Thursday February 23rd
Typical morning with a little laundry thrown in. I was going to fix the collapsed shelf under the kitchen sink. When I got a good look at it, I realized that the shelf had been designed for a very light load. The plywood of the shelf was stapled to the underside of a wood strip that was fastened to the outside skin of the trailer. I don’t know why they didn’t put the plywood on the top of the strip for more strength, but they didn’t. I pulled the wire staples and used #8 screws with washers to fasten the plywood to the strip, still won’t support a 50 lb. toolbox but will be fine for pots and pans which will probably be what goes there.
While I was in the fixit mood I pulled up the furnace floor vents and cleaned the ductwork as far as I could reach. Two of the floor vents were damaged so I decided that now would be a good time to replace them since we are only half block from two RV dealerships with parts stores. As it turned out neither of them had what I needed but they told me about a mobile home parts store about a mile away; that place had what I needed for a very reasonable price.
Cathey had an upset stomach most of the day so there wasn’t much food talk. By supper time she felt like she could use some soup or other comfort food so we went to the Crackerbarrel across I-10 from where we are located. We both the turkey special and Cathey had some potato soup and she brought most of her dinner home.
The temperature got up to 75 today so it was quite pleasant outside and too warm in the trailer even though we had a lot of windows open. Warmest day of the year according to the El Paso weatherman.
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