29 November ‘09
Driving into Mazatlan we encountered trees lining each side of the two lanes on our side of the medium. Unfortunately the lanes were narrow and the tree branches were low… Well guess what? Yesterday I found one end of our awning needed tightening, but once on the ladder I found that we had lost the roof vent cap for our refrigerator. That meant we had a large hole on the roof. Without that vent cap we would have the possibility of birds camping out in the flue and we could have a magnate to draw the rain in and flood us out below. Well it wasn’t that I didn’t have anything else to do today, but I did have to try and fix it. First thing this morning I went over to see Sol and beg him to give me a lift to Home Depot. I was hoping that I could find something there that might work for the lost cover. Louise and Carol thought that was a good time for them to visit the grocery store, so we were able to kill a couple of birds with one stone. The vent cover was about 28 inches long, 6 inches high and 8 inches wide. Now to find something to work… I walked the aisles of Home Depot at least twice with no luck and then I wondered out into the garden department. Sitting on one of the shelves was a plastic planter…22X9X7. Well that wasn’t the dimensions I was looking for but I thought it might have merit. I did need at least 28 inches in length so that meant that I would have to get two and marry them together. The rest of the dimensions I could make work (I thought…). Getting everything back to the coach, I took a hacksaw and cut one of the ends off of each planter and then caulked and screwed them back together. I also had to drill some additional holes in the sides of the new vent cover to allow the gas fumes to exit from the refrigerator (although there was already some holes in the bottom of the planters to allow water out..) and then I had to drill 4 additional holes for mounting to the roof. Well it’s up there, not completely done, but it’s up there… It was hot and humid the whole time I was working, and the rest of the crew were sitting by the POOL and enjoying a cool one as well… I’ll finish this project later, all I really have to do now is figure a way to screw it down to the roof brackets. One of the guests here told us of a great rib place for our dinner tonight so we gathered up our pesos and headed up there. This was a great place to enjoy the bones, and the price was right…$170 pesos ($12 US) a couple and that included a cerveza for each of us too. Both Carol and Louise had a box to carry home with them.
Driving into Mazatlan we encountered trees lining each side of the two lanes on our side of the medium. Unfortunately the lanes were narrow and the tree branches were low… Well guess what? Yesterday I found one end of our awning needed tightening, but once on the ladder I found that we had lost the roof vent cap for our refrigerator. That meant we had a large hole on the roof. Without that vent cap we would have the possibility of birds camping out in the flue and we could have a magnate to draw the rain in and flood us out below. Well it wasn’t that I didn’t have anything else to do today, but I did have to try and fix it. First thing this morning I went over to see Sol and beg him to give me a lift to Home Depot. I was hoping that I could find something there that might work for the lost cover. Louise and Carol thought that was a good time for them to visit the grocery store, so we were able to kill a couple of birds with one stone. The vent cover was about 28 inches long, 6 inches high and 8 inches wide. Now to find something to work… I walked the aisles of Home Depot at least twice with no luck and then I wondered out into the garden department. Sitting on one of the shelves was a plastic planter…22X9X7. Well that wasn’t the dimensions I was looking for but I thought it might have merit. I did need at least 28 inches in length so that meant that I would have to get two and marry them together. The rest of the dimensions I could make work (I thought…). Getting everything back to the coach, I took a hacksaw and cut one of the ends off of each planter and then caulked and screwed them back together. I also had to drill some additional holes in the sides of the new vent cover to allow the gas fumes to exit from the refrigerator (although there was already some holes in the bottom of the planters to allow water out..) and then I had to drill 4 additional holes for mounting to the roof. Well it’s up there, not completely done, but it’s up there… It was hot and humid the whole time I was working, and the rest of the crew were sitting by the POOL and enjoying a cool one as well… I’ll finish this project later, all I really have to do now is figure a way to screw it down to the roof brackets. One of the guests here told us of a great rib place for our dinner tonight so we gathered up our pesos and headed up there. This was a great place to enjoy the bones, and the price was right…$170 pesos ($12 US) a couple and that included a cerveza for each of us too. Both Carol and Louise had a box to carry home with them.