April very busy for Us

We started April off with a run to the VA for Larry's hearing test. He is getting a new hearing aid as the old one is seven years old and there is new technology and he needs a new one as his hearing has become worse. He will not get the new hearing aid until the middle of May as that was the next appt. he could get! We enjoyed the monthly breakfast at the clubhouse and checked out the new Winco food store that opened in Phoenix. We are familiar with Winco as we have been to the one in Springfield, OR several times over the years when we spent so much time at Camp Monaco. They do have good prices and had some really nice opening "specials" that we took advantage of. One of Larry's friends stopped by and brought us a peanut butter pie, something I had never heard of but it was good and tasted like a Reese's cup with graham cracker crust. Larry has been diligently working on the trailer, putting in a false floor so he can use it when the car is out as well as re-doing the ramp that was slick when it rains and extremely shiny when the sun hit it almost to the point it blinded you. He cut the extensions flaps to reduce weight, roughed up the aluminum so he could paint it black and then put anti skid tape where the car drives in. The anti skid tape is yellow and black (what else?) but we know the yellow will turn color quickly once the car goes in. Anyway it looks nice now!

The new false floor in the trailer so Larry can utilize it better when the car is removed.

Larry roughing up the aluminum prior to painting it.

The ramp all painted and the anti skid tape applied. Looks good now but wait until we use it! Our long time SS teacher went home to be with Jesus after a brief illness and we went to the Memorial Service where we saw many friends we hadn't seen in a long time. It really was nice seeing so many folks and catching up on their "doin's". It is so comforting to know we will see him again when it is our turn to 'go home'. While Larry was busy working on the trailer I got ambitious and Aerospace 303 UV protected the roof of the motorhome. It is something that has needed to be done for a long time and is supposed to be done every six months. We do it about every three years! Since the motorhome is meant to be used and moved every few weeks, we went to Apache Junction for one night and stopped at Camping World in Mesa both going and coming and bought a telescoping fire escape ladder for the bedroom. We tried it out while we were in AJ and it worked like a champ! Now to just get ourselves out the window faster! That will take some serious practice!

Our site in Apache Junction for an overnight

New clean out port in the black tank. When we returned from AJ, Larry dumped the black tank and cleaned it out good and then put a inspection port clean out in the end of the tank. He was able to see what he suspected was the problem, the evacuation pipe is about 1/2" higher than the tank bottom so 'stuff' accumulates right at the exit and doesn't allow everything to evacuate. He also repaired the water flusher so hopefully, now we know for sure what the problem is, we won't have any more issues but if we do, it will be fairly easy to fix now we have the clean out port. Last but not least, our internet went off on Sat. night around 9PM. It turns out the company we were with was taken over by another company and somehow the new company had our email address wrong so we received none of the three emails sent to us telling us of the change! All is well again with a phone call to the new company on Monday morning. Ah, the challenges of fulltiming!!