February 10, 2023 - February 18, 2023 - "The Lovettes" and our Big News

We went to see "The Lovettes" on Valentine's Day at the Wildstein Performance Center at the university. This is a group of three women out of Chicago who do a show of various famous "girls" groups from the 1940s through the 1960s. They are really talented and put on a great show/.

Well, we have had a busy, busy time the last few weeks. The big news is we bought a mobile home in a 55+ co-op park in Pinellas Park and sold our fifth wheel. The fifth wheel is in Avon Park, which is eighty miles away from Pinellas Park. The purchasers of the fifth wheel want me to deliver it to their lot on February 27th, which is just ten miles away. We will get possession of our new place on February 26th. Before we could turn over possession of the fifth wheel, we had to clean it out and get everything over to Pinellas Park. We have had this fifth wheel for fifteen years and I was shocked at how much stuff we have in it. Last week we filled our friend Celina's car and our truck and took it all to Celina's shed for storage. We will take another carload over to Celina’s shed on the 23rd when we have the closing. What little clothes and food is left we can bring to Pinellas Park in the vehicles on the 27th after I deliver the fifth wheel.

We pay for premium mail forwarding until March 31st. We had to change that from Avon Park since after February 27th we will not be here. I was online with USPS for three hours one day and an hour the next day attempting to figure out how to edit the dates. It wouldn’t work and the USPS was of no help. I couldn’t believe that they couldn’t just change it for me, but it had to be done online and it wouldn’t work. It would let me cancel the service effective immediately, so I did that. I then called my friend, John, and asked him if he would get the mail out of the box at home once per week and put it in the house. He was happy to help. 

This move to a 55+ mobile home community is a major passage in our lives. We have been traveling by RV all over the US and Canada for over thirty years - well over 90,000 miles. Spending winters in a 55+mobile home park will be an adjustment we hope goes smoothly. We are not totally out of RV travel, however, because we still have Homer for campouts with our RV club and staying out on our lot at Lake Perry.

Once we take possession of our new place, I will attach pictures.