We went by Kim and Danny's after arriving and visited with Miss Madison and Danny, Kim was with one of her girlfriends chatting. We then went over for dinner tonight, Danny BBQ'd hamburgers, grilled zucchini and asparagus and also grilled onions, excellent dinner Danny, thank you.
Let's see, since picking up the RV from 1000 Trails, on Tuesday, and loading it up and getting on the road you just know we had to have some mishaps. If you looked through my last set of pictures, I posted. you saw the rattle snake that was near our coach, now we know what he was after, a MOUSE. Yes when loading the RV and before we got going I asked Dave where the sunflower seeds where and he said in the bottom drawer in the front on the RV right between the driver and passenger seat. As we were leaving I opened the drawer and saw sunflower seeds everywhere, or I should say it was just the outside shell. I thought maybe the seeds had spilled but Dave said "oh sh_t" we have had a mouse in here. Sure enough the little rodent had eaten through the plastic bag and after eating that many seeds he left his little turds everywhere. Once we had a fuel stop we cleaned out the drawer, trashed what was left of the seeds away and thought OK he/she are gone now.
On leaving Cornville, by 11am, we had planned for no later then noon, so 1 hour ahead of time which was great. It was rather warm when we left and we started having trouble with over heating, we have never had this problem before, we turned off the air and put the generator on to run the air conditioner and just drove in lower gears and slower. When we stopped for fuel, Dave ended up putting 2 things of coolant in so he thought maybe we have a leak and would check when we got back to Bakersfield. Good thing we got going a littler earlier because when we stopped in Needles, at the Elks, we were still in time for dinner. By the way the temperature in Needles was 114 degrees, so needless to say we sweated all night long, so not a good nights sleep.
Before I forget, we learned something new when storing the RV, besides trying to find all the places a mouse can get into and blocking them, you must also dump the black tank. We had full hook-up at 1000 Trails but no one was there to flush the toilet, run water or anything so everything just sat. Needless to say as I was driving down the road and Dave went in back to use the bathroom that just set the smell off, I guess. I'm yelling what the hell is the smell and he said it was because the tank hadn't been dumped. Another lesson learned, when we get back on the 8th we are actually going to put the RV in dry storage, so we will be dumping everything!!
After leaving Needles we stopped in Barstow to fuel up again, and when we opened that bottom drawer again to get the key for the fuel door, we had noticed our little friend was still with us. This time the little mouse had gotten the life savers out, I didn't move those because they hadn't been touched before only the sunflower seeds, I thought those were safe, wrong. This afternoon we went to Wal-mart and got mouse traps. Dave put 2 in the front drawer and put one in the bedroom bottom drawer, just in case. Then he decided to put one in the bottom drawer in the bathroom, when he opened and took out that drawer the little bastard (or bitch) had started building a nest out of the carpet he/she scraped with their nails. Dave vacuumed it out and set up a trap, tomorrow morning we will check the spots and see if we have caught our little friend.
One more thing on the coach that I believe I forgot to mention, I know it's old age I just can't remember all the mishaps that happen to us, especially when it happens on the road. The last trip to Cornville, 5/31, the driver's sun shade came down but we couldn't get it back up. We were going to be driving into the sun when leaving Needles the next morning so Dave, he is so smart but I came up with the suggestion, he turned the passengers sun shade backwards and hooked it up to the drivers side, after we took the broken one down. It looks pretty weird but works, the passengers side didn't have any protection from the sun but the drivers need is more important. Someday will have to get that fixed, Dave tried working on the shade at home but couldn't get it to work.
After seeing Miss Madison she is walking so much better but still needs help, the girl is on constant go, busy busy busy. She has 2 more teeth coming in, the ones on each side of the front teeth. Eye teeth I believe they are called, 6 teeth before 1 year of age, I think that's good, been to long for me to remember. I am taking pictures and will post them when I get a few more. Kim and Danny are doing great and the house looks really good too. They got rid of the glass top tables and have some nice new tables, plus, a new 50 inch TV. They sold the old TV and tables through Craig's List.
3 comments:
First, did Kim and Danny win the lotto? They sure are buying a lot of furniture and doing a lot of work on the house. Really will suck if they end up having to move to AZ in a few months after all this hard work.
I can't believe you had a mouse. There is NO way I would have been able to sleep at night knowing there was a mouse in the coach. That sucks.
Way to go Mady. Inara is just now getting her eye teeth and she's 21 months. That's insane that Mady's already got so many teething coming in. The eye teeth are supposed to be painful too. Let Kim know.
They didn't win the lotto but did pay off all of their credit cards quite a while ago and had saved up a good chunk of money, but that chunk is gone now. The Arizona move is out for now, if it happens it won't be until a year from September. Even if they would have come to Arizona they were planning on renting out the house anyway. The next big thing they are going to do, once they get their savings back up is gut the whole kitchen and completely redo it. Danny's brother in law will do the work for them and should cost around 10K, but that won't be for awhile.
Madison's eye teeth already came through and they did have some restless nights but that was about it. I'm telling you Kim has been so lucky, Madison hasn't had any problems really with her teeth coming in. I wonder what Madison is holding out for??
The darn mouse is still in the coach, we now have 5 traps in place. The front drawer one he managed to get the cheese and didn't set the trap off, I don't know what we do if we don't catch it, tent the place??
You all better get that mouse before I go there, because I will freak if I see a mouse.
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