MINE MINE MINE

You would think that I would learn my lesson and not try to type for the blog while the truck is going down the road but once again here I am sitting on the bed and trying not to make to many typos while bouncing and balancing the laptop. I am a slow learner sometimes.

Today we have been hopping all over northern Illiinois and we aren't done yet. They must of ran out of long haul loads as we have been picking up and delivering 3 different loads all pretty close to one another. We will be delivering to the Olney Walmart DC tomorrow and they told us we could have some home time while we are there, as long as we are running on time that is, so it probably will end up just being able to sleep in our own beds and then back out again but it will be nice for that much.

This morning while we waited in our truck for our time to leave we were parked in a truck stop in Gary, Indiana and we were noticing the seagulls. I of course wanted to see the feeding frenzy and threw a small bit of my sandwich to them and here they all come. I told Josh that I wanted to get some pictures of them so I crouch down by the truck and take a few then signaled him to throw another piece of sandwich and took pics of that too. The birds must of got bored waiting for us to throw more as most left then we tore up a tortilla we had and feed a few that remained. Josh reminded me about how in Finding Nemo it sounds like they are saying "mine, mine, mine" and at times it did sound like it.

I am sure you can tell by now that I am not very good at taking pics or have much of an inclination to take pics of cities unless there is some great architecture. I am going to have to say that nature pics are my thing, it is so much more interesting to me and so beautiful. I always wondered who would want to live in a big city and all of the congestion, close neighbors, traffic, and noise but the longer I think about it I am glad most people prefer to live in the bigger cities, if we all wanted to live in the country there would be no country to have and for that I am thankful. I know everyone has their preferences and mine is country all the way. I have been doing a lot of research and reading on living and being self sufficient in the country and some things I think is just rediculous. Josh and I watched a documentary about people living in tiny houses. I totally support the idea that we don't have to have huge homes to live in and keeping things to a minimum is a good idea but the show we watched had a young man building his tiny home on a small trailer bed, he wanted something mobile so it wouldn't be considered a permanent structure as there are laws saying he couldn't live in such a small space. I believe it was about 164 square feet, very tiny and he was building it himself to save money which I applauded. The huge downfall to all of this is he spent nearly $28,000 building it! Wow! Our first home we bought was only $20,000 and we had full sized rooms! I was thinking that he should have bought an RV type thing and it would already be set up for everything that he was wanting to do. It is cool to build it yourself and and look at it and say "hey I made that" but there is also a need for some common sense in this all too. I also wonder if this was just a hobby type thing for him and he really doesn't have any intention on living in it on a permanent basis and if so that is a lot of resourses wasted. OK ok... I will get off my soap box for now but I am sure I will get back on again later, you have been warned.

I also found out that one of our future loads will be going to Maryland! Yeah a new state and I will give you my full report with pictures.