on January 3rd, 2010 at 6:56 pm by MJ

Last night as I was falling asleep to the sound of the wind battering the outside of the RV with gusts of up to 50 mph, temperatures in the teens, and sub-zero windchill, my final conscious thought was, “I should leave a faucet dripping.” I promptly went off to the land of Winken, Blinken, [...]

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on December 19th, 2009 at 1:17 pm by MJ

Our repairman, Patrick, finally returned yesterday and managed to get the power restored to the curbside outlets in the RV.    Turns out that the problem resulted from Eagle RV drilling holes through the outer wall into the box containing the outlet for our bedroom TV when they mounted the wrong awning.  We’re lucky.  That short [...]

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on December 19th, 2009 at 1:09 pm by MJ

So I’m sitting inside the 5er here in Baltimore which is currently experiencing the biggest snowstorm it’s seen in years (possibly ever…remains to be seen).

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on December 13th, 2009 at 2:08 pm by MJ

I’m a bit frustrated right now, and I’m finding it difficult to resolve said frustrations. Here’s a list of things that are bugging me about my RV life:
1) It’s been raining off and on for nearly two months now. The ground never gets a chance to dry out. This is a problem [...]

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on November 14th, 2009 at 3:32 pm by MJ

We thought the Saga of the Awning was over, but it’s not. Turns out the RV dealership replaced the cheapo awning they initially tried to pawn off on us with HALF a new Dometic awning. They bought new fabric and hardware and strung it all up on our old roller, all without telling [...]

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on November 7th, 2009 at 5:08 am by MJ

Tonight’s the first freeze of the season. Of course, I hadn’t bothered to put the heat tape on the drinking water hose, so I found myself outside after dark in the cold with a lantern, electrical tape, pipe insulation, a pair of scissors and the heat cable. Half an hour later, voila, toasty-warm [...]

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on October 22nd, 2009 at 9:50 pm by MJ

Eagle RV finally came and installed the correct awning, a Dometic.  It took  nearly two months to get it done, and they still managed to cheat us (or the insurance company, depending on how you look at it).  First they buy the cheaper and smaller awning and pocket the rest of the insurance money, making [...]

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on October 18th, 2009 at 2:39 pm by MJ

I started putting the Frost King winterizing kits on my windows yesterday. I managed to get three windows done before I gave up for the day. It’s a lot of work!
Basically, I have to apply double-sided tape around the edge of the window frame, cut a piece of the heat-sensitive plastic to fit [...]

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on October 18th, 2009 at 2:26 pm by MJ

About a month or so ago, the igniter on our stovetop stopped working. Rather than bother to try to figure out what was wrong with it, we just started using a lighter to get the burners going.
Today I finally decided to take a moment, pull up the rangetop, and try to figure out what [...]

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on October 16th, 2009 at 10:33 pm by MJ

Liquid propane gas, that is, and not a minute too soon, either!  I knew we were getting low on propane, but I wasn’t sure exactly how low.  Our tanks don’t have a gauge on them.  There’s just this little indicator that turns red when one tank is empty, and then a switch flips over and [...]

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