Race Weekend

The Matson's went to their race weekend and left us in charge of the campgrounds. Was a pretty slow weekend. We had only 3 campers here so we took on other projects to stay busy.

I took on the kitchen floor. There was a water leak and it was rotting the floor out. I first started by tearing up the old floor to try and find the leak, This took a while because the floor was so rotten all you could get up was small pieces at a time. After I finally got the floor all up I found a drain pipe that had came apart that went to the bathroom sink. Cleaned the area and repaired the pipe. Built new floor to replace all water logged wood. Now it is as good as new. ( I hope! Never said I was a carpenter) Also I dealt with 2 water line breaks in the camp grounds. 1 was just something that happens every now and then. The other was caused by a camper backing into the water spigot and busting it off under ground. No problem a little digging and a new tee took care of it.

The Matson's had a great weekend. That is in till the trip home. They had 1 tire come apart at the tread and tear up the side of their fifth wheel and 20 miles down the road blew another tire on the fifth wheel. The guy they bought it from just put all new tires on it. Come to find out the new tires were 7 years old. The tire dealer screwed him by selling out dated tires. ALWAYS CHECK THE MANUFACTURING DATE ON THE TIRES WHEN BUYING NEW TIRES. If you don't how to check it ask the dealer to show it to you. NEVER BUY TIRES OVER A YEAR OLD. Especially when dealing with this much weight. Luckily no one was hurt and the fifth wheel is fixable. Scott and I are taking it to American RV today to have it fixed. Denise and I know how it feels to have your RV tore up while on the road. It is not a good feeling at all, but after the fact, you can just thank god that nobody got hurt and mark it as a memory of your adventures while RVing.

I will be starting the siding on the office/house this week. This is a good size job so I should stay out of trouble the next couple of weeks. I hope I'm smart enough to do the job right. Sounds easy enough from all I've talked to about it. The only thing that really concerns me is that I'm putting some of it over brick and I haven't dealt with that before. I have had lots of good advice so I think I can do it. I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. Like the Little Train I think I can. Will let you know how it turns out in a later post. I THINK I CAN!!!!!