The Saga Continues

Tuesday, June 26, & Wednesday, June 27, and Thursday June 28, 2018

Tuesday,

This is a good morning to call a bunch of RV parts places.  Bruce got hold of a place in Fowlerville, MI.  They thought they had a replacement.  Bring the old one with you.  Right.  Now we have to be sure the door is secure and the cats can't open it.  Long drive there and fortunately, they did have a replacement.  It looked a little different, but it was supposed to replace the one that broke.  (It's not made anymore, imagine that.)  Well, we got back and he was able, with very little trouble, to replace the lock.  Crisis over.

Wednesday,

Rainy.  We just decided to do chores around the coach.  Amazing how much stuff needs to be done.  Just like being at home.  One big job, we took out the floor heating vents and cleaned them.  Enough cat hair for another cat.

Thursday,

We tackled the repair of the bedroom day/night shades today.  Although we had experience restringing the long shade in the living room two years ago, we watched the RV Geeks YouTube instructions.  Should not have been a problem, but some days are just not that great. These blinds are a bit of a puzzle.  You start from the top, go down the day shade, cross over then go down the night shade.  Then, you cross again all the while sliding the hardware on the top, middle and bottom.  The first round seemed to go well enough but the location is above the bed with a valance that would be difficult to remove. So Bruce tried to reattach it with many contortions just to have it break when we tried it out.

There is a spring at the top that you tie each string to and one knot didn't hold.  Try number two never made it to the window.  Bright idea.  Let's take off the end clips of the shade we did before and figure out what we are doing wrong.  We were crossing the middle on the wrong side of the hardware.  This time with a few changes to how we needed to attach the shade to the window we had a successful installation. Now, all we had to do was replace the end caps on the living room blind and we were done.  Just a Cotton Pickin second there Muskie, The string broke.  Fortunately, with a little imagination, we were able to repair it and be done.  What should have taken 30 minutes became a full-fledged hassle.

During the night I got sick.