Horse Trading

It’s been a long five days since I’ve posted.  I’m sure glad I’m not a daily blogger because I would have flunked out many times. We’ve been mighty, mighty busy. 

I’ve been thinking about a post recently posted by a fellow blogger.  She was wondering why others she followed never reciprocated with comments on her blog. so this comment is for her.  I think blogging and commenting is a two-way street but for many it’s a one way street.  We really get to know the folks when we follow their blog and they follow ours. I don’t follow a lot of blogs and that’s for many reasons.   Some folks we really click with and others we don’t. Just because I occasionally "follow" a blog doesn't mean I really always read.  I stopped commenting on some who just don’t reciprocate.   I could give you a list of those as I’m sure other bloggers can too. It's just the way things are.  Don't let it get to you.   Some folks we connect with and others we just don’t.  That’s life.  Not everyone connects and I'm just not a dedicated blog follower anymore except for a special few.

Over time the list of blogs I read has changed. I don’t always comment but mostly.  However, if I don’t care for the subject matter, I probably won’t comment.  I also rarely comment if a blogger posts more than once a day or if the topic is controversial.  There are a lot of RV bloggers out there.  I’m sure some would love to hear from you and some you will definitely connect with. We all like something different … thank goodness for that!
  

Back to my Horse Trading title ---  My title might sound like we’re trading a horse but we’re not.  We’re not selling one and we’re not buying one but we are hoping to do some trading around. We know that takes time.

Some of you will remember our amazing Dodge truck.  We actually used this the first year we were snowbirds..  We pulled our 5th wheel with it to Texas and Arizona.  It was a great truck.  That’s why it was never sold and kept in the family … until now that is.  It’s been cleaned up and now we’re hoping to find new owners.

Some of you will also remember this ATV.  We never sold it either.  It was also an amazing ATV and that’s why it was kept in the family too … until now that is.  However, since its been in the garage for quite some time, it needed a little encouragement (and a new battery) to get it ready for the market. 

First of all, we tried to save the $50 by pulling the cord on the manual starter. Lee and Mike pulled and pulled and pulled.  Nada.  Nothing. Zero.  We even tried giving the battery a jump.  Again, nada, nothing, zero.  Finally, a trip to Wal-Mart and all that was behind us.  It started to purr like a kitten  …. that is if you think any ATV will purr, this one will.  Now we’re hoping to find a new owner for it too.

Most of you are also familiar with our ever-so-often posted Jeep.  Well, it’s soon to become kept in the family but not necessarily by us.  It’s being claimed by Lee.

That’s what we’ve been doing and we’re just as busy as beavers ……………….. oh, and we’ve also been busy with ideas for Tammi with the new house she’s purchasing.  I’m sure we’ll be busy when the time comes to move too. 

Guess what?  There’s a huge RV site in back.  Looks like we’ll have two drive-ways with full hookups.  Things couldn’t be much better than that!

Mother’s Day came around and we were lucky in that we got to spend a little time with both of our kids and their families.  Tammi and Sabrina put their creativity to work for Mother’s Day.  Tammi took a picture of Duchess and then got out her wood burning tools and converted that picture to one on a trivet.  This was the finished project.  Pretty cool, huh?

Sabrina provided me with flowers and lots of fabric quarters to help speed me along with all my projects.  After that, I got out my sewing machine and now I’m trying to figure out what crafty little project I want to tackle next. Lee put  kokanee he had caught on the barbecue and gave me the leftovers!  Nummy!

We also made another trip to our storage shed.  In the past we had not used the clubs much on the road so didn’t take them south with us.  However, we discovered several places we stayed we were almost right on top of golf courses and didn’t have the clubs with us.  We really “suck” at golf but it’s fun and we enjoy it so we’re not going to leave them behind again and especially since this fall we hope to spend more time in California where golf courses are just about everywhere.

The weather has been absolutely gorgeous.  More of the same is predicted for this week with temperatures reaching into the 80’s.  However, we have RVing friends moving north from California right now and we hope they don’t miss this weather.  Timing is everything in the Pacific Northwest especially this time of year.

‘Tis life on the road.

Family is not an important thing.  It's everything.