Our current status

Our current status is that we are parked in the "campground" of National Indoor RV Center in Lewisville. It isn't really a "campground", but a parking lot with water and electric hookups and dump stations on the far side of the building -- available for use to customers while their rigs are being worked on.

During this past week, they have been taking the RV for at least part of each day, primarily working on the paint/body work required by the damage done when the awning was ripped off back in October when Carl was driving from Illinois to Arizona. We think that they have finished with all of that work today... *except* they still need to replace the awning. It has been ordered, and we are told it is currently expected to come in sometime April 6-10... we're a wee bit annoyed that they had the information about the needed awning for a long time, but it seems that they didn't order it until at least after the insurance adjuster came and agreed to the expenses. Oh well...

This picture was from yesterday... they were running some wires in the bay and needed 3(!) of the bays cleared out...

Let's just say that, as fulltime RVers, we have a LOT in the bays... the guy who came to talk to Carl on Wednesday evening to ask him to do the emptying said, "I can't believe how much you have in there!!!"

We looked rather like a yardsale couple... with our folding chairs, and we also had a table set up later in the day... we thought we might trade a lot of it for a couple of rolls of toilet paper...

Meanwhile, NIRVC, where we are getting service done, is adding on to their facilities...

They have all this wonderful large equipment doing all sorts of moving of dirt in the lot right in front of where we are parked...

As if there wasn't enough dirt there already, they are bringing some more of some types of dirt in... you can also see in this picture some of the vehicles of our fellow residents in the "campground" and one of the smaller class B RVs (van conversion) that had been brought out and parked in front of our space for a while.

This truck was getting loaded up with dirt that they no longer want... some dirt comes, some dirt goes...

Our "spot" in the campground - this was from today - Carl was in a chair at the table, but we didn't have the full "yardsale" look going today...

We actually have what we think is the best spot in the campground - it is at the very end, so we have no RV neighbors on that side (though we have a mobile home park on that side, so sometimes they are louder than the RV neighbors). We have a little grass (and sand) to the side of our space. The guys who came to get the RV today recommended that we park the car in the space while the RV was gone so no one else got the idea of parking a different RV here!

When we took a walk around the grounds (parking lot) this afternoon, we saw Carl's rig in the body shop area getting some buffing done by one of the technicians...

As we finished walking around the building - this is a look across the area where the new construction is going on - with the "campground" down there in the distance with a metal awning structure just behind it.

Another load of dirt delivered!

I told Carl that I thought it was awfully kind of the management to provide entertainment of something for us to watch during the time that our RVs were away and we couldn't go and do anything else because of virus concerns. In the past, when Dwayne and I had work done on Miss Doozie here, we could leave during the day and visit friends or the library or walk at the mall... but... those aren't available options at this point. Oh well... we can watch the construction work instead!

So... we're hoping that the awning will arrive early in the week of April 6 (or maybe even before) and that the shop will be able to complete the installation expeditiously and we'll be able to get back on the road to Virginia. But... we're trusting that God knows what we need and where we need to be and will arrange for things to happen when they need to happen to allow that to occur. In the meantime, we're trying to be patient and enjoy what we can enjoy (watching the big trucks and dirt-moving equipment) and patronizing local restaurants with take-out orders.