An Abandoned Blog For Three Weeks

I cannot believe that we have not posted here for three long weeks. What has been going on that took us away from our blogging duties?

Well, we were doing this and that and just could not bring ourselves around to blogging for the past few weeks but some stuff was accomplished and this is a good thing.

Edith and I have been out and about and making plans for the future. Edith has several new outfits and I finally got some clothes on that I like.

David and I visited the RV, Ms Lucille/Esmeralda several times over the past couple of weeks and made some progress with repairs but less than we planned and wanted to do. We re-wrapped the RV with the tarp and secured it with rope and just a few bungee cords and it is holding up well. We applied LiquidWood to the bed-over-cab area but wasted quite a bit of it because we mixed too large a batch for the job. But had we investigated the exterior lower passenger side of the RV earlier we could have used the extra LiquidWood there to strengthen the obviously rotten wood in that area too! Live and learn!

Edith and David painted the cabinets in the bedroom/lounge area of the RV as well as painted and applied wallpaper to the cabinet doors and does it ever look good. All of us are quite pleased with the way it looks and the job isn't even done yet.

Photos will be posted once the job is complete. See our previous posts for some hints on paint colours and the wallpaper used to get an idea of what we are doing.

So yes, David and I explored the exterior of the RV, more specifically the lower trim and discovered that the wood veneer underneath the fiberglass paneling is dry, rotten and brittle and practically disintegrates upon your touch. Bad news definitely but the bright spot in all of this is that the driver's side of the RV is rock solid and was mostly likely repaired in the past. We simply planned to replace the lower trim with a flat, lower profile metal strip but when we removed the old trim the water damage to the wood veneer was quite obvious. Are we up to the task of doing this repair job ourselves? We hope so but we will need to take more time to investigate the amount of damage and how much work needs to be done to make it right. So we will explore more and keep you all posted. Hopefully, we can get the RV repaired and on the road in short order but we remain flexible as we want to do it right and have the best darned RV that we can before coasting down the highway in her.

Sorry that we abandoned all of you, our faithful readers for so long please continue to check in as we should be blogging more regularly from now on.

Take care,

Eugene