Today’s task for us was to affix the bedroom slide-out overhead gasket into place and make it stay there. It is located such that fixing the gasket when the trailer has been assembled is not nearly as easy as installing it properly at the factory. We have made a few attempts to secure the errant gasket previously but they all resulted in dismal failures. The first time, lousy adhesive and poor labor expertise yielded almost immediate re-failure. We then tried an excellent gasket sealant but, again, the installers (us) used a poor technique and failure soon followed. Today we used the proper procedure and application techniques and the gasket has remained in place for more than 10 minutes. We may have won.
Our bird feeders have been discovered by a nice variety of local birds and we spent a good portion of the day trying to get some good photos. Strangely, once I set up the camera and had the focus squared away, few birds showed up. No sooner would I abandon the properly stabilized camera and retreat to my normal chair when the birds would come back in hordes. We spotted hooded orioles, hummingbirds, ruby finches, a harrier, lots of cowbirds, a nuthatch, a bluebird and some guys we did not identify. The racket from yesterday’s big car show here at the campground is over and animals are returning. It makes for great birding.