2 Weeks and Counting, Have We Beat Back Murphy?

As I've mentioned in the past, we used to live in New Hampshire for 20 years, so we are pretty familiar with this area as we would come over quite often.  With family and friends we used to rent a house right on Wells Beach every year for 2 weeks.  On the way over we would always pass a small lean-to along the way selling the best veggies, superb corn and tomatoes, and in fact the young man who worked there would tell us his family sold the veg to send him to college.  Well it's been a long time since we've gone by there again, and we hardly recognized it, now there is a large, very nice building and store, some flowers and plants, but still the wonderful veg, including corn and tomatoes.

Made a delicious dinner

Like one of the commenters said, he had poor results with JB Weld on the basement door, and now I have to agree, it didn't even last 24 hours after it dried, very disappointing.  The way these doors were constructed make it very challenging to fix, Monaco tack welded the door surface on, only 5 or so welds that have all broken, you can't weld them back on without ruining the paint on the outside, and if the next plan of attack fails, we will have to put bolts through from the outside and try to make it look like they were designed to be there, but meanwhile I decided to try it for now with an aggressive bead of silicone, and if it works, to clean it up and apply Sikaflex when we get to Florida, time will tell.

One of the failed spot welds

Removing the disappointing JB Weld

Applying the silicone

Now crossing our fingers this will at least get us to Florida.
The clamps will stay on for 36 hours

We are trying to do several things before we leave Maine, and one of them was to go back to the Clam Shack in Kennebunkport to get what some people feel is the best lobster roll in Maine, it is also one of the very, very few that don't use a New England hot dog bun.  Best or not, they are very good.

And what a beautiful day and spot to enjoy them!

Friends, Bob and Harlean came to visit and we spent a very nice time with them.  We got carried away enough we didn't get any pictures:-(

We took a nice ride around to Portland Light and Cape Elizabeth, another spot we'd never been for some reason.

We also ran up to Harraseeket Lunch for one more meal, we were amazed at the number of people there, especially right at opening time, we figure now after Labor Day, the locals have emerged.

Unfortunately, we weren't all that pleased with the meal:-(  But we did stop at the fish market on the way back and had a wonderful halibut dinner.

Then it rained all day, and Jan and I did something we almost never do, we went to the movies!  We saw Maverick in an iMax theater and it was awesome, maybe we'll have to do it more often?

And just like that it was Wednesday again, $1/oyster Wednesday at Billy's Chowder House, so what could we do?

Upped our game, 35 between the two of us

And yes, the lobster stew is amazing!

So how did we beat Murphy?  Certainly not with anything but luck.  And actually I am not ready to fully announce victory yet, it's only been a week.  We think our saga with the 2nd element on our AquaHot had to do with the leak of that water fitting.  We think it had been leaking for some time, albeit very small until it leaked profusely enough for us to see it, from the discoloration on the fitting.  And further we think that is what popped the 2nd element off with increasing frequency, still can't answer why the low voltage reset fixed it, but this week had been the longest we've gone without losing the element.  Keep your fingers crossed for us.

And that leads us up to our entry step.  It had quit before, a few years back from being gunked up, and a very thorough cleaning by the diesel mechanic cured it, but this time I have to admit, I felt it might be something more than that.  So this morning was the day.  I raised the front of the coach up and Jan crawled under, 4 cans of brake cleaner and a ton of scraping, exercising it, and even washing it down with hot water, they appear to be fixed.  Hurray!  But time will tell for sure.

What a ton of crap!!

2 weeks to go, stay tuned.