Mar 28
Finished Room Front
Finished Room Rear
After almost 2 months of continuous work, the exterior of our park model addition is complete. This Winter or next Spring we’ll finish the interior.
Some photos from the final days of construction . . .
A Typical Cold Morning
Patio Door Delivery
Mar 26
Our Desert Trip (click on map to enlarge)
We particiaped in the 4th Annual Table Mesa Jeep Jamboree at the end of February. Yes, I know, we’re a tad bit late posting about our adventure, but we’ve been working on our park model addition (We’re done! More later.)
Anyway, we arrived at the Boulder Canyon Campground on Thursday, February 28 and set up camp.
Boulder Canyon Campground
REGISTRATION
Registration for the Jamboree was at 5 pm on Thursday night, so we decided to get to the registration site a little early.
However, it wasn’t early enough as we ended up at the end of line of over 100 Jeeps . . .
The Line
While we waited in line, I checked out the Jeeps . . .
. . . and Jan talked with some Newbies . . .
DAY 1 TRAIL RIDE
We opted for the easiest trail with 11 other Jeepers . . .
It was a beautiful morning . . .
Box Canyon
Lunch
CASTLE HOT SPRINGS RESORT
Castle Hot Springs Resort
To me this was the high point of our trip. This desert resort first opened in the early 1900’s. A fire destroyed it in the 1970’s, and this October it will reopen.
Rooms start at $660 a day.
Our Jeep trip ended when we reached Lake Pleasant.
Northern Tip of Lake Pleasant
Feb 13
We’ve been working on our new room addition for about 3 weeks which is the reason for my lack of blog posts (until lately).
At first the progress was fast — probably because I had a lot of energy, but slowed down after I put up the three frame walls.
Here’s a photo log of those 3 weeks . . .
THE WEATHER HAS BEEN LESS THAN PERFECT
While it’s not hot, it has been rainy and now cold (for us).
SUPPLIES ARRIVED
For a small room, a fair amount of lumber is required. As it turned out, I under-estimated my 2 x 4 needs by about 50%.
Lumber Delivery
This is where our Jeep came in handy . . .
MOVING & EXTENDING & FRAMING
Moved the Porch Storage Drawer 1 Foot Over
Extended the Floor by 1 Foot
Framed All Walls + Stairs
ODDS & ENDS
The “minor” tasks can chew up a lot of, if not the most, time and energy . . .
Waterproofed Roof Post
Braced a Wall
Pre-Painted Exterior Wall Panels
CLOSET ROOF UP
The small roof that covers our room addition’s closet was next to go up. The roof was in two parts — each part 3/4″ plywood covered with an RV “rubber roof”. Actually, it’s some sort of synthetic material called Superflex. The Superflex is glued onto each sheet of plywood using a water-based adhesive that we’re pretty sure is Elmer’s Glue.
Elmer’s Glue?
Anyway, we used a paint roller to spread the Elmer’s Glue all over each plywood sheet, then used a padded squeegee to flatten out the Superflex and remove all the air bubbles. For the most part it worked out ok.
Get Those Air Bubbles Out
After letting the Elmer’s Glue dry for a day, we next attached a brown-colored water drip edge.
Roof Drip Edge
Finally, both sections of the rubber roof are fastened to the roof rafters.
Closet Roof Attached
ONE WALL UP
After attaching the rubber roof, next step was to put up the closet’s exterior panels.
Closet Wall Finished (except for trim)
WHAT’S NEXT?
The door, sliding door, and two windows will arrive over the next month.
So I have to prepare a frame for each window, put up the room’s roof, and sheath the remaining two walls.
RANDOM MOMENT . . .
Feb 10
A Public Service Announcement . . .
Catch the Fab Four’s USA TV debut on Stephen Colbert’s :ate Show on Monday, Feb 11th and/or on Good Morning America’s Tuesday morning show.
And, finally, Blackpink is a headliner at this year’s Coachella, April 12th & 19th:
Feb 9
The shade in our RV skylight broke last summer. We took it down and told ourselves we’d repair it next week.
Many many weeks later we bit the bullet and restrung our RV skylight shade.
Bought new shade string on Amazon, but, unfortunately, removed the old string from the shade before taking a picture of how to run the string through the shade. Big mistake.
After trying to restring the shade for about 5 minutes, my patience expired.
Luckily, Jan was up for the challenge and figured it out pretty quickly.
I did the RV installation.
A RANDOM MOMENT . . .
I’ve walk Flirt passed this dummy several times, but her reaction never changes . . .
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