We will be moving south to Mariners Spring Training a few days. It looks like we will be leaving a few day later than originally planned.
These pictures were taken last Tuesday and yesterday we got an additional 6-8 inches. This is the biglyest snow storm we have had in 20 years and may continue for the next week. Oh well.
Here are some of the coach projects I have would on:
- new slide toppers for bedroom and front room, Brian helped me install, the short bedroom slide should have been the easy one, it took 4 hours. had a challenge getting the existing broken off screws out. The long slide which should have been more of a challenge took 45 minutes.
- replace the cable from the roof top Satilite down to the point where it enters the coach, sun had eaten up the cable
- towing clearance light on the pickup had quit working, replace the the wiring, the cheap wire I used several years ago had just come apart
- check all the batteries I put in last year, they looked great, not cororsion at all
- changed engine oil and filter
- greased chassis
- new burner in BBQ
- on the pick-up I lubed the side window tracks, got a Haynes repair manual on ebay and these were perhaps easiest door panels I have ever taken off, without the repair manual I’d still be trying to figure out how to get them off.
New 110 volt heating element for the refrigerator. I noticed the freeze had a layer of ice on the bottom. Started checking things and found the element was not getting hot. The circuit board looked fine so guessed that the element had burned out. The layer of ice was from me working on the coach with the 110 power off so the refrigerator was sometimes operating on gas and refreezing. I could order an element for $45.00 on-line or get it locally for $75.00. With the weather changing and us wanting to leave to go south I went with the local option. With the bad weather extending even longer than originally projected I think I went with the correct option.
Our original plan was to leave Sunday 2/10/2019 or Monday 2/11, it now may be the 22nd or 23rd after spring training starts. Oh, well – this storm extends from here all the way south to just north Redding California, not the best time to out on the road. As of today it is even snowing on the coast in Oregon and on the coast west of the Siskiyou’s.
We had tickets for the 5th Avenue production of “Rock of Ages” on today Saturday, however Christine emailed us on Monday saying the weather looked bad for the end of the week. We changed the tickets to Thursday night and we had a great time, it is fun music.
This is it for today, may go downstairs and tie some more flies.
