So I Suck, What Can I Say?

So, really. With the 2 weddings last month and our decision to purchase a horse trailer that lets just say needed a little "reconditioning" we've had our plates full. Is that not the story of my life or what? It seems like I'm complaining, but if you ask anyone who knows me in real life, sitting idle just kills me. That's part of the reason I went from my sometimes idle nursing job to police work, I guess. I'm a bit more idle sometimes that I would have originally thought, somewhat due to the fact that I'm an investigator, but sometimes things get pretty exciting. So, no, I'm not complaining. I just love to be busy.

After hours and hours of online searching, I finally found a trailer that I thought would suit our purposes. We had some money set aside, and definitely did NOT want to go into hock on this purchase. The initial plan was to wait till next year, but the more we (I) thought about camping at Brown County and getting rained out and how bad that would suck and how over Labor Day it sure would be nice to have some A/C and all kinds of other things I started looking. So we (I) decided that if there was any possibility that something was out there that we could do this year, we (I) would. You see where this is going?

So after we (I) found the "perfect" trailer *mind you there are NONE in existence that were between 10 and 15 thousand dollars - it was either 10 or 15 period* we set up a good deal that we (I) could live with and arranged to go pick the thing up in Seymour which is about a 3.5 hour drive. When we got there, we actually saw the thing in person. It was a little rough. Ok, it was a little more rough than we (I) thought. BUT, looking past the fact that they hadn't even tried to clean it up prior to the sale, it was really an ok trailer. But it was empty inside. By that I mean that the "living quarters" concept we (he) had in mind at this juncture was not quite what we had in front of us. After an initial reaction by him of, and I quote, "No way...we're not taking it" we hung around for a few more hours. You see, part of the deal was that they were going to install the needed hitch in the bed of the truck while we waited, so at this point there was already a 3" hole in the bed of our new truck. We had no choice but to stay.

So in the meantime we looked around at all the other trailers, new and used, compared and contrasted. We were most impressed with the $375,000 Sundowner "Luxury Liner" but unfortunately the bank just didn't give us that much money that day. We finally came to the realization that if we weren't going to go into total hock at this point, we'd better stick with what we (I) found. Just put it this way - it was a long ride home.

We spent the entire next day power washing, painting, steam cleaning and otherwise defunking the new trailer. Additionally we sold our "old" trailer in the meantime. We worked our butts off with the help of our amazingly handy neighbor, and finally came out the other side with something quite liveable! Check it out!! So, the new trailer makes its maiden voyage to Brown County bright and early Friday morning...and I can safely say at this point that WE, yes, WE actually are pretty impressed with how nice it turned out.