Awaiting Instructions....

We are waiting for our company to finalize the details of where we will train. It looks like we may spend some time in New Jersey training and some time in Virginia. We are supposed to get more details tomorrow.

We got some errands done today after I finished applying the last of the sealant to the slide outs and storage bay areas. The syringe system that comes with the sealant is really nifty. I removed every other screw from the trim pieces on the slideouts and the 1.5" needle goes in the screw hole slick as a whistle so the sealant can be injected into the wood. The sealant follows the grain of the wood and if there is the presence of fungi (rot), it follows that path so the sealant will fill the channel created by the fungi. I must have slept through science class the day that they told us that wood rot/decay is caused by a fungi. Hmmm....I guess I just thought if you have a problem with wood getting wet on a consistent basis, you get rot....not that it's actually caused by fungi.Cool, huh ?

So anyway, for a couple of areas under the slideout that appear to be spongy to the touch and weren't near a screw hole, I took a small drill bit and angled off of the screw hole to "aim" towards these spots. Like I said the syringe is really awesome....just point and shoot the sealant (kind of looks and has the consistency of diesel fuel) into any hole where the wood needs hardening. I also brushed some sealant on the area under the shower where there had been a leak and it made that wood really strong. Total cure is 1-3 days so we'll let you know how things are in a couple of days. The tests they've done on this sealant show the penetration area as much as 16-20" from where initially injected....pretty amazing ! Other products that were tested against it only had a few inches.

We got the oil changed in the car today....went to visit Linda's 16 yr old niece who just had her gallbladder out and got some papers notarized. Took Boomer to Petsmart to get his nails trimmed and that was a lost cause....took two employees and they still couldn't get him still enough to do it. That boy is a hand full !! Guess it will take knock out drops to get his nails cut without any bloodshed....his or ours. After doing those errands, we came back home and are now relaxing for the remainder of the evening. Linda's brother and sister-in-law gave us some fresh Chinese pea pods the other day...fresh from their friend's garden...and we had the last of them for supper. Wow, were they outstanding ! So crispy and bursting with flavor. Can't wait to visit farmer markets along the road on our upcoming travels to taste regional culinary delights from all over this great country. Don't think Mini U has any locations in Maine cause I have a hankering for lobster about now....darn !

We Got It !

We got the call today that we got the job we interviewed for almost two weeks ago. We will be full-time roving managers for a storage company that has 90 facilities in 10 different states. We will be filling in for site managers who are taking vacation or if there is a change in management at a facility, we will cover the facility until a new manager is hired. We are excited! This job is ideal in that we can do what we love most....travel and see different parts of the country...but also work all over the country. Each of the sites has a little store, kind of like a U-Haul store where you sell moving supplies....tape, boxes, packing supplies, etc. and hundreds of self storage units in all different sizes. We will stay on-site as most of the facilities have power and access to water. Even if there is a slow period of time, when there isn't a need to cover a facility, we are guaranteed a base rate each month.

Linda has a doctors appt next week so they are working out when and where we will train. Trying to finish up projects around the rig before we head out. Tonight we ran to Lowes and got the supplies we needed for the toolboxes on Bertha. When the guys built the bed and installed the tool boxes underneath of Bertha, they didn't secure the tool boxes enough. They are attached on the bottom but not at the top and there is too much flex in them. They do not lie flat against the I-beams that the guys welded up underneath the bed so if we hit a bump the boxes would shimmy and shake really bad. So much so that it has created stress cracks in the metal bottom where the bolt goes through. We bought bolts, bumpers to take up the slack in space between the I-beam and box,rubber washers and locking nuts to pull the whole thing together. It was really tough drilling through the tool box and I-beam.....my arm muscles are really fatigued tonight from bearing down on the drill to get it through the steel. Whew !! But two hours later, we had the four bolts through and everything finished up. Much better ! Hardly any play in it now. Will seem good not to have guys pull up along side of us, going down the highway, and point frantically at the tool boxes cause they think they're gonna fall off. Wouldn't have been a pretty sight to have our tool boxes fall off onto the highway as we're driving.

Tomorrow I have another project I'm gonna tackle on the rig. I have found some soft spots in a few areas under the slideouts where it appears to be starting to rot and I've bought some sealant that I will inject into the screw holes on the end of each slideout. The supplies arrived today and it should be a fairly straight forward job. After reading the test results of this product and it's penetration ability, I'm anxious to see the final results. More on this later...