Making a home in limbo

Our house looks like an episode of hoarders. Since the loan process turned into a slow, painful slog, we slowed down on packing.  While we intend to pick up the pace again starting this week, our previous push left our house as an almost unlivable pit.

What was once my formal living room.

Loki is happy I haven't covered the
couch in boxes...yet.

This weekend, we made a concerted effort to create a couple of "safe" rooms that are clean and relatively uncluttered.  I am sure that as we kick the packing process into overdrive, this will change, but for now, we can breath again. In the meantime, we have started using our trailer.  It's neat and tidy out there - and quiet!

The Peanut and I started doing our school work out there a few weeks ago.  Once the weather stopped acting like Seattle, it turned into a pleasant place to work.  We have found the table to be a little small -- it's not even half the size of our kitchen table -- but we are finding ways to compensate.  I do fear what it will be like in the Fall when we start with larger scale projects again.  We are on the wind-down with our school year, so we're done with those for now.

Our first day of trailer school.

The space is fine for one or two smallish things at a time.

The two biggest drawbacks of doing anything out in the trailer are the lack of power and the lack of water/bathroom. The car battery attached to it allows us to turn on lights, listen to the stereo, and open/close the awning.  Nothing can be plugged in and, of course, no air conditioning.  Hook ups will happen once we get the loan squared away, but the need to conserve money trumps convenience.

Since we are in the wind down for the school year, it's also time for me to write up our school progress report.  All the school stuff is in the trailer and I need to work in the house because my laptop battery cannot survive for more than 15 minutes without dying.  

My school supplies....

...culled from this.  Needless to say, we're running lean
going into next year.

I started the report a couple of weeks ago and got frustrated that every time I needed something, I needed to either run out to the trailer or make a note in the report to come back to it later.  So enter our latest exercise in trailer trash living:

Is this thing on?!

We bought a $2 piece of foam that's meant for air conditioners to keep the bugs out and ran a 100 foot extension cord from the house.  I now have a small fan and my laptop plugged in with tunes going on the trailer stereo (which is bluetooth, so Google Play on my phone FTW).  No more running back and forth to grab a book that I need.  And now, I should stop procrastinating and get that report done.

The other end that orange extension cord.

Not a bad workspace.