What Were We Thinking?

January 4 – March 1, 2016

Well I haven’t really taken time to sit down and compose our latest adventure. I am not sure if it is due to time or the simple fact that we have been a bit busy with cleaning, organizing, buying, and remodeling.

You are probably thinking what in the world is she talking about as they are in a 5^th wheel trailer. Well, we decided to bite the bullet and bought a small older mobile home in a park along the Indian River. We are in a town called Vero Beach which is just north of Ft. Pierce. We started looking some when we first arrived and kept coming back to this one park. The advantage of this one is you can actually launch a boat and kayaks from here, go about 2 miles and be at a nice beach and 3 miles will get you to a huge dog park. I don’t think Izzy is complaining too much about it either.

 

The Indian River

We were fortunate enough to find a small boat as well that just fits in the carport. I feel bad for Big Red as we have to park him down by the clubhouse. It’s a short walk from the place so not too much of a sacrifice!

Our Florida Boat

Back to the place – it is a 2 bedroom 2 bath home that had some updates completed already. It survived the hurricanes however there was some water damage in the paneling that wasn’t taken care of during the kitchen remodel the previous owner did. At first we were okay with that for now. Our attention was first going to getting it clean so we could move in.

Our Beach Bungalo

We moved our clothes and fishing gear in and bought the house essentials needed to get settled. We spent the first night on January 24^th. We enjoyed getting the boat out a couple of times for some fishing shortly after that and had some good keepers. Izzy had to supervise the cleaning process. I guess since she didn’t get to go with us she thinks she has to inspect the catch.

I took some pictures of the place when the owner was still in and then after we moved in. As you can see it is a bit different now. Especially since we did decide to go ahead and replace the carpet that was in the bedrooms with new flooring and since we were doing that we took care of the water damaged walls in the master bedroom. I guess fixing places up is in our blood. I think it is slowing draining out though!

Kitchen

Living Room 

 Florida Room

 Master Bedroom Before Us

Florida Room Turns into Work Shop

 Guest Room New Floor

Will be gone soon

 Progress New Walls and Fresh Paint

The Finished Product

So now you know what we have been up to for the past couple of months. Not necessarily fun but certainly much more fun than having to go to the office and shoveling snow! Don’t go too far away as you can read a bit more about our time in Florida.