Took Care of Sagging Steps

Took care of sagging steps.

I tried several different fixes and this was the best I have used.  I bought the swing down step support on amazon and it works great.  If I forget to snap it in the up position and start the RV.  The steps automatically come in and this device swings out as well as in so does not strain the step motor.  I can now snap it in the up position or if I forget it is 12 inches above the road so I am still road safe.

 You can see the shaft and the base in this photo you twist the shaft out or in for height adjustments.

Here is looking up under the bottom step.  You can see how the shaft is on a pin to allow in and out movement.  You can also see to the right where the shaft snaps in for storage.  A final note I added a piece of 2X4 to fill the void under the step foe ease of shaft movement.

Weight of the RV was a Suprise

Weight of the RV was a surprise to me.  I now see why I read that about 55% of all RV's can be overweight.  Ours was 100 pounds over.  What a surprise!  I adjusted our weight so it is under weight now.  Just because there is room does not mean we should fill that room, lesson leaned:)  Had to cut down on the cast iron and my tools a bit but we made it through our outside compartments.  I need to get with Kathy and work on the inside next, wish me luck:)

This also reminds me to keep tabs on our tires as well.  We have our wireless tire monitors and feel good with them always on when we are on the road.  The tires are now four years old and in good shape.  I remember reading that we should look at replacements every 5-7 years do to age, so only another couple more years on the tires.  I also am using tire covers when I remember them:)

Just had our generator gone over and a RV tune up and belts and hoses checked as well,they were fine.  I will be stopping at NAPA to pick up a set of spare belts and hoses for on the road spares.  Finally resealed the roof seams as well.  We are ready for summer.

Tomato on our Aero Garden

Tomato on our Aero Garden at 45 days.  We found an additional five after these photos, will let you know when we pick our first ones.  Also we have been eating 2 to 3 small salads each, for the past two weeks.

 In the top center you you see a round one to the left of the flowers and the photo below look at the  center and near the bottom for the second one.

Above shows part of both areo gardens whit two herbs and I have a self watering unit on the way.  Once set up it will let us stay away for 3 to 4 days at a time when the plants get to this stage or larger.

Two Aero Gardens

We now have two aero gardens and they are growing like crazy:)  In one we have a Tomato plant Thyme and a Basil, in the other we have lettuce all growing well.  No tomotos in site yet.

Aerogarden Update March

We just bought our second Aero Garden and here is a photo showing we have pulled out some herbs to make room for a tomato plant we pulled three plants and put them in dirt a few weeks ago.  As you can see the plants in dirt are growing about a third as fast.  With the aero garden we could use/trim herbs like Basel and Parsley at least three times a week.  We are lucky to get one trim of Basel or Parsley a week.

Get a scanner

A scanner to keep in your RV, we scan photos and records all year.  We keep a copy on a SD card and another on a portable hard drive.  We have also emailed key documents to our kids and they to us as another back up.  We have got tired of shredding documents and keeping paper copies and paying annual fees for a bank safe deposit box

To be fair we do keep a handful of paper documents in a Walmart 8X11 (inside dimensions) Firebox/Safe.  It is about 7 inches tall on the outside.

Butter Dishes

Our old Tupperware butter dish finely died so we went on the hunt for a new one and could not find one.  While in our local hardware store we found one and bought it:)  Lesson here, never forget your local hardware stores.  It is cheaper to use a stick of butter then a tub of butter, with the sticks we buy four sticks for under three dollars and keep the others froze till needed.

We bought three spare ones so we have them in the future, of course we also put one in the house as well.