PTParaD TRs and Shenanigans

[Part-Time Paradise]

Lots of work done yesterday and today.

If you've followed along, I've posted about buying our house March 2020 and done a lot of work outside. The previous owner loved planting trees and gardening as a hobby, but bad health prevented him from really taking good care of it since about 2015. So we've been making up 5 years' worth of work outside since we've bought the joint.

I rented a lift for a few days. I needed to get up high to drop some dead trees that were so tall they'd fall in the highway I live on or into healthy trees without topping them first. A friend came over and we dropped 5 trees Monday and I dropped another 2 by myself today. Then DW and I pressure washed all the siding on the house (which probably hasn't ever been done) and the siding is white again.


My buddy, who has more chainsaw time than me (and is TERRIFIED of heights), pushed me out of the bucket to go up first. I tried SO hard to not make fun of him when the bucket swayed and made him uneasy...it didn't work...I owe him beer.




The fun has just begun. Now we need to clean up the 7 or so piles of unbucked garbage on the ground. Thank goodness I have a tractor with a bucket


White siding, happy wife?

Feels good to make some progress.

 

[tigger92662]

Looks like a dandy pile of firewood

 

[Part-Time Paradise]

Looks like a dandy pile of firewood

Yes, good for around the bonfire. However, it's all pine so the sap is so bad it's never coming in the house. So much of it is falling apart dead too. It will be several burns of junk I'm sure.

Bring the marshmallows, I have the fire.

 

[bama_ed]

I was feeling good about myself for re-caulking our bathroom tub yesterday until I read this. Now .

Bama Ed

PS - but it feels good to make progress on our To-Do lists, doesn't it?

 

[Part-Time Paradise]

I was feeling good about myself for re-caulking our bathroom tub yesterday until I read this. Now .

Bama Ed

PS - but it feels good to make progress on our To-Do lists, doesn't it?

My honey-do list falls off the page with all the stuff to catch up with around here. So yes, feels good to knock some stuff out. Even the small stuff.

 

[Part-Time Paradise]

Oooooh. My buddy sent me some mock ups for our summer vacation shirts. She's still got some editing on the edges, but it's shaping up.

Front


Back

 

[Part-Time Paradise]

Been at my in-laws for Christmas celebration over NYE. Gave me some time to work on my Summer Plans. I think I've worked through a lot of it

 

[bama_ed]

Love the Moon notations. Ed

 

[Part-Time Paradise]

Love the Moon notations. Ed

We are in some prime low to zero light pollution areas on this trip. I wanted to be aware of it. When we're in Laramie (day 2 of the trip), it's going to be great.

 

[Part-Time Paradise]

Got back from camping in Topeka, KS for DD's swim meet. We stayed at Deer Creek Valley RV Park. Pretty nice "near the interstate" park.

Nice long pull thrus, level paved sites, clean, and friendly staff.

Had some "friction" throughout the weekend (DW car trouble, frozen water lines first 12 hours, a spilled jug of apple juice on upholstered stuff, and I made a trip to the ER when I thought my insides were exploding that turned out to be kidney stones. I'm doing ok, I can still feel some moving around but on the mend). Despite all that DD swam her heart out.

She qualified for finals in a meet for the first time ever. She qualified in two event and got 1st and 2nd. She also qualified for conference championships for the first time as well. We're proud of all the hard work she's put in since she started swimming competitively over 6 years ago.


Getting ready for the next swim


Finishing up the 100m breast


Her first meet

 

[Teamubr]

Congrats on DD's swim meet. That's pretty exciting.

Sorry about the kidney stone. I had one once. That was more than enough. Glad you are doing better.

And you made it back home after a very cold camping trip. That's a win.

j

 

[Part-Time Paradise]

Congrats on DD's swim meet. That's pretty exciting.

Sorry about the kidney stone. I had one once. That was more than enough. Glad you are doing better.

And you made it back home after a very cold camping trip. That's a win.

j

She is quite excited. She brought her ribbons home from practice tonight.

Working up the stone stuff. Had a follow up with my PCM today and working on a treatment plan with a specialist. I'm aging like soured milk.

I took the rig up to a nearby city today to dump. I couldn't get my after-market twist-on gate valves at the end of my sewer lines open in the cold. Just a nice send off

 

[Part-Time Paradise]

My friend finished up our summer vacation shirts. They look great.

 

[cxr]

My friend finished up our summer vacation shirts. They look great.
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whats your itinerery for this? i want to do a similar trip this spring or summer leaving from CA .
what did you use for research?

 

[Part-Time Paradise]

whats your itinerery for this? i want to do a similar trip this spring or summer leaving from CA .
what did you use for research?

I posted it a few days ago, HERE

As for research...We visited Laramie, Custer, and Badlands within the last few years. This will be our third trip in that neck of the woods. Our main reason for hitting Badlands again is to go to Minuteman Missile NHS to try to get on the Delta-01 tour, though that part of SD is really unique and quite the RV friendly part of the world.

For Teton and Yellowstone, my wife's family went several times and I watch more RVing YouTube than I watch regular TV (Loloho is good for Teton. There is a Traveling Robert episode from 2019 that's good as well. Mortons on the Move have a few good ones for that area too). Planning trips is my hobby (when we aren't in the rig) so I've really been putting this trip together on paper for 3 years.

Reservations in all these places might be a little dicey if you are planning the trip in the summer (assuming you are RVing). The shoulder seasons would be way easier.

 

[cxr]

I posted it a few days ago, HERE

As for research...We visited Laramie, Custer, and Badlands within the last few years. This will be our third trip in that neck of the woods. Our main reason for hitting Badlands again is to go to Minuteman Missile NHS to try to get on the Delta-01 tour, though that part of SD is really unique and quite the RV friendly part of the world.

For Teton and Yellowstone, my wife's family went several times and I watch more RVing YouTube than I watch regular TV (Loloho is good for Teton. There is a Traveling Robert episode from 2019 that's good as well. Mortons on the Move have a few good ones for that area too). Planning trips is my hobby (when we aren't in the rig) so I've really been putting this trip together on paper for 3 years.

Reservations in all these places might be a little dicey if you are planning the trip in the summer (assuming you are RVing). The shoulder seasons would be way easier.

Three years lol i was gonna try and stat planning in March
oh well maybe wont happen this year

 

[Part-Time Paradise]

Three years lol i was gonna try and stat planning in March
oh well maybe wont happen this year

I'm also a bit of a planner. You could easily do it this year, but you're probably going to have to compromise on where you'll stay or look for those last minute cancellations...much like try to stay at Fort Wilderness.

 

[jbrostek]

Agreed, depending on where you want to stay gotta book early.

Would love an update on your victron setup. With my truck being paid off this year, plus finally paying off the last of the wedding expenses I put on a card I can look into the investment, I even found a good deal on a complete solution though have to install it myself or find a local installer to help.

 

[Part-Time Paradise]

So I bought a thing.

Disregard that filthy truck. It was in the shop since our last snow and hasn't had a bath yet.

The trailer is great condition. Last owner was very meticulous and was a welder so he reinforced a bunch of welds. Has 3500' axles.

I don't plan to use it for camping much. I'll use for in the yard, hauling odds and ends, and the tractor around. However I'm positioned well in the @Teamubr camping maturation process. If I trade in the dually for a Class A one day, I'm set.

 

[bama_ed]

I don't plan to use it for camping much. I'll use for in the yard, hauling odds and ends, and the tractor around. However I'm positioned well in the @Teamubr camping maturation process. If I trade in the dually for a Class A one day, I'm set.

Yeah but won't you be nearly 100 feet going down the road? If you get a big honkin' RV like @Teamubr got, then take your car, your wife's car, a golf cart, and the kid's go-carts on that flat trailer when you head out for the campground, I'd get my lawn chair out to watch you make a right hand turn at a traffic light in town.

Or watch you take it through the drive-thru at McDonalds (like I do with my Aliner).

But I understand the strategy. Go big or go home.

I guess I'm just a wimpy kid.

Bama Ed

PS - and you'd still have room left over on that flat trailer. I may exaggerate a little but not much