JAM and the Girls RV'ing Blog: Our Room is Done!

We arrived at our place at Cedar Blue on Friday morning, August 15th, to find our room done. We had a contractor enclose our covered deck into a 10'x19' room so we would have more living space. The new covered patio, however, is still not done but there were a few more pieces of bracing for the cover. So the work began. John and I spent three days painting, finishing the electric hookup, installing the security system and adjusting the cameras, putting a computer desk together and putting up some curtains for the sliding glass door. We were exhausted each night. We had a window AC unit installed in the wall and hoped that it would do the trick cooling the room down and boy does it ever. I have found myself covering up with a blanket!

The girls helping assemble the TV stand

Tonight we are sitting in our new reclining loveseat watching our new 40" TV with our girls sleeping on the loveseat with us. We are waiting for a TV stand that we ordered. We left one end of the room open for a folding table that we can use for eating with friends or playing games and putting puzzles together. After much internet searching for that perfect and affordable table, John has convinced me that he should build one. I'm pretty excited about it. We checked out wood at Lowes and found a nice pine. The table is going to be 5' long with two 12" wide side panels and the center panel will be 16". It will fit great along the wall. Can't wait. May just have to start this project this week while we are here. We are sure hoping that the patio is done in time to enjoy some fires in the Fall.

Putting together the new gas fire pit

My biggest dilemma has been curtains. I purchased some nice ivory curtains for the sliding door planning to order the shorter curtains online as they store didn't have any. Of course, I could get just about any of the other colors for those curtains in the shorter length but not in ivory. We traveled to Ardmore and Pauls Valley this week searching for stores that sell curtains and only found one. They make them and were going to want $2,000 for six panels! YIKES. Not for a room at a camping spot! So I have order six more panels of the same curtains I have in the long length and we will just shorten them. Way less money!

Our unfinished covered cement patio

The girls seem to like the room as they have some more room to run around. They especially like the loveseat. Today I bathed both of them and cut their hair. They were getting very scruffy looking and probably hot with the long hair. They are so patient with me while I groom them.

This summer (keep in mind it is now mid-August) we have only been out on the lake twice. Once in the boat and once on the waverunner. Many of the weekends we were able to go out it was raining. Since we have several more days here this week we should get plenty of lake time in. Our poor lake is 7' down from its normal level. With all the rain the State has had, including the surrounding area of Lake Arbuckle, it just seems that the big rains keep missing the lake. I sure hope the Fall and Winter are wet.