BACK TO LIFE ON LAND

November 30, 2016
It has been almost 2 months since my last post.  The change from life on the water to life on land has once again been hard for me to get use to.  After all this time I am just now pulling myself back to reality. 

YOU GOTTA HAVE EYES

On Oct the 4th we pulled It's Perfect out of the water and left her on the hard at the Chesapeake Boat Works in Fishing Bay, Deltaville, Virginia.  It was a mad dash to get her ready for storage and offload to the rent car.  Hurricane Mathew was coming north.  Once It's Perfect was secured we drove straight to Green Cove Springs where we left the motor home in storage some 6 month ago.  On arrival we quickly offloaded to the RV and returned the rent car.  Leaving Green Cove Springs behind we headed inland for Tallahassee.

We arrived on Oct the 8th along with countless other RVs, pickups, moving vans and cars full of people who live and work in the path of the hurricane.  The people of Florida seem to take the arrival of a hurricane much more calmly than

we did.  I guess they have had a lot more practice.  Mathew hit as we watched the news pictures of wind, waves and rain blasting the coastline we had just left.  After 2 nights with all the other refugees  the party broke up, they headed east to check for damage and we headed west for Texas. 

We made a quick trip through Texas seeing friends and family.  Our plan to live on our mountain property in High Rolls, New Mexico was about to  begin.  Nothing had changed on the mountain, we were soon parked and hooked up.  We arrived in mid October the weather was warm and nights cool.  Our list of things to do long. 

WATER DELIVERY

We have been busy since we arrived.  Hard work and vision has begun to change the view completely.  Rod spends his days trimming dead wood from trees and hauling it to the dump.  He has had a 3000 gallon water tank installed and a full truck of 2600 gallons of water delivered.  The next thing accomplished was the water pump installed and working.  The RV now has a 120 gallon propane tank of it's own  and a  porch.  Almost all the comforts of home.

ROD'S NEW RIDE

While Rod is busy I have spent hours laying pavers for the patio and lining flower beds and walkways with rock.   By the time we leave in March or April there will be many more changes to what we will someday call home.  The days and weeks have flown by. 

We spent Thanksgiving in Las Cruces with Rod's sister Lydia, husband Charlie and their family.  Holidays with family is something we have missed.  Living in the mountains is certainly different than living aboard in the Caribbean.  The weather here is changing.  The temperature during the day is now in the mid to upper 30's and the lows in the teens.  We had our first snow this week.  Next week the forecast is calling for a low of 2 degrees and more ice and snow.  Who's idea was it to move to the mountains anyway? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?