We were finally able to drop off the RV to the truck repair center this past Sunday afternoon. We were having mechanical problems with it and just needed to wait to repair it until we could stay with friends. Bless these friends. They are angels! When an RV has to go in for repairs you are at the mercy of the repair shops and truck centers and it could be days or weeks before it is done. So not having to incur the enormous costs of hotels (especially with dogs) is an incredible blessing. It's so nice that we can give back to this couple by house and pet sitting for them when they are away. They have 3 dogs, 3 cats and a bird so lots to take care of.
On the way to the repair shop the problems were horrible and I was a bit concerned we wouldn't make it, but God answered prayer and we were able to drive the entire distance without the help of a tow truck, although it lurched, sputtered, quit running once and wouldn't restart for a bit. We are being told they think it is a bad fuel pump so they are starting with that. We pray that it's that simple but the symptoms definitely fit. Just hard to imagine that a fuel pump would go bad on a brand new RV in the first 7 months. Maybe we had some bad gas or something.
We are enjoying our time at our friend's home as are the girls. Lots of animals for them to play with. As you probably saw in my last post, Bailey had been attacked by a dog and gave us the scare of our life over Labor Day weekend. She is finally back to her old self but it took a while. Half way through the week after the attack she started to drink tons of water and was peeing everywhere, including on herself in her sleep. She had also become very lethargic. So back to the doggy ER for a slew of blood tests, urinalysis and ultrasound to see if there was more going on then we thought. Thankfully, nothing showed up so we went with the easy and most obvious thing and that was to stop the steroid ointment I was rubbing on her belly. Between it being rubbed onto her skin and her licking it, that was the most likely culprit. So she got a good bath and sure enough, slowly but surely she started to improve and she is finally back to normal with some abdominal scars to show for it.
We are hoping to get our house back on Friday so we can maybe get back down to our lake lot the following weekend. We love our weekends there and miss them as we haven't been down there in a month. Since putting in the tornado shelter we have been tossing around ideas of what to do with the yard to make it more attractive and cover up the large cement shelter in the middle of it. We have come up with some ideas but until we can get back down there to measure some things it's really hard figure out what we can do. I think one tends to think there is more space then there really is when all you can do is visualize it in your mind. So I see a new project on the horizon.
While we have been staying with our friends I have had a chance to really dig into my large and tedious job of scanning all our photo albums as well as my Mother's albums. They have been stored in these people's garage for two years and I have been very slow to get through this project. So we hauled our printer/scanner with us and I have spent many hours this week scanning and enjoying the pictures. In fact I've set some albums aside to look through with my sisters when they visit next spring. It will be fun to reminisce. We had several large boxes of albums stored and I had gotten through some of them prior to this visit but today I am now down to one box!! Amazing. We will be spending 1 1/2 weeks here in October house and pet sitting for them while they are away so I hope to bring an end to this project during that time. We'll see. The albums are too heavy and take up too much space in the RV to keep them so digitizing them makes the most sense. Then we can burn them to discs to share with the family if they want any of them. After all how many times does one really get out all the family photo albums to look at them. Not very often! Aren't computers awesome.
Signing off for now. Have a great week.
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