My RV-Dreams Family is Wonderful

Today was a very easy day if you consider I spent a total of ten hours in meetings. Which I knew it would be like that so I was prepared. With so many emails and comments on both this blog and Facebook it was easy since I spent most of my time during the meetings playing with my blackberry. I did get a full night sleep last night which if I hadn’t it would have been a very hard day to stay awake. I called Gina at a 8:45 this morning and she was just waking up. She stayed up until after midnight putting fresh corn away. I believe the total count was 211 quart size bags and she gave some to my brother and sister, so she doesn’t know exactly how many she did but she is tired of looking at corn. Here are some pictures from Monday and today to show you just a little of the corn. She did get help from my dad, my brother, Aunt Nell, Uncle Jim and Parker.

The First Ears of Corn


The First Counter Full


Another Counter Full


Dad and My Brother Jimmy


Jimmy and my Dad posing this Time for the Picture


Uncle Jim Working Hard


Aunt Nell Cleaning the Corn


Parker and Gina Working Hard


Parker and Gina posing this Time for the Picture


Parker has Corn Coming out his Ears

We all love corn so we should have fresh corn for awhile.

Now about about today being my Birthday. I received more Happy Birthday wishes than I have ever gotten before. I would like to say thank you to you all. Most of those were from our RV-Dreams family. Which brings me to a topic that I want to write about today. Howard & Linda Payne is a couple that are exactly the same age as me and Gina. They started a website RV-Dreams that educates individuals about the life of full time living in an RV. Their website is the most informative of all websites when it comes to preparing and what to expect if you decide to become a full time RV’er commonly called a "Fulltimer". I first came across their website in March 2006 and I do not believe I have missed a day of reading their daily journal. In fact, I believe I have read every word on every page of their website. I'm sure that when they set out on this journey of RV living that they never believed that they would have created a family this large. I really have no idea just how big it has become. I know Howard has stated the number of forum members at over 1400 members and it seemed like he said last year he averages over 1000 views of their journal every day (I apologize if I'm wrong on the numbers but I didn't feel like going back to verify the numbers). Since they started writing their daily journal he has only missed one day of writing that I can recall. I really want to talk about the family he and Linda created. It’s pretty common knowledge that people who go camping are different. Generally speaking, RV'ing is like stepping back in time when you could leave your house unlocked and you never met a stranger. Those things are true within this family. However, this family is very large but we all seem to find a way to communicate with each other just as you would communicate with someone in your immediate family. Granted I know a lot of the RV-Dreams family members even though we have never met face to face. It’s amazing to Gina and I on just how close we have become with so many. We met Howard & Linda in November 2007 while they were at Tickfaw State Park. This was a classic example of knowing someone even though we had never met them. Here is a picture of them when we met them for the first time.

Howard & Linda Payne

We also attended the first RV-Dreams rally in Branson last year and had a wonderful time with not just Howard & Linda but most of the RV-Dreams family at that time.

I guess I didn’t communicate very well yesterday about writing in this blog. I have no intent of stopping. I really enjoy writing but some days Gina & I just don’t do anything and I think no one wants to read about me going to work then coming home and eating followed by going to bed. Even though I find that routine and boring you all seem to like knowing that. So rest assured I'm not going to stop writing anytime soon. I do feel bad when I fail to write an entry for a day. Since I’m sure there are those that look forward to reading my blog just as I look forward to reading theirs. So to wrap this topic up, this family of Dreamers is a very tight knit group of people that have become very close in that we share our good times and bad with eachother. I encourage all of you if you don’t already, to follow Howard & Linda in their journey, please be careful you might start liking what you read and everyone here will tell you, once you get the bug for RV’ing it’s impossible to cure other than becoming one of us. I also encourage you to follow the links on the left side here who we consider our family and once you go to their blogs you will find more links to other Dreamers. (I really need to add more links to all the ones I follow, but you could say it's just as easy following someone else's link). The family that Howard & Linda has created just keeps growing larger and larger.

I really had a very mellow day, it could have been better if my bride would have been here to celebrate it with me but she had corn to take care of but really she has a beach trip planned for later this week. In closing, all the comments made my day both here and on Facebook. I just became a member of Facebook last week because RV-Dreams created a group on there and I wanted to see what it was all about. I will admit that working twelve hour days and writing this blog doesn’t leave much time for Facebook or chatting online with other Dreamers. I’m just tired when I get home in the evening.

Thanks for a Great Day and I feel so loved by everyone!!!

Until tomorrow, Gina & I hope everyone has a pleasant and wonderful day, enjoying what our Father has so graciously blessed us with.