Major Tom, major progress

Charlie's been working hard on the camper while I've been preoccupied with the state's plan to  put a highway in front of our house. 

The camper is finally structurally sound (no more rotting wood) and waterproofed (no more leaking windows). The windows all crank open and closed. A craigslist score allowed us to upgrade from the original non-working stove to a working vintage stove/oven combo!

16 Likes, 1 Comments - Renee Garner (@wolfienthesneak) on Instagram: "From the inside"

I did spend the better part of an afternoon scraping old window frosting film off the windows. Hand cramps be damned, the windows look good as new!

8 Likes, 2 Comments - Renee Garner (@wolfienthesneak) on Instagram: "The unglamorous details...scraping off aged frosted window film. #majortom #serroscottycamper"

After countless emails and phone calls to my new BFFs (NCDOT) we figured out the process of getting a title for Major Tom so we could get him on the road! *Hint* Get yourself out in the country to a DMV office and they have a better understanding of what it takes to title a vintage camper.

8 Likes, 3 Comments - Renee Garner (@wolfienthesneak) on Instagram: "The wind beneath our wheels?"

The inside still needs a lot of prettifying, but we can finally hit the road and camp! Who's ready for summer?!

Lately

9 Likes, 1 Comments - Renee Garner (@wolfienthesneak) on Instagram: "Today's work area"

Fox turned 4 a few days ago and we felt it was finally time to give him a real birthday party... of course, by real we meant him having friends over to play in the yard and eat cake and cookies. We strung up a bunch of balloons, threw down some table cloths and called it decorated.

The real work was getting the gardens tidied and a little less wild. I mean, I love wild gardens, but wasn't sure the parents of his friends would feel their kids were safe in such a wild place. {To be clear, it's totally safe, but appearances and reality are different.}

So we tidied and cleared and junked and mulched and composted and dug and planted and watered and ended up with a kinda respectable looking yard. Of course the kids didn't care what it looked like, the parents didn't scurry their kids away in horror. All in all a success!  

5 Likes, 1 Comments - Renee Garner (@wolfienthesneak) on Instagram: "Giant herbal #plaintain (weed to others) looking from one garden to another. Worried to lose the..."