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[maki2]

I got my comfortable chair at a thrift storre. There are lots of thrift stores out there to treasure hunt from. You are going to be making all kinds of changes to your setup. Set that check aside for your emergency repair fund. Do not spend it on any camping "stuff". Sell your jewelry and set aside part of the profit to buy more materials. You have to do that anyway as part of your normal business practice.

You can also join local giveaway groups and ask for things such as a chair. My trailer renovation includes many items that I found in such groups and in thrift stores. I just kept my eyes open for opportunities. Plus people often just offer things to me when I am talking about my plans. That is true on the road as well.

Nomads helping Nomads is a facebook group you should take a look at. It will reassure you that there is such a group around.

 

[Ravella and X]

Gypsy, do you imagine that we full-timers are all hale and fit and bursting with energy? I assure you that a great many of us have health and strength and energy issues aplenty. Some of us are in a little or a lot better condition for having taken to the road.

I'm with JDub -- go take some little car camping trips. You dont need tons of stuff to go somewhere close and pretty for a weekend.

 

[nature lover]

About my pictures. Thanks for the compliment that’s of course why I put them there. LOL the first one is a great blue heron sub species called “Wundermans” great blue. The second is a little blue heron totally separate from the great blue species. The third is what we call a tricolor heron. And a fourth is a wood stork. Most of those are shot with a 100 to 300 Sony lens on my alpha a 65. A couple might’ve been on my 500 reflector lens (also Sony). None of these pictures are from the cracker barrel pond I have to edit those yet to break them down to size for this forum and for that I have to get out my laptop rather than the iPad. These were taken at Myakka River State Park, In December before my foot gave me problems. I literally have thousands of pictures from over 20 years of shooting. I won’t bore you with a lot more.

I was at the celery fields Audubon Center today where I shot some pictures of sand hill cranes. That’s one of the largest birds in eastern United States. I caught a glimpse of my first of the year orange butterfly today. Too fast flying to see if it was a queen or a monarch but it must’ve been one of the other. It is nice to be in sunny Florida. High of 88 today but you don’t feel it with little humidity and a Gulf breeze.

God bless the nomads I sure know I need it.

 

[highdesertranger]

Great pics Nature Lover. don't be shy now that you know how post some more. Highdesertranger

 

[Cammalu]

Gypsy108. Maybe if we have a nearby
Location there might be another nomad nearby you can take a short camping trip with.

 

[vanbrat]

About my pictures. Thanks for the compliment that’s of course why I put them there. LOL the first one is a great blue heron sub species called “Wundermans” great blue. The second is a little blue heron totally separate from the great blue species. The third is what we call a tricolor heron. And a fourth is a wood stork. Most of those are shot with a 100 to 300 Sony lens on my alpha a 65.  A couple might’ve been on my 500 reflector lens (also Sony). None of these pictures are from the cracker barrel pond I have to edit those yet to break them down to size for this forum and for that I have to get out my laptop rather than the iPad. These were taken at Myakka River State Park, In December before my foot gave me problems. I literally have thousands of pictures from over 20 years of shooting. I won’t bore you with a lot more.

I was at the celery fields Audubon Center today where I shot some pictures of sand hill cranes. That’s one of the largest birds in eastern United States. I caught a glimpse of my first of the year orange butterfly today. Too fast flying to see if it was a queen or a monarch but it must’ve been one of the other. It is nice to be in sunny Florida.  High of 88 today but you don’t feel it with little humidity and a Gulf breeze.

God bless the nomads I sure know I need it.

Sounds like maybe a book is in there somewhere. Even if only put together for yourself. My DIL has them put together for family things when ever there is a big whatever happening. Not scrap books, but a real pages bound, hard cover, coffee table, picture book. Who knows maybe a good book store book. Books of birds I have traveled with or something.

 

[Gypsy108]

Gypsy108. Maybe if we have a nearby
Location there might be another nomad nearby you can take a short camping trip with.

well, the problem there, is the person i'm present "with" will wonder what i'm doing THAT for....for me ,it will be an all or nothing scenario...i have to do it all in my head before i take off....

 

[maki2]

Everyday I enjoy living in my tiny travel trailer. It is nice that after 6 months I still feel that way. It is n ot quite finished with renpovating it but despite that I am still enjoying it. I don't have any unrealistic expectations that it will be perfectly convenient, comfortable or spacious. But it is a pleasant way for my life for here and now. Warm and cozy despite the wind kicking up outside outside there is a nice meal cooking on the stove. Good books to read with options for watching videos if I prefer. Peaceful and quiet outside. I will get a good nights sleep.

 

[nature lover]

Van Brat, I have published four books in my lifetime. None of them have been successful. In fact I gave away more than I sold. One was just my pictures with some motto like words on each called “this is my fathers world“. Another was nature stories and pictures called “creation appreciation”. Then there was “the covered bridges of Lancaster County PA”. The bridge book I actually had printed at a local shop and bound it myself. My most popular book was really just a little booklet called “udderly ridiculous”. A little volume of cow jokes. I sold hundreds of these at a dollar each. As a tour guide in Lancaster County PA cow jokes were staple. I don’t know if I take the effort to do anything like that again but I sure do like taking nature pictures. I think it’s wonderful to see just how magnificent the mind and power of God is in his creation.

 

[maki2]

Had a mouse running around in my screen room that refused to go back outside. I had already chased it off once before. It was not afraid of me. I asked a neighbor if he would bring his dog over. Mouse problem solved very quickly. The dog has never had a chance to do that kind of job before but she had sure had a killer instinct, no lessons needed.

I was packing up my project materials to put them back into my car. I did not want a mouse stowing away inside a bag or box. I needed to empty my screen room out as I need to take it down first thing in tbe morning as there are going to be very strong wind gust in the 40s possibly up towards 50 mph range.

Today was mostly a fun day with some chores and some build work on window coverings, plus a nice dinner my friends invited me to in the late afternoon.

Tomorrow will be a stay indoors day. Some book reading, some cooking time, taking a bunch of measurements for wood trim pieces. Tuesday I can once again setup my screen room/workshop and get back to work making things.

 

[nature lover]

Florida is very warm today. It doesn’t help that I’m stuck in the Walmart parking lot with my Foot propped up.  I was out and about last two days just driving and sitting in the van for nature pictures but I can tell when it needs rested. Here are some more pictures From early December before the foot problem.


Gator

spoonbill
 
Anhinga

White Ibis

 

[Ravella and X]

Beautiful pics. Except the gator. I had gator night-and-day-mares my winter in Florida!

 

[highdesertranger]

Dang that's one mean looking lizard. Very nice on the pics. they're very good, like in the Audubon book. keep them coming Nature Lover. Highdesertranger

 

[B and C]

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Shoot, my sis put on a feast. The niece and nephew came over too. Corned beef, potatoes, carrots and cooked cabbage as well as an appetizer plate before with champagne. Guinness with the meal and wine/coffee afterwards. It was a great time. I don't usually care for cooked cabbage but what she made was good. It was probably all the butter on it.

Tonight we are all going into town for a good chicken fried steak. Guess I'll be putting back on some of the pounds I lost!

 

[maki2]

Irish stew with soda bread would be a better option at any time versus corned beef and cabbage.

 

[nature lover]

Oh my, I didn’t realize it was Saint Paddy‘s day. If I would have known that I wore my green underwear. If I put them on I’ll send you a picture. (I don’t have any, so I’ll have to send you a picture without underwear that’s not all I missed I didn’t realize till this morning that my watch hadn’t been Right since Sunday. I don’t listen to the news anymore I don’t buy a newspaper. That darn presidential race just tarnished me on listening to such things. So I missed both the clock change and Saint Paddy’s day. God bless the nomads everyone of them Especially Saint Paddy’s kin.

 

[crofter]

@nature
Good news is that politics thing is over for another 4 years. I currently have broadcast news on ignore, but still reading the local paper, which is stellar here. 

Other good news: there is no time change in AZ! We may not know what time it is anywhere else, but we do know what time it is here.

80 degrees today and NOT blowing a gale in the low desert. We have had enough wind now, thank you. I can finally take off my wraparound shades.

Other bad news: Da passed away this week in a foreign country, of head injuries sustained in a hospice care facility. What is wrong with this picture. (and why Danny Boy playing on the music thread). After that Mom made me promise to never put her in a hospice.

There is a $750,000 to a million$ fine for going to said country and infecting anyone with covid or otherwise violating any of their covid rules. Hence Da is having online memorial, but he made it in time for Guiness with St Paddy.
-crofter

 

[JDub]

Irish stew  with soda bread would be a better option at any time versus corned beef and cabbage.

It's ridiculously hard to find good lamb without paying an arm and a leg and then something else vital to buy... Frozen NZ lamb just doesn't do it for me... Mutton's good too, different flavor profile. I miss being in Europe (9 years) and getting excellent British lamb fresh from across the Channel via Chunnel All the great Indian and ME restaurants serving it too...

Cheers!

 

[JDub]

Other bad news: Da passed away this week in a foreign country, of head injuries sustained in a hospice care facility. What is wrong with this picture. (and why Danny Boy playing on the music thread). After that Mom made me promise to never put her in a hospice.

There is a $750,000 to a million$ fine for going to said country and infecting anyone with covid or otherwise violating any of their covid rules. Hence Da is having online memorial, but he made it in time for Guiness with St Paddy.
-crofter

My Sincere Condolences to you...

J

 

[crofter]

My Sincere Condolences to you...

J

Thank you J. I did not realize how tough it is to mourn during the covid pandemic until I tried to do it myself.
-crofter

The online toast is not the real thing.
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