I fly out of Colorado Springs and back to McAllen, TX, tomorrow. It's been 10 days and although I've had a really good time I am really looking forward to getting back to my own RV home, my own bed and my own routine. (Don't I sound stodgy?)
Once I get home I've got a whirlwind of projects. Mainly church stuff helping get ready for the Christmas season. Once you start volunteering you can end up with a full time job! And, of course, I want to get over and see Bob, my DH who lives in an assisted living for Alzheimers patients. He is really failing fast and rarely knows me anymore. But, he enjoys company and I enjoy being with him.
I have a little skinny artificial pine tree - looks like it belongs in Scandinavia - that I put up for Christmas. Last year was the first year that Bob wasn't home and I didn't do any decorating. Haven't decided what I'll do this year. All of our ornaments have been collected in our travels so they all have stories behind them. Then I put artificial evergreen roping across the top of the long slide in the fifth wheel and I have a collection of small stuffed forest animals that we have collected to make a Christmas forest.
For those of you who may be confused by all my RVs, I have a 36' fifth wheel with triple slides that we bought new 10 years ago when we started fulltiming. After a few years it got to be more that we wanted to pull so it has been permanently parked in south Texas where we spent winters. We then traveled in a small used fifth wheel for several years before I traded it off last spring for my little Phoenix Cruiser - the Gypsywagon. So my "permanent house" is the fifth wheel and the little motorhome is for traveling. Think I just might be an avid - or rabid - RVer?
I've got to get all my projects under control so I can head off to the Texas rally. I am so ready to get the Gypsywagon back on the road and meet up with all of you.