Author: Julia

I am a retired software solutions architect. I have been married to my husband, Bruce, for over forty years. We went full-time RVing for 3.5 years and saw much of the United States. After deciding to stop RVing, we bought a ranch house halfway up a hill on five acres. After Bruce and I talked about names for our five acres, we settled on Blackberry Homestead as a homage to the wild blackberries on the hill. We are working on creating our homestead. I love cooking and enjoy sharing recipes. I am also an artist, and I’ll share my current projects. Gardening and reading are my favorite hobbies.

Regular Living Tasks, Taxes

Updated: March 3, 2023 March 2, 2023 One of the normal yearly task is taxes and just because we are mobile, doesn’t mean we get to miss out on the joy that is tax season. After we settled in at Riverside RV Resort in Alabama, I completed our Federal and Colorado state taxes forms and […]

Review of Riverview RV Resort in Alabama

March 1, 2023 Riverview RV Resort is a reasonably nice small park. It has paved roads and concrete pads. It has a few large pull-through sites. Most of the sites are back-in sites. They do have a number of sites that back up to the Styx River. Their main attraction is a ramp to allow […]

Getting the Motorcycle Running

February 26, 2023 On Tuesday, Bruce wanted to see if he could figure out why the motorcycle wouldn’t start on Sunday. My guess was the battery, but Bruce was afraid it was more than that. I am going to post what happened in Bruce’s Facebook post. “After a bit of testing, we decided the battery […]

Moving on to Riverside RV Resort in Alabama

February 23, 2023 After our tour of the Tallahassee Automotive Museum, we checked on Nox. She was still fine in the RV, so we walked across the street to the Waffle House for a late breakfast. We walked back to the RV and packed up. We walked Nox around before putting her in the truck. […]

Tallahassee Automobile Museum, Part 2

February 21, 2023 After walking around the second floor, we headed down the ramp to the first floor of the museum. Corvettes, Thunderbirds, Mustangs, and Trans Ams gleamed along the walls. Older cars lined the back wall. They had several old electric cars and even a Stanley Steamer. This reminded me of Colorado and our […]

Other Sights at the Tallahassee Automobile Museum, Part 1

February 21, 2023 This is a picture heavy post because I want to share the fun we had at the Tallahassee Automobile Museum in Florida. The museum is not just an automobile museum. They also have a lot of sports memorabilia, soap box racers, engines of various sorts, motorcycles, boats, dolls, knives, Star Trek memorabilia, […]

Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Batmaaaaaan!

February 20, 2023 I am breaking up the post of the Tallahassee Automobile Museum into two post since I took so many pictures. The Batman exhibit was in the upstairs corner, opposite the ramp. Unfortunately, the museum was experiencing problems with the LED lighting strips they had installed to replace the florescent lighting in the […]

Walking Around the Grounds of the Tallahassee Automobile Museum in Florida

February 20, 2023 On February 12 (Sunday), Nox need to stretch her legs a bit, so we took her for a walk around the Tallahassee Automotive Museum grounds before it got dark. It was an interesting walk. Just walking around outside was nice. We were really looking forward to seeing the museum in the morning. […]

What a Moving Day!

February 19, 2023 Our time at Blythe Island Regional Park in Georgia came to an end on Sunday, February 12. Saturday, it rained all day, so we couldn’t do our normal outside preparations. I did as much as possible inside to be prepared to leave on Sunday. We wanted to leave early on Sunday to […]

All the Toys Belong to Me!

February 17, 2023 Nox has managed to carry all her toys to the theater seating side that she uses. You can see how relaxed she is as she stretches across the seating! While it doesn’t look comfortable to me, she seems to be comfortable.