Yep, it looks like Justin is going to bounce back home. He's losing his happy home the end of the month and has not yet found a place to move to. He's decided to look for a place to buy, but has not much money for a down payment. He has been out looking hard with a real estate agent and we hope he finds a place he can afford and still love.
So, I'm trying to find homes for all the stuff that lives in his old room, and it's not easy. I have no clue where most of it is going to end up, as we're simply out of room around here and the storage locker is full. But I did find some pants I'll be able to wear soon, and a dress. Yay!
Oh, well. We need to clear out stuff for the Great Move Out anyway, right? It's still hard to deal with parting with all the hard-earned junk. Er, stuff. And it's tough to get rid of stuff 18 months in advance. We certainly can't take it in the motorhome and can't afford multiple storage lockers, so it's all got to end up somewhere that's not here. There are so many decisions to make in the next 18 months!
On a more relaxed note, we spent 4 days out in the woods in the motorhome. It rained a lot and it was durn cold besides. (Used up all our propane) We did take a walk the one day it did not pour rain. It was foggy though, so we came home damp anyway. It was very nice under the big cedar trees, they smell so good. We were without any sort of internet connection, even the phone's internet, so we spent 4 electronically untethered days. That's nice though, except when I need to add a new ingredient to the recipe database and can't look up nutritional values. The 3 of us laid around and relaxed and that's about all we did besides eat and sleep. We had a multi-night Firefly marathon. We never get tired of that show.
We had good eats while gone, and I discovered the microwave/convection oven has a slow-cook function. It's faster than a crock pot, but much slower than a microwave, and worked fine for a dish that needed slow simmering. It just made a lot of noise, as the fan had to run all that time. But if I'd simmered it on the stove, it would have made just as much noise and I would have had to stir and otherwise baby-sit the dish, so I was happy with the slow-cook function, not so happy that with 2 crock-pot recipes planned I forgot the crock-pot. It will be easier when we are living in only one place and not two!
So now we are back to the grind, and all that relaxation has been replaced with the usual rat race. Ugh! Those rats win all the time.
