Miss Kitty's private Golden Corral buffet

Miss Kitty is getting pickier and pickier on eating... one day she might eat one type of canned food; the next day, she will sniff it and walk away. 

One day recently she had a veritable buffet set out before her... and none were acceptable!

We give in to her whims more than we should because she is constantly losing weight (a little less than an ounce per month). Carl says that if she keeps on losing, gravity won't hold her down anymore and we'll find her floating up at the ceiling!

An awning repair

After we got Gracie back to the RV lot, and had the window awnings out to provide some shade, we noticed that one of the awnings had its awning spline coming out -- this meant that the other end of the awning was not well secured into the roller. It wasn't causing any problem yet, but, leaving it this way could cause the awning to rip. We found the card of the company who installed the awning a few years ago, called and explained the problem, and thankfully, they were able to come the same day to fix it...

They had to remove the pressure of the spring on the awning, then they could re-insert the spline...

... and finally re-attach the spring.

It was a quick job, and, although more expensive than we had hoped it would be, at least it is fixed.

A visit from Scott

We had quite a number of family visits at the end of the season...

Son Scott had a customer visit in Tempe, so came to stay at the casa and we got to visit with him for two evenings.

It is nice having family visiting!

Sunset and palm trees

So pretty to see the sunset behind the palm trees in our community...

... we started having 100F+ days in May so our walks would happen at sunset rather than earlier in the day. As a result, we got to see more of the colorful sunsets!

Just in case you need it...

We were looking for something in the grocery store and found...

... bacon grease... I didn't know that you could purchase it at the grocery store. If I recall correctly, Mom used to have a metal container on the stove top into which the bacon grease went and from which we could dip out some when needed for seasoning greens or other things.

 

Miss Kitty back in *her* bus!

We got most things moved back to the RV before we brought Miss Kitty back. We weren't sure how she would deal with being back in the rig, but she was totally fine with it...

She found one of her favorite places in the sun, on the front passenger seat, though she was a little annoyed that there were other things on the seat keeping her from using the whole seat for herself!

Relaxing on her heating pad -- although we had it in the park model for her, she hasn't been using it a lot recently, but she got right back on it in the rig...

... but she was really stretched out as if she was hot, so I'm not sure why she was on the heating pad! She was also keeping an eye on her food dish -- she wasn't excited about what I had provided, but was in hopes that I might provide something better.

She is such an easy-going cat -- doesn't seem to mind which housing we have her in... though she *has* enjoyed having so many different chairs to sleep on in the park model!

Also under the heading of "It's always something!"

We decided that we should move back into the motorhome for at least a week before we planned to leave Mesa -- our experience has been that we always forget a number of things that we would like to have with us. It will be easier to get those items while we are still at Venture Out rather than having to drive back, purchase new, or do without.

As we were moving in, we noticed a puddle of water forming under the wet bay area of the rig. At first we thought it might be from the air conditioners being turned on and running pretty constantly, but then we thought that, it's so dry here, would there be that much condensation? Carl opened up the bay and found that, no, it wasn't condensation from the air conditioner, it was a broken fitting on the water softener system.

It had gotten really hot (high 90s - low 100s), so he decided to wait to work on it in the morning, "before it gets too hot".

The fitting from the hose had broken off in the inlet to the water softening system.

After a couple of trips to the hardware store, Carl had the fitting end that he needed and was able to get it installed on the hose.

A little later, he could reconnect to the water softening system.

It was also time to re-charge the water softener, so he was able to take care of that too. He also changed out the filters on the RO system.

I am so grateful that Carl knows how to take care of all of these systems on the rig (and in our house)!