In a Day

February 15th, 2022

Temp 76º today but windy up to 40 mph 

So some probably wonder, you are retired what do you do all day just watch tv or something? 

LOL, no, today I moved a solar panel on my enclosed trailer to the opposite side of the trailer because I moved the trailer to the lot behind us and since the solar panel which powers the fan inside the trailer is tilted to the optimum angle to the sun was now facing north it needed moved to face south again. Not a big job and only took an hour and that included reversing the covers over the vents so the rain doesn't blow into the openings. Now granted by the time I started on this it was late morning, up at about 7am, had breakfast, surfed the net for a while and then had to walk Jess. so then Jess eats her lunch around 11 and I walk her around the park and when I get back our lunch is about ready. Today just happened to be Shepards pie and it was delicious :)

After lunch I cleaned the bathroom for Deanna since it is now important that I help around the rv. After that I went and got a materials list to build a set of stairs for some people here on their deck. After that it just so happened they were replacing the well pump for the park so naturally I had to stop and inspect what was going on there, the well is 470' feet and 225' of water and all the pipe had to be pulled out of the well to get to the pump. 

Earlier I went to look at a lady's 5th wheel that she had broken a leaf spring on the passenger side, I got her dimensions on the springs and she went and picked up the parts. An hour later I get my buddy Steve to come give me a hand and we proceed to remove the old springs on the axles. It has 2 axles but only 1 set of springs broke but I replaced the spring pack on both axles on that side. Wasn't a bad job but took a few hours to get the U Bolts off and the eye bolts out on the spring ends, all this is quite rusted stuff since the RV is a 2002. The spring that broke had 4 leaf's and 2 had previously broke off and probably years ago! She probably hit a bad bump and it broke the last 2. We finally got that project finished and it was time for Jess to eat dinner and once again a walk was required! In the meantime  UPS showed up and delivered a new tow bar I ordered, well that had to have the connector ends swapped over to the new bar. That was a pretty quick job though. That finished the day since the sun sets about 6:20 now so it's time to call it a day, tomorrow is another adventure! 

And that my friends is a pretty typical day and seldom ever boring, although some days includes some fun stuff like desert riding!