Rig Projects...Like peeling an onion!

Have you ever noticed how a simple project on your Rig has a way of tuning into anything but simple??? Our rig came from the factory, " Washer Dryer Ready" so you would think... Go buy and washer and dryer and set it in place and hook it up... Right??? Well not exactly... Not even close... This has turned into a four week project, (so far) and the last dryer I ordered will not be here until February 2. This set makes the 3rd set I have ordered and received. The first two just would not fit exactly right. So I have had to reconfigure the washer hookups, and relocate them 2 inches toward the rear of the laundry closet and move the water hook ups from the right hand side to the rear of the closet. So far I have moved the washer into and out of the closet 7 times to get the perfect location, allowing the doors to be reinstalled on the closet. We washed 4 loads of laundry last night and everything worked flawlessly!! The dryer is the next part of the project... This dryer will actually "hang" on the wall! This is a very interesting design. I still don't know if I am strong enough to lift and set it into the mounting system... I have started taking extra vitamins and am in a rigorous training program to get into better shape for this project... Hope it works!!

More later and will post some photos of the project...

Jim

What a Holiday!!

Well, the holidays for 2008 are in the history book and it's time to look forward to 2009! Trish and I spent Christmas in Williams, AZ this year ... Just the two of us. We had planned to spend it at the Grand Canyon but got snowed in about 50 miles south in the small town of Williams. However, we did have a lot of fun! We have not seen snow like that in 35 years! It was a good thing we left the rig in Phoenix and took the Jeep with 4WD, it sure came in handy not to mention fun! After two day in Williams the storm blew through and they did a good job of clearing the roads so we spent a full day up at the canyon. We viewed it from about ten different locations and then headed to Flagstaff to spend the night..

Trish took lots of pictures, you can see some of them by viewing the "current sites" at the upper left side of this page. I'll leave those pictures up until we take another day trip. Speaking of day trip... we were really blown away to discover Sedona, AZ on our way back to Phoenix. We decided to make Sedona our next day trip. Of course it's time to go back to work for a while to refill the coffers.

Our first few weeks here have been fun but not much success with selling photos... We are hoping that the future will be better now that the holidays are over. I think things would be better if people did not watch the NEWS... Doom & Gloom! It is time for people to go back to living their life and quit acting like sheep and buying into "how bad things are" Oh well don't get me started on that... All I have to say is we are looking forward to 2009... Sales, travel, experiences... After all, that is why we became fulltimers... FULLTIME living our dream, and smelling the flowers along the way!

More later... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Jim & Trish