Mowed the yard for the last time today. The mower along with all my other household items will be sold Sunday at the auction. House sale is due to close September 25th and my only home sweet home will be my 2007 29ft. Prairie Schooner 5th wheel, pulled by what I think is a wonderful 2005 F350 diesel dually crew cab. I just love the power it has. Once hauled a 27ft. 5th wheel over Powder River Pass, Wyoming with only a half ton pickup. Not enough power and it was a hair raising experience going up and coming down. The power of the diesel F-350 makes hauling a 5th wheel a breeze.
Hard to believe I will be officially homeless for the first time in my life. Dogs, cats, and bird have had time over the past three years to learn a little bit about what fulltime RVing is like as we waited for the house to sell. The dogs may not all be great rvers yet but as time goes on they keep improving. The cats and bird are very good RVers. We have been living in the RV for approximately half the year each year since 2007. But this is the year when the house has finally sold. Kind of a scary prospect even though I have been dreaming about doing this for the past several years, but dreaming about it and actually doing it are two very different things. Has been bittersweet going through all of my earthly goods and attendant memories in preparation for Sunday's personal property auction. Just amazing how much money, and energy spent earning the money in the first place, was invested in all that stuff and now it will be going to someone else's ownership for little or nothing. What has been comical in all of this is trying to tame my packrat nature. Several things, like my Casio piano keyboard, have been in the 5th wheel and back in the auction pile more than once. I have tried, but it's true, you can't take it all with you! Tough decisions but space and weight limitations provide their own resolve.
Haul a 5th wheel, instead of drive a motorhome as a middle aged single gal? Loved my first motorhome, but decided a 5th wheel would seem more like a little house. Since my goal was not to move around so much as to stay for longer periods, with an eye towards a less harried lifestyle conducive to painting and perhaps some writing, the fifth wheel seemed the way to go. Believe me I have questioned my decision more than once as non-mechanical me struggled to learn the systems and how to maneuver the trailer. Still am not that great at backing up but am a firm believer that practice will make perfect. After three years of driving the 5th wheel I think I have come a long way, but there are times when I still long for the ease of the motorhome. But one of my main considerations was what to do with my animals for such simple but regular maintenance as oil changes. In a motorhome the "kids" would have to go to the garage with their house. However with a 5th wheel they can stay at home while Mom takes the truck in for service. If I have to take the 5th wheel in for service I guess the kids will have to go with the "house" in that event, either that or I will buy a tent and put them in their crates inside it. Will cross that bridge later.
Tomorrow the furniture will be moved out of the house and into the garage as the final step before Sunday's sale. Guess I'd better make my final decisions about what is going out of the RV and back on the auction block tonight! One novel thing I am looking forward to is not having any debt. What a relief! That alone will probably make fulltiming a worthwhile if not profitable experience.
Hard to believe I will be officially homeless for the first time in my life. Dogs, cats, and bird have had time over the past three years to learn a little bit about what fulltime RVing is like as we waited for the house to sell. The dogs may not all be great rvers yet but as time goes on they keep improving. The cats and bird are very good RVers. We have been living in the RV for approximately half the year each year since 2007. But this is the year when the house has finally sold. Kind of a scary prospect even though I have been dreaming about doing this for the past several years, but dreaming about it and actually doing it are two very different things. Has been bittersweet going through all of my earthly goods and attendant memories in preparation for Sunday's personal property auction. Just amazing how much money, and energy spent earning the money in the first place, was invested in all that stuff and now it will be going to someone else's ownership for little or nothing. What has been comical in all of this is trying to tame my packrat nature. Several things, like my Casio piano keyboard, have been in the 5th wheel and back in the auction pile more than once. I have tried, but it's true, you can't take it all with you! Tough decisions but space and weight limitations provide their own resolve.
Haul a 5th wheel, instead of drive a motorhome as a middle aged single gal? Loved my first motorhome, but decided a 5th wheel would seem more like a little house. Since my goal was not to move around so much as to stay for longer periods, with an eye towards a less harried lifestyle conducive to painting and perhaps some writing, the fifth wheel seemed the way to go. Believe me I have questioned my decision more than once as non-mechanical me struggled to learn the systems and how to maneuver the trailer. Still am not that great at backing up but am a firm believer that practice will make perfect. After three years of driving the 5th wheel I think I have come a long way, but there are times when I still long for the ease of the motorhome. But one of my main considerations was what to do with my animals for such simple but regular maintenance as oil changes. In a motorhome the "kids" would have to go to the garage with their house. However with a 5th wheel they can stay at home while Mom takes the truck in for service. If I have to take the 5th wheel in for service I guess the kids will have to go with the "house" in that event, either that or I will buy a tent and put them in their crates inside it. Will cross that bridge later.
Tomorrow the furniture will be moved out of the house and into the garage as the final step before Sunday's sale. Guess I'd better make my final decisions about what is going out of the RV and back on the auction block tonight! One novel thing I am looking forward to is not having any debt. What a relief! That alone will probably make fulltiming a worthwhile if not profitable experience.
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