WHERE HAS JUNE GONE???
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 9:08 amGOOD MORNING ALL!
As for yesterday morning and most of the day yesterday, my internet service was out, and I called Verizon to have that restored. I guess the whole area had an outage, and it came back on in the afternoon-----very happy to get reconnected!
I finally got my leaky water connectors fixed, thanks to the neat new RV dealers about 3 miles from me, in downtown Vermontville! First, they got me two new washers which I tried, and those didn';t work any better. So I determined it was the screw-on connectors themselves that were leaking. I returned the washers, and the night before last they ordered a replacement section of hose with new connectors. They called me last night to come pick it up! Talk about fast service! I installed it (on my back with headlamp on, under bathroom sink----one connector facing one way, and the other facing the other way----and in this upside-dwon and backwards position, I had to re-program my brain the pertinent version of "left-loosey, righty-tighty" PRESTO! No leaking, so I now have a good water hookup in the trailer! I can attach a length of sewer pipe and run the grey water down the hill away from the well, and have hot water for dishes, hand-washing, tooth brushing, showers, baths, whatever. I was very excited to get that chore done.
Less than a week now before the family begins to arrive----I pick up Goog and Melissa at Plattsburgh Airport Friday. I sure hope to have everything in this house and in both trailers and the party barn and the shelter all spiffied up and shipshape by then! I made a lot of progress yesterday. If it stops raining long enough, this lawn needs another mowing, of course. Nice, slow, steady rain, however----no gully-washers and no lightning storms yet, anyway.
Coffee is hot and hazlenut, so stop by and talk to us for a bit!
As for yesterday morning and most of the day yesterday, my internet service was out, and I called Verizon to have that restored. I guess the whole area had an outage, and it came back on in the afternoon-----very happy to get reconnected!
I finally got my leaky water connectors fixed, thanks to the neat new RV dealers about 3 miles from me, in downtown Vermontville! First, they got me two new washers which I tried, and those didn';t work any better. So I determined it was the screw-on connectors themselves that were leaking. I returned the washers, and the night before last they ordered a replacement section of hose with new connectors. They called me last night to come pick it up! Talk about fast service! I installed it (on my back with headlamp on, under bathroom sink----one connector facing one way, and the other facing the other way----and in this upside-dwon and backwards position, I had to re-program my brain the pertinent version of "left-loosey, righty-tighty" PRESTO! No leaking, so I now have a good water hookup in the trailer! I can attach a length of sewer pipe and run the grey water down the hill away from the well, and have hot water for dishes, hand-washing, tooth brushing, showers, baths, whatever. I was very excited to get that chore done.
Less than a week now before the family begins to arrive----I pick up Goog and Melissa at Plattsburgh Airport Friday. I sure hope to have everything in this house and in both trailers and the party barn and the shelter all spiffied up and shipshape by then! I made a lot of progress yesterday. If it stops raining long enough, this lawn needs another mowing, of course. Nice, slow, steady rain, however----no gully-washers and no lightning storms yet, anyway.
Coffee is hot and hazlenut, so stop by and talk to us for a bit!
? June is definitely flying by. We're now at Mount Rainier and will decide tomorrow am where to go from here or spend another day. This is not our first time here; use to come when tGM was stationed in Tacoma. Still a fantastic place. Seems like everyone is busy either traveling, planning to travel or taking care of things at home. Off to finish fixing dinner. carold