The daughter is a trucker

Some of you know our daughter left the farm on which she was working and started traveling again. Now she has found a way to travel and get paid for it. She has become an over-the-road trucker. Yes, that means she drives semi-trucks around this great country.

Here’s “her” truck. (OK it belongs to the company she works for but it is assigned to her for now.)

 

That silver step you can see is the second step up and it is at my waist height. So when we met up in Benson, Arizona, and she invited me in, I couldn’t climb up there.

This holiday weekend she managed to get routed to Minneapolis so she could spend time with us. Dave hauled out our step ladder so I could climb up and see inside her truck.

She lives in her cab just as if it was an RV. She has a good size bed:

 

And several storage compartments:

 

She removed the mattress from the top bunk and now calls that her attic:

 

She has a 12 volt cooler and a 12 volt oven and a butane burner so she can cook but not a lot.

Just like me when I came home this spring she wanted to use our kitchen to experiment with cooking.

So we made mayonnaise which she decided wasn’t worth her effort in the truck. She doesn’t have running water so her cooking needs to be things that cleanup easily or that make cleanup worth the effort.

The she used my food processor to chop an onion and an apple. She dumped that into a zip-top bag with a pound of ground beef  and massaged the bag to mix them together. Then turned the bag inside out dumping the ingredient into a loaf pan that fits in her oven and used the bag as a glove to shape the meat into the pan. That worked amazingly well. So now she knows she can make meatloaf and only have to wash the pan. That was worth doing. Now she just has to decide whether or not to buy a small food processor or just use a knife and cutting board.

We did lots of other things while she was here.

She exercised with me while watching two of my T-Tapp videos and has already begun doing some of those exercises in her truck.

We played cards. She’s been playing gin rummy on her phone just her against the computer. She discovered it is different when three people play but she still won.

We went to White Castle for lunch. Those of you not from the Upper Midwest might not be familiar with these tiny burgers. They are not like any made anywhere else so she wanted to eat some while here. They were, of course, as good as ever.

She cleaned some excess stuff out of her truck and added it to our pile for donation.

Dave helped her learn how to better use her computer but they did not get one software application to work even with Dave’s expertise.

We took her to Camping World where she bought stuff for her truck.

We demonstrated how our GPS works and she played with it a bit. She’s not very happy with her truck’s GPS so she’s looking for something better and liked the fact that ours lets you define your rig’s size so it won’t route you under low bridges or across light ones.

She took advantage of the opportunity to wash her blankets and stuff she doesn’t like to do at commercial laundries.

And we talked. And talked. And talked.

It was a great visit. And I’m exhausted just writing about it. No wonder it took me a couple days after she left to be ready to write this. 🙂

TTYL,

Linda