Time To Change URL and Bloggers Celebrate!

THIS BLOG NOW LIVES AT www.winterindesert.blogspot.com 

Please go there for the most recent posts.

Thank you!!!

January 2015

 Lost Dutchman SP

No one has said anything negative.  No flame throwers are appearing.  Nothing is happening to make me give up the old Blog...the one with the casita n desert.blogspot.com address.

But I can hear some people's thoughts.   "Why is she calling her blog 'Casita in the Desert' when she clearly does not own a Casita travel trailer?"  So it's time to change before my Casita friends disown me and my Escape friends stop speaking to me!

I tried to change the blog name.  Thanks to all of you who noticed the name change to Winter in the Desert and changed it on your Blog Roll.  But even after I changed the name, the blog continued to exist under the old Casita title for most blog readers. I see no alternative other than changing the url.

A more tech savvy person might be able to do it differently and not give up all the followers and 4 years of blog posts.  But I'm not that techy.  My eyes cross when I see a sentence of code. So I am starting over.  The new blog address is
 www.winterindesert.blogspot.com.     (winter in desert)

Please come with me!!!!

November 2015

Gunter Hill COE

The blogging world has an early Christmas present today with the creation of Open Live Writer!   I'm celebrating being able to continue following some of my favorite bloggers!

  

Have not explored OLW today but hope to get with the new program as I work the bugs out of the new blog.

Winter in the Desert Summer in the Mountains

Teaser....next post on new blog will explain why we are still in Tennessee.

Remember  www.winterindesert.blogspot.com

The new Escape and general ramblings

I promised photos...this is our new baby!  We are camped at Fontainebleau State Park in Louisiana convenient to the Walmart parking lot where the sale happens.  We spend two nights in Louisiana and one night at Gunter Hill COE in Alabama before we arrive back in Chattanooga.  

David manages to back the trailer 180 degrees down the driveway, around the house and into its tiny parking space.  Our previous 13 and 16 foot trailers were towed in and turned around.

    





And this is where our new toy has been for the last three weeks.
No plans to camp on the horizon as we are still in the middle of selling the house and downsizing.  

Each day presents new challenges, a new list of priorities, things that must be done yesterday....and it is getting old!
Much of our work has been manual labor, painting the deck, painting downstairs, cutting branches, small trees, scrubbing, washing, cleaning and cleaning.
Need to rant a moment..."All I do is work!!!"

But it will all be worth it some day...(maybe some year!)
This is mostly why there has been no recent posts and few comments.  Just too exhausted!

Also there needs to be some changes to the blog as there is no Casita in the driveway but this may take some time due to my computer ineptness.  The name did get changed and it is appropriate as our BIG goal is to spend our winters in the desert and our summers in the (cool) mountains and the shoulder seasons in our duplex on the side of the mountain.

The tenant will be moved out of our side of the duplex this weekend.  Good news...we will not be homeless if the house sells, bad news....another place to paint and do general rehab!

Closing with phone photos.  Seems like there's lots more to say but guess it can wait.

  

Left photo is of the mirror..little confusing...sorry.








The yard is blooming.

This time last year we were overwhelmed and not sure if we wanted to sell the house.  This year we are so ready for the perfect buyer to appear.  Someone who will love the flowers we are leaving behind.