It’s been a while since my last posting.  There’s just not a whole heck of a lot to blog about when your stationary for so long.   It’s been a great relief to get the house sold and be done with the mortgage payments and other associated home-related bills/obligations.  The checks have all cleared and all the bills have been paid 🙂  We already paid for our spot here at the Elks Lodge until the end of June.

It now feels like we’re just biding our time until we head to the Campvention Rally in Gillette WY o/a the 4th of July.  Now, don’t get me wrong… we haven’t just been sitting around in the Coach all the time – we’ve been doing a lot of things with family and friends and enjoying the many amenities at the Elks Lodge.  It’s just that we haven’t been to any major attractions or “blog-worthy” events.

As a matter-of-fact; we’ve enjoyed the pool here at the Elks Lodge several times over the last couple of weeks; and in between rainstorms, I’ve even been on several motorcycle rides around town and through Garden of the Gods park.

And we’ve enjoyed many dinner get-togethers at the Lodge over the last couple weeks…

We even spent a couple days over at my Dad’s house helping to get the ‘bird house’ set up that I wrote about in an earlier blog post HERE.

So, my apologies in advance to you blog-readers that are expecting new locations and picture-heavy blog posts… you’ll just have to wait until we hit the road again in July 🙂  Meanwhile, we’ll try to come up with some local Colorado Springs stuff… as a matter-of-fact, I recently got an invitation to attend a retirement ceremony later this month for a friend and old co-worker from the Missile Defense Agency, so stay tuned for that…

It’s official!… we’re now homeless, or should I say houseless.  Closing went quite well with no surprises.  Congratulations to the new owner.  I’m sure he’ll love the house as much as we did.

Here’s a couple final (farewell) pics of the house, although not the most recent:

We went ahead and paid for the month of June here at the Elks Lodge to take advantage of the cheaper monthly rate.  We don’t know for sure if we’ll stay the entire month but at least we can relax, pay off some bills, and enjoy visiting with family and friends here.

We did sign up for a rally in Gillette WY for early July, so we’ll definitely be out of here by then.  Until then… who knows… stay tuned…

We’re still on track to sell the house with a closing date of 1 June.  We finally heard back from the appraiser after the Memorial Day weekend – all OK with no conditions 🙂

The buyer was scheduled to do a final walk-thru on Wednesday, so I finished up a few things at the house on Tuesday.  One of the things I still needed to do was move our old birdhouse from the front yard since we want to keep it.  Dad helped me move it over to his house… he’ll set it up in his backyard for safekeeping.

Here we are hauling the top portion into his backyard:

He’ll dig a hole and set up the post in concrete near these rocks.

Here’s what it looked like in front of our house when we first set it up back in 2006-07.  We brought this from Germany with us in 2005.  Stilla’s brother Wolfgang made it for us.

And here’s another old picture of it with our former dog Elvis posing in front… poor Elvis was attacked and killed by a coyote in our backyard in December of 2013 🙁

Here’s the view of my Dad’s house (backyard) that the birdhouse will be looking at for the foreseeable future.

After we moved the birdhouse, Dad helped me put a final coat of paint “restore” on the front porch.  The first coat was done before we put the house on the market back in January and portions of the rubberized-type paint had frozen before it dried and it wasn’t sticking too well.  I promised the buyer that I would touch it up before he took possession.

In the evening, we gathered back at the Elks Lodge for “Taco-Tuesday”.  Three tacos are only $5 and drinks are at very reasonable happy-hour prices.  We had quite a few folks join us; my Dad, stepmom Elaine, friends Biff and Linda, old Army buddy Daniel, and fellow Alpine Coach owner’s Tom and Johnna.

Wednesday, I piddled around the house again in the morning hoping to catch the new owner during his final walk-thru/inspection.  I figured he’d appreciate me being there to answer any questions and maybe explain how to set up the auto-sprinkler system, etc.,  I got there at 8 AM but finally said the heck with it and left around 1:30 PM when he didn’t show.  I heard later in the evening that he did get there to do his final inspection.  All is well, except he couldn’t get the garage door remotes to work.  So, I’ll go back and program them for him.

Thursday, I had an appointment to get the emissions test done on the Urban Escape Vehicle.  It’s time to renew the registration and I haven’t had the opportunity yet to change domicile to South Dakota.  Unfortunately, the county that we’re currently registered in (El Paso county) requires testing on all diesel vehicles.  So $90 dollars later, I can now renew the registration for another year 🙁

After completing our emissions test and paying the state of Colorado for the privilege to drive on their fine pot-hole decimated roads for another year, we returned to the Elks Lodge.

We stopped at the dump station before returning to our parking spot because all the sites here require the use of a macerator.  The sewer pipes are above-ground (small diameter) PVC pipe.  It’s much less hassle to use the dump station than to hook up the macerator.

And once again, the afternoon rain storms rolled in:

All 13 full hook-up (30-Amp) sites here have been filled since before Memorial Day.

Here we are; backed into our site again (facing the pool).

We plan on going over to the house today (Friday) to program the garage door remotes and I’ll pick up the Harley and bring it back to the Lodge.  It’s been nice to have it garaged with all the recent rain … but I guess that’s the price you have to pay for being homeless, aka houseless 🙂

We’re supposed to meet some folks for dinner here at the Lodge this evening, so we’re looking forward to that… stay tuned…