It's Saturday Again and Roger Has a New Project

The sun came out today after a week of clouds and rain and we were so excited when we set out on our walk this morning.  We forgot it was Saturday until we got out of the geezer area and into the campground area where we encountered dogs and kids everywhere. Why do kids need to bring their motorized scooters camping?  Now, the kid being pulled on his skateboard by the German Shepherd made sense. We aborted the walk and headed back into safe territory!!  

We did see one of the regular walkers, though.  Disc Man.  This guy is probably in his 50s and he takes his walks every day - toting a portable disc player!  Now, we don't know how long it's been since they made those, making him further behind the technology curve than we are.  

Last night I took the Magster out for her after dinner visit to the doggie bathroom area and we saw a coyote aka boogey-dog!  It was after the sun had set but before it got dark.  He was loping along the fence line about 50 yards away from where we were.  We hurried home. 

Roger started his latest project today - story later - and I opened up the house and aired it out.  Seemed silly, though, when I thought about it.  Open the windows and door and turn on the vent fans to suck out the stale air and dog smell - all the while sucking in the pollen while I'm trying to dust and vacuum! Hmmm... seems counter productive but it is so nice being opened up again.  A Benedryl and eye drops got me through it!

I took Maggie's bed and blankets out in the sun and breeze to air them out.  As you can see, she liked having it outside.  She and Skunkie (her oldest toy) had a few naps while getting some sunshine.  She would get too warm, go into the shade for a while to cool off, then back into the bed.  So much for airing out the dog bed!

Roger's Project  

Travel trailers and 5th wheels are notorious for rocking/swaying back and forth even sitting still and with the front and rear stabilizers down and locked.  Front to back is usually good, but side to side is always an issue and I do whine about it often.  Most of the new and high end rigs come with hydraulic stabilizers midships that steadies them.  We could get them after market if we wanted to shell out $5K!  In our place when you walk across the room the little pull things on the blinds bounce against the slats and rattle.  That noise and just the feeling of being in a mini earthquake when someone walks across the room and especially when dog is chasing her ball is something we don't like.  Well, Roger has found a solution - install more stabilizers designed to stop the side to side motion of the rig and and not bust our budget!  

We went to Camping World the other day and bought what we hope will do the trick. Night before last Roger took the parts out of the box to check them.  Lots of parts!!!

Yesterday we got to take a trip to Lowe's to buy tools - tools that he has at home but didn't bring.  He always brings a tool bag full of tools - I can hardly lift it there are so many - but anticipating all the ones he will need on a trip is hard.  He is getting to the point where he has a home set and an RV set of everything.  "Have Tool Bag - Will Travel."  

Later he got to drill bigger holes in the landing gear with his new drill bit!! As you can see, the ground is still a bit damp for crawling around under the RV so today was the start of the big project.  

With his Mr. Fix-it t-shirt on, it went pretty well today and he did get one side and the front half finished.  As you can see by the following photos there were lots of stops to read the instructions!!



Oh dear, I've run out of bandwidth tonight trying to up and down load photos from phone, computer, the "cloud" and back again, etc.  The WIFI is slow this time of night anyway, and the downloads are limited, so you'll have to wait until tomorrow (Sunday) for the photos and more.......    I'll try and do it early when no one else is on their computer!  Of course there will be more photos taken tomorrow as the work progresses.  Stay tuned.  P.S. no injuries today - fingers crossed for tomorrow.