Mid-January we hooked onto our travel trailer and moved it to our youngest son, Russ', five acres about 10 miles to the west of our double-wide home! Russ and Dianna had purchased and moved to a new home after they were married in July and it is about 10 miles from here. We had put our doublewide for sale late in November and have been sorely disappointed with so little interest and "lookers"! This winter has been VERY slow for real estate in our area of Florida; so, our double wide remains FOR SALE. In February we had a huge moving yard sale and did very well. We packed away the items we couldn't part with and stored them in our cargo storage trailer. We began staying full time in our RV travel trailer around the 20th of January which allowed us to open up the double wide and spread out our yard sale items throughout the dining/living and kitchen areas as well as the front screened porch and the carport.
We are still making Many trips back and forth getting the double wide cleaned up so that it appears exactly like it will be for someone to move in! We have had a few "lookers" this month, but no serious offers.
After the moving/yard sale was completed, Denny got his John Deere mower as we will be mowing
and caring for Russ' 5-acres as well as feeding his animals. Here is a picture of Dennis in his "glory"!!!
We do really enjoy this location...we had stayed here on Russ' property in our motorhome during the winter months of 1998, 1999, 2000 before moving to Whidden Mobile Home Park in the fall of 2001. It is beautiful here and we wake to the country sounds of birds singing in the trees, roosters crowing, cows bellowing, horses neighing and, yes, sometimes dogs barking!!!!
We have been here about one month and have a container garden growing with tomatoes, green beans, summer crookneck squash, zucchinni, cucumbers, spinach, assorted pots of lettuce and salad greens. The tomatoes are blossoming and one plant has small tomatoes starting already...I can't wait!!!!
Dennis has taken some lovely photos of wildlife here on the "farm"...resident hawk family, bluebirds and, of course, Marlin...Russ' dog who has enjoyed having someone here with him again on an everyday basis! Check back often as I will be adding some great photos soon!
