A little mud on the tires? No Problem!

So, we got "A little mud on the tires" as Brad Paisley would say. I told our helpful neighbor I wasn't going to move the Winnebago until May. Wait, I have to get this thing inspected for a state sticker. Back off the lawn I go across my roadway made up of scrap sheets of OSB. Oh yeah that will last awhile right? Drew and I traveled the back roads of Abington & Whitman to an inspection station on Essex Street called "Delcorp". A cheery fellow who enjoys RVing completed our inspection. He said everything was good and that we had four new brake calipers, nice to hear "new".  We returned home by an alternate route and stopped at Walmart to pickup some RV anti-freeze. When we arrived home I parked on the street and set about getting level and extending the bedroom slide.

Drew and I had some small repairs we wanted to make, things we discovered on our little trip to Plymouth. The switch for the light over the table was broken, the strap holding the bedroom sliding doors was broken and the dinette table leg wouldn't go into its clip on the floor. The door strap is a thin piece of clear vinyl with a snap on one end and a screw holding the other end. The screw had pulled through the strap and ripped it. A new one would be nice but I was determined to repair what I had. Drew suggested Duck Tape. He said you can fix anything with Duck Tape.  You know what? He was right! I neatly wrapped the end of the strap three times with Duck Tape and re secured it with a truss head screw and a fender washer where a single flat head screw had been. Next was the table leg. The screws used to hold the foot clip were too big, #10's. I replaced them with some # 8's and the leg snapped right into place. Finally, moving on to the light switch, I didn't have anything in my shed that came close to what we needed and the plastic housing for the switch was broken beyond repair. I was hoping for Super Glue. Drew and I headed off to Home Depot to see if they might have anything we could make work. They had the exact same switch assembly. We bought the switch and a pack of crimp on wire nuts to complete the job, they are what Winnebago used. I did the switch installation and Drew took care of re securing the light to the slide out overhead with the two original screws. Overhead screws are tough on my shoulders. Teamwork success.

After a bit of lunch we got ready to park the Winnebago back on the front lawn. I didn't want to repeat the mud boggin' and decided that backing in would be a better choice. We laid out a road way on the lawn made from more scrap sheets of OSB ( Oriented Strand Board ) which will be yellow mulch by Summer Time. I drove around the block to get oriented for backing on to the lawn. I forgot what I was doing, Happy just to be driving my RV, and ended up backing up on Ames Street to get in the right position. The challenge was to back onto the lawn between a stump and the fire hydrant, don't get stuck, get all the way off the street and DON'T HIT THE HOUSE! Well, after several attempts and a few STOP! STOP! STOP!s I managed to do it. The RV is on the front lawn in my yard, not stuck in the mud, and as I write this it is slowly getting covered in snow : (