Getting Settled

Well, it has been a month since my last post. So much has happened since then. We have moved into the new house, we went on vacation and now I am almost finished unpacking. Yeah!! Things are getting unpacked, but not everything has a place yet. I can't believe how much "stuff" I have. About half of it will be going into the attic for storage until I decide what to do with it. I did the same thing when we moved into our last house - put stuff in the attic - and then I never touched it again in the 12 years we lived there, so it got donated or tossed when we moved out. My husband is still going over to the old house on weekends to cut the grass and do some maintenance and touch up paint. The house has been shown several times but no offers yet. I hope it sells fast!

I am enjoying my new house so much. I love looking out at the lake and going down to feed the ducks - there are 26 of them! Boats are going by all the time, water skiers, men fishing, and there is even an old fashioned, New Orleans style paddle wheel boat that goes by on the weekends. Living here feels like I am on vacation every day. What a life!

Our real vacation was too short and NOT without mishaps. It is usually us with the problems on the road, but this time it was another couple that we were traveling with. While traveling down the interstate in Alabama, they lost a wheel off of their 5th wheel trailer. We all pulled over and I saw in the side mirror, the wheel barreling down the interstate coming right for us. It hit the 5th wheel on the side, missing our friend by about 2 feet and then bounced back onto the freeway. Luckily, it didn't cause any accidents, although an 18 wheeler and another car had to swerve to keep from hitting it. It took us about 2 hours to find parts to fix it and then we were back on the road, only to have it happen again within a half hour - same tire! Unbelievable! This time it couldn't be fixed and they would need to replace the whole hub and with it being late on Saturday, we ended up hobbling down the road to a Walmart where we parked overnight. They ended up staying there for two nights and instead of getting it fixed, bought a new 5th wheel on Monday. They had been looking at new ones for some time, so this just made them decide faster. There just happened to be a really nice RV sales place 2 miles down the road. We all finally got to our destination, Pigeon Forge, TN, on Monday night. There were three other couples beside us on this trip and once we all arrived, we had a great time! But, like I said, it was too short.

Being away on vacation did me good. It gave me a nice break between packing and unpacking. I will be glad to finally get all the unpacking finished so that I can start on the fun part - buying new stuff! haha