Quick Update, On The Move Tomorrow!

Tomorrow morning bright and early we make our way to Maine!  3 overnights, into Maine on Monday.

We spent way too much time on trying to cover the triple hole over the new microwave, back and forth with this and that and fairly came up with a solution we can live with.

Looks pretty good we think

I got some more dental work done, the final crown for my implant, and of course, with my dental luck while they were making the mold for the new crown, found a chip out of another tooth that needed repair.  Got that done, and then waited until the end of the month for the final installation.  And although we wish our long time dentist, Dr Mulkey the very best in his retirement, we are sad to lose our wonderful dentist and friend of over 25 years.

We've been running errands and taking care of little things that needed to get done before moving up north.  We've had several very nice visits with friends.

And we've visited our property several times for a picnic or a coffee.  Two days ago we stopped in and found several small branches had been taken off our tree and there was a new No Trespassing sign on our tree?!?!?!  We decided at that point especially since the lot next to us has already sold and the folks that bought it are building immediately, it might be a good idea to put in more stakes delineating our boundary in case the string that marks it now goes away.

We bought a bunch of stakes and bright ribbon and went to put them in, while we were working our neighbor, the one that used to own our lot, and a real nice guy saw us and came over.  He explained that it was he that put up the signs because on Easter Sunday there were people walking around our lot and around his pond.  He confronted them to find out what they were doing, said they saw the pond and thought it'd be a nice place to sit around for awhile.  He informed them it was private property and no it was not all right.  Nice to have a neighbor keeping an eye on our lot:-)

What doesn't show in the pictures is that it is hot, hot, hot and humid, actually the first this spring, and not a cloud in the sky, and I was melting.  We got it done, sat there, relaxed, had coffee, and chilled for awhile, and said goodbye for the next 7 months.  Yeah, we have new plans again:-)  More to follow.

Well, We Finally Did It!

We had a situation here that we've never encountered before, an invading chicken.  After we had gotten ourselves all situated in our site, along came a visitor.

 

More inquisitive than actually friendly, and she stayed in a general area centered on a 5th wheel across the street, but for some reason our motorhome called out to her.  No one seemed to know where she came from.

She decided to lay her eggs directly under our coach, 4 in total before the park asked her to leave, and as far as we could tell, she only laid her eggs under our coach.

The new circulation pump for our AquaHot system arrived just in the nick of time, as the night time lows were forecast to be freezing.  And since I needed to get the burner out of the way to replace the pump, we did a complete annual service on it at the same time.

Completing the pump replacement

The burner with its new nozzle

Jan's sister Karen arrived in her beautiful new motorhome to spend a few days with us before meeting us in Maine next month.

But, it was bittersweet, as she was unhooking her truck, we all noticed a drip under the engine, turned out to be fuel, and after a week of a mobile tech working on it to no avail, she had to be towed, never a good thing.

But a happy ending, she is back here now after only 2 nights away after the shop found a couple crushed gaskets in a very challenging spot causing the leak.

One thing we desperately needed to do was give the coach a bath, it hadn't been washed since November!  Jan got the roof and we got the rest, of course, she went on to wash the truck as well.

I'd say the roof really needed it

Then a small rant about lights in the campgrounds.  We do not understand what the proliferation of lights is, from intensely bright LED porch lights, to under side lighting and under slide lighting that if you're real lucky change color, and the fact that people use these is fine, AS LONG AS YOU SHUT THEM OFF AT A REASONABLE TIME, 10, 11 PM.  But now lots of folks keep them on all night long, and the irony is they usually have all their blinds pulled so they don't even see their own lights, GRRRRR.  We are right now experiencing this neighbor with incredibly brilliant lighting that has been on every night for the last week.

You could perform surgery under these lights they are so bright

When we last replaced our microwave in 2016, the new then GE required a different mounting system that the Sharp we took out used.  It was necessary to access the top of the unit so 3 bolts could come down from above to hold the unit in place.  In our coach there was no access to that spot, but since we did it ourselves we figured we'd drill the smallest hole that Jan could get her arm into and then with me holding it up she could insert the bolts.  Worked great, we covered the hole with a round tile and no one ever even knew it was there.  

That's velcro around the hole to hold the tile,
and yes the cord was pushed inside

But since we were having it professionally installed this time, we didn't figure they'd be able to insert their arm in the hole so we opened it up in preparation for our replacement.  And we plan to cover this bigger hole with tile as well.

We just got back from having the new unit mounted, and what a time we had.  Once we got there we opened the slides and emptied the nearest cabinet to be ready.  In came the tech and right off the bat he had a lot of trouble getting his big arm in our new hole, and then we couldn't get the plug out, it was like the hole in the cabinet wall was too small, weird we have no memory of this.  He fought it and finally got the plug out and then as he struggled in the hole, I brought out our multi-tool and cut off the points giving him more room.  He got the old one out and did it all himself, it is heavy and unwieldy.

And although this was supposed to be an exact replacement, it turned out that the mounting bolts had gone from 3 to only 2 and in a different spot.  He quickly took care of that.  I had to help get the back of the new one inserted on the tabs, very little help by me, and then he got it all bolted in, but we couldn't get the new plug through.  With much frustration in the air, we told him we wanted to be sure it worked, but we'd take it from there.  So we drove back with the cord hanging out.

Once back Jan and I did a little cutting and a little fishing and got the plug through.

I have the receptacle off the wall to get the plug through

Jan feeding it through

All done and only the hole to cover, more on that to follow.

And on to the biggest news!  After looking and looking at houses and land for over a year, we can report we are now proud owners of a 2 acre lot in Dallas, GA.  We are very pleased and will take our time to figure out exactly what we will do with it as far as building.  We are in no rush, don't even have a plan yet, only ideas, and even with this, Maine is still calling:-)  After our closing we went over to have a little celebration with some fine libations and fine cigars.

Overlooking our lot

Happy campers, and, yes, that is a pond in the background