Camping in the Motorhome

We went for our first motor home camping not to long ago. Don & I had a great time! I didn't get to ride in it because we wanted to take the ATV with us. Right now we don't have a trailer to haul them. So since we took one, we ended up putting it in the back of my truck. I drove the truck, I am not sure I want to learn to drive that MH just yet, next spring maybe. :) It is very different that is for sure! We are still waiting on the plates for it and Links Ford told us as long as we had the paperwork we would be fine. It takes 6 to 8 wks to get the plates for motor homes. You can't just walk up to DMV either, they have to be specially ordered. (so they say- I think they wanted to make a extra buck!) Anyhow we are waiting are waiting for them.


Where did we go camping at?
We went up to Ojibwa Park - it used to be a State Park but the legion took it over. It is $10.00 without electric and $15.00 with electric. We stayed Friday and Saturday night. Beautiful wooded, Nice & Big campsites, asphalt sites for trailers,campers, and motor homes. The tent sites are up in the middle and they aren't to bad either. Clean Pit toilet's. There is drinking water spouts, and there is even a place that you can dump your septic, free for campers that are staying there otherwise you have to pay $5.00. There is a trail to go down to the park near the pavilion, that way kids have things to do. Then if you go out of the park across the highway you have the Couderay river to fish in, tube down, canoeing and more. We really like it there a lot! There is even a trail to get to the Tuscobia Trail to go atv'ing, that our come camping after you have been on the trails. We figure that is the area we like to be at, it is comfy.

The smell of cool fresh air

Glaring at the blazing fire flair

Wood crackling as it quickly burns

Flames burst high without any concerns

Blanket laid out for two

Radio playing or favorite blues

Marshmallows roasting over flame

Our tender love we shall reclaim

Clouds grew dark and gray

Under the moon lit sky we lay

A passionate kiss as we share our love

Under the glistening stars above

While we were out there our son Donald Jr. came to see us and also Don's brother Ken. This campground is not that far from Winter WI. on Hwy 70 & then we went to Donald's for abit too. I didn't get to see my buddy Alex because he was out and about. Alex is cool! 

Here is a photo of my friend Alex even though we didn't get to see him. 

Alex & Rusty are buddies now. 

Then we later on Don's brother came over to our campsite :-) 

Kenny walking Rusty

Don, Ken, & Rusty

(PS: I am always behind the camera) 

Now we are just hanging out at the camp..It was to cold this weekend to really go on the ATV so we never did go for a ride on it. (ha ha I have no idea what Don was doing) 

Don has to find a hobby soon.

 Boredom sets in - he said that would have been better if we had someone camping with us. I am so used to finding things to do, I sat and painted with my watercolors. I painted these below: 

For Sale: Picture 8x10 Matted and Framed $130.00

FOR SALE: Picture 8x10 Matted & Framed $125.00

So you see I can find lots of things to do and I went out and took Nature photos also:

Here are some of them: 

Don's favorite photo because it show the ATV in it. lol 

Then we went to get Donald Jr. came over we decided to try to go fishing. DJ caught a small northern pike, I didn't get a pic of it :( They threw it back because I told them it was to small and there wasn't anything on it to eat.

Son - Donald Jr. fishing

The Lake in Winter, Wi.

It was so cold & windy that day that I decided I would rather sit in the truck with Rusty then getting all cold. The guys didn't last long fishing either. Brrrrrrrrrrrr

So we dropped DJ off back home and then just hung out at camp again.

Rusty looks bored lol

Mz.Sassie zonked out

(They love the MH!!)

This is Mr. Slinky's spot now.

Now we were trying to get everything ready to go back home on Sunday. Sassie is looking for a place to hide. This is very different riding in a Class A Motor home then it is in a truck pulling a camper. Very Different! 

We had a great time just sitting back and relaxing even if we didn't go atv'ing. 

We are going to go camping one more time before we store it. 

:-) 

The Vanishing Man at Menards

Well it has been a day today that is for sure! Last night wasn't any better with Don & I. I really think that there is a full moon beyond those clouds somewhere and if not then I don't know what it is called!

It all started today when we went to Menards and I let some guy get a ear full of how I felt. He deserved it!

See we had taken the RV into town because we had to get a few pieces for it (hoses and such to winterize it).

(Mean dog in parking lot)

Well we pulled in the parking lot and some guy was walking to his truck and his dog was barking wildly in his truck because he saw another dog. Rusty woofed a little but I said ignore and he did. "Good boy Rusty." The guy looked at me and smiled and then started talking to his dog through the window. I never thought anything about it and we finally reached our destination to the front door. I looked back and the guy was just pulling out. No problem right people come and go no big deal.

Man's Best Friend "Rusty"

We love Menards so we were in the store for about 20 to 25 minutes looking around. Bought a beautiful Halloween light and we can use this in our motorhome when we move to AZ and they can hang in the windows next year. :-) Then we paid for our things and got ready to go out the door. Don always walks faster then us and so Don got to the RV before I did. No big deal nothing unsual.

Then that is when from the corner of my eye I seen movement way off to the left and I was standing in the middle of the lane in the parking lot. Then I noticed it was the SAME guy with the wild pit bull that was barking at Rusty before. The guy got out of the Ford Ranger and HAD his dog on his leash. Thank goodness but it was suspicious that the guy was still here because I thought he left. Well needless to say he DIDN'T it was like he was waiting for us, his truck was parked over in a different spot way over by the wooded tree area of to the left side. Well I was still trying to direct Rusty off to the side because I was still in the middle of the lane in the parking lot walking towards our RV.

Next thing I know this guy's pit bull was running fast towards Rusty and I, the dog was growling to beat heck! I was scared and Rusty got all tensed up and started twisting around next to me the leash twisted up my hand and it hurt real bad and then his dog snapped at Rusty and growled more. Knowing Rusty trying to help me walk and being protective of me he growled back, then he twisted it more on my hand. The guy was just standing over near his truck smiling yet. He had let that damn dog off the leash for the hell of it and he was smiling at that! I started to panic and Rusty was jumping at the dog to keep him away from me and himself. 

That is when the guy finally came up and stood there with a smile and didn't say anything but snickered. That is when I started screaming because his dog took after Rusty and tried to bite him by this time. The guy grabbed his dog and I screamed at the guy and I told how rude, why did you let him go, he was on the leash and you let him go when you seen us. You disrupted my service dog and now your dog is working on biting him. He didn't say anything but still smiled. Grabbed his dog and put him back on the leash and then he like vanished into thin air. 

I finally made it to the RV, I was shaking so bad because I feared that dog attacking Rusty and myself. I told Don about it and he looked for him too. It was like the guy vanished into thin air - he was gone. Weird and Spooky!

I don't want anymore run in like that anymore. I know a lot of people have Pit Bulls but I don't like them and people should have special permits to have them. I think they are scary dogs. I don't trust them and I never will now. on on the other hand thinks that they should be outlawed. Some owners should be locked up. I am sure not all Pitbull's are mean, but I still think that they are scary!

We Did it! we finally bought our little home on wheels!

To many of you that knew we were looking for a home on wheels. Well guess what happened this week. WE BOUGHT ONE! Yeaaaaaaa!

It all started on Wed evening when we HAD to stop and look at these motorhomes at a tent sale in town. LOL Don was pretty persistent about it and so I had no choice because I was already in the truck. lol So we stopped and I myself fell in love with this motorhome instantly. we have been looking all over for one and some that we looked at NOT at this sale were smelly, moldy, leaky, ugly, and just raunchy. So this one WOW I fell hard for it instantly. It is beautiful and clean and no smells! Yesss I thought! But I wondered if we could get it. I have to admit at first I was nahhhh we won't be able to get it because we HAD to file Bankruptcy in AZ before moving back here (we didn't want to do it but we had NO choice in that matter - no jobs - no money on my end either- nada - so we HAD to).  So my negatives were talking and thought nahhhh we can't do this and so I was like well we will see what the outcome is, so try it. I hate the negative thoughts, So I prayed and had a conversation that night "Lord maybe we can't do this financially, then maybe we can, then maybe Lord I don't want this actually, what are we going to do with this BIG thing Lord, then I said well Lord if you think we can manage the payments and everything that goes with it then you will let it happen, so Heavenly Father I am leaving this ALL in your hands and I won't sit here and worry about if we can or can't and it will be in your hands and not on my worry list - in Jesus Christ my Lord & Savior"
So my prayer was answered and I told Don, I believe in my heart since the day I moved back to Northern Wi. God has given us as a couple many trials to see if we could handle being together again and if we would make the right decisions with His help. Many of Our prayers have been answered after we left everything in His hands. This is one of them, because it is a big financial decision to make.


Where did we get it?
We bought it through Links Ford in Rice Lake, Wi. at one of their tent like sales at the Red Cedar Mall parking lot. Great deal! and a STEAL at that too! They had a price tag set at $15,000.00 at first but then had it marked down too $11,888.00 for it. (then the bank got us a better deal even but I will tell you about it soon). They were also taken by surprise when after we signed papers to buy it, they found out that the millage was wrong (they read it wrong) *laughing hard* They thought it said 74,000 but that wasn't what it said was 14,000 miles on it NOT 74,000. Someone sure didn't have their glasses on!! hahahahaha oh well you snooze you loose!!! The sales guy even said "OMG WOW boy betcha they didn't even realize it was that way in the beginning." (he was a hired sales guy to sell at the sale. - that is how they usually do those things).


So anyhow they told us it was a year 2000 and we thought ok that sounds great and we never thought we would be buying in the year 2000's because they we always so spendy ya know. But we thought ok well lets try to see if we can get it anyhow. So it tooks days and we were stressed and sitting on the edge of our seats a lot during that waiting period with the bank. Our Sales guy was constantly bugging us about what the bank said and so on and so forth, he even constantly called us even all the way up to after 8pm on Thursday night. This guy was pushy and just NUTS! We ignored his calls because point blank we were waiting for OUR Banks call if we could get the loan or not.


FINALLY Friday morning (Note we started all this on Wed night) As we were driving into Rice Lake as we were driving down the road, this truck pulls up next to my side and he is honking and honking trying to get our attention...well he got it, I looked over and there he was!!! Our sales guy!!! OMGosh I thought, what the heck and Don said what is he doing stalking us now!!! We were like laughing hard and then I said well i guess you had better stop there before we go the bank huh. So we did and the sales guy came up and the first thing he said was "Hey, I am not stalking you or anything! I just saw your truck and it looked familiar and so when I got up next to you I saw it was you and so I honked." Ummmmmm okkkkkk then out of the mouth of Lauri myself I said out right "Wow were you reading our minds or our mouth or what." Leave it to me to say a sarcastic comment LOL so he chit chatted awhile and then we left for the bank.


So we had to get a few more things for the bank and we did, stopped there and dropped things off, bought full coverage insurance for it instantly, $508 for a year with Progressive not bad but if anyone knows of anyone else that is cheaper leave a comment below this blog please.


We were starting to get all excited because our loan officer said he had to do a few more things and he would be ready. So in the meantime I went to my appointment that I could not break and then at 3 pm we went to get the insurance and back to the bank. We found out when we got back at the bank our loan officer that we have dealt with for many years said that he got them to lower the price down more to $10,678.00 instead of $11,888.00 and then we found out it is not a year 2000 but a year 2001 instead with only 14,000 miles on it!!!! We said WOW!! That was Fantastic! We didn't even ask for that price change at all, God was working with our loan officer and Links Ford in this. We put $2,000 down on it in the beginning..so Thank you Lord in Heaven for your good works in this!  *happy tears* So here we have it and we signed all the papers! Yessss we have our self a starter motorhome. It is a Class "A" R-Vision Trail Lite Mini Motorhome 25' 12,000 pounds (but it looks bigger then a 25') really cool!! We can't get it till Monday evening because they are going to pull it in the shop and check everything over to make sure everything is in good working order before it leaves there (which they should be doing anyhow). YESSSSSSsssssss!


Here are the photos to show you: ENJOY!!! I know we are going to also!!

In front of our house now :-) 

Now for the inside: 

Beautiful!

Sky Dome in our bathroom

The bathroom is HUGE!

We do have a awning on it too but we are looking to either fix it or get a new one. :-) 

ENJOY! 

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