Might have screwed the pooch ...

[Getupngo]

I kept putting off winterizing my rig because of the wonderful autumn we've had. Then a storm rolled in and temps dropped into the teens. Last night my son ran the genny and set up heaters inside and in the utility bay. Today I drove 5 hours back to Salt Lake City and then another two hours to get my RV and set it up and in an RV park slurping juice until I can take it in to be winterized tomorrow.

Keep your fingers crossed. Hope we didn't do any major damage.

[BarbaraRose]

Hope your RV will be OK! (I thought this was going to be something about a dog !)

[snowball]

Me too Barbie
So what rv park do you have it in Janice
Back home in SLC will be leaving on Tues
hopefully anyway according to weather.com it should be ok
if I can roll up all the hoses that is
and hopefully I've not frozen anything ran heat all weekend while
I was gone so hoping it's all ok
lets get together tomorrow
sheila

[carolb]

LOL me too! & not only that, taking it literally, I thot of "binders of women"!!! I was REALLY hoping yew REALLY didn't scr----...gawd, I can't even think of it let alone say/type it!!!! I identify abot the RIG--I kept procrastinating & each nite I'd go to bed thinking "is this the nite it'll freeze???" Hope all is well with yore rig, & please STAY AWAY FROM THE DOGS!!!!

[Bethers]

If you ran the heat, I don't see a problem. I've been in days it didn't get out of the teens.

[mitch5252]

Read the title, looked at which forum (thinking it was Jokes and Games), saw it was general and thought - OMGosh, what'd she do now????

I hope your rig is fine. It should be.

[MrsHomeSweetRoam]

Best of luck!

As a lifer SoCal girl I have no idea about such things- luckily my husband is from the East coast...so I have him to teach me when it comes time.

[Getupngo]

Okay, an explanation of "screwed the pooch." It is from the 1979 book, "The Right Stuff" written by Tom Wolfe about the early astronaut corps. But upon submitting the term to the google gods, I found I had remembered the definition wrong. Wolfe said it is test pilot jargon for submitting to panic. I incorrectly recalled it as making a fatal error.

In fact, I apparently DID submit to panic by driving 300 miles and spending an ungodly amount of money to "save" a rig that didn't need saving. Turns out my mechanic said I should have called him and he would have been GLAD TO GO PICK IT UP.

THAT, my friends, is screwing the pooch.

[sharon]

LOL!! Leave it to you Janice!! Just glad that your rig is ok, that's the important thing.....

[Dawn309]

Too funny Janice. I will really remember the definition now

[mitch5252]

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[dayspring39]

You gave all of us gals a good laugh... in fact still laughing!
Kathleen