though Chree rotated the pan every 15 minutes, the cake ended up quite lopsided. Junction Auto Center sent their tow truck down to get the Ranger. The list of repair items for the Ranger numbered 14 by the time we got to the shop… whose manager was positively beaming as we went over the list together. He was mumbling something about Christmas in April… Meanwhile, back at the RV, when Chree tried to dry her hair after showering, she found the GFI outlet in the bathroom tripped . Resetting the GFI outlet restored the coffee maker to operation. (Don’t you just love the magic of modern electricity?) Sometime today the back to my cell phone fell off and went missing again! Alverta and Lynne came over for a delicious dinner that Chree concocted… and a birthday cake that definitely was in keeping with the Delores mystique. Only needed a cigarette to be perfect. While cleaning up after dinner, pulled down the grease filter from the stove vent fan to see why the fan wouldn’t operate. The reason was a king-sized mouse nest… or maybe more like a mice condo... made out of Kleenex. To be dealt with later…
1 April 2010
A cloudy / foggy morning that slowly cleared into a glorious day… until the mosquitoes came out. Don’t they know they’re supposed to wait ‘till the end of May?!?! Discovered the coffee maker had quit after brewing only one cup of joe… hardly sufficient for those of us recovering from a day of rebar cutting and bending. Investigation showed that four electrical outlets were suddenly inoperative… and that electric line runs right through the area where THE Mouse (or mice) had been feasting all winter. Potentially BIG trouble! After breakfast, used the van to jump-start the Ford Ranger… which immediately revved up to 5,000 rpms (above the red line on the tachometer). Needless to say, engine shut down followed engine ignition within nanoseconds. Looked under the hood to see if the accelerator cable was somehow stuck or something else obviously was amiss. Boy can they cram a lot of “stuff” under a vehicle’s hood these days. Wish I recognized more than six of the items. Guess they must have stopped making accelerator cables in 1968. Only thing I could deduce is that the Ranger caught the runaway acceleration disease from being hooked up to our Toyota. Called Leicester Service Center, who promptly dispatched Jim Currie’s son to our locale. He said the truck needed to be towed to a shop with electronic ignition diagnostic equipment. Can you spell “mega-bucks”? However, Jim’s son did jump start the RV again. I somehow neglected to mention, while he was doing his battery booster-pack magic, that when showing him where the RV batteries are located I discovered that I HAD disconnected the coach batteries last fall and the reason they weren’t working was because they were STILL disconnected. No bigger April Fool than yours truly. As soon as the RV started the hydraulic system fault alarm went off. Grrr!!!! Only cure (because Chree was shouting, as she and the dogs exited stage right, “Don’t turn off the engine!!!!”) was to retract the slide-out and raise the leveling jacks, the later action causing Delores to lean over a few degrees. Unfortunately, Chree had Lynne’s birthday cake in the oven while all this was going on. Even
though Chree rotated the pan every 15 minutes, the cake ended up quite lopsided. Junction Auto Center sent their tow truck down to get the Ranger. The list of repair items for the Ranger numbered 14 by the time we got to the shop… whose manager was positively beaming as we went over the list together. He was mumbling something about Christmas in April… Meanwhile, back at the RV, when Chree tried to dry her hair after showering, she found the GFI outlet in the bathroom tripped . Resetting the GFI outlet restored the coffee maker to operation. (Don’t you just love the magic of modern electricity?) Sometime today the back to my cell phone fell off and went missing again! Alverta and Lynne came over for a delicious dinner that Chree concocted… and a birthday cake that definitely was in keeping with the Delores mystique. Only needed a cigarette to be perfect. While cleaning up after dinner, pulled down the grease filter from the stove vent fan to see why the fan wouldn’t operate. The reason was a king-sized mouse nest… or maybe more like a mice condo... made out of Kleenex. To be dealt with later…
though Chree rotated the pan every 15 minutes, the cake ended up quite lopsided. Junction Auto Center sent their tow truck down to get the Ranger. The list of repair items for the Ranger numbered 14 by the time we got to the shop… whose manager was positively beaming as we went over the list together. He was mumbling something about Christmas in April… Meanwhile, back at the RV, when Chree tried to dry her hair after showering, she found the GFI outlet in the bathroom tripped . Resetting the GFI outlet restored the coffee maker to operation. (Don’t you just love the magic of modern electricity?) Sometime today the back to my cell phone fell off and went missing again! Alverta and Lynne came over for a delicious dinner that Chree concocted… and a birthday cake that definitely was in keeping with the Delores mystique. Only needed a cigarette to be perfect. While cleaning up after dinner, pulled down the grease filter from the stove vent fan to see why the fan wouldn’t operate. The reason was a king-sized mouse nest… or maybe more like a mice condo... made out of Kleenex. To be dealt with later…
