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Life Changes Coming on Fast

In just over 4days, we’ll be living in Ackbar…..wow…..our stuff is so disorganized and everywhere.  The leave date is the 20th.

We moved our “office” to downstairs on folding tables.  Hubby tore our old desks apart for trash.  What we can’t get rid of over the next 2 trash days, will be going with us to our friends for a burn pile.  They are old and particle wood….so not worth keeping.

I got our utilities ordered for disconnect online and been trying to do change of addresses.

Got our WiFi ranger and Millenicom today.  Got the WiFi antenna last month and had the rv dealer put it up on our batwing.

So much to do this weekend, need to get our stuff over to Ackbar, clean the house to be ready to turned over to the landlord….right now, things going into the Ackbar, it is a mess.  It is so disorganized.  I’ve been trying to organize it as we go, but until we are living in it….debating on going over there tomorrow or Sunday and to attack it a little bit, since hubby took a load over there today.  Depends on how much we need to do here

We will be heading to our friend’s in Everett, WA for 2-3 weeks. We are going to be parking it there while we put in our desk set up with the things we got from HomeDepot and Ikea in the long front slide out.  And getting all our stuff set up.

We are taking so much, figured what doesn’t work, because we won’t know until we are living in it, we can always donate.

From HomeDepot we got our new flooring since we had the carpet tore out of the slide out…..so that is the 1st project.

Then on to the desk…..

From Ikea we got 2 of these : http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40162496/#/60104325

And 2 of these : http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10192824/

They are going to be under 3 of these, that the slide out fits exactly with 1/8 inch of room left, if our figures are correct : http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40136558/

I’m actually writing this hoping that it’ll help me organize my thoughts….not sure it is working….lol  So I’ll think I’ll call it a night.

2 weeks…

Stress is a daily factor now. Finding a new way to deal with it is the challenge.

We have Ackbar once more. He was at the dealer’s for the past two week’s getting some work done. What started out as some minor things ended up being major issue’s. Nothing money can’t fix.

sigh.

We had both side window’s cleaned and resealed, I can now see mirror’s as if that was important, and they look wonderful. We found out the convertor was not operating correctly so that was also replaced, which also explains why we was having such power loss we was just assuming “newb related error’s”. We also had a “broken gutter” above the main slid out, exactly where I pointed out the leak, and that of course is bad, but it has been fixed, resealed as well as the bedroom seals and gutter.

We have also been making final detail’s on our new work/living space in the slide out. We have the floor padding, flooring, desk and other related items needed to complete the slid out but decided to make some changes.

It was too big and had too many question’s when by making it smaller we had more option’s, so tomorrow we will be taking a few things back to Ikea for exchange/return and making another stop at HomeDepot on the way home.

I have also finished organizing the current data base of pictures we have from 1993 to present day so I will be adding new picture’s over the next few week’s, dated the date they was created.

I admit it. I am padding our blog.

Peace.

maaaaannnnnn….

Just discovered a “great idea” may not work after all. We wanted to put a magnetic strip all around the slide out edge so we can use our refrigerator magnets as decoration of our travels.

We bought a 50′ x 4″ roll of stripping and just tested some magnets and none “stuck” much at all. As in, if we hit any bump, we would have to pick up 100+ magnets… We are contacting the supplier asking them what they suggest we can do.

Not cool at all.

Dead “brain”

Today we wanted to do some cleaning and spend more time “getting to know” Admiral Ackbar. It was about 44F partly sunny, no wind but a bit of a “wet chill” about it so we wanted to turn the furnace on.

*sigh

After reading and rereading the manual and finally giving in to call our RV Dealership, they had us perform a bunch of action’s and finally we had to take the “brain” out and had it tested and discovered it was dead.

Good news, it wasn’t us.

Bad news we now have to wait a few days to get this taken care of.

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The main slide out is 11’8″ long and 33″ wide. We have used a “T” desk for the past 8 years. I am on the left side, Pauline on the right, we have a small HD TV between us and … Continue reading