This week. Wow. I feel like I have been moving at High Speed from the time I get up to the time I go to bed, and still not getting nearly enough done! We’ve been getting stuff together for the Canadian Border crossing, including paperwork for any guns we want to take up, Vet certificate of health and rabies shots for our dog, a list of everything in the motorhome and trailer, proof that we will be passing through Canada and not planning to stay, etc. Whenever Andy isn’t in the fields helping his dad with Spring Planting, he has been fixing the car we need to sell, and also making a homemade generator that will charge our battery bank to supply us with electricity. Yes, we’re going off the grid, folks! That’s about the only option if you don’t live in the city in Alaska.
We are also still trying to find someone to drive our van up for us. After calling everyone we thought could be remotely interested, I finally found someone who is actually willing to consider it! He said he would get back with me later today, so I have been praying that God would make a way for him to do it. If not, we might have to notorize someone down here to sell the van for us, and just buy a new vehicle up in Alaska, which would be ok, but we would be better off paying someone’s gas to drive the van up, plus a ticket back to PA than getting something up there. The quality of vehicles within our price range in AK isn’t the greatest from what we have seen.
So yes, this week has been the kind of week where it feels like there’s never enough time in the day to get everything done. I have been rushing from one thing to the next hardly stopping to eat. Except for today. Today I am so tired that I don’t even care. Jasmine was up about 10 times last night, so I am running on zero sleep. She is fighting a cold, so her nose is stuffy and she can’t breathe right when she has her nuki. Therefore she wakes up every hour or so.
In other news, we have still been trying to find good homes for our puppies. At this point, we still have six left, but someone is coming tomorrow who sounds pretty interested. We shall see. This could be a VERY interesting trip if we are taking one adult dog as well as six puppies with us in our Motorhome! I did post the puppies on Alaska list since it looked like we had to take some with us anyway, and I have had quite a bit of interest! Several people want us to give them a call on our way up if we have any puppies left.
We plan to leave after church on Sunday and head on out to Ohio to see my folks one last time before going to our new home!