Treasures from the Trailer

Worked on the trailer today.

First I sanded the inside of this cupboard.  But it had really thick gunk on the shelves and sanding alone was not working. So I put some paint/epoxy remover stuff on it and then scraped some of the gunk off.  Even got a couple of chemical burns on my forearms.  Beauty is pain.

It still looks pretty bad.  Hopefully shelf liners will cover it up...

Before

After. Not much difference, ugh.

I found on the top shelf a realllllly old piece of contact paper stuck on it.  So I think that is where the gunk came from, from the sticky part.

This is me. No makeup. Covered in wood dust. The sander is so loud I have to wear ear plugs or I'll have ringing for days. I loathe selfies. I am actually smiling under the mask too.

So while sanding out the cupboards, I came across a couple of treasures.  The first was some S&H stamps. The other was a girly coin. One side says "Heads I Win" the other side says "Tales You Lose".  What a naughty previous owner...

So I showed Dave (the dude doing the renovation work) my findings, and he says "Oh yeah that reminds me...the other day I found this inside the side wall by the door.  It was wedged between some frame joints." and he shows me a penny.  I stepped outside the trailer so I could read the date better, and it is a 1957 penny!  Omigosh how cool is that! I verbosely said "I bet a Shasta worker put it in there!"  Dave thinks it's worth about $10 bucks now (thanks to Google information).

The 1957 penny

I get back to my sanding, and as the menial work continues my imagination wanders......I could picture some fella who works in the Shasta factory in Van Nuys, CA (where she was built) who places a penny from his pocket into every trailer he works on.  He tucks it in inconspicuously with hopes that someday, a person in the future may find it somehow.  It's like his little time capsule secret he is creating for all the Shastas he is a part of working on.

Then. It hit me.

Her name will be Penny.

Yay!  I FINALLY found a name for her!!!

Since getting her, I had considered a few names:

1. "Cali" since she was made in Van Nuys and I was born in California and that is where we live.  But I saw another trailer owner over at the Glamping Forum already had that name.  I could have still done it, but then it felt like I was copying.  
2. "Truly" because when I told one of my friends that I finally got a vintage trailer they said Dreams Do Come True!  
3. "Frances" because that is both my Grandmothers' names but I knew the kids wouldn't like to have an old lady's name on her. 
4. "Ellie" was one of my favorites from the Disney movie UP and how she says Adventure is out there!  But my friend's trailer is already named Ellie Mae and again, it felt like I was copying.

So I just kinda waited, knowing that something would come to me.  But I was getting tired of referring to her as 'the trailer', or 'the Shasta' or just 'her'.  So I have to say I am beyond thrilled that she has finally been dubbed a name!!! Whew. One thing to cross of the trailer list...

I shall call her 'Penny,' and she shall be mine, and she shall be my Penny.

Cuz lawd knows, she is costing us a pretty penny.