Sunday, March 15, 2015

Postscript

Glamping turned back into camping as we pulled into our driveway. Took a lot of work to unload everything in the Lark.  We still have 34-60 days of possible freeze.  That meant to be safe we needed to unload everything.  A good idea anyway, as 1/2 of what we took out will never go back in. Ed did our winterizing before we left Caesar State Park in southern Ohio.

Couldn't leave any food or linens for small animals to make a home. If ants can get in....so could little critters.  We park the Lark  in storage outside with no protection from the elements or intruders.

Typical there was the laundry to do. Food to put away and re-organize and a large home to get back into living quarters. The temperpedic  mattress was so cold, took two days to defrost from being as hard as a brick.

The winter (February) was the coldest in recorded history for Ohio.
The garden walls are heaving, but the fish are alive in the pond. Truly a miracle to me every year.  

Spent some time looking at the budget we set up and the true numbers.  We really did well, and didn't come close to what we had figured to spend. (First time in my life that has happened :)  Of course, gas dropped to $2.09 a gallon. That didn't hurt. We saved more money than expected by not living in our house the three coldest months of the year. We are "Happy Glampers".

Next trip we think will be to Holland Michigan to see the Tulip Festival and a stop at Warbler Migration at Magee Marsh the first two weeks of May.  Hope to see some of our new friends from the upper midwest and Canada again on the road.  

Eze is running around the house like a crazy cat.  And the house appears larger than it was.  Hm....optical illusion?

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