Just going to leave this here.
Category: home improvement
Ponder This
I don’t know what’s more disturbing:
– That we find ourselves pondering buying a house–only nine months after we sold the last one.
– That because I’m so unfamiliar with the current process, I actually googled “how to buy a house”
– Or that there are 654,000,000 pages out there actually describing how to do so.
Sunday RV-Living Chores
Had a busy Sunday today:
New front tires mounted. The previous pair were pretty well-worn. Not the tread, as such, but they lost a wheel weight at some point and started wearing unevenly. Downright strangely. Might also be worsened by having some worn front shocks.
Speaking of shocks… I replaced UPGRAYEDD’s rear shocks today. It takes all of five minutes or so. It’s a good thing I replaced them, too. The old ones weren’t just worn–they were completely floppy. I think I’ll order some front shocks and swap them out at the next opportunity.
I did 10,000 mile oil change #n+1, dropping off the used at recycling. It wasn’t due for it just yet but I suspect we won’t have an opportunity at any campgrounds for at least the next three or four months.
Also done today was another step on our generator install–routing the exhaust duct and health/safety testing the result. I’ve a thermometer and a digital-read carbon monoxide detector in the bay as well as another CO detector in the room above it, plus the built-in unit. Triple redundancy and none of them measured more than 1ppm during the half-hour test. I still need to source a transfer switch and a few feet of 6-3/8-1 cable to finish the install, but that can wait a few months.
Next on the agenda: a nearly-empty bottle of whiskey needs to be disposed and this knee needs to be rested.
Installing a Washer/Dryer
Home-improvement: after six months you get tired of going back-and-forth once or more per week to the campground’s laundromat. What to do? You drill a 4 ¼ inch hole through the side of your RV to install this awesomeness.
For those of you who may be wondering what the inside of your modern RV walls look like, take a close look at the core. It’s two sheets of 1/8 inch plywood, a bit of foamcore, and some fiberglass and gelcoat. It’s incredibly light and astonishingly strong.
Sewing
Dug out my sewing machine since we were stationary for the month.Out with the blah and boring and in with the new and fun curtains. Found the fabric in Washington state last November. Thankfully the quilt shop still had more when I realized I wanted to do a few more windows with it.
Excuse the mess and the lazy kids. It had been raining so couch potato weather.
the rest of me 