Hi all,

We left Simi Valley on Sunday June 4th around 11:00 am and headed up to Bakersfield. We didn't hook up the car so Valley and Dave were in the Motor Home and I followed in the Envoy. We got to our Motor Home park around 1pm and started setting up, we are staying at "A Country RV Park" in Bakersfield. It's pretty nice, it has a pool and spa, laundry room ect, and it's really full.

We had to take a weekly spot for the first week tomorrow we move to a monthly spot, which means that we get billed separately for electricity but the monthly rate is cheaper then the weekly rates. We don't move far just across the street.

Anyway, after we got here on Sunday we went to lunch/dinner with Danny at Kim's restaurant because she was working. We took Danny back home and came back to the Motor Home because Dave needed to setup the computers, after all we had been without them for 2 days and I think we were both having withdrawal symptoms. Dave worked until about 8 pm and never got them going, but in the mean time Kim and Danny drove over to our place in the truck, Kim wanted to show us that she was learning how to drive a stick but of course she didn't drive on the freeway, she just drove to the freeway then Danny took over. When they got off the freeway, Danny pulled over and Kim drove into the trailer park to show us she could drive the pickup now, kind of anyway.

Monday Dave worked on getting the computers hooked up and it finally worked. So we can update this blog and get our email (Our preferred email addresses are jeri@altonsystems.com and dave@altonsystems.com).

Then Dave made out the plan on starting the construction work at Kim's house. Tuesday we started the demo work, and when we started in the bathroom Dave tried to turn off the water, which he kind of could, so we could tear out the bathroom counter and sink. Before we took out the shower he wanted to shut the main line off but couldn't find it. He called Calif. Water and he was told there is no meter because the water is a set rate so they would have to come out and shut the water off. Dave made an appointment for 5 pm that night. We had gotten a dumpster and I was doing demo work and filling it when all of a sudden I heard water running and looked around the dumpster and saw water shooting out of the side of Kim's house and flooding the frontyard. I ran in the house and told Dave, he was on the phone, on hold, with Calif. Water he was digging around the pipe when the main line busted. I was calling a plumber while he was on hold, we finally got thru to both to tell them about the emergency, Calif Water was there in about 15 min. then the plumber showed up about 20 min. later. Calif Water couldn't find the main line to shut the water off, this guy was digging up about 3 other house's lawns, the neightbors were not to happy. Dave was having a fit because we were paying the plumber $108.00 an hour to fix the pipe but he couldn't do anything until the water was shut off. Calif Water ended up shutting the water off for the whole block for about an hour so the plumber could cap the line off. Kim's next door neightbors were pissed plus so was the whole block I'm sure.

Needless to say Kim's water was shut off until everyone could come back on Wed. So Kim and Danny had to stay at our house on Tuesday night and we left her dogs at the house. Wed. everything got fixed and we went back to demo work. On Wednesday and Thursday we got the rest of the demo work done plus some demo work we hadn't planned on, Kim asked for a few more things and of course Daddy's little girl gets what she wants. We ended up tearing out the Living Room carpet and office carpet to put in wood flooring, or want looks like wood flooring from Costco. Danny's brother-in-law, Fernando, came up on Friday morning to help. He and Dave put in the wood flooring in the office and Living Room. Fernando spent the night and today he and Danny put in the tile flooring in the entryway, that took all day and they didn't even get finished, so tomorrow Danny and Dave will do the boarder around the entryway, everything looks great though.

Friday we also had the shower hot mopped while the flooring was going in. When the plumber came out on the emergency call and then came back the next day we hired him, on the side, to come out and do the plumbing for us in the bathrooms. He will be out next Saturday to do the new plumbing work we need done, now all we need to find is an electrician. Fernando will be here to do the tile work for the bathroom and shower the following weekend. So as long as Dave doesn't break anymore things and Kim doesn't ask for anymore things we should be ahead of schedule, behind in budget but ahead of schedule.

Maybe next month we will be able to talk about travels instead or remodels. Keep checking here for updates on what we are up to. Will keep everyone informed, bye for now.