Pictures from around the campground and a repair project

These were pictures we took at Paul Wolff campground where we were staying last week near Elgin, Illinois:

Uhm... I don't think that limo can pull that 5th wheel!

Nope, not gonna happen!

Pretty sunset!

Looking out over the prairie grass area

Repair project: We don't usually put the slide out on the passenger side in the living room area, but, we had put it out when we were in Elgin because of the large group we had a week or so ago (https://journeyinamazinggrace.blogspot.com/2021/09/a-crowd-of-cousins.html). Because of that, Carl noticed that the crown molding at the ceiling had come loose and was hanging down, and he wanted to try to get it fixed before we brought the slide back in. He got his brad air nailer from son Scott as the access to the area where we needed to attach the trim was limited and there was no way we could use a regular hammer in there.

We forgot to get a picture before we started, but... this was after we'd worked on it a little while... we had managed to get the trim back up -- attached by the brads that originally attached it to the wall -- it wasn't going to stay but at least they got it into place, and then we used various pill bottles to hold it in place while we were nailing...

Looking down toward the end where it had really come down -- with additional pill bottles holding it up at that end too.

Carl started trying to use the brad air nailer to re-attach the trim piece, but there just was not much room. To get the nail to go in to a part of the trim that was narrow enough for the brad to reach, we needed a different angle.

My arms were thinner, so we decided I should try... and we brought the slide in part-way so there was enough room for the brad air nailer to get inside the upper part of the slide out -- unfortunately at that point, the trim on the ceiling was right above the edge of the slide, so my arm didn't fit so well either -- we eventually got the slide enough in but not too far in...

Carl got this picture of me trying to operate the brad air nailer -- at the point he took the picture, the nailer was below the trim piece, but, I was eventually able to get it onto the trim piece and put several nails into place.

This picture gives a little perspective on the area where we were working -- on top of the slide over the kitchen area. We were using our dining room chairs as step stools and negotiating between the ceiling and the top of the slide.

It wasn't a major job, but it was certainly a pain to get accomplished with the tight quarters. We figure that the folks who built the rig put the trim piece in place before the slide was there, and they put the nails in on an angle from the bottom -- which meant that the bouncing of the rig as we go over rough roads eventually pulled those brads out of the wall. The ones we put in were more horizontal, so we're hopeful that they will stay in better -- but time will tell!