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RV Fires: Let’s Talk Safety

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Our neighbors and good friends had a fire in their RV refrigerator the other day. Fortunately they were home and caught it before it did any major damage to their coach.
I’ve been meaning to write a piece on RV fridges and fires for a long time. 80 % of RV fires start at the refrigerator so looking after your RV fridge becomes an extremely important task. It won’t guarantee you never have a fire, but it will cut down the percentage.
You can read the  whole story right here, then please pass the word on to all your RV’ing friends.

Ballad Of The Black Plastic Cowboy Hat

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the Black plastic cowboy hat


There must have been some magic in that black plastic had they found. For when they placed it on his head he began to dance around. Yehaw!
Words by Jason Vanstone, Music by Frosty the Snowman

It’s a whole new experience learning to wear a fine Stetson-like hat like the one you see on the handsome professional male model above. Taking the corners wide is a must and lower entrances are definetely a no-no. You better keep at least one hand free at all times because you certainly know it when you step out into a stong wind. On the positive side though it does keep some of the sun out of your eyes and may even have some value for keeping the rain off your glasses.

Contrary to popular opinion though all the girls don’t automatically go wild when they see a rogue in a black plastic cowboy hat. Admittedly a few did, but I had to throw them back, they certainly weren’t keepers. I’m thinking that maybe if I had a real black cowboy hat, not a plastic one, the results might be better. Or maybe it’s time I just faced it; Maybe the years have taken away my youthful rogue-ish charm.
What am I thinking? It is the plastic.

All About Nothing

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In my last post I was whining about the weather. Mother Nature had snuck in when we least expected and served up hopefully one last dose of winter winds and temperatures, just so we all would remember who is really in charge. OK Mom, I surrender. You make the rules.
Yesterday we are out for a walk around 50 Point, where as you can see, spring is underway. Every year in late April they begin putting all the boats in the water, making sure they are all in and ready to go before the May two-four long weekend.
Come late September, early October, they lift them all out of the water to prepare for the oncoming winter.
Further along on our walk, Marilyn comments that these trees look just like spurts of water out of fountains;

water fountains

Someday’s we are walking fools!

Later in the day we head up to another local conservation area to enjoy the now gorgeous day. This park is noted as a great bird watching area, and there are dozens of people watching the sky, all with fancy looking binoculars and cameras in hand, ready to capture each exciting bird sighting.
As we walk through the park we see many hawks enjoying the thermals as they make their way north for the summer.
Here’s a recent count;


After years of procrastination, I’ve now been working hard on RVQuestions.net and am starting to see some results. Daily hits are now in the many hundreds  so I’m thinking that makes it time to get some advertising on there. Last night I did that. Notice the first random ad that google puts up? Now you know what my plans are for the weekend.