Almost ready for camping

I woke this morning to the dawning realization that I had forgotten to write a post for yesterday.  Bad blogger, bad bad blogger.

Ok, enough beating me up.  I know I need to do better.  In lots of things.

Yesterday I had the day off from work (loving the 4 day weekend - need those like once a month I think).  So yesterday was spent with the RV trailer getting it ready to go camping next weekend.

Cleaning was a huge issue.  Apparently some mice decided to it make their home.  The smell was not pleasant.  The insulation, paper towels, and toilet paper shredded to make little mouse homes was not pleasant.  The mess they made was beyond not pleasant.  The small trash bag quickly filled.

One of the tires was flat, so that had to come off and go into a dealer for repair.  I set the jack under the trailer and started lifting.  The trailer did not move, but the jack did.  Pulled the jack out and put a board under the trailer and tried again - this time the trailer lifted.  Got the tire off and headed out to get it repaired and also pick up more cleaning supplies and mouse traps.

The tire was 26 years old (dang, I didn't know they could last that long) and still had good tread on it - but the rubber was definitely too old to be repaired.  One expensive replacement later, plus shopping for cleaning supplies and mouse traps, and we are back at the trailer.

New tire on.  Cleaning again.  Lots of duck tape to cover the place the mice were stealing the insulation from.  The generator would not start (so couldn't test that the trailer will get power from being plugged in).  The battery is in good shape though so I do at least have power from the battery.

It's clean enough to take camping, but could still use a bit more work.  On the way home realized I forgot to take off the propane tanks to have them topped off, and also realized I forgot to set the mouse traps.  No doubt the little mice are crawling over the box of traps laughing their little tails off.