Progress on the Painting

As you can see in these pictures, I've made some progress on the painting project.   

I bought this nifty futon-daybed thing.  Both arms are adjustable.

 In this pic one arm is up and the other is down.

I have a cover on it now for the dirty kitties to sleep on.

Here's the link to see more info  Couch 

Jugs are covering openings so kitties don't get into heater ducting area.

New handles and hinges.

This painting job was really big.  I knew that when I was thinking about it but I really had no idea that it would take at least 4 coats of paint, most with a paint brush, 2 coats of primer( the more primer the better) and 2 of paint.  The good thing is, I'm in Santa Fe, NM, where it's warm and dry so things dry very fast.  

One of my cousins will be coming for a visit so my goal was to get this part of the rv done before she got here.  Done.  After taking a few days off I'll start on my bedroom.  To do that I'll have to tear it apart just like this room so I'll be sleeping on the new couch.  I'll let you know how that goes.  There are some repairs that need to be done to the box that my bed sits on.  I'll tell you about that next time with pictures.

One last thing.  My plants are growing and I have tomatoes getting big. Yippee.

Be back soon.

A side note.  After my mom passed the kitties wouldn't sleep on her bed anymore.  They both have taken to the new couch rather nicely.  Here's Bubba taking his morning nap.  Missie's taking her nap underneath it. 

I've Landed in Santa Fe, New Mexico for the Summer

I have some long time friends from northern California who are now living and working in one of Santa Fe's RV parks.  This is where mom and I were planned to spend the summer, so in order to make things easy for myself, I decided to just stick to the plan.  I've been here for about 10 days and scoped out the best site and have rented it for the month of June but I will probably be here for a few months.

The view from our door.

Since the kitties and I will be here all summer and we are at the end of

 the road, where there isn't much traffic, I have turned them loose.  

There's Missie hiding in the shade.

Here they are hunting.

I've planted a garden.

And have already eaten a strawberry.

There's a bit of maintenance that I need to do to the RV and some modifications that I've been wanting to do.  In the picture above are things I'v taken out of the RV, piled on the table and covered with a tarp, because we're headed into the monsoon season and I need to keep them dry.

Nice empty corner except those electrical wires.  

I'll deal with those another day.

The empty corner, with the yucky valences removed from the window.

I'm going to paint the inside of the RV.  A really BIG job.

See the curtain hanging over the door, and what you can't see is that the door is open but the screen is closed.  It has been hot and I've been running the air conditioner.  But the kitties are outside and I need to be able to see and hear them, this way when they want to come, in to touch base with me, they get up on the step where I can see them and I open the door for them.  The screen is closed so they can't bring in every lizard that they catch, all wildlife stays outside.

Taking things apart, patching holes, numbering cabinets and doors,

 so everything goes back together in the right spot.

Next goes on the primer.

After one coat of primer, walls and cabinets.

Chaos 

Most people who remodel or paint their RVs aren't living in them at the same time, and I thought long and hard before I started this project.  I decided that I'd do it in small sections.  Doing it that way will take longer but I have to live in this small space too.  So I started by the door and will work my way around the kitchen and living area, and try to get that done by the end of June when my Denver cousin will be coming for a visit.  

Wish me luck, I can only work on it for a few hours a day.

Tomorrow I'm taking the day off and going into Albuquerque to get a hair cut and do some shopping.  While I'm gone the kitties will be in the house all by themselves just like old times.  I can't be worrying about them while I'm gone all day, although I have left them outside while I've run into town to get paint.  They have a water dish outside and safe places under the RV to get out of the sun.  But they are in the house well before it gets dark every night, no outside nighttime  adventures for them.

Be back soon.

Ev, Bubba and Missie

PS  I'm still working on the format of this blog, bear with me.

Back in the Desert

This was my parking spot for the month I was in the San Diego area.  It was in the Alpine Springs RV Park.  It's an old park with more that half the sites out of order, which made me happy, almost like boondocking but with full hook-ups.  There was some noise from the freeway not to far away but it wasn't bad.  We went from pine trees and perfect temps to HOT.

Spent our first night, back on the road, at Painted Rock Petroglyph park, which is Bureau of Land Management land.  We were by ourselves, why you wonder, because it's hot and no hook-ups out here.  If I had realized how hot it was I might not have gone there but I'd been driving all day with a tail wind and didn't even have the air conditioner on in the truck.  It was about 90º by the time we got parked, too late to change my mind so did what I do when it's hot, squirt bottle of water, wet wash rag around neck and fans blowing on me.  I don't do heat very well which is why I try to avoid it if I can but sometimes there's no way around it.  Nice and dark out here just the way I like it and quiet too.  From there we, me and the kittens, drove on into Tucson to visit a friend of mine who is battling an illness, which has her here in the Tucson area for several months.  I been here for 4 nights and will be leaving in the morning to continue my way into New Mexico, where I'm planning to spent the summer.

While here in Tucson I've had breakfast with my friend Kristyn at Denny's and lunch with friend Michelle, at the Coyote Pause cafe which is over by moms and my favorite campground, Gilbert Ray.  What makes Gilbert Ray so special is it's near the Saguaro National Park, there are Saguaro cactus all over, lots of them and they are blooming right now.  It's hard to get a good picture of the flowers thought because they are so tall.

Talking about HOT.  Since I've been here in Tucson it has been hot.  That's hot by my standards not Tucson's standards.  It's been around 100º every day this week and it hasn't cooled down at night, so I've been running the air conditioner in the rv day and night.  Thank goodness it works.  Where as the air in the Honda doesn't work.  Will be having that looked at soon.

Some pretty flowers behind The Coyote Pause Cafe.

Road Runner 

Another pretty Arizona sunset, the last I'll see for awhile.

See you down the road.

Evelyn, Bubba and Missie

Carrying On

So the sun is rising on my new blog.  It will be slow going at first but I'm making my way back to the blogging world.

See you soon.

Evelyn