Home at last

                                       Hello everyone! How is our Manor today?
                                                                  Home at last
   
   On sat November 10th,  Justin and I officially ended our year and the our career in the carnival business. Saying goodbye was hard but we are ready to start our new life. We packed up the Jeep and began the long journey of our homecoming. We traveled from Grovetown GA to Deland FL, a six hour drive in total. The drive felt as if it would never end! We wanted so badly to see our beautiful new home!

   While we are renovating our Spartan we are staying with my grandparents,  otherwise we would be living in a tent. So I just want to take  moment to express our gratitude for their kindness. We truly would be lost without them. The wonderful thing about being here with my grandparents is the fact that not only is the food wonderful every night, but my grandfather is a skilled handy man. He has had,  in the past,  owned his own renovation service. He has also built,  from the ground up,  their beautiful home. So, Justin and I have a great resource of wisdom for all of our unknowns. They have also been a big part in us obtaining our Spartan. When we where still on the road,  we started looking for trailers. We begin our search on Craigslist and we were not having much luck. We turned to airstream forums, vintage trailer groups and places all over to try and find the perfect trailer,  nothing was to be found. When we fist started looking for a new home,  we where only looking at airstreams, until I had kept seeing Spartans. So, we begin the search again. After looking on Craigslist again we found a guy named Troy who had the Spartan we have now along with an airstream.  In the end we fell in love with the Spartan and we contacted him. Come to find out he only lived 10mins away from my grandparents! It was perfect! He was very helpful and sent lots of pictures to give us an idea of what we where in for. He was also kind enough to met my grandparents at their home to talk to them. After we purchased the trailer, Troy was kind enough to even bring the Spartan to my grandparents. Thanks to them we where able to come home to the Spartan and get to work right away.

   As Justin and I pulled up in the driveway we saw her! Justin and I almost began to cry  because she was just so beautiful, even more so in the moonlight. Words could express our the true happiness and joy we felt seeing the Spartan for the first time! I began to think of all the hard work we had done to get to this point. All the long days and nights, day to day sacrifices we made where all worth it for just that one moment in time.  We where home and what a wonderful home she would be! To me, it's a shiny silver medal of honor to remind us what we worked so hard for.

  

     

                                                            

   After getting a very much needed nights rest we woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed ready to get to work! We went to the dollar store and picked up some cleaning supplies and sanitary equipment. The goal was to clean and clean we did. We first started by spraying "Awesome" on the outside of the smaller to get ride of years worth of residue. It came of very easily a day I would recommend it to anyone I the future. We scrubbed a day rinsed and scrubbed and rinsed.  We couldn't believe how shiny and beautiful it was coming get out just from this simple process! While cleaning the room Justin noticed something. The previous owners had put tar on Saturday strip down the entire roof. We assume it was because of the vents leaking. Other then the air vents leaking, so far we haven't found any leeks do the roof is completely solid.
   While cleaning out cabinets Justin made a wonderful discovery. He found a couple of paid checks from the 50's. The checks where from Atlanta GA and have names with what we hope to find to be the original owners.  We also found the original soap dish which I plan on keeping and reusing along with odds and ends.
The fist day mainly consisted of eating and a but of striping off some of the walls.
                                                 
                                                                       Day 2
   This was the productive one! Everything was striped out. The walls and floor pulled up.  It's  now completely striped out! Yeah! Justin has also banged  out the big dent in the front corrner and it looks almost perfect! The hard part has begun,  planing time. Time to find a place for all of the wiring and plumbing. Something we have no idea about. Much thanks to the my wonderful boyfriend Justin, the guys at Lowes and my very talented grandpa!

                                                       More to come very soon^_^
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