Our RV Adventures

First off, I want to thank everyone for their many Happy Birthday wishes. Jan and I both really appreciate it.

And as far as Jan is concerned, we’re in that yearly Sweet Spot. The one where for 20 days a year, we’re the same age. Then on October 25th, Jan goes back to being a sexy cougar/cradle-robber for another 345 days.

With the washer problem no longer hanging over me, I spent the morning and early afternoon fine tuning the new website shopping cart, which is really close to going online. I’ll let you know.

During the day, our daughter Brandi, our son Chris, and our long-time friend Maria called to wish me a Happy Birthday.. Thanks guys.

About 3pm we headed out for some errands and dinner at Golden Corral. Our first stop was Wal-Mart to check out their prepaid cell phones for Jan.

Presently she has an LG Revere flip phone. Yes, they still make them.

She only wants a phone for phone calls, no web, no text, no camera, just phone calls. But we’re presently paying almost $60 a month for this. So I’m looking for something cheaper.

And after a really good meal at the Corral, we stopped off at Kroger’s for a few things before heading home. Then after we got settled in and the groceries put away Jan came outside and held the ladder while I finished hooking up the dryer hose to the outside vent. So all I lack now is to the put the cabinet doors and retaining strip back on.

Then Nick called me this evening with his and Terry’s Birthday Wishes. They’re presently in Quincy, FL, west of Tallahassee, hiding out from Hurricane Matthew. Before they left a couple of days ago, they  were in New Smyrna Beach, right in the 10 ring of the hurricane target area.

A couple of nights ago Jan and I watched the pilot episode of Timeless, a new NBC drama on Monday nights. A time machine has been stolen from an Elon Musk type character (think Tesla & SpaceX) by a mysterious man who seemingly wants to change history and eliminate or cripple the United States.

A history professor, Lucy Preston, a Delta Force soldier, Wyatt Logan, and a scientist, Rufus Carlin, are recruited to use a somewhat rickety prototype machine to follow the stolen machine and try and stop or reverse any changes made.

Their first stop is May 6th, 1937 in Lakehurst, NJ, the time and place of the Hindenburg disaster. One of the problems the team has is that they have no idea what the mystery man is trying to change.

In this case the thief manages to avert the Hindenburg crash, only to set a bomb to try and bring it down the next day as it departs New Jersey heading for London and the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.

SPOILER ALERT! In case you’ve recorded the show and haven’t watched yet!

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Although the team manages to disarm the bomb, a gunfight breaks out that still causes the Hindenburg to crash and burn, but on May 7th, not the 6th as before, with different people killed and different people surviving.

When the team returns to the present, they find the timeline altered such that the Hindenburg always crashed on the 7th. The team are now the only 3 people who remember the original one.

But the last scene is the real twist. When Lucy returns home, she discovers her mother is not comatose and dying, but in perfect health.

And she never had a sister. Amy never existed.

Thought for the Day:

“I have noticed that even 
people who claim everything is pre­determined and that we can do nothing to change it, look 
before they cross the road.” — Stephen Hawking, physicist

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But I think that every time will be the last time.

After our laid-back coffee and muffins this morning, and then some website stuff, I headed into Conroe and the Home Depot for some wood to construct a platform to ride on top of my floor dolly. This will raise the washer high enough so that it will be at the right height to just slide the washer into its cubby.

I bought a 2 x 4 stud and had them cut six 10” pieces off of it. I also got a 2’ x 2’ piece of plywood and had them cut it in half, giving me two 2’ x 1’ pieces.

Next I nailed together 2 stacks of 3 pieces and placed them on the dolly , and then nailed the 2 plywood pieces on top of that. The platform is not attached to the dolly, but just sits on top of it.

Back inside, Jan and I got the washer up on the platform and rolled it into place. After hooking up the water, power, and drain, I installed the new dryer vent tube.

The old one was starting to get a little tattered so I got a new one the other day as well. Then it was just a matter of pushing the dolly against the opening and shoving the washer in. Now it’s a piece of cake.

I should have done this sooner.

As a first quick test, I let some water into the empty washer and then put it spin mode to be sure it emptied without a problem. When it did, I ran a full wash load through, again with no problems.

So now with the washer done, I finally was able to install the new screen door catch my son Chris had fabricated for me,

The old one, or what’s left of it, looked like this.

and the new one like this.

It was a perfect fit and works great. So we have a usable screen door now.

Great.

Thought for the Day:

“You know there’s a problem in the schools when you realize that out of the three Rs, only one actually begins with an R.” — Dennis Miller

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