And now for something completely different...(with apologies to Monty Python)

I'm missing Sadie tonight. It has been some time since we have been able to get out and use the old girl. There is a reason for that. We have sold our sticks and bricks...no, we are not going full time in Sadie. We are going to build a new home in a different city that is closer to our son Patrick and his wife, Katie.

The upshot of this change is that we will be living aboard Sadie for the duration of the build time. That is likely to be about four months. There are very few RV parks near where we will be building, but we found one about ten miles away that looks suitable. That park will be within a half mile of our kids' house, so it will be fun to be able to see them without an hour and a half of driving involved. They are both school teachers, so they have a lot of time in the summer.

Before we move aboard Sadie, there are a few things we need to do to her. Jill has recently had back pain while sleeping in the RV bed. We have ordered a memory foam mattress, which we hope will alleviate that problem. In addition, our satellite antenna has failed. It is so old that it doesn't recognize all the satellites in the sky and gets so confused that it just gives up. I will be replacing it later this week, I hope, weather permitting.

I also want to have the fuel pump relay checked/replaced and the transmission checked and serviced. Once those things are done, the hard work begins: deciding what we need to live and what stuff is optional. So, there are big doin's afoot for Sadie. We are excited, to say the least. We get to have a taste of full-timing in Sadie, and we get to build our dream home. Did I mention that our new home will have a garage/shop for Sadie?

We are blessed beyond measure (with apologies to Guyanne Valentine).