Reality

Okay, now the reality of the move to the trailer is setting in.

I think I'm going to love it!

I sold off a bunch of furniture yesterday and am sleeping on a little roll-away bed with a chair for a night stand. I like the new, Spartan look of my bedroom. I should have done this years ago!

I'll quote Thoreau again: "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! . . . We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without."

Going Crazy

I'm moving out of my house one week from today, and I don't know how it's going to get done. My house is a sty--which is my new nickname, btw (fitting)--and I've hardly done any packing.

When I've moved in the past, I've always been uber-organized and gotten everything done in advance. But not this time.

I alternate between feeling totally crazed about it, and hiding my head in the sand, hoping it will go away. At least I have an excuse: my sprained ankle still isn't healed, so it's hard to walk across a room, let alone traipse up and down steps.

I Want One of These for the Trailer!

This is THE cutest thing in the world. And there are four of them!

Reuters fixed it so I can't embed the video in my blog, so click here .

Give!

Okay, look, all that stuff I just wrote about in the "Wish List" blog entry below? It's all going to cost me. A lot. Therefore, I'm adding a "Donate via PayPal" button to this blog!

After all, it's better to give than to receive.

If that didn't convince you, here are some additional admonitions:

Albert Einstein:
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

John D. Rockefeller Jr.:
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.

Maya Angelou:
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

And Mr. and Mrs. Bush:

Barbara Bush:
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

George H. W. Bush:
I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.

I found a quote from Anne Frank, too, but I'm being vile enough asking for money from strangers without exploiting an unfortunate teenager who died at the hands of the Nazis.

So Give, Give, Give, to Me, Me, Me!!!

Wish List

Here's my wish list of things I want the restoration people in Colorado to do to the trailer:

--Working gas lines

--New propane tanks

--Working toilet

--Shower

--Hot water, especially in shower, but for kitchen, too

--Water that comes out clean, not rusty

--Larger water tanks (white and black)

--Circuit breaker or breakers

--New electrical inlet on outside

--Working furnace/heater

--Working stove

--Working gas light over dinette, so I can have light when I'm camping without electricity

--Good seals on windows and anywhere else, to prevent leaks

--Seal against cold air (in winter) that leaks in around the refrigerator

--Spare tire mount and cover on exterior back

--Rock guard for windows on exterior front

--Counter-top-type cover for the top of the stove

--Air conditioning, maybe, for when I'm in Arizona in August

--Some other cosmetic stuff I'll explain later

Google Images Search

This is so funny (to which the reader replies, "I'll be the judge of that").

Anyway, I was going to write about how the trailer is getting so crowded that I'm actually taking things out of it now, as I try to load it with "essentials" like a lemonade pitcher that I haven't used in years, that just take up space, and that I probably never will use.

I always like to put some kind of picture in my blog entry to make it more than just boring text, so I entered "bulging trailer cartoon" into the Google images search function. Here's the first thing that came up:

Change of Plans

Nothing ever goes the way I plan!

I had made arrangements months ago to take the trailer to Montana on August first, to a trailer restoration company there to have it all checked out, plus to have some things added, such as a shower.

Last weekend, I got an e-mail saying the company is no longer functioning.

Back to square one.

Fortunately, the Montana people referred me to another trailer restoration company in Colorado. The guy there says he can work on my trailer in early September.

I don't mind the change, though, because the Colorado place is not far from Boulder, and I've always wanted to visit Boulder.