Happy Sunday all

Well I got the bathroom pretty much done, I painted the bathroom cabinet orange and thought I took a photo of it but I guess I didn't, I started painting the kitchen cabinets today, added moss green to the orange and yellow color combo I've been using, hope you all like it, I haven't finished painting the kitchen yet but I think it will all come together when I'm done, I hope!!, Don't judge it till then,OK? Sorry to have to rub it in, but the weather has been just perfect here, cool nights and warm days, not like what you all are going through, with the cold and snow, must go out later and work on my tan somemore, sorry again, did I just say that.Will try and post a photo later, can't upload anything now, slow internet

new bathroom cabinet

Made a new bathroom cabinet for the sink, its small but then again so is the bahroom, laid a new floor and did some painting, its starting to come together now, tomorrow I'm going to paint the cabinet, Oh , got the toilet in too, must have one of those.

Walk in the desert

                        Hi everyone, Decided I could use some exercise, so me and one of the others living in the park went for a 2 mile walk on the desert in back of the park, I took a picture facing the park from way in the back of the park, this will give you some idea how desolate it is here, the other photo is of this mornings sunrise, I love it here, its so peaceful and really quiet. Seen one coyote and a few deer while we were back there.
                         I gave the bathroom its first coat of paint today, when it drys I'll give it a final coat and then start putting up the new mirror and floor covering, next is to build a new cabinet for the sink and that should do it for that room.

For Tom, Patty and Cindy

  This post is for you guy's, of coarse all of you other folks can look too, my good friend Tom called from New Jersey and said what's going on, you haven't posted anything in a long while and we are sitting here on pins and needles waiting for some news on how the trailer is coming along. Sorry everyone but I've been busy at my new job, yes that's rite JOB, Roger the owner of Twin Buttes RV park asked me if I'd be interested in giving him a hand doing the maintenance around the park, free lot rent and utility's, plus $125 a month cash and even a golf cart to go around the park in, well of coarse I said YES. This is heaven sent as it all boils down to a savings of about $350 a month to me, DOUBLE WHOOPEE. I have been doing work on my trailer tho, I usually spend a few hours a day on it, I did make a wood stove out of a 15 gallon barrel and it came out well, it heats the whole trailer on just a few sticks of wood a day, so its a big savings on the old heat bill.  We have plenty of mesquite trees here and its a great wood for stoves, very hard and it burns clean and smells great, if you've never smelled mesquite burning you've missed something.

                    I put down new under lament to cover the old floors to make a good base for carpet in the.bedroom and linoleum in the bathroom and kitchen, the lining room will get hard wood floors so I don't have to put it down there. I'm refacing the kitchen cabinets and putting in a new counter top, old fashion tho, with linoleum as a new top surface, trust me your gonna like it when its done, I turned the cloths closet across from the kitchen sink into a new counter and cabinets, why would you need two big clothes closets, especially one them being in the kitchen?? Originally the gas stove was at the end of the counter by the hall way leading to the bathroom and bedroom, I moved the stove and placed it next to the fridge and am making a counter where the stove was, much better I think. I have the bedroom all finished but for the carpeting, which hopefully I'm going to buy this weekend, then I can set my bed up and that room will be done except for some finishing touches like curtains, some pictures, and more furniture, not too much tho.

                    Well that's it for now, bye and love to you all, Wayne
   

Its about time

How time flys when your having fun, can't believe its been over a week since my last blog, the weather has been great here until now, today its cold and windy, might even get some snow, I hate that word, but no place has the perfect weather all the time.
                 Went to Fort Bowie the other day with some friends from here in the park, its about a hour and a half away, a nice ride thru the back roads. When you get to the National park you park your vehicle and have to walk 1.5 miles to the fort, first on the hike you see the old Butterfield stagecoach  station, next is the grave yard then Apache well, where they got their water from for the fort and the stage stop and finely the fort itself. Lots of history there, the old Butterfield stagecoach line ran rite past the Fort on its way to Tucson, all told it covered 2500 hundred miles from St Louis Mo, to San Diago, Ca. and took 28 days, what a ride that must have been, can you imagine being on a stagecoach for 28 strait days, holy cow. there's a stagecoach stop rite by the Fort where they changed horses and the passengers got a chance to stretch their legs and get a bite to eat, you have to be there to see how isolated this place is, the Fort was there to keep the Apache Indian's in check and to protect the stage line. It's hard to believe you can still see the tracks of the stagecoaches in a few places.

              The grave yard was next, lots of the soldiers died fighting the Apaches and another 1/4 mile or so was Apache wells where they got the water from, just standing there at the well you go back in time and imagine all the Indian's for hundreds of years coming to this one spot for water and water still coming up out of the ground like it has for God knows how long. Another 1/2 mile of walking and your at the fort, its in the middle of nowhere and no place, but when you think of it, that's the only place where's there's water for God knows how many miles, not much choice on where to build it. The stage line actually went out of its way to get the water at Apache wells, how times have changed. If you ever watched the 1939 movie Stagecoach with John Wayne, there really is a place called Lordsburg, its in New Mexico and the stage did go thru it on its way to Tucson, AZ. One thing that struck me funny was a big sign at the well saying ( don't drink the water) what's up with that??

           Next was the fort, and at one time it was big, lots of wooden and adobe buildings, all the wood ones are gone now but there are still ruins of the adobe ones. Where did they all go??
   

What a great morning

Hi all, woke up to a beautiful sunrise this morning and have to try and share it with you, pictures do not do it justis, it was absultily a 360 degree light show, all blues and pinks, now you have to remember this is sunrise, what a way to start the day!!!

                         Did some work to my new trailer bedroom, added a false wall to the rear as the floor ran up hill the last foot, so now I can put a piece of furniture there and it woun't look out of place and now I have a small shelf under the rear windows to put some junkie nicknacks on, haha, also removed the rear door in the bedroom, kinda felt unsafe with a outsiden door next to my bed.

Bisbee AZ

Hi all, took a ride to Bisbee to check it out, pretty cool place, main St looks like something out of the fiftys, there's a huge old copper mine rite smack in the middle of town. Its a very artsie place, lots of cool shops and plenty of places to eat. I spotted this cool old Grayhound bus in a alley in town, those were the days, the bus's had some class to um. There's alot more of town on the other side of the copper mine but my Isuzu is acting up so I better not take the chance and head home, lucky I did because I just made it and she died just as I pulled in the park, got some bad fuel in Mexico, its cheaper there but not worth the less money, better off just biteing the bullit and getting it here in the states.