The
weather has turned cooler, especially in the morning when I walk but
warms up nicely by mid morning. Working outside during the day has
been quit warm. I need to take frequent breaks from the heat or is
because I’m old and need breaks! Probably both.
I
got a call this week from the RV shop and they think the hydraulic
ram for the living room slide is bad. If they can get it out it will
be replaced or rebuilt if it isn’t replaceable. With an older RV,
the possibility of finding replacement parts is a crap shoot.
I
also had the water softener people out to check why the softer is
recycling every other day and they couldn’t reset the timer. It is
mechanically shot. I guess for being 28 years old, that isn’t too
bad. It was only serviced once in 2003. The real bad news is the cost
for a new one. PRICEY! They will install it on Wednesday.
This
week I started my fall yard trimming by attacking all of the front
yard plants first followed by 2 days of trimming in the back yard. I
also cut down the dead orange tree. That one is a real loss but it
was also 50 years old. I shredded all the trimmings on Friday which
amounted to two garbage cans full which I will let compost in the
cans for a few months. That is the lazy mans way of composting.
Poor orange tree.
Shredding orange tree.
I
am still finding things that are missing from my new computer but
have slowly worked my way around them. Painful in the least but
doable.
I
am working on food lists for the upcoming desert trip as well as
shore excursions for our November Panama Canal cruise. All of this
takes lots of time of course.
