Future Plans and Current Experiences

Well, dad posted his first blog today, and as to not be outdone, I shall post mine too. 


I had the idea to do a father/daughter blog a while after we started looking into tiny living, and decided to build one for ourselves. This way we can both get our opinions out there, since we are both going through the experience. This blog will probably go in a drastically different direction than what I had originally planned, mainly because I going to be going on my own separate adventure (at least for a while.) 


The current plans are that once the summer is over I will travel from relative to relative across the states for a year or so. Now, I am very excited for this adventure.. but I haven't gotten to the 'asking relatives' stage yet, and being the procrastinator that I am, this is not surprising. I should get on that. If any relatives of mine are reading this.. Can I come visit for a month or so? :) 


Anyway, on to the next point in our blog: Downsizing. 


Downsizing so far has been an interesting experience, and even though we haven't physically downsized into a smaller dwelling yet, we have been mentally downsizing for a while. I swear we've toted twenty-five pick-up loads of junk out of the house so far (and as dad mentioned, we haven't even gotten to the garage or basement yet.) Besides getting rid of a whole bunch of useless junk, we've also been keeping the house clean and eating at home a lot (which is a big deal, considering we used to go out for practically every meal.) I will admit, dad does a better job at keeping things clean than me... but I've been helping. 


On a side note, for those of you interested, since graduation my summer has been great so far. Dad has been waking me up every morning to go train for RAGBRAI (Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa). Training has been going great, and I absolutely love my new bike. My mileage per day changes a lot, mainly depending on if I'm going to work or not. Work, by the way, is lovely. I've mainly been doing odd jobs, and spending a lot of time helping out Jay at the Riddell Polled Hereford farm doing paperwork and painting and whatnot. I like it. 


Well, I have no idea how to end this post, so.. THE END. Dad, you're up!