RV Living- Greener than you would think!

August 20, 2009

We have been living full-time in the RV for a few months now. Many of our friends expressed great surprise when they heard that we had bought an RV. “It’s a gas guzzler!”-they would exclaim! “Aren’t you guys environmentalists or something?” We have only taken a few small trips in the RV, so we will [...]

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Starting Seeds, Saving Money- Final Update

August 10, 2009

Well, it was a great experiment. Ultimately, I ended up transplanting a few sweet pepper and broccoli seedlings on April 16th. They were probably a little small, but we had to plant them. We had a open house that weekend and I didn’t want to distract any potential buyers with the mini-greenhouse that we had [...]

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Rain Barrels

July 31, 2009

These are the rain barrels that graced the front of our old house. We really enjoyed have them. Our roof is shingled so the water was not suitable for watering our vegetable garden, but we were able to use it to water our flower beds. We really only needed one barrel, but I wanted two [...]

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Offers, Campgrounds and Wine Country, oh my!

June 16, 2009

What happened to May?

We took possession of our new RV, a used 2002 Winnebago Adventurer, the first weekend of May and moved into our new “summer home”- the Hickory Hills Campground in just north of Spencer, IN. 
We are just starting to run the numbers on the cost of RV living (different from actually traveling in [...]

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Our recycling “center”

June 16, 2009

As we have changed our habits and started to recycle more, we found it necessary to set up a dedicated area to organize our recyclables. This really helped us get motivated to recycle more. Bloomington, Indiana were we live has a great recycling program. The accept almost everything, including plastics #1-#7. This is excellent! Unfortunately, [...]

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