I am back in Belleville again. This time, it is to get the
windshield of the car replaced.
It should take about 3 hours, so I brought my bicycle with me to tour a
little of Belleville.
With the car at the glass shop, I take my bike and my first stop is
MacDonald for breakfast and reading the news on my tablet.
Next stop is at Helix because Michele's hearing aid has a little part
broken. Nothing major. Stephanie gave me a few as
spares. Stephanie is such a nice person and she is an asset for
this office. From Helix, I decide to travel back by the river
Moira that run through Belleville. The river is still high, but
not to worry about. the route back takes me through some old part
of Belleville. I always find it interesting to see old parts of
town and cities. There are lots of old houses, some in disrepair
other really well kept. If only these houses could talk, the
stories we would hear...
By 10:30 the sky turns darker with rain coming soon. I head back to the
glass shop. The car is ready by 10:50, I pay the deductible and
drive back home in the rain.
This being Monday, after lunch I go and do the cans and bottles sorting
for the RV park. This past weekend was not a "busy" because there
was very little sorting to do.
After that, I finally finished the paperwork for the veteran. I
only need to get the form double checked and sent them off.
All this work is really tiring so I have to check out the inside of my
eyelids...
After about 30 minutes, my eyelids are doing really good.
By late afternoon the sky is really dark once again and we can hear
thunder around us. A few hours later the rain really comes down.
Tuesday June 17, 2014
My goal for today is to do nothing!
As usual, I end up doing all kinds of little chores.
Again, by late afternoon the thunderstorms come. We still got a
nice sunset.
We lost power for about 10 minutes and I used the generator so I could
finish watching my TV show.
Wednesday June 18, 2014
Weird temperature this morning, it is 20 C, 20 minutes later it is +28
C, then 15 minutes later it is +19 C.
What is going on?
We have a lot of "fluffy" stuff from the trees floating in the
air. Is this summer snow?
Thursday and Friday June 19 and 20, 2014
Thursday is a day for reading and other little activities.
Friday evening is dart night again and we have a great time playing
tonight.
Saturday June 21, 2014
Free breakfast this morning, this is from the campers association.
We find the breakfast really good. We also notice a difference
between breakfast here and in RV park down south.
Here ,the majority of the campers are still working so they come for
breakfast any time between 8 and 10. Down south, everybody shows
up at 8 sharp. This is way the photo shows an almost empty hall.
It is bingo night tonight. Michele goes to the bingo, but I stay
home and have a nice campfire. Michele joins me after the bingo.
Sunday June 22, 2014
I am reading a really good book. It is "In their own words", it
is the stories told by Canadian soldiers who were in Afghanistan
between 2001 and 2007. All were awarded medals for what they did
overseas. It is amazing how the Canadian population don't know
what our soldiers did in Afghanistan, not just fight the Talibans, but
the good stuff for the local population.
Here, I am reading...
A nice day with a +25 C and low humidity. The bad part is that
the pool is still not open. I will talk about that tomorrow...
Monday June 23, 2014
I have to talk about the pool. The pool here in the park is very
nice.
Last year the owner decided to upgrade the pool from a liner to
fiberglass. A liner usually last 2 to 4 years, but the fiberglass
should last 20 to 25 years. So, last fall the workers came and
did
all the fiberglass. Something did not work right and this spring
the
fiberglass in the pool was all broken up. The workers were back
to
fix it, but they needed 3 to 4 days without rain. On top of that
other problems were showing up. The work had stopped because of
it
all. The owner wants the pool done ASAP and the workers say it
is the owner's fault!
Finally, the owner said "I will call my lawyer". They are now
working
on the pool! Guess what? Rain for the next few
days! Will we have the pool before August?
This morning, I went and did the bottles and cans sorting. After
lunch, we went out grocery shopping. With the
temperature in the high 20s and the humidex in the low 30s, we did not
do much the rest of the day.
Lots of storms were in the forecast for today and tomorrow.
Tuesday June 24, 2014
We had some rain this morning, but by 10 am it is over and the sun was
back in full force with the humidity.
My neighbor brought me his saw, tomorrow I can start the installation
of the new pantry.
Wednesday June 25, 2014
The work started this morning. Now I am a little ashamed because
I damaged the saw I just borrowed. Not good!
Here, I am cleaning the inside of the future new pantry.
We measured for what we will need for wood and other stuff. We
went to
Belleville to buy the wood and looking for the part I damaged on the
saw. No problems for the wood, but the part we need is like gold,
can't find it anywhere!
We were back home by 4 pm and a little frustrated for not having found
the part. It is too late to start to work now.
Tomorrow we will try to get started again.
The temperature for today was +28 with a "feel like" of +36, hot and
muggy!
Thursday June 26, 2014
A fresh day, time to start the pantry.
First, I had to remove a part of the wall to open up the "hole" where
the pantry will go.
Here is the saw I borrowed.
This saw is absolutely useless. After cutting only six inches, I
give up
and we went to Canadian Tire to buy a jig saw. I did not care
about
the cost right now!
$32 later, we have a new jig saw with blades, I am ready.
Boy, does it work good with the jig saw. After the cut, a little clean
up
before we put up the inner walls.
Tidying up the back of the pantry before we build the wall.
Almost done!
Well not really, an RV is not built square. I have to add more
wood at
the top to attach the top part of the rolling pantry.
It is 4 pm and it is time to stop, clean up the mess and have a cold
beer.
It was a hot day again, +29 and a humidex of +37.
I have to tell you about an accident that happens to us.
Hopefully it will
not happen to you. I am not very proud of myself.
When things go wrong they really go wrong. Without going too much in
the details, here it is...
I changed the way I fill my 18 liters water bottle. Once the bottle was
filled, I left a valve in the position it was in instead of returning
it to the way it should have been. At the same time, I shut the
city water and used the water from the fresh water tank. No
problems so far. Like every Thursday evening, we went to the club
house for a few beers, but before we left I turned the city water on
again. When we got back 3 hours later we could hear water flowing
somewhere. Well, the water was coming out the vent tube of our
fresh water tank. I shut the water and checked the basement and
the
carpet is soaked. Michele goes inside and discover water on the
floor...
We clean up the water inside and we will see what else my mistake as
caused tomorrow morning...
Friday June 27, 2014
This morning, I spent a few hours emptying the basement so I could
vacuum the water of the carpet. I checked the fresh water tank
and I cannot see any damage. YES!
But I looked under the motorhome and see this...
I am not very proud of myself. I tried to bring the support back
up so later I could drive to a welding place and get my mess fixed up...
The basement drying out, not easy when the humidity is 90%.
So, always make sure and check twice that what you have changed is back
the way it should be.
Michele take all this with a grain of salt and tells me "first the tool
you borrowed and now this!!!"
I sat down and drank a beer...
We went to play darts after dinner and once again, lots of fun.
Today was another hot one, +29 and with the humidex, +38C.
Saturday June 28, 2014
Michele asked me to go yard saling with her today. As usual, I
bought more stuff than she did.
We also stopped at an RV dealer for a new AC thermostat for our
bedroom. Ours was getting temperamental.
This one is working great.
This being Canada Day weekend, the park as a lot of activities for the
kids.
It is still too hot to do anything so we sat in the shade and did some
serious reading...
We had a campfire tonight and the temperature was still +25 at 11 pm.
Sunday June 29, 2014
Are we ever glad we have air conditioning in the motorhome, we get to
have good nights of sleep with the cool inside.
Early this morning we knew it was going to be a hot day. We did
some reading and not much else.
At around 2 pm, we watched the Canada Day bicycles/golf carts parade in
the park
At 4 pm we went to the potluck under the willows. The campers
association supplied the pig roast. It was good and the breeze
from the lake was cool. By 8 pm some of the campers got together
with guitars and played some good tunes.
Shortly after 9 we watched the fireworks put on by the park and the
camper's association. It was good, but they had to stop it
because the wind picked up and sent the debris from the firework onto
the campers.
Monday June 30, 2014
It is a warm day again.
While I was out for my morning walk this morning, the owner asked me if
I was busy? Not really. He is doing some work on one of the
trailer in the park and he needs a few parts and going to town to get
them take about two hours. With only him and his wife working in
the park, they cannot always leave and get the parts. Sure
I can go and get the parts for him. I even got to use the park's
truck. I have to get my prescription from town anyway. The
owner was right, It took me a little over two hours to get everything
and come back.
After my "shopping trip" for the owner, I continue working on the
pantry
in the motorhome.
About one hour later the owner is back and asking me if I could go back
to town and get more parts as he has made a mistake on the size.
Sure, Michele has to get a haircut anyway. Michele did not get
a haircut, but I got the parts.
Once we were back home, I finished working on the pantry. Well, the
temporary pantry anyway...
We finished the day with a nice campfire and it was still very warm
outside at eleven pm.
