Where we are living.: Back to Wilson Mountain

Sunday, July 25, 2021

Back to Wilson Mountain

Where is Wilson Mountain? After being on the road for a couple of years, we ended up buying a small acreage in the Loess Hills north of Sioux City, IA. We have a 40 ft shipping container here that we use to store a lot of our junk. No, not junk, important stuff that we can't let go of. Our youngest daughter and her family rent the house here from us and take care of the place when we are traveling. It is on a hill overlooking the Big Sioux River valley, their last name is Wilson, so it became Wilson Mountain. I installed a 50 amp outlet and we have a macerator pump and hose to empty tanks into the septic system so we can stay in the driveway here. We enjoy our time here, but I am usually busy working on a repair and maintenance list for the motorhome, Jeep, and the acreage. We also try to touch base with some old friends while we are in town along with appointments with doctors and finance people. We have been here since July 3 and will head off to Bismarck, ND in a couple of weeks. We enjoyed our time volunteering at Saylorville Lake again this year, but the time went by too fast. We try to spend as much time as possible with our two daughters and their families there, but this year we weren’t feeling well for the first few weeks and didn’t see them as much. Hopefully next year will be more relaxed.

At Saylorville, we park in our favorite site in Volunteer Village where the blue dot is

We put out our bird feeders there and enjoy watching them.

We also enjoy watching the deer wandering around the RV sites.

A lot of my time there is spent on a tractor with a bush hog cutting down tall weeds and brush.

One of the hazards of cutting in brush as high as the hood of the tractor is not being able to see obstacles hidden in the brush. This is the result of cutting a firebreak near some downed pine trees.