I don’t know if you’d call how we are living glamping, but it is probably a close description. We have a lot of the conveniences of our city home, but are still missing a few. For example, we have a washing machine here (bought a used top load) but we don’t have a dryer, so we use a clothes line. Having never relied soley on a clothes line before, I didn’t think much of it. It is a bit of work though to hang up the clothes from each load, keep checking when they are dry, etc. Timing is important, as I learned, you can wash a lot faster than the clothes will dry and you get backed up for clothes line space.
Then there is doing dishes by hand. I never minded when we stayed here for a week or two, doing dishes daily by hand, but it is getting pretty old fast. Seems like the dirty dish pile grows very quickly and we usually keep putting off washing until we run out of room to deal with them. That doesn’t take long, usually have to do them once a day.
Cooking can also be challenging. There is very little to no counter space inside our trailer, but we do have some tables set up outsitde. So often I’m running from inside to outside to get a meal ready. Using the inside burner sometimes and/or the BBQ burner outside, etc. In past visits our meals were quick and easy, just BBQ something and have a salad or something easy. Now we are living here, we need to eat more normally. So we are buying way more groceries and cooking more regular meals, so naturally this means more prep and more dishes, sigh…
But I do enjoy a delicious meal in a beautiful setting!
With the building side of things slowing down a bit the last while (waiting on an inspection). We have been spending time over at our garden. Here is what we’ve been up to:
We put mulch all around our strawberries. I read that slugs don’t like to crawl over wood mulch, so hoping this will be a deterrent for any in the area.
We put up some of our deer netting for the peas to start climbing on. It looks like it will work great, keeping fingers crossed.
We built our compost bin, and started filling it up!
We finally built a proper gate for the garden enclosure. Still have a couple small things left to complete it, but it is mostly done. Now we know our design works, we will build one for the fruit tree enclosure. We have the gates opening a weird direction, but when both are open they will create an opening between the garden and the fruit enclosure. This way we can work in both and travel between easily and still keep the dogs contained.
It is pretty hot in the garden/fruit area and the dogs don’t particularly like it in there because of that. So I’m planning to build them a little dog palace, where they can lay on pillows and they will be shaded from the hot sun. I’ll also build a look-out from the top, as Maggie like to get a good view of everything around her. I’ll keep you posted on my progress.
Other than that we are just trying to keep cool in the afternoons. The forecast is for 33-36 everyday for the next week. We read that accuweather is even predicting this hot weather will last for 5 weeks. I hope they are wrong. We went down to the beach yesterday and it needs a bit of work and cleanup, I think we will have to spend some time down there really soon!