Daily Archives: May 2, 2011
Landon vs. Kitty . . .
We were rudely awakened this morning by the guy parked right behind us warming up his diesel engine for 45 FREAKING minutes.
I’ve been to a couple of rally’s where Cummins’ engineers have told us that you don’t need to warm up or cool down your engine anything like that.
As far as warm up, Cummins says that my regimen is perfect. If it’s been colder than about 40 degrees, I’ve had my engine block heater plugged in, above 40 I don’t worry about it.
When everything else is ready to go except for disconnecting from shore power. I start the engine, and as soon as the oil pressure is up to normal (about 10 seconds) I put the engine into high idle by pressing the Increase Speed button on the Cruise Control. This brings the engine up to about 1000 rpm. (Your coach may differ)
Next I start the levelers coming up which also starts the airbags inflating. I then go outside, disconnect shore power, and stow the cord.
Finally I do a walk-around to double-check that everything is ready to go. By this time the coach is up on the airbags and off we go.
As far as cool down, Cummins says that if you’ve just spent 5 or 10 minutes putt-putting along getting to the park and getting to your site, that’s all you need. Otherwise don’t idle for more than about 5 minutes or so.
You don’t need 45 FREAKING minutes. So there.
After getting back to sleep, I got up about 10:15 and got the coffee started while Jan heated up the last of Miss Terri’s delicious homemade banana bread. Hint, Hint!
Then Jan brought me up to speed on the morning’s phone calls.
Our daughter Brandi called about 9 to to let us know that Landon had achieved a new milestone.
He ate his first mouthful of dirt! I guess he liked because it didn’t seem to slow him down.
I’ve also posted this video of Landon and Kitty in a standoff over one of Kitty’s toys. And yes, Kitty is a 105 pound Black Lab.
Kitty’s contest-winning move seems to be to cover the toy in dog slobber hoping this will deter Landon. But when this doesn’t work, Kitty just takes it over to the dog bed and lays on it.
A little later our friend Gina Ellis called to check in and she and Jan had a good talk.
A little before 12 Jan fixed us a lunch of Terry’s wonderful Mexican food
Then after a short nap we got together at 2:30 with Nick and Terry and headed down to Wal-Mart for some shopping. Since we had cold stuff we came back to the rig to drop things off, before heading back to to have dinner at a Popeye’s Chicken before getting home about 6 pm.
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Thought for the Day:
BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything) has replaced NIMBY.
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