Houseless for 1 1/2 weeks.

I gave up this interior sticks and bricks living space for the space of my 29 ft. Prairie Schooner 5th Wheel just a little over a week and a half ago (Ok, I was going to wait and add a picture here of the 5th wheel's living room as soon as I got everything put away, but what the heck you might as well see the reality that until I get everything stowed and organized it is messy) and so far have no regrets. Enjoy the compactness and mobility of my new home and the promise of new freedom to paint at will. Hope you enjoy seeing some of my paintings in these posts. It has been a real challenge to get everything organized in the RV so that I can retrieve everything when I need it. Have successfully stowed an entire artist studio on board along with everything else I, as well as my feather and fluff kids, need. Incredibly comfortable in the RV in spite of the present mess of disorganization.

You might have noticed some of my shades are torn. One tip for dog owners. Don't try to hitch or unhitch your 5th wheel with a hyper young male labrador retriever loose inside. Jake panicked when I was hitching and tried to get out by chewing holes in some of the shades and shredding some screens. Have replaced the screens and repaired one of the shades myself. Still have 4 shades to go. All in good time. Fun comes in all sorts of sizes.

Crazy you say? Maybe. All I know is after watching both my beloved parents die, by comparison lots of things are pure enjoyment now including some of the challenges and adversities that come with stepping from a conventional lifestyle to a fulltime RV lifestyle.

Tomorrow am taking the truck in to have her hitch looked at. The 20,000 lb. Reese hitch has a reluctance to release the kingpin on my 5th wheel without a lot of finegling of the truck into just the perfect position. Took me an hour to unhitch it last time. Maybe it just needs some grease.

Can't sign off without describing the beautiful balmy, moonlit eastern Wyoming evening we are enjoying. Great for moon gazing as the coyotes howl and a coal train whistle sounds in the distance. Saw a young bullsnake cross the road in front of us this afternoon as I walked the doggies past the old homestead. Tomorrow evening there's a possibility of some snow. Today it was in the 80's. Tomorrow will be cooler. Have had a couple of frosts and sunflowers have all withered.