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[garneska]

Maybe you could rent the Airstream from KORV as a "try before you buy" option some day soon.

Brilliant. I love this idea. We are going to sit and wait a while to decide. In general just renting might be the better option.

 

[4077]

Yes Ed, we are going to sell. The motor home sits too much and no retiring for at least 5 years. We are considering an airstream so that if it sits it is not quite so problematic. The airstream might be a few years away.

No slides and no engine...makes sense to me if it goes that way.....

 

[tigger92662]

@tigger92662 we will keep the flamingo for you.

@garneska Just message me to work out the details

 

[jbrostek]

@garneska Paying for storage and repairs on something you rarely have opportunity to enjoy, it completely makes sense to sell it. That does not get you off the hook from showing up.....

 

[jbrostek]

It has been a whirlwind of activities around this household. I got home without issues Monday, but that was the easy part. If we rewind a few days our oldest minpin, Bug, had something going on with her eye. Melissa sent me a picture on Thursday and it just looked like she had some white discharge.



Together we tag team called the vet and got an open appointment and finally got one friday night. And by then she needed to get to the vet as somehting bad was going on.



Poor girl got a scratch cornea (again) and we think it happened earlier in the week when Ellie and her got into a fight after Melissa got home Tuesday night (we still not sure what triggered it, but suspect excitement and jealousy was involved.)

The whole tow home I was getting updates and Bug seemed stable, we are now a week later, 5 more vet visits and going to see vet ophthalmologist tomorrow as it looks like the scratch has healed though more seems to be going on. More to come on this.

 

[FtW Mike]

Jim , Good luck with Bug's eye problem. We've been dealing with for 7 years with our Katie. She was born with a detached retina and the suffered a trauma to the same eye. Today she sees Dr. Bowersox every February to check on it

 

[jbrostek]

Of couse that wasn't all that was going on tihs week. Having arrived home and cold weather in the weeks forecast I had to make time to unload, clean and finally winterize the RV. I managed to get all of that done by Thursday evening. Which was good as I had an appointment to take it to General RV in Ashland, VA.

The reason for the appointment started several months earlier when I was doing general cleaning and maintinence and saw what looked like some screws had backed out of the slide plate on the front living room slide. As I inspected with plans to get slightly larger screws and add some expoxy I found that the screws did not back out, they actually broke. Realizing this was not good, I contacted Grand Design to ask for information about how to repair this and more importantly what to inspect for the root cause. I was not expecting them to cover the cost on a 4 year old RV, I just wanted to make sure it was repaired correctly.

Grand Design responded and asked for some more picutres. They then recommended I take it back to my dealer to have an upper deck inspection done. I am not 100% sure what that entails, though I heard about bolts holding the upper deck to the frame may be undersized and allowing for movement and stripping out. Since they asked for this and not 100% sure what they may or may not cover, I opted to work with them on this process. I am guessing it will be one of two possiblities. They will either recommend I have General RV perform the slide and related repairs, or they will ask me to bring it to Elkhart to be repaired at the factory.

Really I just want it repaired, we really like this RV and just want to keep it in top shape as we do continue to use it regularly. I will update everyone as I learn more, and if I have to head to Indiana this winter....well ill be in touch with some of you nearby.

 

[garneska]

@garneska Paying for storage and repairs on something you rarely have opportunity to enjoy, it completely makes sense to sell it. That does not get you off the hook from showing up.....

We will still show up. We love you guys. We will also try and find a place that takes dogs so we can bring Whisky.

Bug’s eye does not look too good. Hope she is not in too much pain.

This morning Whisky had me up, thankfully nit too early a little before 7. Normally a good sleeper, but some serious belly issues. I used a LOT of baggies this morning.

Today we will go clean out the bays. That one will be hard as I am not sure what to do with some of the things. Short answer is to drive it to Mom’s. She has a basement we can store stuff but that is not a long term solution. Expect a list later today of stuff we might be ditching on people. We have a fire pit and an easy up.

 

[garneska]

I have 6 things to give away from the bays of the RV.

1. A 6 foot ladder
2. A table top propane heater
3. A fort approved fire pit
4. A rectangular folding table (the one everyone has in their set up
5. A portable air conditioning unit
6. An easy up

If anyone is interested let me know. Will not be shipping anything but figure out how to get it to you. I also have old rope lights and Christmas lights.

 

[jbrostek]

I am chock full of stuff personally, though appreciate you passing it on to others that could make use of it.

Bug is on pain meds, two actually which seems to help. We give her those meds with food twice a day, two antibiotic eye drops ever 4 hours, though no overnights drops right now. Tomorrow we will find out more and go from there.

I did get all the end of season yard work done. The zero turn is now parked in shed for the winter, the snow mower (plow) is now down to the garage though might need a bettery this year. No Christmas decorations up yet, though they will start this week before the weather comes in and temps plummet.