'23/#14 Adaptability Is An RVer's Best Tool

 We have been here in Michigan for three and a half weeks and things have been going non-stop. We are settled into our site and have been working for the past three weeks. The job is not that big a deal, it just takes a while to get into a routine. We are getting to that point. The people we are working with are great and easy to get along with which is always nice.

When we got here the batteries in the RV were giving me some trouble. I suspected that they would need replacing but my multimeter wasn't working. I borrowed one and sure enough the charger was fine but the batteries would not take a charge. A trip down to Cheboygan and a toasty credit card had everything working just fine. We were OK plugged into the utility pedestal but lots of thing in an RV work on 12volt so it needed to be dealt with.

The site we are on is a water and electric site with no sewer hook up. That means alternate ways of disposing the waste water. We have a "blue boy" that is a portable waste water tank. When things get full we dump it into the "blue boy" and dispose of it at the dump station. There will inevitably be some spillage (yuk) so I decided to get a macerator pump. This will move things along more efficiently and keep all the nastiness contained. I needed some hose and fittings so we took a trip to the nearest Home Depot in Petosky. Once everything was assembled it worked like charm.

One way or another we will find our way around Michigan. Today was a miserable day weather wise. The high was only 58 degrees and drizzle all day long. It was a good day to stay in and stay warm. Mary made some chilli and there is bean soup in the near future. All the foods that warm ones cockles, whatever a cockle is. Something to do with the latin language. 

Well I am going to sit in front of the electric fireplace and warm everything that isn't a cockle. That's the scoop from our home in St Ignace because.....

Home is where we park it,

Frank and Mary