Restoring Miss Maizy

Years ago, back in the day of diapers and ring around the rosey..

Back in the day when my kids thought I was the bomb and my son wanted to grow up and become an architect and build a house for me with a jacuzzi and a butler...

Back in the day when my daughter thought I knew everything and actually took my advice...

The three of us would go camping.

We borrowed their aunt and uncle's little 16 foot Shasta trailer and off we would go.  There was enough room for the three of us to sleep, a dilapidated ice box, a sink (with a hand pump to get water) and a built-in propane stove.

A few years later we upgraded and bought a 19 foot trailer with an actual bathroom, an electric pump, a heater and an actual refrigerator.

It was a fine trailer and we had many fine adventures in it.  A few years ago I gave that trailer to my son, but that little 16 foot trailer always held a part of my heart.

After a camping trip with Peter in 2014 where we slept on a flattened air mattress with lots of rocks and sticks and very hard ground underneath, my mind started wandering to tear drop trailers, and back to that Shasta trailer.  Perhaps it was rose colored glasses, but as I looked back on that little trailer I thought she was perfect.  As perfect as a 60 year old trailer could be.

As fate and luck would have it, (and to make a kind of long story short) I recently purchased that beloved old trailer.  It's mine.

And I have plans!

Because that's what I do.  I plan. I make lists.  I start Pinterest boards.  I have named my (eventually) cute little trailer "Miss Maizy."  And here is where I shall document the restoration process.

I have a goal to have her road ready by May, 2017.  My newly discovered sister has invited me to her daughter's wedding (that would be my newly discovered niece) in May.  Peter and I (Mostly me at this point...) are planning on a road trip taking in all the sites we can between Northwest Washington and Southwest Nebraska.

So, this is a picture of Miss Maizy as she stands today:

I have high hopes that when I am done she shall look more like this:

Right now the previous owner still has her, but I shall pick her up in a few weeks.  That will give me time to make space in the barn.

Once I get her here, The real fun starts!!