"Travel Tuesday" and changes coming

My peony dressed up for Fall.

You may have noticed a lack of posts lately. I got behind and couldn't figure out how to 'catch up' on our travels, so I didn't post. But now I'm ready to start blogging again, this time with some changes. I want to add a bit of diversity. What had started as primarily a travel blog for family has become a resource for teaching fermenting. To add to the mix I want to include musings of my spiritual journey. I hope you'll want to join me on this journey as well.

This is the format I'm going to work with:
"Travel Tuesdays" where I write about our travels, thoughts about our travels, or catch up on those I missed--we saw some awesome places last Spring that I still want to post.
 "Foodie Fridays" where I talk about recipes, fermenting ideas and experiences, and other food related topics.
"Sanctified Saturdays" will be about my Big God Adventure as I learn more about pressing into the great big heart of Father God, learning more of His ways and seeing where He leads me.

   RIght now, travel preparations are under way to prepare for 6 months of absence from the Lacey area. It's been a beautiful Fall here and I've enjoyed watching the leaves turn. It seems to be colder, sooner, and even though I enjoy my brisk walks, I'm starting to look forward to wearing my summer type clothes, especially sandals!

   This summer we emptied our our storage unit and purged more of our stuff. I am nearing my goal of making my shed functional even with all the stuff I've kept. I used our 'Harbor Freight' garage as a sorting and purging station for all the boxes and tubs of stuff. While we are gone the van is stored in there, so it's been a race with time to get it all done before we leave. But now it's done with time to spare and I'm doing a happy dance! 

   This past week we took the motorhome in to have the engine looked at because we'd had some problems on our return trip. It turned out to be an oxygen sensor, which we suspected. They took good care of us, but they had to keep it over night to finish fixing it. So we made up beds on the floor of the shed. I did some final purging and stacking to make room, but it's all in there and we still had room to sleep and eat!. I cooked on the BBQ on the deck and used our fridge in the "Costco garage".  We had decided it was a good time to defrost the RV fridge, so all our food was in there. Not terribly convenient running here and there, but it worked and we felt like we were really camping! I'd have been more comfortable wearing my only warm coat that I'd left at my daughter's the previous weekend! Waking up to temps in the 40s and 100% humidity made for some interesting challenges; besides the bone-chilling damp cold, all the tables and dishes on the deck were covered in heavy dew. I washed dishes the night before and left them to dry in the drainer. Odd to wake up and find them wetter than the night before! But I managed fine, and when you're camping, pancakes and bacon hit the spot, so it was worth it! 

Hostas sporting their best Fall colors.

   With only about a week left, it't time to put away the deck chairs, make sure everything is ready for winter, and do the last minute checks. Did we get it all? Did we stock up on what we needed? Did we purge enough stuff from the motorhome? Did we sort through everything we want to take? Jerry is so good with lists; I have good intentions that often fall short! First you have to get it ON the list, then you have to read the list without skipping any lines! Both present challenges for this random thinker! I rely heavily on visual cues: Does it look as it should? Is anything left out?  Sometimes my visual cues don't get me where I need to go, so I rely on The List Maker to double-check me. We make a good team, and I'm thankful for his sequential and methodical self. We don't have a specific day to depart, but my next Travel Tuesday could very well be on Departure Day! Wahoo!