Week 7 -11 February 2022
Not much happening this week. The weather finally turned nice and we had four days that it reached into the 70's. As luck would have it, we worked three of those days Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Diane had p/t Monday, Wednesday and Friday. With the nice weather we grilled out a few times and sat by the fire two evenings.
The big accomplishment this week was cleaning and fixing the slide topper and cover on the big slide out. The slide is 25 feet long and collects a lot of debris over time. We cleaned it last fall and noticed the end cap was broke but I put it back together enough to hold to get us out of PA then I forgot about it. In the last blog I mentioned the tension on the spring. Diane did some research on how to retention the spring correctly for the length of the slide, eight counterclockwise turns. Wednesday we were surprised(pleasantly) when our part from Carefree Awnings showed up much earlier than we expected. They said 3 weeks or more, it was here in a week. So, Thursday I got the pressure washer out and started the task of cleaning out the debris, it was a little harder than I thought it would be, the stuff was packed in so tight I had to dig some out with my hands. Diane was my safety observer, she sat outside reading her book, but with her phone handy in case things went south. Everything went well it took over 2 hours to get it cleaned and another hour to clean up the mess. I was hoping to get it all back together but that will have to wait.
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| The mess in the awning cover, how does that stuff get in there? |
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| The mess left on the patio, YUK. |
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| All cleaned up and ready to put back together. |
Friday after Diane's p/t and after rounds in the campground it was time to tackle the spring and end cap issue. It is the last warm day for a while so we had to get-er-done. I got the ladder and all my tools read while Diane got her book and chair, but today she was helping more than reading. As I dropped wrenches and screws over and over, she would find them and hand them back up. First try didn't go well and the re-tensioned spring got away from me, on the second attempt we made it. The story doesn't do it justice because it took two hours or more with lots of frustration and nervy situations, but we made it. As the last screw went in the Shinner Bock came out. Oh yea!
Saturday 12 February 2022
This is the story of me getting a pair of $450.00 sneakers. Sitting by the fire last night after climbing the ladder umpteen times we noticed they my sneakers were coming apart in the front. So, we headed out for sneakers. We left this morning at 8:30, guess what we did first, yep stopped for breakfast at Stumps, back in the truck next was gas, then to the shoe store, after we stopped at an antique store where Diane found two items she had to have. Then the shoe store where I found a pair of Skechers right off while Diane shopped around a bit. We left an hour later with three pairs of shoes. We headed back into town, it was after 1:00pm so we stopped at Shrimp Boat Manny's for lunch. I researched a few silver dollars while waiting for lunch. Food was great but it was 2:30 until we were done. I dropped Diane off at an outlet store and went back for my silver dollar at the antique store. I picked her up and we headed home with my sneakers and all the other goodies we purchased today. So, the trip for sneakers cost us breakfast, gas, lunch, two extra pairs of shoes, two trips to the antique store totaling $450 plus the sneakers. It was good day and besides, we had fun.
Back to the Moho poor Rudy must have had his legs crossed, he ran out the door.
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