Monthly Archives: January 2013
Another Problem Fixed, almost . . .
Well, the problems diagnosed and the part ordered anyway.
Jan and I walked this morning and along the way ran into to Dick and Lillis, our dinner partners from last night on their way to do laundry. Looking forward to dinner together next week at King Food.
Afterwards we sat outside with our coffee and just enjoyed the nice weather. After the two weeks of rain we had, the sunny weather is really nice.
A little later I started working on another coach problem. Regular readers might remember that as we were in Louisiana coming back to Texas in November we lost the air in our rear airbags. Made for a bumpy ride home, believe me.
After talking with Spartan a while back I was pretty sure there was a problem with the proportioning valve that divides air between the front and rear bags to help keep the coach as level as possible.
And since my front bags were working fine, the valve was my first stop. And crawling under the rig (well, more like wiggling. I had borrowed my son’s mechanic’s creeper, but the combination of the creeper and me just wouldn’t fit. So wiggling it was.), this is what I found.
The rod that connects the proportioning valve to the chassis had broken loose and was hanging free.
You can see here where the rod had broken loose.
And this rubber bracket was where it broke loose from.
My call to Spartan led me to a great new website – RV Chassis Parts.
They carry parts for all the major RV chassis manufacturers, and products from all of these companies and more.
I was quickly able to find my part and order it online.
And it cost me a whole $1.63 . . . so I ordered two, so I’ll have a spare.
And even better, about a hour later I got an email telling me my parts had already shipped. Great service.
Next up before we leave here in February is to get my leaky rear wheel seal fixed.
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Our niece-in-law? Laura Robinson posted some great pics of our great-nieces, Avery Jane, Ella, and new addition Annisten. A beautiful trio of girls.
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Around 4:30 I fixed dinner for us, homemade taco salads, with romaine lettuce, chili ground beef, refried beans, pico de gallo, pepper jack cheese, and fresh jalapenos(there are more under the cheese). Jan also added fresh avocado to hers.
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I baked the tortilla shells using tortilla pans made especially for that purpose.
Just put your large flour tortillas in the pans and bake them at 400 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes. Easy peezy.
Here you can find the Perfect Tortilla Pans I used on Amazon, although I only paid $5 bucks for mine at Fry’s Electronics.
This is definitely a meal we’ll have again.
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Thought for the Day:
History repeats itself because human nature is static.
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Chicken and Seafood . . .
I spent a good part of the morning on some small projects around the rig, and working on a client’s computer.
About 12:30 I put half a dozen skinless, boneless chicken breasts in the slow cooker to poach them for future use. Only took a few hours because I cut them in half this time to speed things up. Just put them in water along with salt and pepper. A sample tasted really good, and we’ll be using these in some upcoming soup meals.
About 4pm Jan and I drove down a few spaces here at Galveston Bay RV Park to pick up Dick and Lillis Palmer, some new friends we met here. We were heading up to Floyd’s Cajun Seafood, probably our favorite local Cajun place. We been eating here since the day it opened about 10 years ago, and have known the owner since that time.
‘Floyd’ is Floyd Landry, one of the Landry brothers that started the Landry’s Seafood chain, after which they sold it to Tilman Fertitta in 1986. They now have 24 locations around the country.
As usual when we bring people here, Dick and Lillis really enjoyed it. We were glad, because you always hate to take someone to a restaurant you really like, and then get bad food or bad service.
After a really good meal and great time getting to know Dick and Lillis, we headed home around 6pm. Along the way we made a date to have Chinese in a week or so. Really looking forward to it.
Back home I worked on getting the client’s data off his old machine moved over to the new one. Hopefully I’ll be finished up soon.
Nick Russell called later in the evening and we talked about his recent washer problems, but it looks like he’ll have to wait and call Westland Sales tomorrow morning.
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Thought for the Day:
Remember, nothing succeeds like excess.
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