Our RV Adventures

I spent the morning finishing up the new website, but I’ll have more about that later.

About 1pm Jan and I went outside (Jan holds the ladder) to cut the notch for the circle clamp screw in the dryer vent hole. I had planned to use the saw blade on my Swiss Army tool, but once I saw how thick the rig wall was I rethought my approach.

In fact I was very surprised at how thick the wall actually was, especially based on damage to other rigs I’ve seen that revealed their wall structure. Our coach’s wall is 2” thick with the outer fiberglass skin, 3/4” plywood, 1” of insulating board, and the inside wall board.

Based on this, I decided to use my Oscillating Multi Tool and a saw blade to cut the notch.

And with this, it only took a couple of minutes to carve out the opening.

At this point I was able to quickly remount the deflector and finish things up.

Later about 4pm, Jan and I drove into Conroe to have dinner at the new Jason’s Deli. When we were last here this past August, it was still under construction, so we were happy to see it ready to go now.

And although it’s been a good while since we’ve eaten at a Jason’s, we went right back with our usual favorites.

Jan had a cup of Broccoli Cheese Soup, and Quarter Ham Muffuletta.

While I got a bowl of their Spicy Southwest Chicken Chili, and the small Rueben Sandwich.

If that’s the small Rueben, how big is the big one? But it did give me half to take bring home.

After dinner, we headed over to the nearby Sam’s Club to pick up a prescription that I had called in earlier. But the first thing I did was to upgrade my membership to the Plus card.

For a number of y ears, we had gotten our scripts through Sam’s Club, and only used Wal-Mart when there wasn’t a Sam’s nearby. At that time Sam’s honored Wal-Mart’s $4/$10 prescription discounts, and the Plus card itself saved us about $50 per month, so the $55 per year extra cost of the Plus Card was worth it.

But then Sam’s dropped the $4/$10 list so it no longer made sense to keep the Plus card. So when we renewed this past May, I dropped our membership back to the standard $45 version. And as I related in the blog at the time,, we actually got the renewal free because the manager kept screwing up printing out our new card, so he finally just comped the fee.

Well, with this new prescription, I found it was $105.00 at Wal-Mart, and $85 at Sam’s Club. But with the Plus card, the price was $10. Yep, $10. So it sounded like it was time to upgrade back to the Plus card.

And then things got even better. I went up the Customer Service desk expecting them to pro-rate the $55 for about 6 months worth, or around $27.50. But for some reason, the pro-rated amount to upgrade was $7.38. Where they got that from, I don’t know. I did question it, but they said it was correct.

So for $7.38 I save $75 per month. It doesn’t get much better than that.

Finishing up, I’m reposting Brandi’s Travel Agency since the link was bad in yesterday’s blog.

Brandi Morrison – Travel Agent for Land and Sea

And now, here’s the new site I’ve been working on for a while.

It’s for Eyes Of Texas Engraved Sun Glasses.

They will engrave and color your desired text, name, or nickname, or one of their standard graphics, with more being added all the time. Or for an extra charge, you can submit your own company logo or drawing for engraving.

And we also have specials for Breast Cancer Awareness and Blue Lives Matter.

Check it out.

Thought for the Day:

“He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.” — Samuel Johnson, 18th-century author

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Today was another all-website all-day long day. I’m probably about 98% done, with just a few nagging things to finish up.

Plus I tend to keep picking at it, changing this and moving that, never quite satisfied with how it looks. But at some point I just have to lock it down and step away from the keyboard.

I’ve still got one more thing, actually two, I guess, to finish up the washer repair. The dryer vent tube is held on to the outside deflector by a 4” stainless steel circle clamp.

But it’s always hard to get reinstalled because there is not quite enough room to get the screw part of the clamp back inside the hole so that it seals up weather tight.

So I’m going to use the saw blade on my Victorinox Swiss Army Tool to cut out a notch in the round opening so the clamp will fit tighter.

And then I’m going to reinstalled the cabinet doors, and the retaining strip.

And if that wasn’t enough I also need to take a look at the microwave again. Back in June I replaced a broken door latch that kept the MW door from opening. But after working fine for several months, it developed a different, but I think, related problem in that the MW seems to turn on, i.e. the fan runs and the timer counts down, but the light in the oven doesn’t come on, and it doesn’t heat.

Usually, but no always, a light tap of the fist on the edge of the door will fix the problem, at least until next time. And if you’re cooking several things in succession, the MW will shut down with the same symptoms.

Since that latch also triggers a safety microswitch, I suspect it’s just slightly out of adjustment, and when it gets hot after extended usage, something expands and no longer makes contact with the switch.

Finishing up, I want to promo my daughter Brandi’s new Travel Agency.

She specializes in one-of-a-kind custom vacations, tailored to your specific wants and needs.

https://m.facebook.com/enjoyyourvacayfrombrandi/

Thought for the Day:

“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.” — Abraham Lincoln

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