The comforts of home.

We don't have any water or electricity on the land yet, so for nine years we have been going up there and roughing it. It's not as bad as people think. We have lanterns and candles for light. The BNOE (best neighbors on earth) lets us fill up gallon jugs of water from their house, so we can wash dishes ( that we heat up on the camp stove ) along with what ever else we need water for. We buy ice for the cooler every other day. We are welcome to take showers at the BNOE house any time we feel the need. We have all the comforts of home with just buying a ton of batteries. I have a radio/CD player, a fan and even a little TV. In the winter, we have a propane heater that Chuck starts in the morning when he gets up to make the coffee and it warms up the kitchen a whole 10 degrees, which is a lot when there is ice on the inside of the windows of the TT.....brrrrrr! The propane camp stove lets us cook just about anything we want. We spend most of our evenings out on the front porch, talking and watching the fire flies in the summer. In the winter, we just go to bed early, at least Chuck does. I watch my little TV and write in my journal before going to sleep. In the Summer, we sleep with all the windows open and even have to cover up. The way summer is suppose to be. Of course in the winter, we sleep in sweats, in sleeping bags on top of the bed and covered with a couple quilts. Toasty warm until you have to get up and go to the bathroom. Now, that is another story...ha. Yes, we do have a porta potty in the bathroom of the TT but unless it's in the middle of the night, we take advantage of just squatting some place outside where you feel like it. The perks of owning 22 acres. :-) Then, there is the shovel with the roll of toilet paper on the handle to take care of the other. We are used to doing things in the dark, like Chuck putting our white rockers for the front porch, together. Every once in awhile you walk into the TT in the dark , flip the light switch and then laugh at yourself. We will continue "roughing" it until we actually move to the land. Then, Chuck will rent a trencher and bury the pipes to the electricity and water down the middle of our drive ways so we won't have to have big poles running through the middle of our land. Some day, the light switches and water faucets will work.