Today was wasted on a buying trip. An hour to get there, half an hour at HD, another hour running errands in the big city, and an hour home. That shot my free time, as I had to be at work at 3:45. I bought two sheets of 2" foam to start on the back wall, and one more sheet of 3/4" to finish the roof.
I had intended to have the shell finished and back at my house before my step-dad gets home on Friday, but it has become clear to me that one adult and two 10-yos are not going to be able to stand the walls up and get the roof on by ourselves. So I'm stashing my walls and roofing materials in DSD's greenhouse, parking the trailer outside, and planning to ask him and my uncle to help with a trailer-raising Sunday. Of course they will both give me a thousand reasons my design won't work, and probably offer much more complicated ideas of their own, which is why I was avoiding this until now. DSD has been poo-pooing my project since last summer, telling me it was never going to get done. And Dear Uncle is still holding a grudge because the camp trailer HIS father built in the 40s was left to rot away (after 40 years of hard use) on MY father's farm in Colorado. Sounds grim, doesn't it?
OTOH, both DSD and DU can be a lot of fun when they get stirred up, and they have both done their share of DIY projects. I just have to remind them of what they were like before they became GEEZERS! (I think my grandpa would have LOVED this camper project. He tent-camped before marriage, built a camp trailer when my mom and two uncles were small kids, took up backpacking in retirement, camped in a VW van with Grandma when she declared she was too old to sleep on the ground, and snowbirded in a 13-ft camper for a few more years before living in that camper for a year while building their retirement cabin near Durango, CO, in the 70s. Yup, Grandpa would TOTALLY understand my camper!)
DSD's next door neighbor stopped by yesterday to ask about my build. Maybe we can rope him in, too. Although that will be 3 retirees, 2 engineers and an physicist, against the twins and me.
Maybe I can get a couple of my co-workers to throw in, too. It could be computer geeks against science geezers!
I must be out of my mind! But we'll make it work!
Catherine
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"Oh, let's just stay here and sing camp songs for a while." 1966, My mom in Isle Royale, MN, in a women's bath house with a momma bear and two cubs outside the door, and three tired kids trapped inside
"Dad! Dad! There's a bear outside!" 1967, Lolo Hot Springs, MT, in a tent-top trailer
"Oh, no, there it goes!!" Nov 10, 2012 as Penguino I blew over in high winds
by Miriam C. » Mon Jul 04, 2011 8:30 am 
