Home soon!
As long as the plant doesn't crash and burn between now and Monday, Jim and I will be headed home soon!
We'll have to make two trips, so we plan on loading the truck up Monday, then driving both it and the car back home on Tuesday. If we're up to it, we'll drive back down the next day as our lot rent for the RV is up on Friday. If we're too tired, then we'll pay for an extra day and bring the RV back on Friday or Saturday.
It would be nice to get all the driving done before the weekend, as that's going to be exhausting and Jim has to be back at work (in Russellville) on Monday, to finish out this contract.
He's probably got about three weeks of work left, then we're up for grabs!
We've laid out a few goals for this year, but they're flexible because we don't know where he'll be working. If we can manage to stay home (mostly), our plan is to:
1) Finish the road into the land.
2) Run power and drill a well.
3) Build a shop and a tractor barn.
4) Pack the house and shop up.
5) Make any needed repairs and finish projects.
If we have to leave for work, then our plan is reduced to getting the house and shop packed and moved into longterm storage, making any needed repairs, then putting the house on the market so we're free to build on the land when we return.
I haven't been blogging because I've nothing to say… Jim was on day shift for one whole day after I got here before they switched him back to nights, so I've just been doing a lot of reading. I finally got to try out my new Kindle Paper white, as it arrived a day after I left, so it's just been sitting here. I love it! It's much smaller than my old Kindle 2, but with the same size screen, and the backlighting is wonderful.
I'm also enjoying the 4G LTE Verizon service on my iPad, wow what a difference over 3G! Too bad we don't have 4G service up on the land, I would consider it for our internet service, although Jim and I plan to look into a cell phone booster for the house (and later the land) as we have very poor to no cell phone reception at the house. I need to remember to take my iPad up to the land while I still have the cellular service activated on it and see if there's any reception, since it's on Verizon. Our cell phone were on AT&T and had no reception up there, so I'm sure it's the same on Straight Talk.
One thing nice about being in the RV… I sleep like a rock. Seven to nine hours on average, compared to my four to five hours I generally get at the house. I wish I knew why I can't sleep there, but it's been that way ever since we bought the place.
Later!
difference in the mattress that you have? I know when we got our motorhome we bought a decent mattress for the bed and I am actually more comfortable on that one then the old one that is in the house! I hope all you plans go as you have planned!
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We have verizon and the phone comes in good at the house – we used to have AT&T and had to wander around “do you hear me know” finally got tired of that and switched to Verizon and have no problems now and it comes in most places when we travel – much better than the AT&T did.
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I don’t know… the mattress in the RV is just the one that came with it, and we have a really nice one at the house, however the RV mattress is on a platform versus a box spring, and I like the extra firmness.
We get the same reception at the house for both Verizon and ATT&T, pretty much non existent, but we haven’t had the opportunity to test Verizon on the land.
Have missed you, CJ.
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Will you guys consider living in your RV on the land if the house sells sooner rather than later?
I bet Jim is liking you with him – for the cooking of course….LOL
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Yes absolutely, we PLAN on living in the RV on the land while we build.
Yes, Mr. Tinkle is very happy to have his wife back 
CJ, A while back I was able to find on the internet a map of cellular towers for the various carriers. I can’t find it now but I expect you can find one for your area. It turned out that Verizon had many more towers around here. A few years ago you needed to get on top of our picnic table to get any reception, but thankfully that has improved.
Diane, yes I have an app for that, they’re about equal in our area, but we’re in a dead zone at both the house and up on the land. From the map, I think we have a better chance of snagging a Verizon signal with a booster up on the land, but the mountain blocks us at the house.
Wow, sounds like you are going to be worn out in a couple of days. I hope Jim gets a new contract in Russellville so you guys can stay home and begin the building process.
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Me too Vivian! We’ve been waiting forever to do this! Life keeps interferring though… first with the land in Missouri, and now in Arkansas… one day!
Now don’t laugh. Check the FENG SUI of the bedroom. If you bed faces a door, if you have mirrors in the room, etc. it makes a difference. I thought it was hogwash until I bought several books on it. Then I built this home by the guidelines. People walk in and everyone says the same thing. They feel so relaxed. Now I have the same furniture but the wall color is different, the placement is different, plus I have live plants. Read up on it. It can’t hurt. I’m really not looney..
Well now that’s not a bad idea Hilary. Our bed DOES face the door… two of them in fact, one into the living room and one to the patio. Sadly, there’s no re-arranging it, but I will do some reading on that for the new house!