Making Progress in the Front Room......Glamping at its Finest!

While we are still very much a work in progress, we are making progress!!

It always takes up a good part of the day when we have to go into town for something.

Louis Dean needed more metal electrical outlet boxes, a circuit breaker and a thing to roll up our 225 foot water hose on. I went with him since two are better than one in remembering what we came for and how to get back to the ranch.

I was just as glad to ride along with him since I was feeling a bit lethargic.

We all cope with stress in our own way. I usually do one of two things. Either clean like a mad woman or go in a stupor. Today was Stupor Day!

When we got back home, I went to bed from 4:00 - 6:00.

I slept so soundly, I even dreamed.

While I rested inside with the AC on, Louis Dean was working like crazy out in the front room.

 I won't show you the area he was working on.....he's at one end and I'm keeping the other end as cleaned up as I can.

We have more walls up!

He will have to custom design a box around the camper door and will take the metal stairs out and make sturdy wooden ones, this closing in that last area. But that won't happen this month.

He's putting extra outlets in further down the wall. 

They are not down low and out of sight, either!

No, they are practically in the middle of the wall!

So.......I'm thinking he can build me a long shelf above them and I can hang some cute fabric from them and cover them up. I am really and truly the Queen of Cover Up!

He's already set up a table to hold the grill, toaster oven, electric skillet, hot plate and crock pot. 

Heavens! Everyone knows you can't cook inside a camper in Texas! It's like cooking in a giant tin can! So most of our cooking is done out here in the front room. That's why the many outlets are placed where they are. I'm not trying to make this place a real house. Louis Dean is building it and I am just trying to make it pretty. It's a Win! WIN!! We will always be glamping/camping down here and that's okay!

I have to tell you.....I am just ever so grateful to have this place to come to.

I've probably said this before but for years and years - as we would drive up to Colorado for our summer vacations and winter ski trips (I'm talking about in my past life before Louis Dean) I would look out the car window at the country roads and see the lanes with gates across them and farm houses beyond. I would often wonder what it would be like to stop at one of the gates and go through. Go down to the house and be welcomed. It's a dream I've had since the early 1970's and I am here to tell you that God really does give us the desires of our hearts. I also dreamed of camping and to be welcomed here at the ranch and embraced by Louis Dean's son and Sherry is something I will never take for granted.

After I took the other photos, I set up the art table for tomorrow.

Art is another therapy for me and I have chickens to paint!

Yesterday was Siblings Appreciation Day and I shared this photo on Facebook.

It was a card my son, Jesse, made back in 2009.

Linda, Deanie, Nita, Lonnie, Luann, and Shari.

I love my siblings and so proud of each one.

I especially want to brag on my sister, Deanie.

She has been amazing and no one cold have done a better job of taking care of Mother and putting her hospice care into place. She continues to struggle with her own health and has pushed on and through in ways that prove God is giving her the strength and the grace to do everything she has done.

Mother is back in the nursing home and by the end of the day, she was smiling.

She has Deanie to thank for that.

And lastly, I want to share that my Sister Luann and her husband are facing a tough time.

Monte has once again been put on hospice.

He's a Veteran who has suffered for many years and had many close calls.

I'm praying as much for my sister as I am for Monte.

The high winds here have knocked out my Internet a couple of times so I better close and post.

Thank you all for the thought, comments, messages and prayers.

I hope you know how much I love and appreciate each and every one of you.