Figuring out how to live on WHEELS!

Several ideas were tossed around as to where we would live if and when our house sold.  We ultimately decided to build The Barn and finish half and live in it for a few years.  Since the house sold and had to close so quickly due to the new buyers job, we decided we could live in the camper for a couple months while the barn was finished. What we didn’t anticipate was the journey that lied ahead. The entire month of July was spent packing our house.  We didn’t have a house to move things into so we rented 3 storage units to hold all of our stuff. Believe me we have sooo much stuff!  I started by figuring out what I definitely didn’t want in the new place and began selling items on Facebook. People started to wonder if I would have anything left by the time we moved!

We got the news that we had an offer agreed to while we were at the winery down the road from our old house.  My friend Kara was with me and said we got this!  She said she would come up at least once if not more times a week to help me get packed.  The month of July seemed like a year of going through things, packing items in boxes and totes, making trips to storage units and coming back to do it all over again.   Our friend Shane allowed us to store all of our garage and barn belongings in one of his sheds too.  It took a village to move us from our house to our camper!

The big move happened on Aug 3 and we spent our first night in Palmyra on our youngest daughter’s birthday. We took her to the town fair and let her ride rides. We had a closing date of Aug 6, but we wanted to do our final cleaning and get all of the last minute things out of the house before then.  We got the camper as ready as we could and even brought in our sitting room chairs to the camper to make it feel more like home. I bought plastic storage units with drawers for all of the kids clothes. We added shelving in the pantry so we could house more food.  It was such an eye opening experience to live with so little and decide what we could do without for several months. We had to have several utilities lined up before we could attempt this move. We had temporary power, water and sewer hose long enough to reach our septic. It was crazy at all the logistics that had to take place prior to moving over to our farm.

The last obstacle was figuring out where the donkeys would be going. We ran out of time to fence in the pasture so we made a visit to the neighbors and he got things set up for us to have the donkeys right across the road from our place in his pasture.  It worked out perfectly and finally all the pieces to our move were in place.

On top of all of this we managed to pull off the 10th Annual Ethan’s Rodeo in Mid August too. What a whirlwind. The kids new school year started as well. We like to keep things crazy around here!

















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