I got up at a reasonable hour and after the usual cold water on the face routine, felt wide awake enough to take Mikey out walking. He was excited and raring to go as we wandered around the park. We didn’t see any other dogs on our travels but we did pass a couple of campers two of which were getting ready to pull out. I wished them “a safe journey” which is the saying all of us campers extend to our fellow travellers.

Back at the RV, as usual, I brought out the bird feeders and was lucky that I didn’t have to refill any of them. The number of birds that are visiting does seem to be lessening. It seems a little early for their mass exodus to wherever they spend the winter but then again, what do I know?

I was having trouble with the A/C in the RV and managed to flag Josh down and he took a look at it, Turns out that I had something else turned on instead of the A/C and he quickly fixed the problem. I brought out the awning to keep the morning sun out of the RV and closed all the blinds on the sun side, Later on, I will reverse the order and open those blinds and close the ones on the “new” sun side. For those of you not familiar with RV ways, because of the lack of thickness in an RV’s insulation, they quickly heat up in the sun and the A/C units runs pretty consistently all day. That is why I just recently replaced both A/C units in this rig which wasn’t cheap but unavoidable. As I pointed out earlier, A/C in an RV is an absolute necessity.

Incidentally, most RV’s have one big awning that extends on the front of the RV covering the main entrance and it too needs managing as I found out the hard way on previous RV’s. On one occasion, it rained very hard and I left the awning out but being made of flexible cloth, it filled with water and stretched accordingly and the weight of the water brought it down. That is why I bring it in if it rains hard. Another time, the wind got up and literally tore the awning away from its anchor point resulting in another replacement. Awning replacements are not cheap. Incidentally, I always bring the awning in if I am going to be away for any length of time for the above mentioned reason.

My most recent awning related incident happened last week. Somehow, the awning overwound and reversed itself so the out became in and I had to use opposite out and in buttons to operate it. That time, I managed to get it straightened out and now it works properly, out is out and in is in. Go figure!

Here in Texas, the sun is very hot and anything left outside is quickly hot to the touch. Things like outside stair rails and door knobs quickly overheat as do car interiors when they are parked even with the front sun shield in place. In the RV, I usually keep the blinds down on the sun side and reverse them as the sun travel it’s orbit. Incidentally, my RV has two A/C units, one for the front living area and the other for the bathroom and bedroom. They both operate independently with their own thermostats.

As we travel around the park on our walks, I am constantly reminded of how hot it is as every RV’s A/C units are noisily blasting away.

We went out for the final walk of the day and then brought in the bird feeders before calling it a night.