This is it!

September 16, 2010

Thursday

Well, we did it, we've picked up our new home! Did a final walk-thru and got some pointers for hitching and unhitching.  Needless to say,  Paul broke the cotter pin in the handle of the hitch pulling it too hard on his first try of unhitching at the dealer.  Well, with that fixed, and a few more pointers, we were ready to roll.

We drove to Oak Plantation Campground, named for the big beautiful oak trees all around the camp.  It was an eleven mile with white knuckled ride for me.  He did great, it was just the idea of pulling the RV behind us that was a bit unnerving.  As we arrived at our site, there were a couple of cows in a nearby field waiting to greet us to our home for the next two weeks.  I had to go over and have a quick chat with them.  I'm a country girl at heart and farm animals always make me feel "right at home".  

After pulling into our site, we proceeded to unhitch.  Well, almost.  Paul broke the cotter pin again.  We put a call out to our trusted dealer and he sent out a couple of guys to give us a hand.  Seems we weren't raising the RV high enough to unhitch.  With that problem solved, we put out the slides and started to get things unpacked and put away. Hooked up the sewer hose, water, electric and got the RV leveled.  So far so good!
We decided not to spend the first night here as we still had a few things to settle at the  rental house.

September 17, 2010

Friday

I've created a binder of all the booklets given to us with the RV.  It is now known as the "RV Bible" I'm sure this will come in handy and be used many times in the coming months.

We are slowly getting things where we think we want them.  I'm sure this is going to take some time.  Should the dishes go there, or there?  It'll be trial and error for a while. Paul turned on the hot water, air conditioner and we were set for a day of making this our home.  Six hours later, still no hot water.  Now what could the problem be?  Did a check on the tank with the release valve, yep, there is water in it.  Time to pull out the trusted RV bible.  Seems there is this very little on/off switch we forgot to flip.  Wow, once the water heater was turned on, we had hot water for showers within 15 minutes!  The marvels of modern science!  Hot showers, time for bed.  This has been a a very busy day.

Hung the Tulip stain glass in the window, over the table.  Does this make it officially home?

September 18, 2010

Saturday

A new day and since we now have hot water, I decided to test out the washer/dryer.  Want to make sure everything is working before we hit the road.  On checking the holding tanks, Paul noticed that one of the two grey tanks was full.  Okay no problem, maybe we didn't open the valve when we hooked up the sewer.  Time for a valve check!  Nope, valves are open.  Checked the RV Forums hoping to get an answer.  Seems we have another valve, but where?  Under the slide? Behind the wheels, under the carriage were all suggestions of places to look.  Nope, can't find it!  Another call out to the dealer.  They said the same thing!  It's right there, under the slide behind the wheel.  Well, Paul climbed under and looked.  No luck.  So I climbed under to have a look.  Nope, can't find it!   Called the dealer back, "We can't find it"  They went to check another model and will get back to us.  I climbed under again, bound and determined to find the notorious elusive grey tank valve!  Under the carriage I go.  Do you know how many spiders decide this is a good place to catch a meal?  Too many for me.  Trying to avoid the spider, I banged my head.  Paul bent down behind the second slide to check on me, lo and behold, he spotted the valve!  It's right there!  In fact, there is a small sticker on the outside of the slide that clearly states "Grey Water"  A quick call back to the dealer to let him know we found it!

Did a load of laundry.  The washer/dryer worked great.  No leaks, no overflow, one more thing gets checked off the list.

In the late afternoon we had a tremendous downpour of rain with wind, thunder and lightening.  This was actually great as it gave us time to make sure there were no leaks anywhere.  Watched some TV and spent the night listening to the rain pitter patter on the roof.  

Charlie has taken residency sitting on the counter in the living room, keeping watch over all we are doing.   A quiet evening, a day of rest ahead.  Can't wait to see what next week brings! 

Jo