Getting some things done and a move

We wrapped up our stay at San Benito Thousand Trails by getting a couple of projects done...

A few months ago, Carl had installed the water softener into the far side of the wet bay (https://journeyinamazinggrace.blogspot.com/2022/01/getting-stuff-done.html) -- at the time we knew we wanted to do something to better organize the bottles, cans, etc. -- we had gotten wood for building shelves a week or so before (in Lancaster/Palmdale), so Saturday was the day to work on it. This is a "before" picture.

Meanwhile, one of our rocking chairs had had its stitching for one side of the seat partially give way. It did it while we were at the FMCA Conference in Tucson at the end of March. I had looked up to see if there was any way to replace the fabric (the metal and mechanism are still in great shape) -- I couldn't find any way to get replacement fabric. Carl asked if I could restitch it with some of the UV resistant thread that I had ordered to try to repair our MagneShade -- so I decided that Saturday was a good day to work on that too.

It was not too difficult to sew as the holes that the thread used to go through were still there, so I didn't need to puncture the fabric most of the time. One thing we particularly noticed as I was working on this was how much different the fabric looks on this chair compared to the other one (you can see the other chair in the picture above) -- the other chair's fabric color is very similar to the underside of this chair. Dwayne and I got these chairs in the fall of 2016 (ordered from Camping World: https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6578383400058208161/3618458003569129880). As far as I recall, they have received similar treatment through the years -- I know I had them outside Miss Doozie when I was parked at the International Linguistics Center, which probably gave them more sun damage than they would have had if I had been bringing them in and out. When I was doing research on replacement covers for them, either the manufacturer for these chairs or for the new ones I was considering ordering indicated that they should not be kept outside. Goodness! You wouldn't consider storing outside chairs outside, would you?!?!? I guess we have subjected them to undue hardship!

Meanwhile, Carl was proceeding on cutting boards for the "far side of the wet bay" project.

Shelves completed

"Stuff" back in the bay. It doesn't look a lot more organized yet - we want to get some different bins that will fit the space more effectively. Right now I have a taped-up Oreo box on the top of one shelf and a mishmash of containers on the other shelves -- it is working temporarily! We like having things in containers as it is easier to take things out and it helps to ensure that things don't move around a lot when we are driving.

On Sunday, as we were walking around San Benito campground, I took a picture of an interesting rig down the road from us...

Carl said it had a Mercury emblem on the front -- he figures it is some kind of homegrown conversion, maybe off of a previous limo.

On Monday, after spending a week at San Benito, we checked out -- heading north to Morgan Hill. One of the slightly scary things about San Benito was that a single lane (a quite narrow single lane) bridge had to be crossed to enter the campground area (within the campground, beyond the ranger station) - there were two options - this was the better one. There were no signs indicating a weight limit, but we hoped that they had accounted for big rigs needing to cross it! It stayed up for us to cross it both ways (coming in and leaving)... for which we were grateful!

We liked San Benito -- pros were that it was a pretty campground, the sites weren't *too* close together (back-in sites were more spacious than the pull-thru buddy sites). There was quite a bit of wildlife to see - though the ground squirrels were so numerous that they seem to be digging up all of the ground in the campground. One of our neighbors who has had a seasonal site there for a few years said that there used to be bobcats and feral cats and the squirrels were not so numerous. Evidently, there was an effort to eradicate the feral cats, and now the squirrels are not being "naturally" controlled.

We often say that each time we move to a new location, there are things we need to "budget" because they are in short supply. At San Benito, we had full hookups -- 50A power, water, sewer -- the "short supply" item was internet -- our devices indicated that they had plenty of "bars", but once everyone was in their campers in the evening, the speeds would slow to abysmal. It was acceptable during the week, but on the weekend, it was unusable. 

This week in Morgan Hill, we have 50A power, water, good internet, but no sewer hookup, so we need to "budget" our use of our grey and black tanks (no more long showers, be careful about how much water I use washing dishes, and need to think about whether we can do a load of laundry or not).

But, that keeps our brains active and young, right?