Canine
Well-known member
I'm finally here! Well, in a few hours anyway. I'm taking a break from cleaning and moving to let you guys know I'll be in my own place now. I wanted to do this in the summer of 2013, but ended up in the hospital which cost me thousands and thousands of dollars, so I paid that off. (Most of it.) Then was trying to do it in the summer of 2014, but just couldn't quite make it in time before winter hit. Now it is late spring of 2015 and the day is here! Woohoo!
Am in an S&S slide-in camper for now while I make a custom build slide-on camper for my flatbed pickup. It is a bit of an experiment and will definitely be documenting the build. It will be completely self contained. We will see how successful or not this project will be.
While waiting for the right time, I've been living as if I were off grid as much as possible. Have been showering with my weed sprayer. BTW, those things work great! Haven't had any weeds growing on me since I've started using it. Lol. Been heating up water to do the dishes instead of running the water in my apartment. Experimenting with electric and gas water heating. Got a nice garbage can for a small space. Been getting rid of stuff. Got rid of more stuff yesterday. Digitizing my CD's and important paperwork. Learning about batteries, solar, refrigeration, insulation, etc. Have been making the best of my time while waiting.
Now I won't have to deal with my landlady and her noisy, biting dog. No more Black Widows in the basement apartment. I drive truck for a living, but won't be able to do that much longer, so having the flexibility of moving to other work could be a tremendous help. While my current dog goes with me everywhere, the future one won't be able to for at least a couple years until it is trained and hopefully certified; I can take my camper/truck to many places of employment and let the dog out every couple hours instead of leaving it penned for 8+ hours. This is very important to me and completely solidified my decision to have more flexible housing that gives me more options.
My current landlady said she didn't want any more dogs after my current one, so that condition was a deal breaker for me. I knew within a week I was moving, but did not know exactly when or where. My dog is a service dog, but I'm not going to fight her about it. She can't stop me from having a service dog, but she can stop me from having a service dog in training. Nor did I want any sort of conflict with her. She has the power and could jerk me around if she wanted to. Who wants to potentially be under someone's thumb like that?
Will likely be away from the Internet for a few days until I get all set up. Hopefully the delirium tremors won't be too bad. Lol.
I can't imagine the difficulties of figuring all of this out on my own. Especially the mental part: "How is this possible? Could I do really do this??" You guys have and with gusto! Not just surviving, but thriving. I'm still having those thoughts, but they are greatly muted because I know it can and is being done many times over.
Thanks a bunch everybody!!
Am in an S&S slide-in camper for now while I make a custom build slide-on camper for my flatbed pickup. It is a bit of an experiment and will definitely be documenting the build. It will be completely self contained. We will see how successful or not this project will be.
While waiting for the right time, I've been living as if I were off grid as much as possible. Have been showering with my weed sprayer. BTW, those things work great! Haven't had any weeds growing on me since I've started using it. Lol. Been heating up water to do the dishes instead of running the water in my apartment. Experimenting with electric and gas water heating. Got a nice garbage can for a small space. Been getting rid of stuff. Got rid of more stuff yesterday. Digitizing my CD's and important paperwork. Learning about batteries, solar, refrigeration, insulation, etc. Have been making the best of my time while waiting.
Now I won't have to deal with my landlady and her noisy, biting dog. No more Black Widows in the basement apartment. I drive truck for a living, but won't be able to do that much longer, so having the flexibility of moving to other work could be a tremendous help. While my current dog goes with me everywhere, the future one won't be able to for at least a couple years until it is trained and hopefully certified; I can take my camper/truck to many places of employment and let the dog out every couple hours instead of leaving it penned for 8+ hours. This is very important to me and completely solidified my decision to have more flexible housing that gives me more options.
My current landlady said she didn't want any more dogs after my current one, so that condition was a deal breaker for me. I knew within a week I was moving, but did not know exactly when or where. My dog is a service dog, but I'm not going to fight her about it. She can't stop me from having a service dog, but she can stop me from having a service dog in training. Nor did I want any sort of conflict with her. She has the power and could jerk me around if she wanted to. Who wants to potentially be under someone's thumb like that?
Will likely be away from the Internet for a few days until I get all set up. Hopefully the delirium tremors won't be too bad. Lol.
I can't imagine the difficulties of figuring all of this out on my own. Especially the mental part: "How is this possible? Could I do really do this??" You guys have and with gusto! Not just surviving, but thriving. I'm still having those thoughts, but they are greatly muted because I know it can and is being done many times over.
Thanks a bunch everybody!!
