Two days, two entries. I probably won't be making a habit of this, though.

I spent today working on three costumes for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. This is part of what Plaid Dog Studios does. These costumes were more of ones that I made for them a little over a year ago. The Museum supplied a mechanic's type jumpsuit. I painted on a basic circulatory system and added soft sculpture lungs and a heart. This is a picture of one from last time around.

The nice thing about this type of work is that I can take it anywhere, as long as I have space and electricity; which brings me to off-the-grid. Many folks who decide to make Terlingua home do so by going off-the-grid. We'd like to do that too, at least for the house, whenever it's actually built. But in our reality, we need electricity to run power tools, sewing machines and a continuous internet connection. (The REAL reason I can work from anywhere.) Happily, our plot of land has a power pole about 150 feet from its corner. And, there's a telephone box on the other side of the road. Ahhhh! To be away from it all and still connected.

Four years ago we bought 20 acres in the beautiful Chihuahua Desert in a place that several bloggers also are making their home, Terlingua, Texas. We'd thought that we'd retire there, but circumstances have made it such that we're going to try to move there sooner rather than later.

To that end we're in the process of buying a steel frame building to use as a workshop and office. Today we went and purchased a 1991 '32 foot bumper pull trailer. It was an interesting situation. The woman selling it had to repo it from the last person she sold it to. We drove to Laramie, WY to pick it up this morning. Because of a confrontation that she'd had with the woman whose property it was on, she felt that a police presence would be good. So, we had some very nice Laramie Police officers there. It all went very nicely.

Then, we needed to get the correct adapter for the lights and brakes for the camper. Should have been easy. It wasn't. When we finally found the right one (thanks to a VERY helpful man, Don, at DH Repair in Laramie) we found out that the connector on the trailer was bad; plus the wiring had been messed up at some point.

We knew that the trailer would need work. (We got a great deal on a 20 year old trailer...there are gonna be issues.) We didn't think that getting it out of town would be one of them. We decided against driving a large, heavy object 75 miles home without breaks or lights. So, it sits in Laramie until the nice man at the repair shop can fix it. We're not in a hurry.