As college newlyweds Hubby and I inhabited an antique thirty-eight-foot trailer sans air-conditioning. Although wedged between train tracks and Milwaukee\u2019s answer to a beltway, we were positive this early-marriage launching pad was temporary and we didn\u2019t mind one bit living on wheels.<\/p>\n
Along with an upper-level education we learned:<\/p>\n
1. Never chip away solid soot in the kerosene-heater if you plan on relighting it.<\/p>\n
2. A canary will not survive a torrid summer day if your forget to open a window.<\/p>\n
3. A unit built in Alabama is not recommended for a Wisconsin winter.<\/p>\n
Several years and three children later, we rented a trailer to vacation out West.<\/p>\n
The toilet overflowed and a dust storm sifted into every crevice. Plus, my nausea and pregnancy with Child Number Four didn\u2019t enhance the holiday.<\/p>\n
Still, we had fun and purchased a pop-up tent camper to haul our B&B with us. Years later we upgraded to a trailer which slept eight and fed ten\u2026and a good thing, since not only was Child Number Five on the way, but friends and bikes crowded in, too. I related to the poem, \u201cThere Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe,\u201d except my shoe had wheels.<\/p>\n
For twenty-one years we owned a mobile pet grooming business with five uncooperative vans. I naively assumed I\u2019d be the office manager, but when groomers didn\u2019t show up for work, guess who hopped in a van and hit the road. Most of my waking hours were spent rolling alongBaltimore\u2019s Beltway.<\/p>\n
As empty-nesters we purchased a small motor home and a new education:<\/p>\n
Retirement arrived and Hubby asked, \u201cHow about we look into living in a manufactured home park?\u201d<\/p>\n
I\u2019m thinking trailer.<\/em> \u201cUh, not me.\u201d<\/p>\n Hubby won that round and the minute workers removed its wheels our manufactured home never rolled again.<\/p>\n I\u2019m land-locked for now, but there\u2019s a Bible passage that says God is preparing a room for me in His mansion. I\u2019m quite certain He has a sense of humor (made in His image, you know) and I\u2019m a tad concerned my eternal room will hover over four wheels.<\/p>\n Or, perhaps, I will receive a bike to maneuver around Heaven when everyone else simply floats. God\u2019s little joke on someone who loves humor?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As college newlyweds Hubby and I inhabited an antique thirty-eight-foot trailer sans air-conditioning. Although wedged between train tracks and Milwaukee\u2019s answer to a beltway, we were positive this early-marriage launching… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}