Finalizing Plans

The heat and humidity has stayed with us most of the time since I posted last, then the crowning blow was our unwelcome shift to Daylight time making our Happy Hour earlier sunwise, and obviously hotter.  But the last 2 days have been glorious!  Overnight temps in the 50's, and hardly any humidity, and only high 70's during the day, awesome.

We have finalized quite a few of our plans, altered our appointment in Orlando for 6 new tires, getting the remaining Balance Masters, a front end alignment, replacement of our air dryer desiccant, and replacing an air fitting on our leveling tank, all at our favorite frame and chassis place, Josam's.  Unfortunately they are still experiencing some supply issues and we are disappointed the best we could do with the tires will be 6 months old.  But the 6 we are replacing are already 6 1/2 years old so it's time for us, especially since we are adding a trip out West to our plans.  So our last day here will be the 1st of April, our adventures will begin Sunday, the 2nd when we go and spend the night before our service right at Josam's.

We were able to get a few other projects completed.  We have had new mirror bases for some time now and the corrosion had gotten to the point where we needed to replace them.  We like the mirrors but their chrome plating is something to be desired.

Before and after.

With the heat and humidity all three of our air conditioners have been running almost nonstop.  We had the main circuit breaker at the post pop several times, a fairly normal situation in campgrounds.  You have to remember there are used as switches in addition to providing circuit protection as they are switched off when plugging in or disconnecting, then switched on to provide power.  After hundreds of ons and offs in addition to the very high draws it is not unusual for them to fail. The campground sent Donnie over to install a new breaker and when we pulled my plug out we both noticed that it was extraordinarily hot, indicating some issues with our old plug, maybe a loose internal connection, so I wanted to replace the end with another before we had any more problems.  The old plug had a nice feature with a movable arm that leveraged the plug out of the socket, but it was an integral plug fused on the cord that can't be repaired.  The new one has a handle to make it easier to pull out, but not as nice as the original, although it's nice and cool now.

The old plug

Done

We also are wrapping some things up for the season, visiting and having lunches with friends, lots of Happy Hours, and Jan had a nice farewell lunch with 2 of her Mah Jongg friends, Linda and Sam.

 And she has been working on even more puzzles from Ray.

I did the annual maintenance on the Aqua-Hot, new filter, new nozzle, and cleaned the combustion chamber.

I had another little project I have been mulling over in my mind for some time for the best way to handle it.  There is an aluminum extrusion that holds the fabric on our slide topper awnings.  Some time ago, when another service center was "fixing" it, they broke the extrusion on the end, the cost of replacing the whole thing was insane, not for the piece itself, but for the shipping, it is over 12' long.  So we spliced in a piece instead, it kind of worked but it tended to move too much.

Disregard the worn fabric, it has been replaced,
but you can see the "fixed" extrusion here

The splice in place and you can see how it moves

I came across a small piece of stainless steel that was to be used for mounting a dash cam or GPS, I don't remember what, but it called to me.  I thought if I trimmed it a bit, bent it a bit, it would serve as a connection between the two extrusions when riveted in place.  I am happy to say I think it worked perfectly, especially since it can't be seen from the ground.

Trimmed a little, bent a little, and 2 holes drilled

It worked

Now you're probably thinking, wow, no food this post, you are, aren't you?  But no way can I do a whole post without food:-)

Jan and I had an awesome Thai lunch with wonton soup, Tom Kah soup, Thai shrimp, and an incredible larb salad at a new favorite Thai restaurant.

We had a hankering for prime rib and didn't want to go out for it so.......

And capped the week off with delicious seared dry scallops!

I will probably post one more time before our departure, we have a few more things to take care of, still waiting on a couple other things, and I'll catch up and bid good bye to our winter digs.