Its been a while since I posted last.  Not much has changed yet much has changed here.  When I wrote last we were living in our camper in a tiny RV campground in the city.  It wasn’t alot of fun but we got through it.  We closed on our house, finally.   I love my home so much.  I love the park it sits in….now.   I love the great neighbors we have….. But it didn’t start out that way!!

     When we moved here our “park” was not very aesthetically pleasing you could say.  It was really a mess.  It had been let go for many years, the lots mostly unkept overgrown and sad.  When we came in all I could think of was…..”what have we done?”  The plus side though (yes there are a few pluses) ……we are very close to the gulf,  the sunsets are amazing and the gulf breezes are wonderful.  

  What a HUGE difference a year and some new managers have made.  More than a few times we have talked of selling and getting out of here .  We actually did put our house up for sale but the look of the park really put people off.  Its now a very pretty sweet little park all cleaned up and a very nice place to be.  

    We have added a lot of improvements and elbow grease to our little home  and shined it up rather nicely.  I now have a pleasant little patio worthy of long sitting spells enjoying a sunrise, a beautiful garden filled with beautiful flowers and plants and intoxicating fragrances morning and evening. 

I am still knitting and some crocheting……its what I do!   In this warm weather the most I seem to be able to do is dish cloths…..lots of dish cloths.   I’ve begun to get bored with them so I am leaning toward a new adventure. 

    I am thinking of learning to quilt. I love quilts.   I spend hours lookig online at hundreds of them and admiring the colors and patterns… I have 3 sewing machines sitting waiting for a job.  So I think that will be my fall and winter hobby this year.       

     I still have my poodle girl.  Can’t believe she is 4 already!  I have a new little buddy who keeps me always moving.  He’s such a stinker.  His name is Bodhi Jack.  He is 4 months old and a crazy little guy.  He is a Mini Aussie Shepherd. He is something and I hopefully can train him to be a good boy. 

I am still baking.  I love to bake and try new things.  My neighbors  also love for me to crank up the oven and bake….as I share with them.  I am pretty famous around the park for my peanut butter cookies and biscuits!!

     So…. Thats whats been happening here in sunny Florida.  Well I think that’s about all for right now.  I promise to be much more diligent about writing here since I now have a beautiful new computer and great internet!  

     See you soon… Promise!

Just another tale from my little camper world.

    As many mornings as I have woken here in Florida I never tire of seeing the gorgeous sunrises….. or sunsets for that matter.  They each in their own beauty takes my breath away even from a camper window..

    Today started out magnificently as ever.  It was cool for a Florida morning in May.  Cool enough for a sweatshirt to take the dogs out this morning.  Never thought I would say sweatshirt and May in the same sentence in Florida.  It was refreshing, and a great night sleep was gauranteed last night as the temps dipped into the mid 50’s….. in Florida…. in May.  Who knew, but we are very blessed. 

  Just as beautiful as the mornings, the evening sunsets don’t disappoint and are truly amazing in their own right!   I mean… who wouldn’t want to be sitting and just relaxing watching this happen?  I never want to miss a spectacular end of my day like this…  ever.

We are in a holding pattern waiting to close on our home here and the days do tend to run together.  They can be very long and very boring.  Sometimes it is difficult to get through them so I do the best I can to keep busy.  There really is nothing to do here in this tiny little RV park we are in.  The wifi is horrible and never works, there are no amenities unless you count a laundry and shower house.  So life is very dull most days. 

The heat this past week has been really unusually warm and very humid. Not weather you want to be out in to walk the dog or take a noontime stroll. 

The nights sometimes have cooled down enough to turn off the air and open windows so that helps a little for this non-camper loving person.   

One of the things I have been doing is picking up my knitting to break the boredom.  I have manged to do a few of these and take my mind off things plus I will have a few new things for a new home.  A small win for me as I love knitting, knitting dish cloths and I love using these little beauties for lots more than just dishes.  

    They really do have a plethora of uses and they never wear out.  They last many times longer than store bought and they are very inexpensive to make.  You can find hundreds of free patterns on the internet for the too!

    Well that’s pretty much concludes my tales from a camper for today.  I’ve learned to bake, cook and keep my self somewhat entertained here in my little 28 foot world.  Until we meet again…. Be blessed, take care and be kind to everyone.  Trudy

 Let’s just say I am not a huge fan of camper living.  I have always been a girl scout – in the forest-tent sleeping – cooking everything over a campfire- kinda girl.  I have never been one to want to go live in a camper.  Ever…..   

Perhaps it never just the right kinda camper.  I have seen many but all with mini everythings inside them. Unless you are in one of those -mansion size buses- tiny houses on wheels.     

 Perhaps it’s my claustrophobic nature.  Perhaps it is the iddy buddy stove and fridge that hold very little.  I mean seriously, I can’t imagine cooking a dinner of great quality in these iddy bidddy size of a matchbox ovens.  I just haven’t been a big fan.     

Today I looked over on my table and saw 2 very over ripe bananas.  Unfortunately I knew I had to take action.  I hate to throw out bananas because I absolutely love them but…..  that would mean trying to use that teeny tiny – my microwave  is bigger than that- oven.  What to do?     

So off I go, let’s do an experiment I suppose.   Was I crazy to think this…. to even consider trying to bake in an oven I didn’t even know how light?  Probably but what could possibly go wrong?  Worst case scenario I would just have to toss the end result and chalk it up to experience. 

Well I mixed it, put it in a pan that I generously greased and looked at that oven that i hoped was heated to the right temperature.  There is no oven light to let you know you are at temp.  In to the oven it went while I hoped, said a little prayer and tried to occupy my time for an hour.     

I peeked into that oven an hour later and pulled one out, tested it and amazingly enough it was done!!!!  It looked absolutely beautiful, golden brown and smelled glorious!! I took out the 2nd loaf and it was just as gorgeous.   I am simply amazed I would never thought it could be done!!!!  

    There is hope.  Perhaps I may be convinced just a wee bit that camper living might not be quite so bad if indeed I can produce some semblance of normalcy such as a loaf of Banana Bread!!!  I must admit I can’t do this over a campfire.  Perhaps it might be okay.  I must admit my curiosity is peaking….. what might I try to bake next in this oven???  Stay tuned .  I think I will make a cup of tea, have a slice it two of bread and milk it over.  Be blessed….     Trudy

It’s been forever since I’ve been here. Years.. I guess you could say that life happened, and this little blog went on the back burner. So much life has happened. Many moves, many gains, some losses. But now I see life slowly coming back into settled. It’s taken a long time for me to be able to find my “settled”.

When I last posted, we were in South Carolina, still my most favorite place I have been. Since Carolina we have been to Florida to Michigan to Florida and back to Michigan and back on the road we shall be in a week or two. Its a long story…..we thought we could find out happiness if we kept looking. Sooo here is the last chapter of why we are on the move again We made our 3rd move to Michigan 18 months ago. My husband are Michigan people born and raised. We had moved from Florida. We were going to move to be close to our kids but that just didn’t work out as we planned.

We thought we had settled in here, we bought a really nice comfy old home. We thought that this was our last stop in the road to retirement….. but I guess we we wrong.      We wanted a camper to do some traveling since we are now in our golden years. We wanted to become snowbirds and head south in the winter…. in our golden years… Except these years don’t feel so golden right now with Covid, kids and campers. We devised a plan, although not a perfect plan as you will see.      So a little back story.   We had a camper, our kids wanted that one so we sold it to them.  We in turn bought a much newer and more expensive beautiful camper to do some traveling. We then realized that we couldn’t really afford a house and camper payment easily at the same time.  . 

   Soooo…. We had to make a decision and we decided to sell the newly purchased home 6 months in and become full time rv’ers. We had decided to sell our home thinking all was well with the kids and things were going great for them.    Things happen though and life got in the way.  The kids couldn’t keep the camper and keep paying on it so now we had 2 campers and a huge payment.  Excuse me a minute while I deep sigh… So now more we had more decisions to make.       We sold the older camper and we in turn had sold our house to do our traveling but now our kids wanted us to stay close.  Trying to buy another home in these days and times is a major headache and something we are not able to do easily with today’s housing market.  Homes sell as fast as they are listed and for much more than they did 6 months ago we are finding out .     So over the road we go in our nice new camper and I am not sure where we will land this time but we are heading for warmer weather for a while for a much needed vacation.  It’s been a long cold winter and we need some sun right now.    One thing I forgot to mention, I am a puppy raiser for Southeastern Guide Dogs in Palmetto Florida.  I have raised 2 pups already and they are now certified working guide dogs.  

    I am now raising my 3rd pup and he will be joining us in our little camper adventures.  It’s not exactly how I wanted to do this but hopefully Saint will enjoy it.  He most likely will be my last pup to raise unless we are somehow able to find a home for us somewhere.    I invite you to follow us along on our camper adventures to see where we end up.  Will it be a warm or a cold climate?  Will we be able to find a home or be rv’ers forever?  Let’s see where life takes us!!!  After all….. Life is an adventure. 

One day  warm , one day rainy. One day blue sky no clouds and a gentle breeze, the  next day cold, gray and  a  blustery north wind.  I wish there  was a button  to make it  all stop and  just  turn on the  good  weather but  I know that  is not  possible.     I  know  it is supposed to be  winter,  I get that.  I live in South Carolina,  and  we  usually  do not  have  such up and down temperatures.  It  is not just  us  either  the  whole  country  is  having  this.   I  just  look forward  to  spring and  steady  temps.  My  allergies  will  be  grateful as will  I .   All this up and down  is  making  my  head and  nose  hurt and  I look  like a squirrel  packing away nuts  with all the  kleenex I have  stashed everywhere.    I  live  very  close  to  these  mountains and when you come out my  street to the main road you can see them  a bit.

                                                                                                        

Well  welcome  to my  little blog  all about  me , my life , my  family and my  yarn  addiction.   Yes  I am a  yarn addict, I freely admit that and  I love  love love to use  it  for  all types  and kinds  of  projects.  I  knit , I crochet and I use  a loom  sometimes.  Nothing gives me  greater peace  then after  doing all my chores  for the day then to sit  and use  some of that  yarn to make something  useful , warm and  fun.    I make all kinds  of things , really.  I  can spend hours and hours  just  traveling the internet for patterns  for all kinds of things.  I  love to knit for my grand daughters, and their  dolls and bears.  I love to make hats , mittens , blankets  , sweaters, and socks.  Nothing  is  a waste of time if you love  learning how to make it  and  if it adds to the person that  you become , right?  I will try  just  about any  kind of project  and even if it takes  months  to learn it  and finish it  that  makes  it all the more grand I think.

Some  of  the  things  that  I have  done  for family and friends  include  slippers , fingerless mitts, dish cloths and scrubbies, sweaters , and  baby  items.  Lots and lots of  baby  items  for my newest  little angel  Alyssa Jean.    She is now almost  6 months old and  getting more adorable everyday.

                                                                                                            

I am a stay at home mom to  puppy dogs and  chickens.  I raise  chickens for the eggs , no  roosters  on this little farm.  There  is  not much tastier then a  farm fresh form the nest  little brown egg in the morning  to go with the  homemade  bread freshly baked.   I try  to cut  corners where ever I can and save pennies  so I do a lot  of things  myself like baking bread, making  laundry soap, and  lotion bars  for my hands.  That is where  knitting and crochet  helps too as  it  is much cheaper  to by  some  good old redheart yarn and make those  adorable mittens then to pay  upwards  of  $10 bucks or more for cute ones off the shelf.  That  is what  I tell my self  each time anyway.   It  makes  me  feel better when I buy more  yarn .    That  is my story and I am sticking to it .  Well  time for me to go , I shall return soon and  often with  more  stories and  pictures of my  yarn adventures and  goings  on here in the south .  Take care and we will see you when we see you.