Mr. Fix-it Saves the Day Once Again

As I mentioned last night, we had an easy day yesterday.  The drive down I-15 from Montana into Idaho was, once again, beautiful.  Mountains gave way to  lava beds and then rolling farms and then to flatland and lots of potato plants!  We followed the Snake River most of the day.  

We were happy to be going south as the north bound lanes were packed with RVs heading to the mountains for the holiday weekend.   At one point in the midst of construction, the north bound lanes were backed up about 10 miles.  So, happy to be going south!!  

We were passed by an RV with a woman waving frantically at us and pointing to the back of our RV.  About the same time, Rog had looked back and saw something amiss.  The door to the water heater was hanging loose and flapping around.  One hinge had come undone for some reason.  We still haven't figured out what happened as it was closed when we did our pre-flight inspection.  Neither of us saw anything out of order.  After much thought, Rog remembered that when he took the dog out first thing in the morning he had noticed that several RVs in the campground had the doors to their water heaters open.  He didn't think anything about it at the time.  We now think that some kids had come through the park in the night and opened them up.  Ours must have been partially unlatched and when we hit the road it flopped open.  A moment or two of panic but nothing disastrous.  All fixed.

Note hole in ceiling to bedroom register.
Note where the duct is.  Hmm.... not connected.

Speaking of fixing things - I mentioned in an earlier post that the bedroom register was not getting any hot air coming through.  Again, after much pondering, Rog thought perhaps the ducting might have come loose.  Of course the ducting is in the basement and behind a wall with all of our stuff in front of it.  Well, this morning, on his rest day, Rog took everything out, took the wall out and voila - a duct had either never been connected or had fallen out.  Again, Roger's analytical mind and fix-it skills saved a trip to a repair shop.  Now, if he could just magically fix that darn fireplace.  



As we turned off the road following the signs to the Village of Trees RV park, my heart started racing and I thought, "Oh, No! This is going to be a disaster."  The sign says register in the store at this gas station.   Rog pulled up and I got out thinking, do we really want to stay two nights?  But, we've no place else to go on a Saturday night at the beginning of the holiday week. Once we were guided into the campground by a guy who moved us from a sunny spot to a shady one because we didn't have a TV dish, we both let out a sigh of relief.  This is really a nice campground. Lots of trees and grass, big sites, wide pads and space between rigs.  A lovely tent camping area that is huge runs along two sides of the park. From our site we can see a bit of the Snake River and the campground has a boat launch there.  Today at lunch we were visited by some horses  from the farm next door. We are all so pleased.  Maggie has spent most of the day in the grass under the tree watching squirrels.  She had to be coaxed in for lunch.  

Watching for those darn squirrels.

Trees/Grass/Wide roads/Large sites

Short walk to the river

We've now had two days of sunshine, no wind, and warm temperatures.  We have about dried out and thawed out.  It's supposed to get to 90 today, but I don't think either of us mind - "it's a dry heat."  I'll bet about dinner time we will be testing the AC! 



P.S.  Rog just did his first flush of the tanks and everything worked as it should!!