Small Camping Trailers

HURRICANE KATRINA VOLUNTEERS THANK YOU AMERICA, FROM SOUTH MISSISSIPPI WE Could Not Of Made It Without YOU!? Thank you to all the volunteers from all over the United States who are helping us recover from Hurricane Katrina. We ourselves on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, with the loving help of total strangers are almost back. We could not of made it without your help! Many of our neighbors though are still living in FEMA camping trailers near concrete slabs that once were their homes, one year after the storm! Volunteers from all over our United States have helped us, taking vacation from work, students used their vacations from school to help. It has been a wonderful experience to see people of all Races and States working together as one team. Again if you have helped in any way thank you! If you can help check around with your church groups they are the real leaders down here. THANK YOU A. P. Shoemaker I am among one of the fortunate ones in that I live in Gautier Mississippi on higher ground, on the Gulf, where though extensively damaged, was not totally demolished as the beach front homes in Pascagoula, Gautier, Ocean Springs, Biloxi, Gulfport, Long Beach, Pass Christian, Waveland, and all the Mississippi communities Westward. While New Orleans has received all the national Media attention from flooding, they are actually below sea level in many areas and on routine rains must pump out the water! Along the Miss. coastal areas, my home is 21 feet above sea level and received a foot and a half of water but the other areas to the west of me got a 35 foot surge that demolished everything! New Orleans was a tragedy, we are not in competion, but it was simply flooded, it received little wind damage period! The people of Mississippi's homes far inland were blown away, and they too, like the coast are living in FEMA camper trailers, or have moved into family or friends homes. AILINE I APOLOGISE BUT THERE WAS NO OTHER FORUM FOR ME TO EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION TO SUCH A VAST NUMBER OF PEOPLE. I AM SORRY IF I OFFENDED YOU. I HAVE ONLY ASKED 3 QUESTIONS THIS BEING ONE OF THEM AND I AM AT LEVEL 3. FIGURED I COULD SPEND A FEW POINTS TO SHOW MY THANKFULNESS TO ALL THE VOLUNTEERS, THAT I THANK CAME TO OUR AID! APS

Found a stray cat , appeared to have been nursing but may have lost kittens? We have a camping trailer at a campground in a very rural part of Western Pa. This female cat started coming around last week and I fed her. She was very friendly and let me touch her. I could see her nipples sagging a bit and when I touched her they felt a little swollen. Worried that she may still have live kittens, we left food out for her on Monday when we left our camp. (The campground is closing for the season and there wsa basically no else around that where she could maybe get some food.) Sunday, I returned to the camp and the cat came back. I was able to get her in the carrier and brought her home. Her nipples seemed much fuller so I assumed that she was engorged and that the kittens must have died or she abandoned them. Now I am second guessing myself and considering driving 2 hrs back to camp to release her and see if I can follow her and find the babies. I don't know if they would have survived the night since it has been so cold. Just wondering what you all think. I am leaning towards the idea that the kittens ae dead and thus she was engorged. I couldn't bear the though of leaving the mother cat knowing that there were no other campers around that may feed her. My thoughts are that if she recently abandoned them or they died she would be engorged but if they had been nursing still, her nipples would not be so full as they were yesterday when I caught her. Should I bring her back to the camp and see what I can find, I am seriously thinking of going tonight because if they are alive somewhere , they can't survive for long without her. My hubby says the cat will be fine, she's made it this far but I can tell she is still a kitten herself. I would guess less than a year old. I am going crazy with worry that I may have inadvertently killed the babies while trying to save the mother. What do you think? I forgot to add that she does not act distressed or sad. I remember when I was growing up our cat lost all her babies and she was miserable, wandering around meowing etc. If she was still actively nursing, why would she be so engorged. (I speak from my own nursing experience. LOL) I do want to go back but I cant go every few days to check on them. Other problem is that the campground is huge and there are fences in places I have seen her. I don't think I am in shape enough to be climbing over them in the dark all by myself. I feel so awful! I was just trying to do the right thing!

title and registration? i recently purchased a 1989 jayco travel trailer in florida. the trailer belonged to a construction crew from out of state. they gave it to an employee of the kao camp ground. the employee in-turn sold it to me. i have no title or vin number. there is no hidden vin on models 1992 and older. the trailer weighs over 2000lbs so it has to be inspected if i try and register as home made. can anyone give me direction on how i might obtain a title for my camper? i know i shouldn't have bought it without the title but i was under the impression i could register it as a homemade trailer without a title.

Question about Storing Canned Food? I went camping and brought along numerous cans of food. Beans, fruits, chili, veggies and glass jars of spaghetti sauce. When we returned home I failed to unload all the cans of food and they sat in out trailer for a week in heat upwards of 100 degrees or so. My question: Are they still safe to eat? Is there a cutoff point where heat makes canned food/jars of food unsafe to eat? I never thought of it before until a neighbor lady mentioned something about it possibly being unsafe to eat now. Is she a nut who made me become a paranoid loon, or is there validity to this? Thanks

Can anyone interpret this dream for me? yes... i just woke up about 10 minutes ago... i had a dream that i had this friend or co-worker or somebody i knew that had a baby and a new boyfriend.... and a jealous ex boyfriend bent on revenge.. well, apparently the ex was so dangerous that me, the girl, her baby & new bf had to be protected by the F.B.I, and they had us camped out on the side of some mountain in some temporary trailer. Well, the F.B.I decided to leave the property to go get some sleep themselves at home... even though they're not supposed to do that? So the ex found his way to where we were... my friend had been explaining earlier how he was a serial killer that had yet to be captured, and that he killed all of his ex-girlfriend's and anyone that was with them. She told us that by the police reports of past crime scenes, his favorite method of killing was to boil someone alive, or more specifically dogs, small animals, or even babies... he had boiled a baby before... anyway, we were interrupted by some loud crashing around outside, so i somehow escaped to the roof, and saw all around the perimeter of the trailer some kind of liquid glistening in the moonlight.... and of course, i was sure it was gasoline and that the ex was going to try to burn the trailer down... with everyone inside.... i didn't know where he went as i sat perched on the rooftop, so i jumped off the roof and made my way into the shadows to see what was going to happen next. From where i was sitting in the shadows of the tree i was by, i saw the man go in, and the baby started to cry loud.... the woman was screaming... and before i knew it, i heard this horrible, almost inhuman sound coming from inside... and i knew it was the baby being boiled alive.... then i heard two shots ring out..... he had shot and killed the girl and her new boyfriend... then he went to a window where i could still see him, opened the window, lit a match, and threw it out onto the line of gasoline... the whole thing went up in an inferno... and from where i was sitting, i saw him sit back down, light a cigarette with a match, and kick back in a recliner that had been sitting there.... and then the dream ended.... i assume, anyway, that he killed everyone including himself by immolation.

I just want to know what everyone thinks about my essay? Grandpa’s Call to the West My family has seen many miracles, this is one of the greatest. My grandpa, who is a preacher, grandma, and their six kids lived in Hillsville, Virginia. In 1975, grandpa had a call to move west. After telling the family about this call, Grandma looked at him and said, “Do you expect me to believe that?” Grandpa told her to go ahead and start packing anyway. He decided to auction off their land and everything they owned. With some of the money, he bought a 1972 one-ton ford pick-up with an aluminum bed. He fixed the bed of the truck like a living room and that’s where all six kids rode. They packed everything in their station wagon and pulled it with the truck he had just bought. With no air condition, the ride out was very uncomfortable. Over 2,000 miles later they finally arrived at a camp ground in Phoenix, Arizona. They stayed there in a tent while grandpa searched for land and a place to live. After looking around for a while, he soon realized that things weren’t so cheap out west. For a roach infested shack it ranged from $400-$500 a month. Grandma, finally fed up with everything, wanted to move back to Virginia before they all ended up dead. They didn’t have enough money to make it back to Virginia so they stopped in Tucson, Arizona. After staying there a while he decided to try and find some way back to Virginia. He barley made it two miles out of Tucson when a voice spoke to him and as plan as day told him to pull the truck off onto the median and unhook the station wagon. Then they were to get the kids and drive back up the road till they found a man on the right hand side of the road and he would tell them what to do next. After driving a short time he noticed a post office with a driveway made of smooth, polished stone. It was so pretty he thought he wasn’t suppose to drive on it. In the yard there was a 60 foot oak tree which was very rare to be in a desert. Standing in the parking lot was a man with his foot propped up on his truck. Grandpa told him he was looking for a good place to live. He said “Go down the road about 35 miles and you’ll see a sign that says Fort Wachuka in Seira Vista Arizona.” When they found the town, they saw a sign for a trailer sale. They pulled in and a women came running out. Grandma got out of the car and smiled and said this feels just like home! She praised God and said it feels like I’ve lived here my whole life. The women outside came and told grandpa to come in the office and make his self at home. She picked up the phone and begin dialing a number and started talking to a man telling him she had a family down here needing a place to live. The man told her he had a double wide trailer. Grandpa told the women he didn’t have enough money for a trailer. She insisted that they went and looked at the trailer. After looking at the trailer the man told grandpa that he could have it for $150 a month and it would be ready in 30 days. Grandpa told the man there’s no way that a trailer could be that cheap and the man said well you can sure have it for that. They stayed in a tent for 30 days while waiting for the trailer to be ready. Grandma was finally happy and wanted to go back and thank the man at the post office. She also wanted to see the huge oak tree again so she could take a picture. They got back to where the post office should have been and there was only a curb and some sage brush. They went to the nearest gas station and grandpa asked them where that post office went. The clerk looked at him like he was crazy and said there was never a post office there. Grandpa told the man he knew there was a post office him and his wife were just there the other day. The man told him that he was over heated and the best thing he could do is find some where to cool off. They drove back there every month for a year and never found it. They always felt the Spirit of God there every time they went. All of this was part of a prophecy back in Virginia. A women told him “You’ll move far away and when you get there you will build a church.” He was told he would never find a job out west because there wasn’t much work back in 1975. He drove to a fort where they were building 100 houses. They only had six of them under roof. Grandpa asked who was going to do the sheetrock in the houses. The man told him they were looking for someone to do it. He took the job. With the money he made from the houses he bought a double wide trailer with 12 acres of land. He built a church and most of the materials were donated to him. He found two young solders to help him build it. Grandpa and Grandpa continued to pray that they would find the man from the post office. He was heading to work one day and looked on a bill board and noticed it was the same man propped up on the same truck with the same clothes as the day he saw him. God had answered his prayer and grandpa found out he had talked to an angel. Thanks satans angel I over looked alot of this lol but this is a true story about my grandpa belive it or not =p lol

Is It Bad That I Get REALLY Sad When Thinking Of Good Memories? whenever i think about good memories or anything like that i get very sad. it's like i'm depressed but it lasts for a max of an hour or two, but sometimes it only lasts for 10 minutes. but when it's happening i feel terrible, i don't have suicidal thoughts but it's still horrible for me to go through when it's happening. i can think of almost any good memories i have. examples, btw i have a girlfriend who lives an hour away and i see her normally once a week. today, yeah just today, about 6 hours ago is when i left, i was at the CNE with my girlfriend. it's like a huge fair in canada. i was there with her and 2 friends. i hadn't seen her for 3 or 4 weeks before that because of family issues with me.. i'm not very close to anyone except my granfather, btw. i think of today, i feel terrible and i actually cry because i may not see her as much when school starts. 4 weeks ago i spent a week with my girlfriend at my trailer. okay you have to understand that i was actually depressed for 3 months until i started dating her in june, so she pretty much made my summer. if it weren't for her i don't even know where i'd be right now. anyway, yeah i spent a week with her at my trailer and it was the best part of my summer. thinking about this doesn't make me cry.. in some way i'd say it's further, i don't even cry i just feel terrible that it's gone and that we'll probably never do something like that again. in may for school we got to go to a camp for 2 nights. to be honest i went to this same place 2 years before and back then i was tiny and paranoid of everything, and i got beat up and made fun of etc. i also wasn't sure if i'd be okay, because i'm a very picky eater but i eat a lot at home, and whenever i'm nervous i get sick very easily. it took 2 months but my teachers convinced me to go, and it was the best part of my whole 10 years at that school (i just finished grade 8) and now that i'm going into high school i know that we're not going to be doing stuff like that for fun anymore, and that something like that won't happen again. it makes me feel real bad.. there's other things but that's the main ones. i'm sorry about how much i wrote, i just wanted to get stuff out there to find anything out i can do to help, if i can.

Why do people always think it wrong when a child wishes to move out at age seventeen? To many times, you find many "responsible adults" who complain about children wishing to leave home at the age of seventeen. These "responsible adults" then go into reasoning's why it's bad for children to move out at seventeen. Then they turn around to say when that child is eighteen, they can move out and do whatever they wish. How much does one mature from seventeen to eighteen? I was looking at an old petition of the "Missouri 17 Law" when I read this incredible piece of literature, "if you are going to the word law to discribe what i read here start cussing. after seeing the news about a baby being left in a car by doctors and dieing. some moron total dip wants to impose more laws and fines on them. knowing that they are responseable parents they have patients waiting and a job to do. they probably stayed up all night after a long day with the baby accidents happen and i'm sure no one feels worse than they do. we don't need any more laws, we need compasion and common sense .when kids turn a certain age and they think they can run over you and your life and that three letter cuss word comes up. thats just obserd. we have people diening in a a war, and we give billions to other countries who hate our everloving guts. why don't we spend some of our dollars doing whats right. like for instants . if a kid thinks they are all that put them ina work camp for free ya know government paid by us boot camp, millitary, something besides passing the buck on people who are tring to be responseable and right. screwing them over and all the childeren to follow allowing our next generation to be freeloading idiots who can't fin for themselves. we are raising a generation of low life with no common sense or intelligents because the law sucks. if kids run away they should be on there own, they made the choice. they should have to live with it no matter what happens. because with out no consequenses neither the law or parents have any athority. you just exist like a door matt. all children who run away should be returned to face the music the parents shouldn't be punished for making the kid go to school and be clean and responseable. harboring a runaway should have penalty. but if you want to keep a runaway you should accept and be liable for the kid. and all it's many problems that go with it. if your going to let a teen age kid move in and screw your daughter you should be responseable not anyone else. my wifes boy decided to quit school do drugs,steal, lie,and start a smoking habit. the woman who owns the girl he now has sex with since he was 15. buys him and all the other kids in the house cigarettes. and now since his sister seen that she decided she would rather live ina dumpy trailer with 3or 4 other kids that clean her room or help arround the house opened the window and took her makeup and she now r esides ther too , the woman can't afford all the kids show she want's us to give up custody, now what kinda crap is that,. 17 law ---- word." http://www.thepetitionsite.com/signatures/554547143?page=5&ltl=1249521187 Signature 234 Now for my take on this: It doesn't say how old this adult is. But they are old enough to worry about their seventeen year old moving out. Now, if this was my parent, I would be utterly ashamed. This happens to be one of the "responsible adults" who complain about the ability of a child to move out at seventeen. Now, if this person wants their children to listen to how they are irresponsible and need to stay in their home with their parent, maybe the parents should have stayed in school longer than their sophomore year. I see this time and time again in which a parent who says their child is irresponsible cannot spell "irresponsible". These adults say that this new generation is "out of control", think about who raised this new generation. You hear parents say, "If I would have spoken to my mother like you speak to me, I would have had my face slapped." Well, dear parents, learn to discipline your children. Taking away their cellphone or computer isn't going to do it. So my question to all of you is: Why is it that children are so often criticized when they wish to move out at the age of seventeen when a large majority of them have a stronger mental capacity than their parents do?

Jimmy's letter from camp? Dear Mom & Dad, Our Scoutmaster told us to write to our parents in case you saw the flood on TV and are worried. We are okay. Only one of our tents and 2 sleeping bags got washed away. Luckily, none of us got drowned because we were all up on the mountain looking for Adam when it happened. Oh yes, please call Adam's mother and tell her he is okay. He can't write because of the cast. I got to ride in one of the search and rescue jeeps. It was neat. We never would have found Adam in the dark if it hadn't been for the lightning. Scoutmaster Keith got mad at Adam for going on a hike alone without telling anyone. Adam said he did tell him, but it was during the fire so he probably didn't hear him. Did you know that if you put gas on a fire, the gas will blow up? The wet wood didn't burn, but one of the tents did and also some of our clothes. Matthew is going to look weird until his hair grows back. We will be home on Saturday if Scoutmaster Keith gets the bus fixed. It wasn't his fault about the wreck. The brakes worked okay when we left. Scoutmaster Keith said that with a bus that old you have to expect something to break down; that's probably why he can't get insurance. We think it's a neat bus. He doesn't care if we get it dirty and if it's hot, sometimes he lets us ride on the fenders. It gets pretty hot with 45 people in a bus made for 24. He let us take turns riding in the trailer until the highway patrol man stopped and talked to us. Scoutmaster Keith is a neat guy. Don't worry, he is a good driver. In fact, he is teaching Jessie how to drive on the mountain roads where there isn't any cops. All we ever see up there are logging trucks. This morning all of the guys were diving off the rocks and swimming out to the rapids. Scoutmaster Keith wouldn't let me because I can't swim, and Adam was afraid he would sink because of his cast, it's concrete because we didn't have any plaster, so he let us take the canoe out. It was great. You can still see some of the trees under the water from the flood. Scoutmaster Keith isn't crabby like some scoutmasters. He didn't even get mad about the life jackets. He has to spend a lot of time working on the bus so we are trying not to cause him any trouble. Guess what? We have all passed our first aid merit badges. When Andrew dived into the lake and cut his arm, we got to see how a tourniquet works. Steven and I threw up, but Scoutmaster Keith said it probably was just food poisoning from the leftover chicken. He said they got sick that way with food they ate in prison. I'm so glad he got out and became our scoutmaster. He said he sure figured out how to get things done better while he was doing his time. By the way, what is a pedal-file? I have to go now. We are going to town to mail our letters & buy some more beer and ammo. Don't worry about anything. We are fine and tonight it's my turn to sleep in the Scoutmaster's tent. Love, Jimmie

What's wrong with my resume? Why can't I get a job? WORK EXPERIENCE: August 2009-September 2009: Customer Service; PG College Bookstore; Largo, MD Assisted customers by providing them with items needed such as book, equipment, supplies, and uniforms. Filled out the necessary paperwork to complete sales; advised customers about the process for using financial aid, grants, and other sources to purchase items. Also answered telephones and responded to customer inquiries. August 2009: Volunteer; Stone Soul Picnic; Washington, DC I provided full accommodation and support to the artists according to regulations; event calendar management, made transportation arrangements. I also provided artists with food, beverages, and other items at their request. Organized and prepared trailers to accommodate the celebrities and radio station employees from WKYS 93.9. March 2008-November 2008: Teller; Bank of America, Clinton, MD I processed transactions accurately and efficiently in accordance with established policies and procedures. Identified customer needs and refer financial products and services to consumer and small business customers. Act as Bank of Americas face to the customer and consistently seek to delight our customers by demonstrating The Bank of America Spirit. Ensured regulatory requirements, such as Anti-Money Laundering and Bank Secrecy Act are adhered to. Contributed to a positive team environment in the banking center through 360-degree coaching. August 2007-January 2008: Sales Associate; Sears; Clinton, MD Assisted customers by providing knowledge and expertise on electronic devices; sold merchandise; filled out necessary paperwork to complete sales; advised customers about the process for applying and opening accounts with the company. July 2005-August 2005: Clerical Assistant; US EPA; Arlington, VA Xeroxed, answered phones, delivered documents, light typing on the computer is MS Word format. During PG County public school holidays 2004-2005: Clerical Assistant; US EPA; Arlington, VA Performed filing duties; organized and sorted budget files in numerical/sequential order and placed in the appropriate folders by branch/division created by execution personnel; typed labels; xeroxed documents as requested; deliver to in-boxes; received phone inquiries and forwarded calls to the appropriate budget execution team member; scheduled meetings for the team. June 2002-August 2002: Camp Assistant; Hillcrest Heights Community Center; Temple Hills, MD Assisted camp leaders with children activities (cheerleading, dance routines, arts and crafts); helped camp leaders keep track of children on field trips; helped serve meals. June 2003-August 2003: Childcare Assistant; Woodyard Road Nursery; Clinton, MD Assisted day care workers with daily activities for kids; attended field trips with workers; helped supervise young children; taught basic elementary skills (reading, writing, counting, colors). As needed (8 hour days): Sonja Winfrey’s residence; Private Home Clinton, MD Provide childcare services for one toddler and a 5 year old; feed kids on schedule; prepare breakfast, lunch and afternoon snacks; read stories; assist with potty training; teach nursery rhymes; take kids for daily walks, play and exercise; provide entertaining movies; schedule nap times. As needed (2-3 times per week 4 hours minimum): Cowherd Residence; Private Home Capital Heights, MD Provide childcare services for 3 children; feed kids on schedule; prepare breakfast, lunch and afternoon snacks; read stories; play games; take kids for daily walks, play and exercise. SKILLS: Computers Typing Internet Wordperfect Microsoft Word Create Web Pages on Black Planet OTHER ACTIVITIES/INTERESTS: Surrattsville High School - MD-942 AFJROTC - Non-Commissioned Officer Academy (NCO) - April 2004 - Honor Guard (August 2004-June 2005) - National Drill Competitions - Cadet Officer Leadership Program (July 30-August 5, 2005) - Gospel Choir - R&B Band EDUCATION: High School Graduate Surrattsville High School 05/30/2007 REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST DESCRIPTION OF OTHER ACTIVITIES Non-Commissioned Officer Academy (NCOA) - April 2004 I developed leadership and life skills, by performing military tasks in group activities. I learned USA ROTC standards for living and performed physical. I learned public speaking and team work by using my teammates to complete obstacle courses. For more information contact Chief Black at Surrattsville High School. Honor Guard (August 2004-June 2005) - National Drill Competitions I participated in drill competitions along the east coast. I learned organization skills by being in put charge of organizing the AFJROTC HONOR GUARD uniform as well as the standard ROTC uniform. I learned public speaking and team work. For more information contact Chief Black at Surrattsville High School. Surrattsville High School R&B

home made trailer title? someone is offering me a free trailer. one catch. it will need to have a request for an abandoned trailer title. my friend told me i can modify the trailer, take off the old serial number plate and have it registered as a home made trailer. can i do this? is a large 17foot gutted camper.

1965 Santa Fe Trailer hitch is 3" too low for my 2001 Ranger ball on the bumper? I have a 2001 ford ranger 4cyl, 5sp standard bed, and just picked up a 12ft (looks smaller) 1965 Santa Fe camp trailer. I towed it home no problem, but the trailer hitch is too low, and makes the rear end of the trailer visibly hang down. is this a bad way to tow it? Is there some way to mount a lower ball on the "step bumper" of my 2001 ranger? I went to Walmart and they had some 2 1/2 inch "drop down" parts, but the "bolt hole" in those are horizontal, ie, that part would not hook to my bumper where the current ball is....any ideas please?

Home Owners Associations and covenants? In our subdivision each person was given a copy of the covenants when they purchased their home. Once the builder completed the subdivision the home owners decided not to form a home owners association. Before the home owners came to this decision we did have a lawyer come and talk to us about forming a home owners association. He did mention that even if you don't have a HO association any home owner in the subdivision can enforce the covenants against another home owner if they wish do so. Is this correct ? For example. My neighbor parks his camper trailer in his back yard and our covenants state that it must be parked inside their garage. Can I make my neighbor move the camper to his garage base on the covenants for our subdivision even if we don't have a HOA ?

How can you make an electric generator? I own 5 acres of property. Other then my gas generator, I don't have electricity on it. I have a travel trailer on it with an electric fridge and I love camping there. In Home Depot, I have seen a converter that you hook up to your car battery and I have also seen what appears to be an electric generator. I asked someone at Home Depot how long the "electric generator" would run a small fridge. He told me it wouldn't be a long time, but suggested using a marine battery with a converer. I am thinking I could purchase several batteries, a converter and a battery charger. Does that sound like somethink that might work? I do have a 5000 watt gas generator on my property. I just don't want to have to run it all the time if I am camping for several days or a week at a time. We all know the prices of gas these days.

Thinking of moving Family into Travel Trailer, crazy? My hubby and I have a 5 year old and one on the way. We are selling our home and are thinking of purchasing a trailer (not a brand new one, maybe 10 yrs old) to live in for about a year rather than wasting money on rent. It may be an adventure...Has anyone ever done this? Where do you park? I'm thinking a travel trailer, not a motor home. It obviously has to be pretty big for our family with a somewhat full size kitchen. Am I crazy? Will it be like camping for a year? Help, am I making a mistake???

Need Opinions-Thinking of moving family into Travel Trailer? My hubby and I have a 5 year old and one on the way. We are selling our home and are thinking of purchasing a trailer (not a brand new one, maybe 10 yrs old) to live in for about a year rather than wasting money on rent. It may be an adventure...Has anyone ever done this? Where do you park? I'm thinking a travel trailer, not a motor home. It obviously has to be pretty big for our family with a somewhat full size kitchen. Am I crazy? Will it be like camping for a year? Help, am I making a mistake???

does anyone know of a horse trailer/RV thing instead of a truck and trailer? i saw one once at a horse show. someone took a regular RV and cut the entire back off of it and made it into a fold down ramp so their horses could walk up into the back of it. they had a short wall about half way through the camper where one side was for the horses and the other side was the small living quarters with a kitchen/bathroom/bed. does anyone know if i can buy one of these so i don't have to drive a truck pulling a trailer? and if they do make them what are they called? i'll need it for bringing my horses to the parelli and john lyons clinics in colorado and i'll be living out of it for around two years so i need a bed, bathroom with a shower, and a small kitchen for me and two stalls, a place to store hay bales for along the way. i'm doing this instead of going to college which would cost $200,000 for a degree in equine sciences from UNH so i would not like to spend more than that for the clinics and trailer thing. if that trailer thing at the show was just a home project and no one sells them, does anyone know of a good combination of a 2 horse trailer with living quarters and truck that can go from mass to colorado? if anyone can help i would really appreciate it. thanks!!

we have a 2005 chevy turbo duramax diesel with alicen tran.3500 ? we just bought a copper canyon (sprinter) 27 ft camper trailer. we were bringing it home ( 20 miles) about half way home the truck started acting like it really didnt want to pull it very easily.. Tran. got a little warm 200 and when putting from park to drive it made a clanking noise. Tow haul was engaged. anyone have any guess why the 1 ton pick up was having trouble pulling it? ok just read about the trany and it seems that the clanking is sorta normal but why doesnt it pull well. any suggestions would be helpful

Have a 2005 chevy duramax diesel with alicen tran.3500 ? why? we just bought a copper canyon (sprinter) 27 ft camper trailer. we were bringing it home ( 20 miles) about half way home the truck started acting like it really didnt want to pull it very easily.. Tran. got a little warm 200 and when putting from park to drive it made a clanking noise. Tow haul was engaged. anyone have any guess why the 1 ton pick up was having trouble pulling it?

Bringing My horses home? I asked a question about supplements earlier, and stated that I am starting to plan thing so I can hopefully bring my horses home soon. They are good buddies and will be together, so I don't need any tips about companionship. What tips/advice do you have? I would be going from 22+ acres of trails, a big pasture with 20 other horses, indoor and outdoor arenas and all my barn friends, to a small (10 acres) hobby farm. I will be able to trailer back to the barn for lessons, camps, shows and just to ride with my friends. It will be really hard to move, but we would be doing it because the board fee is outrageous. I am aware of all the expenses, like hay and grain and vet bills and such, and have calculated everything. (We'd be saving almost $4000 a year...) How can I make the transition easier and what tips do you have? When I bring the horses back for lessons I would bring them both back. I usually have two lessons in a row, or my cousin rides one of them, or I ride one after a lesson.

can someone tell me where to find an add selling little trailers about 12x 28 or longer, portable apartments? i dont know what they are called but they are made up like an apartment, its not a camper or a big mobile home .and they can be used as an office i want to get one for my daughter to live in on my land till she gets a home

I've got a hard decision to make. help? I will try to make a long story short. But you need some details though... we've lived in this camper before we got this place we are in now. It was hell and we were so grateful to escape. So, we HAD a nice place to live and everything is going fine when all of a sudden my fiance gets laid off work (i have a medical condition so i don't work in public, and can't seem to find a decent work at home job that isn't a scam.). Now, we are not able to pay the rent at the end of the month so we have to leave. Our only option is to live in this 15' camper trailer that his dad has The problem is, the only place to put it is on his dads property next to his cousins house. His cousin does not want us there because he is scared we will 'snitch' on him for his illegal drug use and trafficking. (i hate the guy and he hates me) I do not want to live there because #1 cmon, a 15 foot long camper? [This is not ours, but it looks similar http://www.dougandjack.com/trailer.jpg ] #2 His brother is the most idiotic, condescending, conceited asshole on the face of the planet. And we would have to do our laundry at his house. #3 One day someone is going to open their mouths and he is going to get busted for all that drug sh i t. Then, we will not have a place to live. [ The county I live in, supposedly it's illegal to live in a camper trailer, because it is unsafe living conditions. A camper trailer is for camping trips lasting maybe a week. Not intended for everyday living. SO, when the cops come we will have to leave.] #4 The unsafe living conditions: Carbon monoxide exposure DAILY. the hot water heater emits a lot of it (we HAD a CO detector but someone stole it) There is a propane leak There is a water leak The shower floor has cracks in it and the bathroom/shower is tiny. There is no oven So i am debating whether or no i should live under a bridge or just run away forever. Don't get me wrong, i love my fiance, but he keeps defending his dad and his cousin. [OK, so his dad keeps being an asshole because i don't have a job. He is mad at my fiance and wants him to get rid of me. We've tried to tell him about my condition but he thinks i am faking it. God i can't BELIEVE this guy...] I'm going crazy and i need some kind of help. I talk to my fiance he says 'we have no choice...' i think that's bullshit. there has to be another way,. Yes, this is a desperate cry for help if anyone has any advice or resources. I'm in Texas. We're already on food stamps and the local churches are exhausted of funds because of all the other people who are in the same boat we are. ....Plus there is a 2 year waiting list. there are so many people with my same problem that got there before i did. I couldn't possibly tell you what it's like to be me and live through the SH IT i have to live through. I have had jobs before, i'm not a deadbeat, i just need help. Are you 18 or older? Yes. Why are you living this way? Because i have looked for a solution. all solutions require money. Where are YOUR parents? Other family? My mother made bad descisions when she was young and she has been in jail on and off since 1987, 3 years after i was born. God, what a scam: what scam? did i ask for anything besides a suggestion? I didn't ask for money, or food, or a money order. God stop over analyzing sh it before you know the truth. You should really retire from yahoo answers if you are going to be like this. i read the first answerer, and thank you for answering without being a smartass. as for the 2nd answerer it was a CO detector that WE bought and put in there. it is a 78 model camper. I never said we couldn't afford food. he JUST got laid off and the unemployment doesn't begin till towards the end of the month. we wont have the money in time. the internet is paid till the end of the month, same for the other bill except electric which is due the 30th. Please God you don't have any children!: no, i am not that stupid. I wouldn't put my body through that nor put myself through having to work 2 jobs to support ungrateful kids. What medical condition could you possibly have that keeps you from working in public? :i have an anxiety disorder, depression and mental issues. I need help but we haven't had the $500 down payment that they want to see me and help me. and bit ch I've lived in Texas since i was 6 years old, i am now 24. i have traveled all over the US and one thing i have found is there are silly laws all over the place. ones you wouldn't believe exist. Please take your smart - ass back to school and send your kids to a foster home. They will be much better off. it looks like the 'additional details' are out of order.... i apologize if things seem odd. read the 2nd one first then the 1st one then the 3rd then this one ...lol <3 yahoo answers.

What should I do about landlord problem? my wife and I been renting here for 1 year, and always got along fine with no problems from landlord, he really seemed like a descent guy, until yesterday. I brought home another vehical and planned to junk the one I had in 3 days when i had money to register the new one. My father in law owns a silverado truck, and just purchased a used car for my wife so she could finaly get her liscense and drive. so went from 2 vehicals to 4, and a pop-up camper I made into a utility trailer parked between 2 trees. It's a very large yard in back, and long driveway. anyway neighbor upstairs who was friend of our in HS decided to call landlord when she saw me pull new car in around grass to under Gazebo temporarily, just til I junked the one i was driving. Landlord suddenly shows, and starts going completely off on me yelling, and furious about why I would think its ok to park something between a Gazebo? I told him I couldnt seriously see any harm in it...he swore at me saying I was now being Ignorant, and told me to move it somewhere, anywhere out of that spot. I said no problem, sorry, and I didnt realize it would cause a problem like this. He said I should call him next time I plan to do something like that, because we are only allowed 2 vehicals. I said fine, so next time I need to park something somewhere I will call you, or whatever i needed to do? He then bursted out with rage, and furiously said now you being F*cking sarcastic and now your really starting to PISS ME OFF screaming, and shaking with fury, and rage pointing at me as he went to his truck, slammed the door and left in a hury...so what does anybody else think about this, truthfuly, I want smart opinions please...I was a nervous wreck.

A question about the birth father..? I have already found a loving family for my baby and all my friends and family are so supportive on my decision to give my baby the life it deserves. BUT I have not told the father yet because i have had ZERO contact with him in several months. He could be half way around the world for all i know. anyways when i do find him and tell him, which im definatley going do because he has the right to know, what if he says no were keeping it.. im scared to death this will happen, here are some things about him.. when we dated he worked fast food, made about 400-500$ a month. had no car, he walked everywhere. lived in a camper trailer. has a criminal background. partied,got drunk,smoked alot. relied on pretty much everyone. and most important, he could barley take care of himself. If he didnt have me, idk what he would have done. and he wasnt like this when we first started dating, this happened at the end, and i couldnt take how he used me for transportation and money it made me so angry, so i broke up with him. Right after he went crazy and thretened to kill himself and more than once. And ever since hes hated my guts for breaking his heart and on and on and on... SO im pretty sure if I told him he wouldnt sign the papers. thing is I would NEVER let a guy like him parent my kid NEVER. I want my baby to have the happiest life it can have and even though he is the father, he is no man, and I never even want to see his face again. How would he take my baby to doctor appointments, if he wanted to be the father he would have to do that on his own because im not going to get back with him just because we had a child, so on the weekends he had the baby he would have to take care of it in his home, and i really dont want my baby on some trailer park every other weekend, its very unsanitary and gahhhhh.. i just dont know what to do, it stresses me out thinking about what hes going to do and say.. has anyone ever been through a situation like this? or know of anyone. All i can say is i want the best for my baby, i know the parents i chose are going to raise this kid like its their own and love him/her to death. im so certain on this decision and it would break mine and their hearts if the outcome changes because of him. Uhm i said clearly im going to make sure he KNOWS no matter how hard it is for me to get ahold of him, so its not like im keeping this a secret and just giving it away. AND i said he was like this at the end of our relationship, meaning i got pregnant before he completley went insane. also I never want my child to live with someone like him, my baby would probably get mistreated and die, hes a terrible person and you guys arnt getting were im coming from. im not trying to be a b**ch and get rid of my kid and not let him father him/her.. im doing whats best for my baby, this is probably the hardest thing i will EVER have to do in my entire life, but what would be harder is to see my kid be with a complete A** hole, looser who can barley afford to pay rent. he would only use this as revenge for me breaking up with him.. If he wants to have an open adoption with this baby that completly fine, but him raising it for all the wrong reasons is not ok. I want my baby to be safe.

Moving to Vegas. How cold does it get in the winter? What about pollution? We also want to know about recreation. Are there places to camp in the summer? How hot does it get in the summer? And what neighborhoods are good to live in. We want an older house with a yard for the dog and plenty of parking for 2 vehicles, 1 5th wheel trailer and a couple of motorcycles. But we don't want to pay alot. Can't afford to til we get settled. Will have money from the sale of our home to get settled and put down on a house. Would buy a house if we find the right one. My husband works construction, has 30 plus years experience. Licensed Contractor. I have 30 plus years experience in Customer Service mostly Management. What are our chances of getting good jobs with good pay? We need to make at least 40K together. What are our chances of this? Lot's of questions, but, we want to be sure we are making the right decision. Thanks!! All of these are great answers and I appreciate the input. I can't decide on a best answer. So I will put it to a vote. Thanks All!!!!

Once I was at a bar talking with some guy (I'm a guy)? I was having a couple beers and the next thing I remember I woke up in some camper-trailer on a construction site a couple miles away. The dude was giving me a backrub and saying "it'll be ok it'll be ok" and I bolted out of there and drove home in a blur. I don't remember getting there or being there until what I would describe as "gained consciousness" would it be fair to say this would affect my trust in dealing with people? I'd always been described as shy and ironcally I went to the bar just to try to come out of my shell a little I've been noticing that I feel I can't trust anyone, any guy that will approach me, interact with me, I'll assume is gay off the bat and just brush them off. And no, it wasn't a gay bar, it was a corner "Cheers"type place simply put I'm fairly sure this event ( which happened about 14-15 years ago or so, I was about 24-25 I guess) has had some long lasting effects in terms of my social abilities I tried to see a counselor a while back and can't bring this thing up "counselor" yes not a psych and I can't afford a regualr psychiatrist really...for any long term.. Is there any way to move beyod this event? It really disgusts me and really has had an enormous affect on my social abilities- I stay at home mostly all of the time outside of work- I've let my friendships slide- closed off- haven't made new substantial relationships in years and years really I want to hunt that guy down and shove his eyeballs down his throat, although honestly I'm nit exactly sure what happened but having familiarity with alcohol and drugs (ya ya just trust me) and given the pervasiveness at the time I wild guess I was slipped a 'roofie' but although there were no apparent signs I would guess I came out of it before the dude had any chance to do much, but really I have no idea- since that time I've only had three relationships all of which were I would say a bit disfunctional, some more than others (four relationships if you count alcohol -6 yr sober now) so wth can I do at this point? 'roofie': Rohibnol (spelling?): date rape drug yes weird thing too- this guy didn't seem stereotypically gay- seemed more a working Joe type/redneck/Bruce Springsteen fan (no offense Bruce) type - which was part of the reason I ended up chatting w/him, to get in touch with a "salt of the earth" type- I guess i got an "assault of the earth" type har har :/ Ya I'm not worrying that the events "made me gay" - that's not the way it works and it just ain't the case I'm concerned with the way it has damaged my trust and social issues

Do you ever feel this way? that you don't measure up to others.I feel that way when it comes to $ I have never had enough not to be worried and now I am married it is no different.My hubby sister has everything and we are barely getting by. We all work hard but . Our stove broke and we have to manage the $ so how and she gets a boat . camper new cars and trucks . I get her left over trailer home sofa and etc etc .I am so depressed .I just had a baby 10 weeks ago and am looking for ways to make $$ the plans were for me to be a stay at home mom

Why do some pastor fleece the congregations? Please understand. I love real campmeetings. I Preach them. I support them (real ones). But this is a fact that I notice the young couples with their little families, income and little I.Q. These youngins love JESUS, and will give what they are told, thinking it's the way to make GOD love them, and the moderator to love them. I know. This is my story too. We gave it all; cash and our trailer. We pledged, and redeemed clothes and shoes. We bought ceramic frogs for $100.00 to put money in the camp, and after camp I had to borrow gas money to get home. There were no groceries until next paycheck for my children. I furnished the chicken and double yoke eggs from Tyson Foods for four camps. THIS I noticed! The have-nots attending these campmeetings get taken advantage of, and have to stay in the dorms. They are then fed with the camp food which is not for human consumption (in some camps). The unrecognized preacher dresses shabby and gets the dorm and the dog food. While Doctor Influential gets the Hotels and gift certificates to nice restaurants, and hardly ever comes to morning or afternoon services. These SPECIAL Doctors never sit through those grueling six hour offerings and every scam and con man rip-off offerings raised to support the camp or some moochinery. But look. That little couple who is hungry for GOD is there, FAITHFUL to all services, giving all he has got and the good Doctor is keeping all he has got and getting more. Robin Hood took from the rich to give to the poor. But some of these camps take from the poor and give to the big pastors that play the game with the camp. I say, let's have Campmeeting but let's not discriminate against the haves and have-nots. Now there are some great campmeetings left that are for real, but beware when money is mentioned before each preacher and after each preacher, and have people sit for hours taking offerings and being put on a guilt trip like "hey you slept in this man's bed (dorm) you ate his food" in order to make him give to the camp. These con artists are sorry extortionists that just play a game with the people to make you feel sorry for them. Nobody minds taking offerings but five times a day and between two to six hours Wake Up Brother!! I also would like to report the biggest con job of late is going on in the Independent Baptist Churches promoted by some campmeeting directors and the hireling pastors that ought to be shot for treason. They will bring people in for a "so-called" Revival, but it's really just a fund-raiser for the needs of the "so-called" campmeeting for paving, or air conditioners that are already replaced about every year ( not really replaced; it's just the con for your cash and credit cards), and the dorms need thousands of your dollars also to help people come to the camp, which most Church folks have never been to. But, just so your money gets there. You think television preachers beg for money? Do you remember A. A. Allen? He could learn lessons from this crowd. Now, here's the kicker. Your Pastor will let these charlatans come to his church, and let them take your hard earned money. Why? Why? Why? Here's why: So he can get his fifteen minutes of fame preaching at the campmeeting, while you're working your hard back-breaking job. Wise up man!! So, he is worse than Judas! See, these campmeeting fellas know the pastors hold the keys to the lock box with your money in it. So that little fifteen minutes of fame cost your Church $10,000.00! That way the Pastor can kiss up to the camp - just in case he loses the church. He thinks that he is in with the big boys, and will stay employed. Hey! I see these professional fund-raisers soften up the pastor. They stand him and his wife up, and has the people bring money to the pastor, putting the poor mouth on his congregation that loves him. The people are already strapped with financial debt, and then comes the last hit. HEY, take these envelopes and monthly send this poor camp some money. So, you just use your pointed little head! Just think: they are in Revival fifty weeks a year, raising money at every church, plus monthly pledges. If you estimate about $90,000 from each campmeeting, say three times a year. The place ought to be solid gold! Amen! Amen! Figure the money is in the bank, and the camp will have needs until this world is burnt with fire. You say, "Brother Trask? Could a man that can quote the Bible be misleading People?" I say to you, "Jack Van Impe can quote more than any known man. Is he misleading people?" Come on! Think for yourself! You say, "Brother Trask, you're going to catch it." I say, "Until GOD almighty gets through with me, I cannot be stopped! Let them lie on me or threaten me for exposing the money-changers, and yes, JESUS would drive them out of his house again for extortion( false Pretense)!" You pastors that are involved in this scheme; GOD will hold your stinking hide to accountability for raping your people! You're nothing but a campmeeting pimp to preach for the "so called" big boys for your fifteen minutes of shame. What's so funny is that these guys preach on the SBC, television and pants, but think nothing about lying and out right fraud, all in the name of GOD! You're so carnal that you think that if they quote Scripture they are LEGIT!! Amen! Amen! Finally: Yes, there are some honest campmeetings left that are not beggars, and don't leave churches broke.

Problems with my Father in law? So I have been married for a little over a year. When we got married we moved down the street from my parent in laws and shortly after my sister in law moved in right next door to me. My husband also worked with his father and his father was in charge of the housing that we were renting from. We all went to church together and saw eachother daily!! things were fine for a bit but then my husband and I would have arguments and he would leave for the night and stay at his parents. My problem with them is that while he was there they would prepare his favorite dinner and buy him all his favorite snacks. I would expect that they would say well youve been here for a couple hours its time to go home and make things right..anyways. After this happening so many times I took our two kids ages 5 and 3 months and moved two hours away back to my moms house, he also moved back in with his parents.. We were talking about getting divorced and in the meantime he enrolled in a school in Arizona...we live in Utah. So things went on and one day we decided to work it out we had about a month before he moved to Arizona. I plan on moving down in the next month or so. But what bothers me is that when he moved he took his dads 5th wheel because we will be staying in a KOA and his dad insisted on driving down with him...when I asked I was told no that he didnt want to worry about me or the kids until he got settled in. So they got to the camp spot and got things all set up and his dad told him he did not feel safe with him staying at this camp because it was kinda scary. So him and his dad went out and found a nicer one and his dad said that he will pay the difference that it will cost(about $100) a month. So my huband has been down there for just a little over a week and this coming weekend his father is insisting on going down again to help fix the door on the trailer, which is stupid cause my husband fixes semis and tractors for a living, i think he can fix a door!! He is also going to make sure he gets into the new campground ok....which is only 5 miles away and to being my husband a TV cause his is broke. When he moved he said he thinks it will do our marriage some good because we can only rely on one another, but the way it seems to me is that his father is pushing himself on to my husband and it really annoys me. When I told my husband how I felt he said his dad just wants to be nice and that he dont want to hurt his feelings by telling him not to come, and that I need to not make a big deal out of it. Does anyone have any comments on how to deal or what I could say to my husband to make him see that this may hurt our marriage. Or what I could say to my father in law? I appreciate everything he has done but I need my husband to take care of me and my kids and how can he do that when his dad wont let him grow up.. He is 23 and I am 24 thank you!

What do you think of my first chapter introduction? Honestly, does it fly or sinks like a stone in water? [T stands for the town's name, which is fabricated because I couldn't find the perfect place in the States for the later scenario. This is the introduction to a trilogy. I need to envision a perfect, poor, small town] HONEST CRITICISM ENCOURAGED. thanks :) T is a small town. T, meaning you should shield your eyes when the wind starts collaborating with dust. And they do get a lot of dust, mainly because of the proximity and quantity of roads pulsating around the town like adrenaline-laced jugulars. Ironically, T is such a poor place they choose walking as their main mean of transportation. But the town itself is basically four times the size of a large trailer camp. Not many new houses, two restaurants, plenty of gas stations and bars. The bars have arcades, to allow working fathers to bond with their children where they can observe their highest scores from where they’re sitting, guzzling discounted beer prior to dinner time. The elementary school is near. The closest high school is an hour’s worth of walk; thirty minutes of jog north down the busy road. There is little interest in college edification. The heart of T is a collection of RVs, Class A and B motor homes, Luton bodies, truck campers and static caravans, Datsuns with teardrop trailers, and hybrids. Men in their forties already receiving pension, disabled and big families are on welfare. The phrases like Good Sam Club and slide-toppers are hackneyed and everyday. When the sun reaches the pinnacle of its height people sunbathe like lizards on warm tombstones. Down on rocking benches and white-plastic garden chairs, they socialize with the neighbors while getting a tan. Men rub their brows hunched over the day’s mailbox material, women grab their chests while reading tacky romance novels; young boys practice reading on spaghetti westerns. The smell of poverty is strongest in the morning; mildew, bacon and cheap cigarettes muddle up with gasoline, paint thinner and aerosol. The general mentality is that of coma patients making peace with their fate. Life is good. At least the husbands are employed, the state provides for the needy, the children are healthy, the neighbors are good people and there’s nothing wrong with the weather. No major cities are this positive. Then again, T never had Jackie S teaching the vampire minority politics, or highly intelligent mind readers taking over MENSA. T never was the hot spot of an equal rights movement, and there were no costly boarding schools for exceptional youngsters preferring its scarce landscape over the shores of New England or the Connecticut Appalachians. In New York City nobody even cares looking outside the window to admire the pristine blue sky. They’re far too busy having headaches and eating disorders to enjoy the simplicity of sun in the morning. ... That's it. Did you like it? You get ten points, naturally. I'm no cheapskate. We all want to earn those easy points :)) Sorry if the 'T's throwing you off. I have a really good name, I'm kinda hesitating to reveal it before the book's published and sitting in front of me :D Oh, it's a plain name, anyways. Think what you like. It can be the small town of Tentacles, if you like.

Do skunks have different smells? While camping this past weekend, my dog got sprayed by something. It was in the middle of the night when I took her poddy, as soon as I opened the trailer door she bolted out after what I thought could be a racoon or opossum because of the size and kinda looked brownish in the dark. When I finally caught up to her she had the most vile smell all over her head but it wasn't a skunk smell. It was making me so sick I almost vomited. I had to take her home at 2am, I couldn't deal with smell and luckily the campsite was only 20 minutes from home. The groomer told me positively it was a skunk smell and gave me a concoction to take away the smell. You can still smell it when you smell her head but it's not too bad if your just playing with her. I know some animals have anal glands that can spray stuff when they become frightened or being territorial and didn't know if that was the smell or if it was a skunk??

im going into a killer house! uh? i'm 13 i want to be a spy when i get older y not start now? no but really, i'm at camp right now, and im staying in a trailer as i was walking home i saw a man walking out of MY trailer! i wasnt crazy, because my cousin saw him too. i was a little freaked but wthh i decided to follow him, maybe i could put him in jail, and we found out axacly were he was staying. ANYWAY im not postive if he was a killer lol or a robber, but hes someone who just randomly came out of MY trailer, so im pretty sure it has to be a reason. well ofcourse my granprents dont belive us so me and kaylee (my cuz) are going to go into his house when he leaves tomaro to investgate, hahaah were so rebellious, MY question is, is that a good idea? or should i just call the cops even tho im not SURE of what he did anyway i would call the cops in the first palce my my gram didnt allow me cuz she thinks im making this up..... ugh wrong catagoryyyy again! oops

My boyfriend left me at the campground alone and didnt even say sorry or take responsibilty for his actions? We were camping at the Park and had our children with us which they argue sometimes..He doesn't like it that they do this and so it really bothered him so much that the next morning at 730am he went home with his daughter and never contacted me all day to see if I was ok or that he was sorry that he left or what he did was wrong. I feel he should take responsibility for his actions and make up for what he has done,,It really hurt me and now he keeps saying he loves me but if you love someone why would you do that to them and here I was with my kids alone which I would have been ok but had to figure out how I was getting home with loading up the tent trailer with no one to help me. I just wanted to see what someone else would do if this happened to them... This situation,,,He is divorced and I think his attitude might have had something to do with his wife leaving him. I know that he was leaving because the kids were getting on his nerves but he was thinking of only himself..This happened on Saturday and later part that evening I ended up telling him that if this relationship was important he would come back and he did but its like If I didn't ask him I am not sure if he would or not...Its Wed. and Im still not over what he did to me. All the camping stuff is all mine and he only took what he owned himself. I know he needs to be told that I feel so betrayed but its like he doesn't like talking about this,,So I have been laying low and if he wants this relationship to work he has to work alot harder than he has been to get me to where our relationship was in the beginning...I feel I didn't deserve this at all considering I paid for everything and bought the same things for his daughter like I did for mine.So I m continuing on with my kids

just another question? well over the summer i was put to the Ultimate test. im 17 and i wanted to see how long i could make it living by myself. so i told my parents i want to live at camp for the summer. our camp is not just some shack out in the middle of nowhere actually its not a shack its a 50 foot single wide trailer with a 1,000acres. its got a Generator a water pump to take a shower and use the toilet its got a 50in tv with direct tv small fridge full size stove. i spent 3 months out there. i loved it i went to work got home and had no one to tell me what to do. i couldn't get allot of food since there wasn't power all the time but do i need a 3 coarse meal, no. we had two party's up there and one was the parents brought their friends and i had my friends. the other party we just sat out by the fire.i paid for food, gas yes i even paid the direct tv bill that came in those 3 months. and i paid all the normal stuff that i normally do when im home cell, and insurance. so if i left home right now could i make it in the real world for only being 17. before i even turned 16 i already had 4 grand in my bank account and i bought a 02 400ex with my own money when i was 15. now i have around 13,000 that does not include what i have in my savings for college i love to work and save up money. does anyone else know someone like me cause i have never met a 17 yr old that says he loves work or will save money. my parents tink that if i would leave right know they wouldnt have to worry about me cause i know how to take care of myself

Hows my story so far? ok im writing a story but i only have 2 chapters done.can you tell me what you think of it so far and how i can improve it? Capter 1 Zroom-room-room-room.My dad tried starting the engine of our R.V."We have everything right?"he asked."Yeah i think so."my mom replied.I sighed.Its not that i didnt like car rides or being with my family or being in the R.V for long periods of time.I loved car rides.Once I started riding i dreaded stopping.My family was pretty fun.And the R.V wasnt that bad.But outside of the R.V ... that was a whole diffrent soty.I hated it all.The bugs,the heat, ichy grass, sappy sticky trees, the smell, everything.And unfortuanly me and my family were going to be hicking for a whole week.Thats what i was absoulty dreading."Scooth your bootch."My sister Kayla said interupting my thoughts.I scooted over on the couch."No need to look so grumpy Ruthie"my other sister Alyce said to me."Its just camping.""Oh yeah just being outside wear theres tons of bears and cougars waiting to eat you." I said."T--Th-Theres bears and cougars here."Kayla said."Its ok Kayla if there is well push Ruthie in front of us all."Cheyenne said joking.We laughed.Kayla Cheyenne and Alyce were my beloved sisters.I loved them but they made me feel left out sometimes.They were all cheerleaders and blonde.My oldest sister Alyce was shorter than me.She was in collage becoming a dentist and also cheering for out citys team the Eagles.She had blonde curly hair and wore high heels alot to look taller.My other older sister was Cheyenne.She was taller than me Alyce Kayla and my Mom.She had long blonde hair and she was really pretty.She was in collage too to become a vet.She did modeling on the side.I was easily jealous of her.Any girl was really.My other younger sister was Kayla.She had blonde hair with brown highlites.She was only a year behind me so we were close.Thern there was me.I was the second tallest of us 4.I had really dark brown hair almost black with reddish-pink highlites.I liked how i looked but i felt taboo comapared to my sisters.I yawned.The couch was really comfy.I felt my eyes getting heavier and heavier.Maybe it wouldnt be so bad to take a nap. Chapter 2 I was running through the forest.Something was following me.I could only run so far before my stomach started to cramp.I tried to go faster but I felt like I was running in slow motion.Then i ran up a giant cliff.I ran to the edge and stopped.The beast was still following me.It was running towards me.It looked like a mass of brown and black hair.It reached out towards me and I screamed.THen jumped off the cliff.This is how im gonna die i though.Then i landed on...wait...the floor?I ... opened my eyes. "Ruthie, sweetie, are you ok?"my mom asked."You screamed then feel on the floor." "Yeah yeah.Im fine." I said though I wasnt entirely sure. I stood up and walked back to the couch.We have been driving for three days. "How much longer?"Kayla whined. "Well be there in about an hour."Mom said. I sighed.This is going to be delightful.The hour went by so quickly.We were at the entrance to the park sooner then I though possible.The officer at the entrance gave each of us a map.We were hiking to a waterfall miles away.Joy.We drove to the giant parking lot.There was tons of other R.Vs and cars there.We got our camping gear out. "Can we at least go get a shower before we start walking?" Cheyenne asked. "Fine."Dad muttered."But make it quick.I want to eat lunch here then hit the trails." Me,Kayla,Cheyenne,and Alyce headed to the bathrooms. "These are sick."I said looking at a big spider web in the corner. "Better than nothing."Alyce said brightly. We took our showers (and had to listen to Cheyennes singing.)While we were heading back guys on bikes passed us. "Hey."one shouted.He had blonde shaggy hair and looked muscular. "Heeyy."Cheyenne said smiling. "Im Ricky and this is John and Drew he pointed to the others.John was lanky and had brown-red shaggy hair and Drew was muscular and had brown curly hair. "Im Cheyenne.And this is Ruthie,Kayla-" "And Im Alyce."Alyce said looking at Drew and batting her eyelashes. "So were are you girls headed to?"Drew asked. "Back to our R.V then we headed to Blue Water Fall."Cheyenne explained. "Really?Were headed to Blue Water Falls to."Drew said. "Thats sweet.Maybe well see you around."Alyce said still batting her eyelids. "See ya."Drew said.As he passed Alyce on his bike he smacked her butt.Alyce blushed.I rolled my eyes.Not that they werent cute but they seemed like the player type.As we walked back to the trailer Alyce,Kayla,and Cheyenne discussed there hottness. "Sorry none of them liked you Ruthie."Kayla said. "Its ok.Wait what?"I said confused. "Well I dont wanna sound mean but Ricky liked Cheyenne.Who doesnt?And Drew obviously liked Alyce.And of course John liked me." "Psh were did you get that from." "Well its kinda obvious." Haha liked I cared.They didnt know it but I had a boyfriend at home.His name They didnt know it but I had a boyfriend at home.His name was Kyle and weve been going out for a month now.We got back to the R.V and ate lunch. "Are you sure we have everything?"Dad asked worried. "Yeah."Mom said. "You have everything in your bags?" "Yep." we replied. "Ok lets start walking then."Dad said more relaxed. We grabbed our bags and started on the dark forest trail. ok thats the first 2 chapters!the rest of the story is about how Ruthie finds a feral kid in the woods and keeps him in her attic until one day her parents find him.

Am I being taken advantage of? Personal Finance question.? I earn a decent income. My DBF makes about as much as I do in his job. We both work for the same company and we live together. (We have for 2 years now). I have far more bills than he does (2 car loans, a camper loan, registrations on a snowmobile trailer, snowmobile, the two vehicles, insurances, I have my own home in which I pay 3X more taxes a year on than he does on his, a credit card, a student loan, and a child with a second on the way). I've paid for all the expenses to get ready for our baby girl on the way and I take care of the 9 year old from a previous relationship that I already have. He pays me approx $70 bi weekly toward groceries. He does not pay when we go out to eat, I do. I pay the remainder of the groceries. He does not pay for the gas or entertainment expenses. I also pay some toward the OIL (this winter $300 worth). I also have lawyers fees that I pay. He has his own truck, a snowmobile, insurances, a small mortage, and pays a debt collector. I pay for the cable bill. He pays the electricity. I can't think of anything else, but does it seem fair that he is always complaining that he "has no money" on him. I always seem to end up picking up the tab on everyday things from prescriptions (his and mine), to a run to the store for milk, to whatever. I mean it might seem really stupid but I feel like I am always doing, always paying and while I know if I lived alone I would pay too, I just feel almost as if I am doing way too much with this person. Would it seem that way to you or do you think how we're doing is fair on us both? I do not complain about the money, somehow I always seem to do fine but right now I'm starting to hit a rough patch and I can't seem to get him to understand that there are things I cannot do right now too. I am frustrated with the economy. I am just not as VERBAL about it as he is. Things weren't always this way. He used to take me out to dinner all the time and spend $ on me too. I also cook/clean,etc. BTW. We live in his house, not mine. We have shut mine down for the winter because we weren't able to rent it out or sell it this year. I have done everything I can to sell everything else I own to help out over the past year. With the economy I just haven't had much luck. So please do not tell me to sell everything I have. I've already tried this. In the end I would still feel like I end up with nothing with this guy as we aren't married. Just living together. I forgot to add. I also pay for everything we need at Walmart - like household toiletries, cleaners, soaps, toothpaste, etc. I've just gotten to the point where I won't buy his deodorants (he'll use mine instead because he's too cheap to buy any for himself!!) - If he's sick he won't go to the doctor he'll complain because it's too much money. Then I end up feeling guilty because I'm not taking care of him. He says he is going to pay half the daycare expenses when our daughter is born. Who knows? He makes a lot of promises now he doesn't keep usually. In my eyes it seems like he's getting the upper benefit of the relationship? Am I wrong? Yes the father of the first child does pay child support. The state has finally gotten him to pay weekly (he wasn't paying at all before). Yes, we are engaged. I am not as "hot" on the idea of getting married right now though. Money differences to me are the issue right now. I just often feel like I'm getting sacked with expenses I shoudn't be. Yes all of the "stuff" that I currently pay loans on (except for one vehicle) are literally up for sale. I'm just sick of always hearing him say "I dont have any money" for this or for that and always looking to me to fill the void. I do what I can but I've gotten to a point where I am doing too much I think. I just need confirmation that either others believe I am doing too much or not enough. That's all I need to know.

Very difficult question!? I asked this once before, but didn't get any tips that worked! So be prepared to answer this one! I have a 7 year old pinto mare that I love to death, I have her very well-broke and she does about anything I ask her. I can easily load her into a trailer and easily unload her. THE PROBLEM----while she is in the trailer, once we leave our property she begins to scramble and move around a lot and it seems like no matter how well I tie her head she always bangs around and tries to escape. We have a 2 horse trailer that I hauled her to a horse camp in and after boarding her there for a week, I loaded her up and my parents drove us home. I looked back at her (theirs a small window in the trailer, about 1ft. by 1ft. and I could see her face) and she seemed fine I'd even given her some grain to munch. But, when we pulled in our driveway she somehow tried to jump through the window (I guess she was excited to get home?!?!) and managed to tear through the saddle shed and fit her whole neck through the tiny window. Well, we called 911 and my dad sawed through metal to get her out (they took so long to get out here by the time the firefighters came to get her out we had gotten her out ourselves!!!). A guy looked her over and she seemed okay, just a few minor cuts we doctored. I stayed up watching her that night as well. Anyways now any time I take her on a trail ride or anything like that I'm scared to death she'll get hurt (by the way she usually doesn't get upset or move around if she is in with one of her horse buddies, but I don't wanna haul 2 horse around everywhere I can only ride one)......I joined this 4h horse club and we're having a playday next week. The horse I was going to take (the one who DOESN'T try to escape trailers) sprained his ankle. My only choices are: A-Take Comet and pray to God she doesn't hurt herself (she might and she might not...we've hauled her before by herself and she just gets nervous but she's only tried to escape 2 times) B-Take a greenbroke horse named Popcorn (She is very sweet and will probably do alright...it could be risky though she isn't very experienced and hasn't ever went to a meeting with new horses. She's been on trail rides though! She is 3 years old..) C-OR go horseless to the first meeting (Which I really do not want to do!!!) and wait till next month to take Lucky (the one I originally planned to take). So, do you think Comet would become Houdini Horse again and try to get out no matter what we did? I have gotten tip from a trainer I know, to just shut the window in the front. But then I wouldn't be able to see what she was doing or if she was pawing/trying to turn around. I read in a training book that you can train horses to hobble and put them on in the trailer so they don't scramble. I'm afraid this would just make her resist more and terrify her that her legs were tied together. Sorry it's so long but I'm really clueless and have no idea what I should do! Please HELP, Tabitha. No she can't turn herself around we bought a 2 horse and it has a divider but she has tried to turn before! The main thing is I don't want her to bang her head around in there and stomp on the floor. I agree with you StandardbredLove, but even if she only did it one more time, what if she kills herself or injures herself badly! Actually, we have a stock trailer, but we don't use it anymore with her by herself cause once we did and she slammed into the front and tried to hop out. That's why we bought a 2 horse trailer...thanks for the advice anyways though! I think you all have good answers..blinders, getting a smaller divider, painting it a lighter color, and not taking her are all great. I know this horse better than anybody though, and she is crazy about trailer rides. I'm sorry but none of these ideas sound like they would work for her!......I still have no idea. Also she doesn't have a manger in the trailer I just dumped grain on the top of the saddle shed that is in the lower front of the trailer. She is very well-balanced and hardly ever stumbles when in a trailer. I am positive it's cause she is herd sick and wants to be with her herd of 16 other horsey friends.

Need tips on how to persuade my parents..? So my bf is going to lagoon for his birthday.. He's invited me to come, but doesn't have enough room in the car for everyone he's hoping to take. so he's kinda counting on me to drive down there so that i can give the girls a ride. Lagoon is 3 hours away from where we live. 201 miles. His mom would be accompanying us for the whole trip. how can i convince my dad into letting me go and letting me drive down there.? our plan is go to on friday,and spend the night at the camp ground, the girls would share a trailer and the guys would have a tent outside. we would be going to lagoon again on saturday and driving home that afternoon/night. i have enough money to buy my ticket and pay for gas, its just that i don't know how to ask or make my dad say its alright.

how do i get over this family issue? need help or i'll loose it!? ok so just over 2 years ago i was pregnant and me n my boyfriend were moving and looking for a new place to rent or buy. we found a place we could rent that we liked and had the money to rent it right away but his dad and stepmom had this unfinished house they made us a deal if we did most of the work on it and helped them finish it we could rent it and possibly buy it from them. well we moved into our camper that summer and put it on the land next to the house and spent all our free time and lots of our own money doing all kinds of work on it for months. my boyfriend even stopped doing his own work so we could bust butt and get it done in time for the baby. we did the electrical, plumbing, the last of the insulation, drywall, and then when it came to the mudding/taping my boyfriends dad is a professional so we waited on him to do that part...after that we could do the flooring, cabinets etc without a problem, we were at the downhill stretch. so we waited for the walls....and waited, and waited, and waited....for over a month, by then i was almost 7 months pregnant and were getting a little nervous and realized eventually that no, his dad was never going to come do that for us. over the next few months we had to borrow thousands of dollars from my parents in order to get back on our feet and find a place to live because we had spent all our extra money on this place, and his parents refused to come finish the house for us...even after all the work and money we put in to it, we were never reembursed and never got the house. i was very pregnant and i was devestated, i had HUGE plans for that place, it was where i was going to raise my daughter and i was crushed. then i found out a few months after i had my daughter that my mans dad n stepmom indeed had finished the house for a looser friend of theres and were renting it to him. wt*!!!!! leave ur FAMILY homeless, and then finsh the house u promised them to rent to a friend. i didn't get it...again i was crushed. in the meantime we did get housing stuff worked out and after a lot of hard work we now own our own mobile home(no payments, we own it it's paid off), however we're in a cruddy trailercourt, not in the country like we wish we could be. NOW, the kicker and i don't know why it should bother me so much, but im so upset i want to cry. My boyfriends dad and stepmom have now offered to sell that same house to my boyfriends brother and HIS family. and now all i get to hear about is all their big plans for it....the garage they want to put on it with the breezeway, and the huge edition they want off the front, and so on n so on. I had dreams for that place, that was suppose to be the place i raised my family, not in some trailer court that smells like dogcrap. i knew where my garden was going to be outside, and whose bedroom was whoose, and what flooring we wanted.....i had it all planned out and now they offered it to someone else. does no one care about promises and feeling anymore. backstabbers.....i don't trust them i can't believe his dad is going to sell it to his other son's family, they were suppose to finish it for us but we weren't good enough....but everyone else is. i don't get it. i need advice really bad, i need to get over this otherwise i don't think i'll ever be able to step onto that property let alone into that house for family visits without being ticked offed or crying. i know we own our own place now and his brothers family only rents but that was suppose to be my perfect house....perfect location in the country....am i just being selfish??? i'm just so upset.

alright help me with this. i have the same recurring dream/nighmare every year around halloween. whats it mean? ok so every year around halloween i have the same dream: me and my cousin tyler who is two years younger than me and is like my bff and little brother are walking through this camp ground at night with cabins that leads into a development.we are going trick-or-treating. we walk past the development office through the big parking lot around the corner up a road that leads to another development. this develpment includes houses and trailers for some reason. we go around to all the houses and then there is this one trailer that looks run down and it looks like nobody is home. i tell tyler that we should proceed but he insists that we try to see if anyone is home. so as we start to walk up this walk way to the trailer we hear a female scream. i immediatly dart onto the porch along with tyler. we are terrified. tyler and me the curious ones we are look into the window and see this raggidy old man. he is big, muscular, and dark. he doesnt see us but he walks away and reveals a women underneath him(he was standing over her). she is crying and screaming. she crawls to the door. somehow opens it and then opens the screen door and crawls onto the porch and she is bloody. me and tyler are standing there terrified. we see the guy through the window searching around for the girl and he sees the door open and goes to walk outside onto the porch. i reach for the closest object(i dont remember what but it was sharp). he sees the girl and stabs her. she is dead. then he looks up and sees the two of us. he starts to go after tyler and i stab him with the object but he is still coming after us so we dart off. it now seems like nobody is outside and it is just me, tyler, and this guy. we run and hide. tyler even runs up to a house and the door is locked, a previous one we had been to. so i go to another it is locked. the guy sees us and runs after it again. eventually he catches up and hits tyler with something and he is on the ground bleeding but still alive. then the guy is standing over me. his clothing is bloody. he has long hair but i cant make out his face. i can see some details but not enough to recognize him. i am screaming. this is normally where it ends. sometimes it ends early. i normally wake up sweaty, crying, sometimes yelling, and i cant go back to sleep. this dream i really scary when i have it but it is more annoying because every year around halloween i remember and its like. yay!(sarcasticly) i get to have that dream again.why do i have this dream? is it normal to have a recurring dream like this every year? is there a way i can make it stop? if so please give suggestions. i have it every year and i can remember it very vividly. prob cause it scares me so much and i dont normally get scared easily.

why won't he ask me out ? please help me im so scared..? why won't this guy ask me for my number? A guy I'm babysit volunteering with in a summer camp is really outgoing and has a lot of friends who are girls back home, but other volunteers tell me it seems like he likes me because he flirts(he plays footsie, throws kids' toys at me, grabs/hugs me randomly, always steals the kid i'm watching away until i chase the poor child back, offers to walk me back to my apartment, and sometimes tries to make plans to meet up with me after the kids are home but says things like "oh yeah because i need suchandsuch from the kitchen staff, and you know your way around so come with me" BUT..I'm unsure he likes me because once he said he lived in trailer park (jokingly) but then when i asked him if it was true he said he could lie because i'd never see his house anyway... And sometimes he talks about hot girls in front of me and the other volunteers when the kids are sleeping. Could it be just that he's the flirty type, and the other volunteers just don't know him well enough and are also being tricked into thinking he likes me? :( i dont know why he won't ask me out on a real date or get my phone number or something, and we only have 4 weeks and 1 day left until I have ot fly back home:( also, he's the type of guy that every one o hte counselors love immediately because he's so good with words and he's so cahrming, and i just sometimes think maybe he's just pitying me becaue he's such a nice guy and that's why he always flirts with me...

what kind of vehicle should i buy? I need a daily driver, good mileage (up to 200 miles a day sometimes on highway), a place to carry a few tool bags (I do minor home repair or inspection if job will take too long), an occasional 6' ladder comes along abour once a week, maybe able tow about 1500 pound trailer if needed. I might need 4x4 but can sacrifice if if it makes a large differance in mileage. I currently drive a regular cab ranger truck with a camper shell but the seats don't recline, not confortable at all for those long 12 hour days driving everywhere. Also looking for an automatic due to the freeways here in so cal. I have my finger on a used for escape but i am open for pros and cons or additional suggestions.

My children are going to live temporarily with bio father who they don't know...can a private attorney help? I have am open case with DCF in Florida..i'm working on a case plan but in th meantime, my exhusband , whose name was not on the birth certificate of either child, came forward and paid for a paternity test....he has always known they were his, but has never had anything to do with them since their birth til now. My babies , 3 & 2, have been with my mother the last 4 months til my ex husband decided to get in the middle now that he knew my mother had filed for child support for helping them while they y were with her. Last week, I went to court, and they were "supposed" to be arranging visitation for their father to have visitation at the hearing, but instead the judge decided to give him custody after doing a home inspection if he passes. The guy has NO stability whatsoever. He has lived in 5 differnet counties over the 4 years, works random jobs from driving cabs to pizza delivery...has been in homeless shelters, lived in motels, small camper trailers, and rents month to month wherever he goes....he lives 3 hours away. Can I hire an attorney to fight this?? My kids have only known mine and my mothers home...they dont even know him.....how can they jump past visitation to placing them with him although he has never even been around children and has no knowledge of rearing a child?? I want them with my mother during this time...they are SAFE where they are, and know that as their 2nd home. I'm working on my case plan in the meantime for those of u wondering....my current husband made a false report to DCF and since I had been drinking the evening it occured, they felt it was necessary to open a case on me. I am very stable mother for my kids, but I dont have the best history till up until 5 years ago where I made a complete turn around...ive had a wonderful job as a hairstylist at the same place for 3 years, had private insurance for me and my children, ive lived in the same place for several years....but DCF is making me to look like this horrible monster!! I would appreciate some POSITIVE answers rather than something discouraging...this is really a rough time for me and my family. Thank you Lori, but my kids ARE a priority...i see u are a mother of 2 children...did u raise them working a full time job, maintaing a home, all on ur own without the help of government assistance??? I think my children DO come first thank you...bitch