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Playing in water

Wild Thing: Bright and Shiny!

That might be an exaggeration, but the temperature was above freezing, most of the snow was gone and the forecast was for colder temperatures so I decided that this was my chance to get the road dirt and ice melt chemicals off the motorhome before they had a chance to do damage.

I have an adapter for my kitchen faucet that allows me to hook my hose (garden hose) to it and have warm water. I used that to fill the hose with warm water, thus making the COLD hose easy to work with vs a cold non-cooperative hose.

Once the hose was warmed up, I re-connected it to the outside spigot which has LOTS of pressure and rinsed off Wild Thing and her undercarriage and her newly installed propane tank!!

Whilst undergoing this operation, it was raining. It was 37F. I hope that the folks that pulled into the new construction project did not see the crazy person “washing” a motorhome…in the rain…at barely above freezing temperatures.

Oh, well.

There was no soap involved and it was not really a wash, it was just a rinse off of the worst of the road dirt and ice melt chemicals.

But she looks much better.

Meanwhile…

Yep, not much snow left.

And it is raining.

Auggie played in the garage.

And that hose is the hose that rinsed Wild Thing… drained and coiled neatly awaiting Spring-Summer.

Woo!

It was a workout.

Everyone is so tired that a nap was in order!!

And then…

AND THEN!!!

It started “slushing”. It looked liked snow in the air, but it was slush on the ground.

“REALLY???”

Really.

Playing in water…

Friday and weather

So…It is not a bad thing to arrive home on Thanksgiving Day…fairly early…with another day before a weekend. Not a bad thing at all!

By Noon, Wild Thing was unloaded and winterized and airing out.

By 2:00 p.m. she was unplugged. I didn’t get to all of the cleaning, but there will probably be opportunity. I need to vacuum, dust, clean the refrigerator!!! and also give her a good wash. But meanwhile, she is safe and in good order to weather the weather:

Yikes! …the weather!

The home supplies are more than ample to weather the weather. We have food and then some. Food for me, for Bear and for Auggie.

And we have firewood.

We are ready for weather.

But, this morning, it started at 42F and went up to 47F while all of the unloading and winterizing was happening. Bear and Auggie were out with me and we walked together and generally all did our “thing”.

It has been cloudy and darkish and occasionally a few drops of rain and gusts of wind and finally, we all adjourned indoors.

Good grief…

…too cute!

Bear sighed deeply, but stayed put.

For awhile.

And the winner IS…

Outside, with the warm and the wind, the yard and driveway look much better than yesterday.

Friday and weather.

Topping Up

“DANGER, Will Robinson”!!!

This is an RV Maintenance post.

Turn away if RV Maintenance bores you to tears!!

Battery water was checked for the three batteries under the steps and all were fine: CHECK!

Oil, transmission fluid, coolant and windshield wiper solution next.

Oil and coolant were low.

All fluids are now topped up!

All very WINTER items (coats, hats, boots) are loaded.

Friday, I will go room to room in the house with my reusable bags and collect all that needs to go on board.

Topping Up!

Rain, rain, it has gone away

Well, at this point it hadn’t gone away.

This is Wild Thing with her brand new windshields.

They got a good test with a night and day of pouring rain…

Hoo…I say HOO-RAH!!!

A dry dash in record setting (we set records for amount of rain 2 days in a row and records for the lowest high in 100 years) – I was so very pleased to walk into Wild Thing the last 2 mornings and see no drips, no puddles, just a normal dry dash.

And today, Thursday…it started a bit drizzly, but cleared and the sun came out…

We jumped and ran for joy!

Rain, rain, it has gone away.

Sunday, day of rest

I didn’t plan on a busy Sunday, but one thing led to another…

Saturday evening I filled the motorhome fresh water tank with water and a chlorine mix. The mix sits overnight and then a rinse tank…

I also assembled a meat-herb mix for a kind of pseudo American style gyros meat recipe.

Bright and early on Sunday after bringing the meat to room temp, I fired up the grill and roasted the meat.

Bear was extremely interested…

This worked out very well and although it is not like spit-roasted gyros, it is flavorful and tender and I am extremely pleased with the result!

Back to the motorhome.

Killing two birds with one stone…I hope!

As I got ready to drain the chlorinated water, I got to wondering how the weeds would like a bit of chlorine in their water…

I’ve been procrastinating with the vinegar attack. (see Thistle Saga 2012)

I moved the motorhome over a nice patch of weeds and let ‘er drain.

We’ll see.

Meanwhile between the draining and rinsing and 2nd draining, I quit my procrastinating and wheeled my vinegar cart here and there until I was out of vinegar.

And I mowed the grass.

I trimmed.

I cleaned up with the blower.

I went inside, cooled off and took a shower.

1:20 p.m.

Time to take it easy.

And have a blackberry-goat cheese-lemon thyme tart.

Sunday, day of rest.

Getting ready to roll

I made the motorhome bed today.

It is kind of a big deal for me and for my plans to be in that state of “ready to roll” that I like.

Mid-January, anticipating Bear’s recovery from TPLO 1, I changed my house bed (Platform Bed) and then moved the motorhome mattress to the house, leaving the motorhome bereft of its normal sleeping arrangement.

But, last week, I bought…

… a new mattress. A compressed mattress. An inexpensive, compressed mattress.

It came in a blue bag.

Bear was mystified at the bed that first got lower and then non-existent…

First the blue bag came off.

Then an outer plastic bag came off.

Mattress in position and then an inner plastic bag was broached which caused an intake whoosh of air and the mattress unrolled and inflated until it looked like a REAL mattress.

Huh.

I’ve slept on it for a week and so far, so good.

Getting ready to roll.