Zen Van

The Zen Van is coming along quite nicely. The bed and storage cabinets are built, as is the closet and table area. The electrical input arrived today, the water input I’ve had for a while, was waiting to see what kind of bit I will need to do the drilling into ZenVan’s body. 

ZV, for short.

I’ve not done the staining yet, that of the wood, will plumb and wire things first. More wood might go in, I’m not sure. Aesthetic concerns.  I’ll think about these jobs quite a lot, do my homework, figure it out. I’ve got the sealant for after the holes are drilled, the pieces screwed in. Positioning is important, but really, the electric will mostly be for charging, one outlet, there by the closet, the water, out back, for sure. 

The inlets should be there together, near the gas tank, near the middle then, might as well, that's right where the electric will be. But water in front, and filtered, too, that would be really nice, and easy enough, might as well. But really, the back is so close, but then, I don’t need to filter for washing, at all, so maybe two water outlets, yes. And yes, the inline propane hot water heater, I like that idea, quite a lot, there’s space for it back there by the tools, where the hot and cold water will be, the shower head. The curtain for the shower can hang from the back doors, easy, really, I can make something really quite nice.

Something to stand on, well drained.

The bed is quite pretty, the spread matches so well and it stays there as I sleep in the tent. In the tent the camp bed with the nice goose down comforter, quite comforting indeed. Hot even, at times, but it comes off, just like that, and the cool of the camp bed is awesome. It is far more comfortable than ZVs plywood bed, but it, too, will work just fine.

So more than a week, for those after pictures, only because the sale fell through. Of the house, not ZV, ZV and I are a thing now. The house sale fell through, so I took off again, to the woods of MA, and the realtor opened the house, and had half a dozen come look, so she said.

No new offers yet. The old one for too much and no money behind it still exists.

I sigh. ZV asks why, says come out and play, you’ve holes to drill in me yet.

Today we made progress, ZV and I, prepping for the next yard sale, this weekend will be perfect. I’ll pick up a bit more cash, divest myself of stuff. We divested today, made a trip to the thrift shop, ZV hauls lots of stuff.

The garage is cleared from the clear out the house, from the dregs of that first of the yard sales. This one, mostly books, furniture, houseplants, and do-dads, a few of the leftover dregs.
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The estate sale will come last.

ZV will be loaded, and ready to go. 
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I’ll just be ready to go.