This has been an insanely busy week.  I don’t really like it when I don’t get to sew for two days running!

On Tuesday, Andrew had two appointments at the VA in Iron Mountain, which is 80 miles from here.  A long trip in the snow, and we had to be there at 7 AM!  The only upside is that they’re on central time, and we’re on eastern, so at least we didn’t have to leave until 6 AM.

We didn’t get back home til about 3:30 in the afternoon, which makes for a long day.

Our camper. We sure did have a lot of fun traveling around with it. But once we moved to Marquette, our traveling days were over!

Our camper. We sure did have a lot of fun traveling around with it. But once we moved to Marquette, our traveling days were over!

Yesterday we hauled our camper down to Escanaba to the RV dealer, who was going to buy it.  We had a 30-foot long fifth wheel that had been sitting in our driveway for over a year.  We’d been trying to sell it all of last year, but with the economy so bad, there were no takers.

Of course, the camper was snowed in.  I mean SNOWED IN.  Andrew had backed it in from the street when we moved into this house back in October of 2008.  But there was no getting it out the way it came in, until spring!

Since waiting wasn’t an option, we wondered if we could get it out the driveway.  We hired the merry crew of snow shovelers who happened to show up on Monday to clear a path for Andrew to back the truck up to the camper.

Bright and early yesterday morning, we were out there, making our preparations.  I had to move a little more snow, but Andrew got the truck backed up, and we managed to get hitched up.  He was at a pretty sharp angle to the camper, so we weren’t sure this was going to work.

But it did!  We had to trim a few low-hanging branches off the big oak tree at the end of the driveway, and Andrew had to drive through a rather large snowbank, but he got the camper out of the driveway.  Somebody came walking down the street just in time to make sure the camper would fit under the overhead electrical wire that goes to the house, while I watched the back end, to make sure we wouldn’t hit anything with it.

Of course, that was only half the battle.  We still had to drive the thing 60 miles down to Escanaba.  The roads were snow-covered and slick, and poor Andrew was pretty stressed.  We found out later that two vehicles had slid off the road earlier in the morning.  One had flipped over, and the other went over a steep embankment, rolling at least once on the way down.  I’m glad we didn’t know that at the time!

We left just before 11AM and got to Escanaba around 12:30.  We left the camper at the RV place for them to inspect it, and went to have lunch.  After lunch, we picked up our check and headed home.  Of course, it was pushing 4 before we made it back home.  And we were both wiped out!

Andrew and his little red boat

My intrepid fisherman and his little red boat

We didn’t get as much for the camper as we had hoped to, but at least it’s sold, and now Andrew can recycle that money into a bigger boat. He’s been going out fishing on Lake Superior in his little 12-foot boat for months. Now he can get a 20- or 22-footer, which will make me feel a little better about him being out there!

Today Andrew had another doctor’s appointment, but at least it was here in town.  I even managed to get some sewing in this morning!  I’ll get some quilt pix up tomorrow.

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