Sunday, June 15, 2014

Elkhart 3rd Week Ahead

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!   To all the dads reading this blog, we hope you have a wonderful day and are able to celebrate with those you love.  To those dads no longer with us, like mine and Dicks, we love you and miss you every day.

We're making progress on this remodeling project……window coverings are ordered, Haulmark has drawn up the official plans for what they're going to do & we go tomorrow to review & say 'ok' or needs further modification.  The sofa has been measured and ordered so we're feeling a small sense of accomplishment.  We still have a couple of things we're searching for but the big items are being worked on.

This will most likely be a quiet week, except on Wednesday, when we take the rig to a place where they will be installing new leveling jacks.  We haven't been happy with the ones that were installed initially as they've never worked right.  Dick has been back & forth to that company about 5 or 6 times over the years and they work for a short time & then they don't.  Haulmark has been installing a different kind the last couple of years and are very satisfied with these so they were able to get us a smoking deal on a new set to be installed this week.  The same story with our awning……has never worked correctly, now using a different brand, and we will be able to get one of these as well for half price plus free installation.   Hurray!!!  All of this will take time to be built and installed so we've pretty well resigned ourselves to the fact that we'll be here most of July.

The weather here has been nice pretty for most of the last week except for Wednesday when we did have heavy rain most of the day but no storm, just a steady downpour.  We really can't complain so far…..and even the humidity has been low.  

On Thursday of this week, our former neighbors at the RV park in Sun City, stopped by for a visit en route to New York for part of the summer.  That was home to them for many years although they spent the winters in AZ.  A couple of years ago they sold the NY home and moved to AZ full-time buying a home in Sun City West and continuing to travel in their RV during the summer.  We had a nice visit and took them to the RV Hall of Fame here in Elkhart.  The number of RV units on display, dating back to 1913, and the history boards explaining the evolution of RVs is well done.  They even have on display, Mae West's 1931 customized House car (as they were known then), no doubt one of Hollywood's earliest mobile love nests.  We had been to this museum before but it was fun to see it all again with them.  After the museum, we had a nice dinner and then they retired to their motel before continuing to head east on Friday (they're not RVing on this trip east).

Friday we went to Goshen, IN to an RV rally being held at the fairgrounds there.  We needed certain RV supplies that are available at most rallies and it's nice to pick them up in person and save on the shipping charges.  Saturday yours truly did some shopping while Dick puttered around home with Murphy's supervision.

Murphy is still trying to catch a gopher and if we have the door open, he will sit for a long time just waiting for that gopher to come out of the hole outside our door.  Dick has filled the hole in numerous times but I guess he likes to tease Murphy and always comes back.  I just hope Murphy doesn't go through the screen one of these times.

Happy Trails and remember…….if you want the rainbow, you need to put up with the rain!

One of my favorite pictures of my dad!  He wore bib overalls 95% of the time,
loved to wear funny hats, and worked very hard as a farmer.
Love and miss you dad!

Yes, the bathroom sink is just above the toilet in this old motorhome on
display at the RV museum.  'Watch your head' is definitely in order here.

Very short bunk beds right next to the dinette in this old RV.

A bathtub!!  We 'assume' they had to bucket water to dump in the tub but not sure how they got it
out.  Some of these areas are roped off so you can't get up close to see for yourself.

Pretty nice looking old house car wouldn't you say but definitely
wouldn't pass today's standards.







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