March 25th, Sunday – Hiding in Plain Sight

Hiding in plain sight, right in front of my nose, so obvious I wonder how I missed it.  More

about this later.  First things first, what a beautiful day we awoke to.  It was pleasant and the sun was shining.  Only one glitch, no morning news to watch because we couldn’t pull in any stations.  Oh well, in the overall scheme of  things that was a real, I mean, a real minor issue.

Up and out we were headed for the last time this year to the Presbyterian church.  This being Palm Sunday the church was comfortably full.  Once again we were not disappointed with our time in God’s house nor with Pastor’s message.  I told Barbara as we prepared to leave that I was going to put papers and markers on our pew so that no one would sit in it while we were gone.  Want to know how far I got with that idea?

Once out of church, we headed to a favorite breakfast stop.  This being the last week in

this area we decided to treat ourselves.  As always we were definitely not disappointed.  The food, the service, even the atmosphere is always great.  Till next year.

Hiding in plain sight, right in front of my nose, so obvious I wonder how I missed it.  What’s this all about?  Since changing the waste valves there has been a persistent leak in that area.  Was something jostled and now loose?  Could be but the only way to find out was to, ready for this, remove the rear inner fender well liner since it was blocking the view up into that area.  So that was the first order of business which was no small feat in itself.  Once it was pried loose and we could see up in there, wonder of wonders the leak it was now obvious was coming from somewhere up in the unit.  But where?

Next order of business, inside to inspect.  We checked under the shower to make sure the drain was not leaking.  Not that.  On to the bathroom sink.  We started to pull things out so we could take a look, wait a minute, why was the steel wool in here all rusted?  I just put it in two days ago to keep unwanted critters from crawling up and in along the water lines.  There it was.  Our nasty, persistent leak.  Hiding right in plain sight.  A small backflow preventer valve which is installed under each sink, this one in the bathroom had decided to give up the ghost.  I breathed a big, and I mean big sigh of relief.  Another item caught before we moved out.

Tomorrow we’ll pick up the valve and install it.  For the time being we’ve had to turn the water off to stop the leak.  Ah well, the bathhouse is just down the end of our lane.  It’s not the worse thing in the world.  Tomorrow we’ll put the valve in and be back to normal, whatever that is!

Now that was taken care of we decided to go shopping, I know what you’re thinking, didn’t they do that yesterday?  And the day before?  And the day before that?  Yup, maybe we’re just addicted to Walmart!  Truth is we’re still discovering items we had best have on board before we move North.  Heaven help us if we don’t discover more Walmart’s along the way!

Once back home we met our new neighbors, Dave and Patty, who are also full timers.  They’ve come down from Virginia to create a domicile, like us, in Florida.  Dave I discovered is a lot like me, he too wants everything planned out in advance.  So like me, he has his campgrounds and route planned out already for 2018.   It was great spending time with them today during the afternoon.

We’re now at the end of the day.  The sun has gone down and the night is just about upon us.  Are we discouraged because we keep finding things that need to be fixed?  Not at all.  We expected this, and still expect it to happen.  RV’s were never meant to be lived it full-time.  We’ll just keep up with the preventive maintenance and fix the other things as they come along.

So yes, we had a great day.  We’re still together, traveling along, singing our song.   Hope you enjoyed your day as well.  Never forget you can’t control your circumstances but you can control how you face and handle them.

As always,  if you are coming to the end of your day with concerns and worries let me suggest that you turn them over to God.  After all, He is going to be up all night so why not let him handle them for you.

Time now for our evening prayers and some shut-eye.  Till tomorrow.  Thanks again for sharing our day with us.

These are the voyages of  Graybeard and it’s occupants, four paws and two humans.  Our continuing mission: to explore as many new states as possible, to seek out new acquaintances and make new friends, to boldly go where we have not been before