Out with the old..................

Oh where do I start.  I have a cold so no big party tonight,  and then this whole fiscal cliff BS.  I normally don't talk bad about our great country and our leaders.  Maybe it's just the cold meds but this is not looking good.  Even if the price of everything that is being payed for with out tax money goes up,  just think how other countries see how the good old US of A handles things.  OK off the soap box now.

But the good news is that 2012 was a good/bad year.  Some friends have passed away, others have been born.  In our own family our son and future DIL have moved back to Oregon, our daughter graduated again from another college and Sophie really gave up working in the schools.  We adopted another rescue Bago, do you like how I worded that.  Our "more mature" Bago took us all around the Northwest in style and without a problem.  Let's hope for similar service from the Superchief. So all in all it's been good year

So let's hope 2013 will be filled with more good things.  And better health than I have right now.

One last Christmas celebration

Who would have thought that Wilbur and Smokey would have presents under the tree, but sure enough when we got around to opening presents with our kids and their significant others, there they were.  There was a pig tree ornament for Wilbur from Smokey, and Wilbur gave Smokey a Smokey Bear key chain.  Aren't they just the best Bago's a family could ask for.  And another Bear and Bago showed up from various family members.
Take a look.

Oh and here is the rest of the family,

One more trip to the gas station

I had ordered a couple of side light bases and they came in.  But since today was colder and not sunny like yesterday I did not do anymore to the roof or put on the new sidelight's.
And with the price of gas going up I decided to finish filling up Smokey's gas tank.  The needle is now bouncing on the F mark.  Only 90 gallons in the tank.  We use the Fred Meyer gas discount card and so I took Smokey out for a drive and wouldn't you know it that the delivery truck was at the gas station.  And that blocks most of the lanes so I waited until there was room for me and I pulled in. Then after getting my 35 gallons, the limit for the discount price, I waited until there was room for me to back up and drive out.  Wouldn't you think that the pump boy's would help a little more than standing off where I couldn't see them to help me get out???   Well at least they have a job someplace.
So here's my light purchase,

And it came to an even $5.00 for the 2 bases, the even have bulbs in them, and the 2 new covers.  I just can't get over the cost of these lights.  So it will be stock sidelights for me.

Up on the roof top reindeer pause, or is the paws???

So today, after a day of celebrating Christmas, I decided to try some repair on Smokey's roof.  There are all kinds of roof repair stuff and I have used several on house roofs, but on Smokey I have only used some elastomeric roofing ( not the black tar stuff).  Smokey has a fiberglass roof which I really like, except no one has been doing the annual sealing around the skylight and roof vents.  So what happens is just like every other RV roof, they leak.  And once the water gets in to a laminated roof the wood rots and then delaminates.  That's what has happened on Smokey.
And I would love to have some warm dry weather, or even a large inside garage, to tear into the roof.  Well maybe this Summer.  But I might have fixed most of the leaks today.  There is a very thin fiberglass roof on top of a this piece of plywood, foam insulation and more plywood with an inside ceiling covering.  The ceiling looks great yet.  What I found today was a spot where the fiberglass cracked.  I think it cracked because the roof is soft there and nothing was nothing supporting the fiberglass.
Since we are having some drier weather, but not quite warm enough for drying the snow roofing, I used a heat gun to dry it.  We will see how it works.

Using snow roof primer and a heat gun in cold weather patching..

Merry Christmas

Here it is Christmas day again.  After a few days of family celebrations the day of Christmas has come.  And since my son is in Arizona with his fiance and her family they will be back in a couple of days and we will celebrate some more.
But on the bright side I have had a chance to talk Winnebago's with family.  Even my one nephew wanted to see how the inside of Wilbur ('73) turned out because the last time he was in it the roof was off.  But Smokey ('89) was the place to be.  Everything from the power steps to the LED lights were discussed.  I am still learning how some stuff works but with the generator running and the furnace and a small electric heater on it really heats up nice and that's always good on a cold night.
So to all my RV friends, and my other fiends and family, you have a great Christmas.

Christmas time

The Christmas celebrations have started and we had a house full yesterday.
Of course there were the tours of my newest motor home and plenty of questions about it.
Sophie had this idea she read about in a magazine where we would take a picture on the stairs   I think it turned out OK, but since we have so many people here we need more stairs.

And now we are getting ready for another smaller gathering tomorrow.
It was another wet day so not much outside stuff.

New side lights for Smokey

I have been looking at new side lights since the first time I washed Smokey and one of the covers fell off.  Someone had replaced the right front one with a non-stock replacement light but not exactly like the original one.  And I did buy a couple of those new style ones, but yesterday I stopped by an RV place that is close to my house and found some new covers for the original lights.  Today I went back and bought 6 new covers and ordered a new original base so I can keep it all original.  Jeff will like that.

This is the right front side light that is not original.

Yea only 71 cents.  I like that too.

A new cover with the sticker still stuck on the inside.  When it gets warmer outside I want to take all the lights off and clean and re-caulk the lights.

I like all the lights to work.