Welcome to my little farm in the city.

This is a little blog about my life here on my little farm in the city. I am a wife, a mom, a grandma to 6 beautiful grandchildren. I live in a small Mayberry like town in the snowy midwest. We live on the banks of a lake in the woods. I raise chickens and this year I really plan to try my hand at a small garden so that I can use the products for canning this year. It will be a venture, but I have high hopes. I am an avid knitter and I love to work on new patterns that I find. You will probably find much of my work here as I finish it. Well thanks for stopping bye and please stop in often and stay as long as you like. Trudy

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

On the road again....

    Well life has a funny way of keeping you on your toes. Just when you think that things are going along smoothly here comes another bump. 
    We thought we had settled in here, we bought a really nice comfy old home. We thought that this was our last stop in the road to retirement..... but I guess we we wrong. 
     We wanted a camper to do some traveling since we are now in our golden years. We wanted to become snowbirds and head south in the winter.... in our golden years... Except these years don't feel so golden right now with Covid, kids and campers. We devised a plan, although not a perfect plan as you will see. 
     So a little back story.   We had a camper, our kids wanted that one so we sold it to them.  We in turn bought a much newer and more expensive beautiful camper to do some traveling. We then realized that we couldn't really afford a house and camper payment easily at the same time.  . 
   Soooo.... We had to make a decision and we decided to sell the newly purchased home 6 months in and become full time rv'ers. We had decided to sell our home thinking all was well with the kids and things were going great for them.
    Things happen though and life got in the way.  The kids couldn't keep the camper and keep paying on it so now we had 2 campers and a huge payment.  Excuse me a minute while I deep sigh... So now more we had more decisions to make. 
      We sold the older camper and we in turn had sold our house to do our traveling but now our kids wanted us to stay close.  Trying to buy another home in these days and times is a major headache and something we are not able to do easily with today's housing market.  Homes sell as fast as they are listed and for much more than they did 6 months ago we are finding out . 
    So over the road we go in our nice new camper and I am not sure where we will land this time but we are heading for warmer weather for a while for a much needed vacation.  It's been a long cold winter and we need some sun right now.
    One thing I forgot to mention, I am a puppy raiser for Southeastern Guide Dogs in Palmetto Florida.  I have raised 2 pups already and they are now certified working guide dogs.  
    I am now raising my 3rd pup and he will be joining us in our little camper adventures.  It's not exactly how I wanted to do this but hopefully Saint will enjoy it.  He most likely will be my last pup to raise unless we are somehow able to find a home for us somewhere.
    I invite you to follow us along on our camper adventures to see where we end up.  Will it be a warm or a cold climate?  Will we be able to find a home or be rv'ers forever?  Let's see where life takes us!!!  After all..... Life is an adventure.