Trip Postponed

Well, phooey. Hubbie got a call from the RV repair shop this morning advising him that the damage to the slide-out on our camper is greater than they thought when they first looked at it. It'll be as long as three weeks before they can get it repaired.

The shop owner said that he thought the camper had sustained damage in a storm. When we thought about it, we realized that, yes, there had been a severe windstorm while we were at camp at the casino at the end of March.

The straight line wind that rocked the camper from the slide-out side really scared us, and since then, Hubbie has noticed that water has leaked onto the camper floor after rainy days. But it wasn't until the trip to the grape festival that he noticed that the rubber liner of the slide-out had dropped down. So now an insurance adjuster is going to inspect it to see if damages can be claimed. We certainly hope so, since the tab for repairs will run up to $3500!

Anyway, now our trip to Michigan is postponed indefinitely. Hopefully, we can reschedule for September. We know Granddaughter will be very disappointed, just as we are. Hubbie has already cancelled our campground reservations. Fortunately, the campground charged us only $4 for cancelling.

Oh, well, since we can't make the trip right now, we'll just amuse ourselves with various local events, like the watermelon festival at a nearby town this coming Saturday, and a free outdoor musical movie from 1968, "Oliver!," Saturday night. On the August calendar, too, are our usual meetings of the arts council, community theater board, Master Gardeners, and the scrapbook club, as well as the musical play "Grease," performed by a local dance studio, another outdoor movie, "Clue," in a couple of weeks, and a museum event about preserving food in the early days.

I do hate, though, that we couldn't make this trip while the college pool is closed. Water aerobics will start again August 24, so if we make the trip in September, I'll miss a lot of days at the pool.

Other than the glitch with the camper, we had an ordinary day. We got up at 7 a.m., and I hit the treadmill and did weights exercises right after breakfast. After I got ready for the day, I went outside to take pictures of the mama cat with her kittens, and flowers around the yard.

Then I pattied hamburgers for Hubbie to cook on the grill later. The hamburgers were to be frozen to take on the trip. When they were hot off the grill around noon, though, we decided to have three of them for lunch and freeze the rest.

I didn't do much after lunch besides reading my novel, because I didn't have a Plan B once I learned we are stalled in our trip plans. I'll need to review my regular "to-do" list and choose some things to accomplish while we wait for the trip to be rescheduled.

Tomorrow is taken care of...I agreed to do snapshots at a summer arts event for kids at a local college just down the road from our house. The arts council director called last week to ask me to do this. My camera has been cranky lately, though, so I hope I can get some decent shots.

Supper was simple tonight...hot roast beef sandwiches made from the leftover beef roast and gravy, with mashed potatoes, carrots and onions. After that, Mother went home, and Hubbie and I kicked back to watch TV.

We watched the two-part min-series, "The Storm," a disaster movie recorded on DVR from NBC channel.

Funny (and annoying): we received an e-mail invitation from our former ballroom dance instructor inviting us to the free musical movie, "Oliver!"....not just once but at least 75 times by the time I posted this blog. The same e-mail keeps coming in and coming in. I called the studio this afernoon to see what was wrong. A lot of folks must have also called, because there was a recorded message informing callers that they were aware of the glitch and were trying to fix it.