So here we are, a new post, and although it's hard to see, and maybe you need to know where to look, but if you look closely you might be able to detect the results of James' hard work of this last week!
It was a job already 3 years in the planning, which is when we bought the spray paint, but life/work etc got in the way, and it never happened ... until now.
We finally did it, we painted the bottom part of the RV green!
See, doesn't that look fantastic?!
Most 'modern' RV's aren't all white anymore but a beige or grey with a darker color at the base. It just makes sense, it doesn't show dirt as much and in our case it also breaks up all the white a little.
Since it's not a huge area, James thought he could do it himself, and make it look good, with simple spray paint.
Prepping was the most time consuming, but the painting itself went very fast!
Most campgrounds don't like you to do too much work or maintenance on your vehicles, so he prepped and sprayed small areas at a time, and worked when nobody was around.
(Fortunately this campground is only really busy in the weekend.)
One side done!
The master at work ...
And the other side! Isn't that pretty, I think it's a masterpiece!
We're so happy with the result.
Before ...
And after ...
OK. One big job finished! While he was at it, he also re-painted the wheel hubs, which got busted up somewhat here and there ...
See? Much better!
And some of the striping on the truck started to peel off, so he re-did those too:
As you can see Merlin kept a close eye on him!
He loves to hang out with James while he's working on the truck,
and than he likes to join him for a nice nap in the afternoon ...
He takes the nightstand while James takes the bed ...
I've been working on cleaning the mold of all our window frames. This climate turns everything green in the blink of an eye!
And to keep up our energy doing all this work, I baked some cinnamon rolls:
I try to take a short walk every day in the morning, while it's still somewhat cool.
Walking the hiking trail through the forested swamp there's always lots of butterflies that flutter out of my way ...
Most of them are Pearl Crescents, but a couple of days ago I came across this rather unusual Checkered White:
Off course there was my exiting encounter with the Snapping Turtle and this next one is a Musk Turtle:
Much smaller (8-10") and not as feisty, although the male will bite when cornered! They also release an offensive smell hence their nickname 'stink-pots'.
And there was this cute little Mud Turtle, only about 5". He played possum in it's carapace (shell) for a while when he saw me approach, but continued his way when I walked out of his eyesight:
Got-ye!
As far as the truck goes, our mechanic Greg has determined that the problem is indeed (again) injector-related and he has started the 'under-warranty' procedure.
New ones have been ordered and will hopefully arrive soon so he can install them. Unfortunately, he is not his own boss anymore, and now works full-time for somebody else, so he can only work on the truck in his spare-time. This means of course that we'll be here for at least another week ...
Fortunately we were able to extend the rent for another week and if necessary can do another one, although we will have to move sites if that comes about.
In the meantime we've returned our rental car and retrieved the truck, since it doesn't make sense to pay for a rental when the truck isn't worked on!
Oh well, we have a lot more on our to-do list, so we won't be bored, and this campground is a very pretty place, so we'll just have to wait it out ... and enjoy the sunsets over the river:
There are worse places to get stuck!
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