Monday, March 8, 2010

New job title and RV repairs

I'm an outdoor kinda guy. I've worked outdoors most of my life. Office type work is usually not for me, but our hours have been changed, and now we are working 8 hr. shifts 2 days a week. now Jeni and I are working 4 hr. shifts in the Kiosk(pay booth). That's me at the helm all by myself selling tickets,passes,and campsites. Jeni trained me on the computer and the procedures to make sure all the paperwork, and money balance. I have had to call her up to the Kiosk several times but I think I'm starting to get the hang of it. I'm doing my part but, Id rather be outdoors.
We have had some repairs on the RV that has needed to be fixed for awhile and these repairs are not in my "scope of work." I met a guy Jeff Cornett of Blue mountain RV repair. He gave us a great price on the repairs so we had him do it.
Both slideout toppers were ripped and retained rain water. We replaced both of them. Now they are nice and tight and not "flapping" in the breeze. We also had the ice maker in the fridge fixed(water leak). Lastly our awning wouldn't roll up. I have to get on the ladder and roll it up by hand.
Jeff found a broken spring so he installed a new one. I took a picture of the suspect spring. It is a one piece unit but ours broke in half.
I would recommend Jeff as he is very professional, and his prices are very reasonable.
If your ever in the Sacramento area and need repairs, check him out.
bluemountainrvrpr@sbcglobal.net

Our days here are numbered as we are here for seven more weeks. It will go fast so we are starting to get things ready for the move south. We went to our storage place and thinned out our stuff. We got everything into plastic totes for easy traveling when we head to our home base at Park Sierra to move in. We can't wait!
We will get settled in til mid May then were off to Oregon for the summer. We will be camphosting at Cape Blanco State Park in June. Then, were off to the Columbia river where it meets the Deshutes river to camphost at Deshutes state recreation area in July and August. We hope to spend Sept. and Oct. traveling up to Washington.

My brothers and I are sports nuts.Baseball,football,basketball,and hockey dominate our conversations.If we have somthing on our minds or news to pass along,sports always breaks the ice.A call or text to one of my brothers or my son usually starts with some sort of sports refrence about their favorite team and is really code for "how are you doing."A specific refrence to how their team is doing is code for "how is the family doing". A specific question about players on my son's favorite team is code for "how are the grandsons doing.Anyway,you see the pattern.The men in our family,well we are not a very emotional bunch.But we are a close knit bunch.We keep in touch the"Doran way",talking sports.