A Day with Family

Had a lovely day today when my brother-in-law and his wife and kids came up to the site to visit us. We met nieces and our nephew for the first time today, and visited with my sister-in-law for the first time in 6 years.

Jocelyn, the kids and I spent the afternoon by the pool talking and catching up while the kids were fish in the pool. Logan, our nephew, made friends with two couples visiting from The Netherlands.

Logan getting into the pool

Logan and Cadence

Ben and his brother, Luke worked on the RV. They put the new vent covers on – we finally have a vent cover over the bathroom fan and vent, so the garbage bag that was working as a proxy cover is now gone. Ben discovered that the fan motor works, we just need to get a new fan blade – which had disintegrated along with the vent cover… all over the 101 freeway no doubt.

Pee-pee hands… ewwwww

Putting on the new vent cover

Checking the size of the fridge vent to attach the new vent cover

Washing the black and grey tank doo-hickey

  

However, in effort to unplug the toilet and flush the black tank, discovered that the hose we have for draining the black and grey tanks, leaks – so no doubt we’re leaving a bit of DNA on the ground here, 😉 and the toilet is leaking. URGH! Seems like we’re going to need to get a new toilet – but I’ve my eye on one that looks more like a regular house loo than the ridiculous box thingie that came standard with the RV.

Luke looked under the rig, and it is true… the “standard” stabilizers that are supposed to come with the RV, are nonexistent on ours. The weather is scheduling rain and winds over the next couple of days… So rock on we shall…

After the kids finished playing in the pool, I took Logan and Cadence over to visit with Patch, Charlie, and Billy the resident goats here, then visited with the chooks, and finally introduced them to Oreo the king snake and the tarantula – who Jack, the owner here, has decided to name “Welfare” after he tried to set it loose a couple of times, and he returned back!

Cadence and Logan petting Patch and Billy

Logan petting Charlie with Billy (the Nigerian pygmy goat) and Patch in the background

Jack found Welfare when they were out digging sewer lines and he disturbed his nest. As it was hibernation time, he knew that Welfare wouldn’t go back into hibernation and brought him in. Welfare is pretty happy here, obviously. 🙂

SO much gratitude to my brother-in-law, Luke for coming out after working a 100 hours this week with only 2 hours of sleep and working in the hot Arizona desert heat to make the immediate repairs and fix-ups to the big rig. We still have a fair bit to do, and from today’s discoveries, we’ve new things to add to the list. We’ll get to worrying about that lot tomorrow.

After a fine dinner of green lentil chili, a day outside in the fresh air and desert dry heat, I’m completely knackered and ready for bed. Now, if only TNT would stop showing the picture as double, I might be able to enjoy Ocean’s Eleven for the upteenth time… Instead, I may just go to bed and see what new adventures and discoveries tomorrow will bring.

Here are some photos from today…

Luke, Ben and I

Jocelyn, Luke, Ben, Logan, Cadence, and Vanessa

Luke, Ben, me, Logan, Cadence, and Vanessa

Logan giving big hugs to Uncle Ben