Four days left

It's hard to believe that it's so soon, but we only have 4 days left to finish up everything before we hit the road...

It's been a very hard week. Both physically and emotionally... I'd rather not get into the funk part of this journey for now. Rest assured that we're all healthy and relatively happy. It's just a lot of work fitting a business, 4 people and a dog into a space only 28 feet long... Today was no exception, so I'm going to focus on what got done today and not what was difficult about it.

I received my truck tool box locks today. I bought a cross bed tool box a couple of weeks ago for the truck. I want to take some of my tools with me in case we run into problems with the truck or trailer. I got an aluminum diamond plate box for pretty cheap. It was missing one of the locks and the guy didn't have the key for the other one either. It took me 3 days to find a number for the manufacturer and after some negotiation with them, they mailed me the latches (keyed the same on both sides). The latches appear to be stainless steel. I bought some stainless security bolts and lock nuts and installed the latches. Of course I had to buy the security bit too, so the entire project has cost me about $120.00. It was sleeting/hailing most of the time while I was working of course. Tomorrow I will sort through the tools and decide what items I can live without... Then we'll sell off/give away the rest.

The second big item done today was the purchase of larger propane tanks. As it is we're burning through propane at an alarming rate. It's the cold weather which makes the furnace in the trailer run quite a bit. We bought some larger tanks to extend our time a bit. We're shooting for 1 week disconnected from everything before we have to "dock" for power, water and propane. I think the new tanks will help us accomplish that...