And we keep working and working and ...

Apparently when people renovate their trailers they also give them names.

I suggested to King we paint "Love Shack" on the back of our trailer. He didn't go for it. "How about Carmen," I suggested. King was watching COPS and gave me a sideways glance that said, "You must be some kind of crazy," but all he said was, "We are not going to name the trailer."

Ok. I can live with calling it "The Trailer." I may even paint "The Trailer" on the back somewhere, inconspicuously, of course, right next to the rainbow colored peace symbol.

This week we got the floors repaired and fixed the gaping space in the back where the side seam meets the back seam. I have to admit, I was pretty proud of our work. King is not a carpenter. The work involved taxed his talents. But it looks pretty good. I just have to learn to leave him alone when he is working on projects. While my father preferred we stand around waiting for him to ask for a hammer or nails, King wants to be left alone. If I hide in the house it suits him just fine.

Anyway, King fixed the structure part of the trailer and it was my job to seal the seam.

After watching countless YouTube videos on how to seal seams I chose to follow one that I thought I might be able to imitate. It required the purchase of a special tape that joins the two sides of the trailer, forming a watertight seam which is then closed with a regular trailer seal. I ordered the tape a few weeks ago

King wanted to know why I ordered the tape long before we needed it. He makes me crazy that way.

"Because I will have it on hand when we need it," I told him. I received another eye roll and sideways glance for my effort. But today, when he decided the seam was ready to be sealed I had the equipment I needed to do it. Who is rolling their eyes now?

This is the finished seal (waiting for the butyl tape) on the back of the trailer. The gaping seam was so bad I never took a "before" photo for fear someone would say, "What were  you thinking when you bought this thing." Oh, wait. Someone did.

This is the front of the trailer that still needs to have the seam repaired. It was the lesser of the repair work needed.

I am also making him crazy looking for a floor covering.

"We are weeks away from that point," King argued. "We need to do the wiring, we need to fix the front seams, we need to get new tires, we need to insulate, THEN we can worry about paint and floors."

Fine. I get it. But I'm ready to get to the fun stuff now. Can't hurt to look.

In the meantime, the gardens still need to be tended. This is the first year I put down shade cloth in the garden. I still have to weed every week, but it is not nearly so time consuming.

Our tomato/green bean/broccoli garden.

Several years ago the gentleman we work for on the hobby farm ordered several cases of lilies. We planted and planted and planted and we still had several boxes of bulbs leftover. In desperation,  I finally planted a bunch around the perimeter of the tomato garden. They have been going strong for years now.