Okay, here's the cold, hard truth: our house will not be done this month. Not even close. It MAY be done by the end of November...or at least, done enough for us to move in. Then again, maybe not.
We close on the sale of our Yakima house next week and have one more month to live in it. One way or another, we'll be living full-time in Montana by Thanksgiving. That means we'll be cozying up in the Tin Tepee, our 28-foot 5th-wheel, for at least a few weeks as the snow swirls around us.
That's Don and me, plus two big, hairy, elderly dogs and one medium young dog. Five "people" in this little trailer. We've done it in the past, and it's been fun...at least for a few days at a time when it was our "vacation home." Now it's going to be "home." That may require a slightly different mindset.
Life is simple when you don't have space to complicate it. Our wardrobe is limited. Our food is crockpot-cooked. Cleaning is an easy ritual. Entertainment is a Sirius satellite radio.
This transitional home will be another new adventure for us. I think of the pioneers who left everything familiar and struck out into the new territory in covered wagons. That experience was a real equalizer, just as ours will be. Wealthy or poor, those folks all had to get to their dream destinations the same way: in bumpy wagons a fraction the size of our 5th-wheel. But the destination was almost always worth the journey!
