We enjoyed our time on our new land but were real ready for the boondocking to be over with! For you RV newbies, Boondocking is Dry Camping in the Boonies without Hookups. We’ve done it in Walmart parking lots for a day or so but never 5 days in a row.
Here’s one of the things you get to do if you’re willing to boondock. If you know where this is please let us know because I want to sit in that very spot sometime this coming year!
There is no clothes washing, daily bathing and no dish washing because we had a limited amount of water. Dora (our RV) can generate enough electricity for watching TV and all the lights. We have to run the generator if I’m going to cook and when the electricity Dora’s creating isn’t enough. The air conditioning cannot be run without the generator but if the temperature is in the 60s you’re fine. Above 65 and it’s hot inside the RV without air conditioning or fans. We like the freedom that boondocking allows, but have learned we need to study this form of RVing more before doing it again. I was out of disposable cooking pans so the pots and pans piled up. I’m not facing 6 loads of laundry which was greatly reduced from probably 10 loads by Chip helping us out and washing some clothes this weekend and us wearing clothes longer than we normally would have.
If any of ya’ll are experienced boondockers please share with us any tips you have on doing it right. Roy’s looking at getting a generator auto start machine to better manage our generator use. Even the simplest tip would be appreciated. I know to be better prepared with lots of disposable things but beyond that not much! We want to boondock when we go out west and enjoy the solitude this type of RVing brings.
We’re at Jellystone Yogi Bear Park for up to a week so that we are out of the way while the dirt man moves our dirt around to level off our property. Once that’s done, it’s scheduled for Tuesday which is tomorrow, and the septic system is installed we can then get the electricity turned on and move back since we’ll have full hookups. I don’t think this is the general rule elsewhere but here the septic system being complete and inspected must happen before you can get your electricity turned on. We’re going to drive back to Amite in Boots our truck tomorrow to watch them move the dirt!!!
Saturday, our granddaughter Madisyn was in the Ponchatoula Christmas Parade with her dancing school, Stepping Out. Ponchatoula is a town next to Hammond where we lived. We went with Kim, Chip, Braxton and Bentley. They had big eyes watching all the colors, lights, people, horses and all marching by.
Sunday our home church, Trinity Baptist Church, presented it’s annual Adult Choir Christmas Cantata. We thought that leaving Amite at 10 am would get us to church by 10:45 but we were 5 minutes late and thankfully didn’t miss any of the special music.
You’ve heard me talk about how much I love hearing this choir sing and this Sunday was no exception. What an amazing thing to hear people who love the Lord sing praises to Him. A couple of new soloists, Christie Williamson and Barry Sterken, joined Teddy Forest, Deanna Cummings, Derek and Koree Wall, and Barbara Davis singing solos and duets during the cantata. The choir wore new choir robes which is a new thing for Trinity (at least in the almost 30 years we’ve been members) and they all looked fantastic. Here’s a picture of all these special friends of ours.
Sunday evening our son Chip was a soldier in a local church’s presentation of “One Night in Bethlehem” a drive through showing scenes from the time surrounding the birth of Christ. His daughter Madisyn went to see it and took a picture with her daddy. Here it is.
This got lots longer than I thought when I started! I’ll end with a new video about our beloved Saints. They haven’t done too well this season but they are Our Saints and we’ll hang in there no matter what. This is a local parody of the song “All about the Bass”. It’s called “All about the Saints”. Hope you enjoy this little peek into our little Who Dat Nation! The Saints are fixin (Southern talk for getting ready to) to play Da Bears right now so I’d better turn my attention to that! Click on the photo to see the video.
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