What can I say more.  After being back home now for over a month, it is like life itself has changed.  I mean, really, it now lacks the wonder and surprise of what we will do or see next.  It is back to the hum drum of just daily activity around the home.

Now don’t get me wrong.  We love seeing the family and we actually do love this house.  It is nice to see the family again even for short times.  It is nice to have all the “toys” we have at the home as we truly made this house something we wanted.  If this house was not like it is, we would already have it on the market.

Yet, as nice as it all is here, we still find ourselves missing the friends we made on the road.  We missing the mini caravans we did just because we could.   “Hey, where you going next?  Sounds cool, lets go!”  Being anywhere.  Going anywhere.  It truly is great to be able to do such things.

Well, one thing I did recently was to redo my home computer control systems rack.  Oh what fun I but you are saying.  As it really is not for most people.  In fact, this house my be hard to sell because I have it so automated.  It’s needs a special person I think.

"Webster" the home control systems

Top Down…

HomeSeer Home Automation PRO100 Server (The thin computer with the bright blue light)
Next to that 4 HD Homeruns for 8 digital HDTV QAMM tuners.
Below that is the master 24 port Giga Switch, note all the cables. The Cable Modem and Voice over IP box.
Next is the big monitor (Smallest one I had around) and next to that are two 1500VA UPS’s
Below that, keyboard Mouse, Harddrive hots-wap Toaster and 2 extra HD’s.
Below that…RedayNas RAID Server (Silver box), Main Home Support Server (Weather, security cameras), Next to that is the machine that handles 3 in home touch pads, and then the big server is my 17TB unit with 15 drives.

Not that you needed to know all that, but their you go.

So now what?  Not sure.  The biggest issue we have right now in regards to traveling is the cats.  I think it has been mentioned we have 4.  Well, we do not want to have someone stay at the home again, we rather just try to bring them with us.  However the first time we tried that it did not work out to well with someone not being a good boy.  But man, if we could get a round this, we would be able to travel anytime and just lock up the home and go.

Oh well, I just wanted to make a wick post as I am kind of down and thought I would write about what I was feeling.  We will be back on the road soon, like the 20th of June for a few weeks.  Take care all.

We’ve been home exactly a month now. Time is really moving slowly when your not out and about.

There’s so much to do around a house.  AUGH! So much work.  It never seems to end.  And let me tell you…cleaning an rv is a lot easier and quicker than cleaning a 3000 square foot house! Didn’t miss that at all.

David Powerwashing The Deck

When we got home we were overwhelmed by how much stuff we have.  We’re only two people and I don’t know where it all came from.  I know where it’s going though.  We are cleaning house and donating what we can, throwing out the rest.  Too much stuff! Too many nick nacks and junk.  Who needs all this?  Living on the road for 5 months really puts things in perspective.  We certainly don’t need all this.

Baby Geese at our House

We did get home in time to see the baby geese though.  They are so cute.  We have 9 babies this year.  They grow up so fast.  We like watching the growing and learning process.  They certainly learn quickly that Tasha is no threat.  They actually have come right up to us while we were walking, looking for food.

We have much more wildlife that we like to enjoy.  We live next to a wooded area so we are constantly getting deer, turkey and fox.  We also found this guy.  A snapping turtle that seemed to like our pond.  He is not a welcome guest.  Especially with our goslings running around.  So we captured him and relocated him 7 miles away to Lake Ontario.  David had read that once snapping turtles take up residence, you have to relocate them more than 5 miles away, or else they will find there way back to your home.  I’m sure he’ll be very happy there.

Snapping Turtle

Anyway…we hope to be on the road in late June.  We’re going to try getting the cats used to the rv again.  The first time it didn’t go so well.  This time, we’re going to set up camp in our driveway for a couple of days.  Then maybe we can move on to a weekend trip.  Cross your fingers.  If this works, then we can certainly do more traveling without having to get back home right away. As you can see, they are bored at home too.  They need adventure!

BK Being Really Bored

We were very fortunate enough to have some family stay at our home this past winter, with the kitties, so we could venture out.  We’re very lucky to have family that loves us so much.  We’ll keep you posted on the kitties progress.