Sweet Home Alabama, Where All Our Stuff Is Too

February 28, 2025 We left Colorado on Tuesday morning (February 25). We took our fully charged walkie talkies and used them to communicate as I followed the U-Haul in Cliff the Big Red Truck. We stopped at a truck stop in Colorado so Bruce and I could take a bio break. As we were heading […]

Emptied Out One Storage Unit and Most of the Second Storage Unit

February 24, 2025 On Sunday (February 23), we filled Cliff the Big Red Truck, full of boxes and items from the unconditioned storage unit. Our pickup truck’s bed was full of boxes and the backseat was full of other items. The truck’s tonneau cover should keep the items in the bed dry. Today (February 24), […]

Arrived Safely in Golden, Colorado

February 21, 2025 On February 19 (Wednesday), we left the house covered with snow and bare rooms. Through snow and ice, with winter weather advisories and warnings, Cliff the Big Red Truck rolled to Junction City, Kansas. In Junction City, Kansas, Bruce fueled up at Sapp Bros while I found a nearby Motel 6 that […]

Tornado Hit Downtown Tuscumbia, AL

February 18, 2025 Well, the weather service was slightly off about the location of the tornado. The F1 tornado touched down just a little to the west of Muscle Shoals in downtown Tuscumbia, AL. Muscle Shoals and Tuscumbia share a border. Sheffield shares a border with both Muscle Shoals and Tuscumbia. Fortunately, no one was […]

Tornado Watch Turned into a Tornado Warning Last Night

February 16, 2025 Like most of the South, last night we were hit with an intense thunderstorm, putting us under a Tornado Watch. Our community warning sirens went off. We couldn’t hear what the intercom was saying over the barking of the dogs. Nox was not one of the dogs barking. Our phone alerts went […]

Putting Up Bird Feeders

February 16, 2025 I had purchased a bird feeder online. We purchased a pole from Lowe’s. At Rural King, we bought sunflower seeds, spicy suet, a suet holder and a sock feeder. On Valentine’s Day, we placed the pole in the front yard so we could see it from the living room picture window. We […]

Valentine’s Day, Blackberry Homestead Style

February 15, 2025 On February 14 (Friday), I woke up to flood warnings in Florence, AL from the National Weather Service. The Tennessee River was (and still is) at flood stage. I mentioned I wanted to go to the Rockpile Recreation Park along the Tennessee River to see the water pouring over the Wilson Dam. […]

And the Rain Just Kept Falling

February 13, 2025 Yesterday, we drove in the rain to the DMV to get Bruce his Alabama driver’s license. That did not happen. Florida had put a hold on his Florida license. The agent in the Alabama office couldn’t tell him why Florida did that. When we got home, Bruce tried calling the Florida office, […]

Buying Dirt and Registering RV in Alabama

February 11, 2025 On Sunday (February 9), we drove to Lowe’s and bought a cubic yard of topsoil. We had it loaded into the truck bed by a Lowe’s employee. When we arrived at the house, Bruce drove the truck next to the last tall bed. We filled one tall bed with the dirt. The […]

New Blog Name

February 10, 2025 Since we have moved into a sticks and bricks home and no longer roll down the road, I decided to change the name of my blog and tag line. My blog name is now Blackberry Homestead. I didn’t change the URL, so you can still find my site at retirementRVdream.com.