House #1

Welcome back!  This blogging on the run sucks huge!  I have not been able to get much internet at all, and when we are, we are researching houses online.  Two cannot be online at one time - so he wins  ;-)

We made it to Oklahoma ok.  Once we got here, we went to a campground we had reserved for a month.  When we got there, the campers were wedged in like sardines - literally.  It was iffy if we could put our slide on our camper out - and we definitely could not put our awning AND our slider out.  As we backed in, a lady with her two pit bulls welcomed us.  You all know how we feel about pits... and if you don't, it is because you don't realize we were attacked by 2 and our dog was killed because of the attack.  She was a small dog in case you are wondering - no thread to those monsters.  Anyway, I was already uneasy about staying 3.2 feet from them.

Steve and I were commenting on how close the campers when one of the owners walked up.  I think Steve said something to the effect of  "If you fart in one camper you smell it in the next one" - we were that close.  I know, TMI, but it was freaking close to each other and we have stayed in hundreds of campgrounds.  Anyway, about the same time, my sweet brother *waves at him and winks* told the owner they needed to sell grease so everyone could lube up the campers to squeeze them in.  It was at that time we got booted from the campground - the fellow didn't think we were gonna be happy.  Ya think?!  We didn't argue - we were more than happy to leave as the biker guy and his significant other were having a knock down drag out fight next to the camper behind us.  We also (you listening folks?) WAVED at the carnies as we passed them on the way out.  Needless to say, it is a joke now that we are people of such bad character that we got booted from a campground of all places.

Soooo, we are now camping at a very nice state campground.  The problem is, we can only stay two weeks, so we have been frantically looking for an RV site.  We have decided there are only 3 in Tulsa and they all are full or very nearly full - and they are ALL wedged in like the previous one.  Apparently, the state campgrounds are all people stay in because they are so wonderful - and they are.  But not for long term.  So we will look again today while we look at houses...

We took hours and hours marking off houses that were within 45 miles of work.  We know since we want to live out in the country he will have to travel.  In January, Steve was transferred to Catoosa, Ok (a burb of Tulsa) so we were looking on the east side.   We had plenty of houses to look at.  Steve stopped by the Catoosa office to get a phone book, met with his boss and he found out that he has been transferred to another office!  He will now be working near downtown Tulsa - more towards the west side.  So all of those houses we had marked off had to be gone through again and re-figured.  The ones we had discounted as being too far had to be recalculated.  So now we are going to look at houses on the west side today - just drive by's so we can mark off what we won't even consider.

On the house looking front.  We have found 2 houses we love and one we are considering but as I said, we are still looking.  Here is one we really like:

View of front:

The kitchen:
 

The side view:
 

The view of our neighbors (see them in the very back?):
 

Yes, that is a bird house  :-)

View from the front door:
 

Straight out back view (neighbor's place barely visible on the right:

 Looking towards the back door and a clothesline:
 

A tree with a swing:
 

The shop (mandatory in Steve's opinion):

And apparently the house comes with a kitty!  (it had food and a huge container with more food  :-)

I think I forgot to say the house comes with nearly 19 acres, a creek and a pond.

And so that is where we stand now.  Looking and looking, aggravated because our internet is so sporadic and frustrated because we need a semi permanent place to park our camper.  Do you know of one in our around Tulsa?

Off to look at more.  Let me know what you think of this one!  We would love to hear your votes!