I was having trouble getting into the network at A-Pine, so I'm sitting in the Pine River Dairy Queen instead. The DQ is apparently the social hub of the city, unless the Legion is doing dollar hamburger night. It's hoppin'.
Week of Very Little Solitude is going well. I did have a perfect WoS day on Saturday, with sunshine and swimming and reading in the boat and hikes and BLTs. The folks arrived Sunday and we got the skirting pulled off and the trailer mostly emptied. Monday morning we took out the last of it, then the guy came and took it away. That was really pretty impressive. The new Park model is in place. It's a bit smaller (yes, SMALLER) and only has one bedroom, so not everything fit back in. It's a lot nicer, though, even if it was decorated during the height of the mauve/country blue fad. So far the part that's taking the most getting used to is the walk-through bathroom.
I think I've gained about ten pounds. We had no kitchen, so we just kept going to Ideal for every meal. Good lord.
Since the new unit is several feet shorter than the old one, I volunteered to make my mom a new garden in the front. WHEE!!! Of course, this means I'm spending all my money for the month, because the soil here is crap (100% sand) and I need to raise the level anyway because it drops about 5" where the trailer used to be, and of course I need all new plants, and of course I need to cram as many plants into the 42 square feet as I possibly can, and nobody else is here to talk me out of any of this madness. Her old front garden was a semicircle of stunted hosta and a small wooden barrel with some annuals in it. I think I may be going just a little bit overboard.... I did, however, successfully talk myself out of the $80 ceramic pot that I wanted to tuck into the corner in front of the push-out, even though it would have been totally perfect. It's a good thing Temp gets here tomorrow.
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The DQ has WiFi?
Everywhere has WiFi nowadays.
I'm so glad this entry didn't have the word "storm" in it. I figured it would have been perfect timing for the new trailer to arrive and a storm to come and wack the crap out of it. Woo hoo for not wacking the crap out of the new trailer!
You'll note there hasn't been an update since this post by Pusher. That's because Auntie Temp showed up Wednesday and we invented a new level of inebriation:
"Drunk enough to watch Northanger Abbey"
I was _just_ sober enough to drive back on Friday.
The Pine River DQ has Wi-Fi. It is also the social hub of the city. Reality is somewhat skewed.
As to the storm, I knew it was rainy and thundery, but with the lack of outside contact up there, I didn't realize until two days later that there had been tornados. Ignorance is bliss.
And yes. Auntie Temp's arrival did precipitate the consumption of an awful lot of wine. But also healthful exercise! So I call it a wash.
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