Sunday 23 December 2012

Sunday

Oops, no pictures, got busy & never took out the camera.
  Marg made sausages, eggs & fried potatoes for b'fast, I think she was feeling sorry for my missing out yesterday AM.  It was a great way to start the day.  The day turned out nice & sunny, too warm for a coat, although you really need one in the evening.
  Went up to camping world for bathroom taps & an antennae switch.  As luck would have it they had neither; well they had taps, but not in the brushed stainless finish.  Annoying, because it is up around exit #180, about 16 miles from here.  On the way back, stopped at AJ's purveyors of fine foods.  A fancy way to say - expensive grub!  They do have some nice stuff, but she was disappointed when she found they were out of meat pies.  After that, we stopped at a new grocery store WinCo that everyone here is talking about.  It's something like Costco without the 5 gallon pails of pickles.  She found a few things, but I think it was a let down after AJ's & Trader Joes; her 2 fav's.  The final stop of our journey was Lowes where we got regular household taps.  I think the only difference between them & the RV ones, is rv ones are all plastic [but about 1/3 the price], however the quality reflects this.  Also had to buy the crimping tool for the pex tubing.
  Got back to the RV & replaced the taps.  Turned on the water, causing a minor flood amid shouts of "turn it off".  Well by then the other campers in the vicinity were alerted, so in passing, I just said - guess I failed the quality inspection.  Turns out there were instructions saying the way the pex is cut is important; so a trip to Ace hdwe to buy a cutter.  As luck would have it, this was the solution, because it never leaked after making the nice straight cuts.  Learned something today.
  Went to Ron's for a beer after, so I could share all my new found knowledge & learned that Richard has several cutters & I could have borrowed one.  Oh  well, any job worth doing will get a guy a new tool!
  That was about 8 hours ago & still not leaking, so I think we are good.
  Marg made supper, a kind of chicken stir fry.  It was good & best of all the water was back on so she was able to wash up after. 
  After supper Marg went to play cards in the hall. She won once, so that was good.  Tonight they played 31, for quarters.

1 comment:

  1. Oh dear .... The caravan bits here are always way more then the regular stuff... Nice taps! x

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