The weather is finally beginning to cooperate. Yesterday in the late afternoon, the rain quit. This morning there were clouds for a bit but they burned off by late morning and we we able to begin work on the onerous maintenance tasks we had on backorder.
Our first tasks were to replace out trailer’s vent/skylight covers that had been holed by conifer cones dropping from great heights onto or, more realistically, through our trailer’s existing cheesy plastic vent covers.
Nothing in RVs is very substantial or well-engineered so we started up the procedure with grim outlooks. We soon found that the vents have to be totally disassembled from both the inside and the outside (the roof) completely exposing the terrible workmanship used to assemble the normally concealed RV components like roof structures and walls in order to facilitate the replacement operations. Much sweating, stretching, cursing and disgust ensued but we finally had two new operable vent covers installed and you can hardly see any of the damage.
Then I went to work on our electrical umbilical. Two days ago we spent most of a day finding the replacement parts. Today, after only a a couple hours, I had replaced the umbilical’s end connector and installed a 90 degree adapter such that our electrical supply cordset is almost the way we really wanted it. When we plugged it in and energized the system, nothing blew up or caught fire so we must be okay. If I could still get one, I would have gotten a stiffy.
We celebrated our achievements with some wine and whiskey and felt quite satisfied with ourselves once our chores were complete. The weather has finally decided to cooperate and by late afternoon we had sunny skies and great views of the surroundings. It is very beautiful here, when you can see it.