Teeth and Frogs

We are coming to the end of our stay in the middle of nowhere, and getting very close to the end of our days in the trailer. We had to push back closing due to some additional negotiations (the house needs about $20k+ in repairs...we knew and anticipated about $10-15k but found out about some more at the inspection), but we're still hoping to close by the end of July.

In the meantime, we'll be moving back to the bison ranch to finish up our stay.

In camp news, Preston lost his second tooth, Bryton caught a tiny tiny frog, and Archer's 3rd birthday is coming up in just a few days. I'm sick of taking outdoor solar showers and cooking outdoors... Ready for a few amenities!

Around Camp

We have been spending a lot of time just hanging out at camp. John's schedule is nice, but he has a pretty long drive to work so generally it's just me and the boys 4 days a week. We also had some friends come out to camp with us a couple of times so that was nice and kept the boys entertained! There is a little "beach" and area for the boys to play just a few minutes away from the campground that a lot of these pictures are from. Lots of fishing, but no catching!

Off Grid!

We've spent the last 2 weeks in a little campground up the St. Joe River. We don't have any hook-ups, no cell service, and obviously no Internet. It's been pretty interesting! We are loving the quiet (we're currently the only people there except for the camp hosts), and we have the perfect campsite - full sun for our solar panel but a big shade tree for the rest of the site. There are lots of biting bugs unfortunately, but we have a screen room set up with the boys' pool inside. The days where the temps have been high 90's are a little rough, but we are loving it (and the $6/day rate is pretty nice too!).

We had planned to leave last Monday but decided to stay another week and use up our "14 day max stay" but today they told us we could stay as long as we want since they haven't been busy at all...we might just stay for a while longer!

On the house situation...the inspection wasn't great (siding needs to be replaced, some plumbing issues, and LOTS of minor issues that we will need to address), so we submitted an addendum asking for a lower purchase price + the bank paying for our closing costs. We just heard today that they will accept $1k over what we offered in the addendum so we're happy with that! Still hoping to close on the 24th but we're not sure if that will be possible or not.

So, since I currently have Internet, massive photo dump coming up!

Trial Run

We are currently spending our first night in the trailer. We decided we should take it out and make sure everything is working properly (good thing because our water heater isn't working...brrrrr). Unfortunately we only have one night to spare since we really need to pack - we're moving everything to storage a week from tomorrow, and then we officially move out 6 days later.

We went on a little adventure today in search of some morel mushrooms. We didn't actually find any morels, but we did find plenty of other mushrooms so the boys got educated on which mushrooms NOT to eat!

We forgot quite a few things (we're used to a little more "rustic" accommodations while camping), so I'm really glad we decided to do a trial run. Tomorrow is back to packing!