Always tasks to do!

Carl has long said, "If everything is working on the RV, take a picture, because it won't last long!" As we were leaving Freedom RV, he said, "Should we take a picture? Is everything working?"

Well... the major systems are all working, but... there are always minor things that need maintenance and repair...

One item that has been working, but looked a little dubious was Gracie's power cord...

Carl said it was taped up when he and Sue bought Gracie back in 2019.

Now, we aren't plugged in here at Pinal County West Campground (no hookups), but we have a nice shaded picnic table (actually, 3 of them), so it seemed a good time to take on this task.

Carl preparing to cut the old end off (the new end is there on the table near him).

Old end cut off...

Carl did a continuity test on the old end to make sure that the assignments to pins of the color cables agreed with the way that the old end had been wired.

Handy location in the ramada with the power cord pulled out of Gracie's cord reel.

Carl had to expose the separate wires within the power cord, so he cut the outer black covering off...

... and then cut each individual wire as indicated in the new instructions...

... before attaching each wire to its appropriate pin...

All connected...

... and with the back and tension relief attached to the end of the cord.

Since we aren't hooked up here, we won't be plugging in again until we get to Yuma.

Sunset from Wednesday night

Looking east at sunset

Looking east out the "driveway" of our site on Wednesday.

As I had mentioned before, we decided to stay a few additional days at Pinal County West Park Campground, and needed to move one site over to get a reservation through Sunday night. So, we moved Thursday morning. We decided to do one additional task before setting up in our new site...

... adding coolant to the dash air conditioner. We had noticed that the dash air was not cooling as well as we would like, and Carl had refrigerant that he could add, so he added that on Thursday morning.

A picture of Carl trying to type on his keyboard -- he says that Miss Kitty's "help" is the reason that he makes so many typos. She is very demanding that hands are best used for petting kitty cats, not for typing or any other task!