Blast OFF!!  Ok, so, as usual, I way overestimated what I thought I could get done before we left in two weeks, but I dealt with that, putting off what couldn’t be accomplished, taking a couple of projects with me to work on, and putting the rest into storage for when I get back.  But

Well, the job has finally ended after almost 50 years of doing what I love, engineering and building a variety of products for many different customers and situations.  Now, whatever I do like that will be for my own enjoyment. Right now, I have several projects in mind to improve or update the RV.  We

OK.  Maybe a bit over stated, but I am in my last week of working at a full time job anyway.  It’s hard to believe that I started this career almost 50 years ago, but I left home in August of 1966 for Cedar Rapids IA to start my life as a design engineer for

Never, ever thought it would take this long to sell a property that we dearly loved.  But what we loved didn’t seem to motivate buyers as much as us when we bought it.  The good news is that it FINALLY closed.  There were several last minute delays because all of the paperwork wasn’t completed accurately

As I said in an earlier post, seems like things are progressing, but at a bit of a snail’s pace.  We think that all of the issues with the sale of the house are finally finished to everyone’s satisfaction.  We’ve dealt with the inspection issues.  We’ve replaced the A/C system which couldn’t seem to hold

If you are familiar with RVs, you already know they generally come with a special type of refrigerator that doesn’t use a compressor but a heat source to create cool out of an ammonia-hydrogen mixture.  The heat source can be electric or propane making them easy to run “off grid” without needing to run the

Ye Gads!! The contract on our house is very slowly moving to a close, or at least we hope so.  The buyers have their ducks in a row after a couple of false starts, We’ve been told that the loan application is completed and accepted, and is the hands of the underwriter for final approval.

I haven’t posted anything for a while, because there hasn’t been much going on relative to our mission to get going full time.  The biggest hold up has been selling the existing sticks and stone house.  Bottom line on that, after consulting with three reputable real estate companies on how to price the house, we

For those not into RVing, a “TPMS” is a tire pressure monitoring system.  These are nifty devices that most cars now have as a factory installed monitor that warns of low tire pressure. When driving an RV, tire failure is potentially just as bad, or even worse, than in a car due to the weight

Something that is highly recommended,especially when towing a car behind the motor home, is a tire pressure monitor.  New cars have required this for several years now with a simple “idiot light” warning system.  Our RV does NOT have one for it’s own tires, and even if it did, that would do nothing for a