5C's Que Pasa

Still rainy and cold, I am wearing 2 sweaters and 2 pairs of socks. The girls are under a mound of blankets and even with a small electric heater we are chilled to the bone.  The windows in this RV are not double pane.  What happened to our weather?  This reminds me of October when start to head south to Mexico.

I did manage to make dinner last night but not till 8:30PM.  I think we are slowly becoming more organized.  Haven’t shown you the latest new build photos.

This is the next step after the steel base.

Now the heat ducting is in, water lines are in, some electrical and floor insulation. I am standing about even with the kitchen, which shows how large a living area we will have, all the way forward.

One nail at a time.

Had some excitement here Monday. The same builder who is doing our home was delivering this one.

It was going right next door to the house we just sold. A very tight squeeze. Our delivery will be much easier.

They had to use a fork lift to get it into place.

That’s it for today folks.  I’ll try and spice things up tomorrow.  By the way if anyone who reads this blog is coming to the Isla for the winter let me know if you want to join our book club.  We have a few open spaces.

Decided to throw this in from last December just to warm things up!!

Tags: 319, construction, Holiday Park, Mexico, Stone Island

…better late than never.  Really hard for me right now to post at a certain time of day.  Who knows I might even post again tomorrow morning!!!

Our weather here is simply crappy…wet and cool, I would have to say cold even.  I think we had  2 0r 3 days of sun and heat since we came back mid April. I can live without the sun but crave the heat.  Living in the RV in this dampness is awful especially with little power.  Seems like we have another week of this, another new inverter has been ordered but it is coming from the US.  Last weeks inverter, the new one that fried, turned out to be a defect within the inverter itself.  That is good news for us as it means we don’t have a problem with the RV itself.

Saw my lawyer today, nothing much, back again in two weeks and so on and so on!!  On the way, after a quick breakfast stop we went to check out a lighting store and found some neat things that just might work in the new house.  Some really different modern stuff for the kitchen.

Did someone say McDonalds? Yup that was breakfast, an egg McMuffin with no meat. Just food for energy. The girls started yipping as soon as we turned in, must have smelt the food. They got a few tiny pieces.

We haven’t been wanting to leave them in the RV alone just yet as they are still unsettled after the move and they hate the cold so we bring them with us.  They told us today that we could have brought them into the lighting store…next time maybe.  Two more new house related stops them back home.

Then I was off to the dentist.  First thing he asked, “are you upset or stressed about something?”  Hmmmm, ya think so, just a bit!!  He thinks I cracked my tooth because of stress, even my gums are all sensitive, like I have been grinding.  The tooth can be saved but is fragile and needs a crown ( ka ching, ka ching ) ASAP!!  So there goes $1079.00 this coming Thursday.  What next I ask?

Thanks for all the cement comments and support.  Colin is talking to several of Kelowna’s major developers that he works for and getting some opinions before our next step.

After all our running around yesterday we stopped at Papa Murphy’s Pizza, you know you’ve been there too many times when they recognize you and asked how the move went!!!  I am making dinner tonight and tomorrow I promise!  I just had a thought….do you think Papa Murphy might be related to Mr. Murphy…..well anything is possible………??????

Tags: food, Funny, The girls

Not been a good last 24 hours.

I cracked a tooth, at least that’s what it felt like….off to the the dentista tomorrow, soonest they can see me.

Then I noticed our new cement had cracked.

Only poured 10 days ago.

..the crack goes all the way up to the existing grey cement. S & K say it is to be expected and nothing they can do!!!

I'm going to leave it to Colin to deal with.....I'm done with the cement guys.

On a more positive note I am making arrangements for bounty hunters to come track down Mr. Murphy!!

Tags: 319, colored & stamped cement

Never got around to posting yesterday, we were trying to put things in order both inside and outside the RV.  Had some chats with the people who bought our house.  They are so happy here, even with the cool damp weather, big smiles on their faces.  They do live in Alberta so will be here off and on over the summer months before they move here full time.  Seeing them in my ‘old yard and home’ is not bothering me at all.

I got a few emails and comments on the blog regarding how we were going to fit both the house and the RV on the beach site.  We aren’t.  We will live here till the house is delivered towards the end of July or early August and it will be like a holiday….well that is my plan at least!!  The day before the house arrives we will move about 1/2 block away onto a private rental RV site, where I will pay a monthly amount till we leave for Mexico in October.  Once the house is on the beach site, the add a room will be built and when that is done we will have the flooring put down, some more painting done, then we can start to move stuff in.  I don’t anticipate it being ready for occupancy till sometime in September, so by the time we get things unpacked it will be early October hence the reason for staying in the RV till next April.  At that time the RV will go into the storage yard here at Holiday Park Resort.  We have made certain that the RV will fit in front here on the beach site so we can load and unload.

Our new office complete with thousands of pieces of wiring! Colin's computer is sideways on the table, it takes the entire width of the table. We are still recycling as you can see.

I wasn’t feeling well last night nor this morning, might have been something I ate.  Colin has way too much energy & is spending the afternoon washing the RV.  Yesterday he washed both cars and the golf cart plus did a lot of work in the yard.  Mind you this is the first time anything has been washed since we got back from Mexico.  Next I  hope to catch up with all my emails, hang in there folks, I will get back to you soon.

Did you read in the news that us Canucks can now bring more across the  US/Canada border?  New Federal legislation will allow a Canadian to increase their return of purchased goods from $50.00 after 24 hours in the US to $200.00.  BIg change, eh!  Those away from 2 to 7 days can bring in $800.00 worth of goods, double from $400.00.  For those of us away over 7 days it only goes up from $750.00 to $800.00.  The increases went into effect on June 1st.  Now we are hearing stories that people are going to start heading south to the US  for weekends vacations rather than visit somewhere in Canada thus taking money out of Canada.  Time will tell, the way our dollar is right now I’d rather stay in Canada.

I saw this in the Kelowna newspaper today. Great idea!!

Tags: 319, garden, health, Holiday Park

….only 46 sleeps and we are officially fulltime RVers!!  Hard to believe that in that short amount of time we have sold our home, started construction of a new one and moved into the RV.  It has been a stressful time with lots of lists.  Today the new owners take possession of our home.  It will be interesting because we see the house right out the front of the RV window, not sure how I will feel seeing someone else there.  We are likely to stay in the RV until we return from Mazatlan next April.

So today, June 1st, is the beginning of many new things.  A new routine, learning to run our business in the RV, starting to go for family walks again, read and relax and enjoy life.  There will also be the fun things of watching the house being built, picking kitchen hardware, lighting, paint colours, etc.  The big decisions like cabinets, flooring, windows and doors have been made.

A reader emailed me yesterday to suggest we plant a new tree in front of the cedar hedge we had to cut. This is for you Ken!

Yesterday started off on high hopes that we would have electricity restored. Not to be. Something went wrong installing the new inverter and it also was fried. Perhaps it was defective. Our sole source of electricity is through 2 extension cords running out of an RV window. Our solar panels are useless as they have no inverter/charger to run through. We are coping, just being very creative.

The girls are coping better now that we are in one place and no more boxes being moved out and no back and forth between the house and the RV. The test in the next few weeks will be for them to not go to the house but always here to the RV. Caeli just loves being a dirty girl!

We have great soil and with the use of proper fertilizer the tree grew overnight!!

I plan on posting our Mexico costs, fuel, mileage and all those exciting things soon.  Stay tuned.

Tags: 319, garden, Mazatlan, Mexico, RV repairs, The girls