saying goes "Any Port in a Storm" we go in for something to eat. No big deal except because of a new rule you need to leave your cart in the waste disposal area. Right, like I am going to leave my cart full of supplies unattended so I can enter their dining area. Their food in NOT that Good!

It's Always an Adventure!

New residence.

February 1, 2018

There were good intentions on my mind to write in the blog every day. But some days get so full I forget or just don’t have the time. This time I have a very good excuse.

Early this week we started driving around to look at other RV parks for next winter. Some of them were nice but the RV were packed in like sardines. Others were way out of our price range and some were less then what would call an rv resort. But there was one park that we drove through and saw a park model for sale at a price we liked. Neighbors saw as looking at it and said they would get the owner and we could look inside. Very friendly. The owner was a super nice guy and explained everything and let us look as long as we wanted to.  After going through the home and site we said we would call him in a day or two.

After praying for guidance we called John back and asked if we could look through the place again and do some measuring. He met us there in a very short time. After discussing and the deal he presented us with, we decided to make our permanent home in the Yuma foothills.

We plan on selling our large Montana RV and truck and downsize to smaller units. See, we don’t want to give up seeing more of the country or going back to MN to visit family and friends. But since we now have a more permanent dwelling we don’t need such a big rig to call home.