Still in Elkhart!

Well, it has been a week since we arrived here. We are still inside their building and it took a mental adjustment for me to get back into a good routine. Since we had problems with the grey tank, we had been going out for meals all the time. I knew getting on the scale last Wednesday was not a good idea, but we are tracking our progress every week. After seeing that we both gained weight back, I had to do something.

Well, I am cooking again and dishes are done twice a day in the sink of the ladies bathroom. They have a big box of plastic cups in there, which works perfect as a drying table. I refuse to take pictures of this, but it does work and cooking surely helps our pocket book too. We are taking showers in their facilities and improved our quality of living tremendously Friday.

You don't realize how much TV you watch, until you don't have it anymore. Our satellite does not work in here (since we are under a metal roof) and the antenna only received a few channels in somewhat poor quality. Did you every notice how well the religious channels come in no matter where you are. Well, on Friday somebody opened a door that is right next to our rig and I had an idea. We used to have a small portable dish when we owned the Excel, and we are still carrying that dish, in case we are parked under a lot of trees and our roof satellite does not work. I took a look at Doug and asked him, if we have enough cable to take portable dish outside. Guess what, we do have enough cable and luckily the dish had to be turned away from the building to get a signal. We have all our normal channels since Friday and it has made living in here a lot more comfortable.

We are true creature of habit and TV does play a role in our life. The shop starts working at 8 am and we have a concert of various noises from drills to generators and motors throughout the day and early evening (they don't stop until around 8 pm some days), but having our TV on helps. Ladies feel for me! I actually had to go to a laundromat on Friday, since we were starting to run out of clean clothes. It is amazing how you can adapt, when there are not to many options available to you. And then, life just goes on!! :-)

The metal that we are waiting for is supposed to arrive today and work should continue tomorrow. We have had the metal promised to us twice before last week, so we are not holding our breath, but keeping our fingers crossed.