Thursday, June 17, 2004
What A Difference A Day Makes
We've had a wonderful turn of good fortune at a time when we needed it most desperately! Today Mark received a call from the company he worked with last year and they are starting up a new job on Monday. He'll be operating a loader for them and the job should last until it is too cold to dig and lay pipe! Yes!! Yippee!!
For over three years Mark and I have planned on the day we would sell our extraneous belongings and move into the motorhome fulltime. Never in our wildest dreams did we think we would both have medical setbacks at the same time which would require us to be off work for several months...and then for bad weather and a poor job market to leave us unemployed for a couple months beyond our normal winter "down time".
But this is exactly what happened to us! We both made it nearly to the end of last year's work season, but Mark was so sick with lung problems (for a while there we were both very worried about his condition!), and I ended up having a complete hysterectomy. We are both much better now, but for a while there it was looking pretty bleak.
But one day has made the difference. We've reached a turn-around point. Mark is going back to work, and I should be getting a call from the Union any day now to go back to work myself. Hopefully, we will both be able to work until early winter and earn enough to replace our lost savings, and buy a few "goodies" we wanted for the motorhome and our travels.
We have already starting planning to have an auction rather than dragging on with yard sales....yard sales will wear you out in a hurry!! So, on July 20th, we will have an auction here and no matter what the outcome financially, we will be well and truly done with all these belongings that just feel like boat anchors to us now. All the proceeds from the auction will go toward replacing our savings.
And less than two weeks after the auction we will be moving the motorhome to a campground as convenient to our jobs as possible. So, all told...we have just 5 weeks until we are free of the house and all the work we've had to do leading up to becoming fulltimers. It's hard to believe that after all the planning, working and waiting we are about to embark on what promises to be a big adventure!
For over three years Mark and I have planned on the day we would sell our extraneous belongings and move into the motorhome fulltime. Never in our wildest dreams did we think we would both have medical setbacks at the same time which would require us to be off work for several months...and then for bad weather and a poor job market to leave us unemployed for a couple months beyond our normal winter "down time".
But this is exactly what happened to us! We both made it nearly to the end of last year's work season, but Mark was so sick with lung problems (for a while there we were both very worried about his condition!), and I ended up having a complete hysterectomy. We are both much better now, but for a while there it was looking pretty bleak.
But one day has made the difference. We've reached a turn-around point. Mark is going back to work, and I should be getting a call from the Union any day now to go back to work myself. Hopefully, we will both be able to work until early winter and earn enough to replace our lost savings, and buy a few "goodies" we wanted for the motorhome and our travels.
We have already starting planning to have an auction rather than dragging on with yard sales....yard sales will wear you out in a hurry!! So, on July 20th, we will have an auction here and no matter what the outcome financially, we will be well and truly done with all these belongings that just feel like boat anchors to us now. All the proceeds from the auction will go toward replacing our savings.
And less than two weeks after the auction we will be moving the motorhome to a campground as convenient to our jobs as possible. So, all told...we have just 5 weeks until we are free of the house and all the work we've had to do leading up to becoming fulltimers. It's hard to believe that after all the planning, working and waiting we are about to embark on what promises to be a big adventure!
