Jan 15th - Parked at Drew's

We arrived at Drew's, in the RV, around 11 AM yesterday. There was a car parked across the street from his gate but we gave getting in a shot. We didn't even come close to being able to get through the gate. Drew only has neighbors on one side, the building on the other side of him is vacant, (there are a LOT of neighbors living next door). He asked them if the car was theirs and, if so, would they move it. It was one of their cousins who lives there, or at least in the car, an old station wagon, some of the time. He wasn't there but they said they would ask him to move it when he returned.

Kathy stayed at Drew's and did more sorting through the stuff left by the previous tenants of the house. Drew and I made trips to Home Depot, then Orchard Building Supply (a nice hardware store), and also to a local grocery store that is huge (local being maybe a 15 minute drive).

It was almost dark when the neighbor got home and moved the car. We provided entertainment for the neighbors trying to get the RV into Drew's drive. At one point I was almost ready to give up and head back down the 35 miles to the campground where we had been staying. Kathy showed the patience of Job as she kept following my directions on "sawing" the RV back and forth to the point where we finally managed to get into the driveway. When we finally made it in we had maybe 4" clear between the side of the RV and the steel gate post on one side and on the other side we had ropes tied around the trees/bushes and had them pulled over towards a porch post as far as Drew and I could manage.

Below are photos of the RV in the driveway.

We have 3 of the 4 slides out but without totally cutting down the tree/bush I have been trimming, we can't put out one of the bedroom slides. That isn't really much of a problem.

Today we went to Lowe's & Harbor Freight looking for a basement shoring post. We needed something to hold up areas of the deck while we changed several of the 4x6 posts. No one out here has them. Lowe's ended up calling their store in Knoxville, TN and got an item number for the posts. The best either Home Depot or Lowes could do was order us one. We would have had to wait two weeks for it.

Drew talked to one of the sales people at Harbor Freight and they had a device that worked better than a basement shoring post. We changed two posts after we got home while Kathy did more painting.

I noticed that our CRV had a low tire and drove over to a gas station and put air in it. I looked it over and noticed a screw in it. Tomorrow I will have to find a place to have it repaired.

Good night to all and may God bless you and yours