Thursday, August 20, 2009

Campering?

Been doing a lot of "Campering" the last couple of weeks. Campering is my wife's new term for time spent doing something related to the Shasta but not actually camping. So the changes are less dramatic this year than last but here's some of what we've been up to. The icebox is completely refinished, re-insulated, and installed, it looks awesome but the real test is does it stay cold. Refinished the interior wood panel on the main door, the bottom 10" or so was the only part that was water damaged badly so I cut that out and pieced in an aluminum kick plate-like detail. Added a shelf in the tall closet so that we can get individual clothes bins out without taking all four out in order to get to the one on the bottom. Replaced the mirror with a new piece of glass, the old one was fogged beyond being nice and vintage-like. Added an easily removable rail to the upper bunk, one of the kids actually rolled off and fell to the floor in the middle of the night giving us quite the scare on the last trip. Polished and installed the outside grab handle by the door, it's badly pitted but will do. Greased the wheel bearings. And finally, I somehow managed to break the catch that holds the screen door closed tonight. (I need to figure out how to fix this in the next 14 hours or so.)

Heading to the Adirondacks for a week of actual camping tomorrow!

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