ExcaVacation

WE have our Airstream perched across the street from our house so we have a bird's eye view of the construction we are doing to replace a crumbling foundation. It's comforting and disconcerting at the same time for both us and our 3 labradors. It's exciting and nervewracking because it's late fall in Canada and we are racing against the official start of Winter which has at times arrived with a cold freeze and a 15 centimeter dump of snow!
YA!!! consider this an edit...this week winter arrived with a 15 cm dump of snow, then another 5, then 3, last night 2 and of course it was on a weekend so for four days I was afraid to call my contractor (who I still LOVE) and ask "Now what happens?"

As it turns out, he was just waiting on the guy who sprays the rubberizing first layer of waterproofing before back filling our driveway back!!! HURRAY!!!! does not express anything close to the elation we are now feeling as we watch out the window of the Airstream as the path back into our home is created.
To add to the tenderhooks we hang from, my best friend is coming for Christmas and I could never in a million years say no to seeing him. We MAY be 4 labradors and 3 adults in our 174 sq feet of inefficently insulated and bare bones showering aluminum paradise (withdrawing tongue from cheek) but he and I have lived in worse conditions during our darker years in New York City and always came out with our good humour intact and relationship unscathed. Still it would be fun to have our house back, at least to camp in and especially to drink wine in front of our fireplace if only in my dreams!

  So far we have been lucky and we are very grateful for our Airstream, for our patient and generous neighbours and for being in a financial position to remedy the situation.
   I had been visualizing us living in it fulltime and I'm a firm believer that you manifest your own reality.
Sooooooo................... now I am also visualizing a changing view!!!

 

Isn't she beautiful in the snow and sunshine?!...PS hubbie built the plywood box you see behind the tires to encapsulate the grey and black water pipes to stop the freezing but we have to add a small spaceheater to it every once in awhile too. Talk about your hot shit!