RE: Velvac Mirror Part
I peeled a mirror off this year. The cheapest replacement I found was through a dealer in the midwest. Email them at
parts@lichtsinn.com
They also had a replacement Sony camera cheaper than anywhere else.
RE: winterizing with an air hose...how effevtive is it?
I did the air thing twice and had unexpected problems. One year the toilet sprayer and the ice maker and the next year the outside shower.
I now use the pink stuff. The 25.00 I spend on it is well worth it. I draw it through everything and stop worrying. Also, it helps to have pink stuff in the low part of the holding tanks.
RE: Reply from Four Winds on body issue
My experience with them was opposite. They covered a delamination problem by replacing both walls. I had documented a leak problem with the dealer and the manufacturer a month after purchase (new), and when the walls delaminated they replaced the entire walls free of charge when the unit was 3 years old.
The Cab Ride - In my email this am
In this morning's rash of emails was this gem......
The Cab Ride
So I walked to the door and knocked. 'Just a minute', answered a frail, elderly voice. I could hear something being dragged across the floor.
After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her 90's stood before me. She was wearing a print dress and a pillbox hat with a veil pinned on it, like somebody out of a 1940s movie.
By her side was a small nylon suitcase. The apartment looked as if no one had lived in it for years. All the furniture was covered with sheets.
There were no clocks on the walls, no knickknacks or utensils on the counters. In the corner was a cardboard box filled with photos and glassware.
'Would you carry my bag out to the car?' she said. I took the suitcase to the cab, then returned to assist the woman.
She took my arm and we walked slowly toward the curb.
She kept thanking me for my kindness. 'It's nothing', I told her. 'I just try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother treated'.
'Oh, you're such a good boy', she said. When we got in the cab, she gave me an address, and then asked, 'Could you drive through downtown?'
'It's not the shortest way,' I answered quickly.
'Oh, I don't mind,' she said. 'I'm in no hurry. I'm on my way to a hospice'.
I looked in the rear-view mirror. Her eyes were glistening. 'I don't have any family left,' she continued. 'The doctor says I don't have very long.' I quietly reached over and shut off the meter.
'What route would you like me to take?' I asked.
For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked as an elevator operator.
We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived when they were newlyweds. She had me pull up in front of a furniture warehouse that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl.
Sometimes she'd ask me to slow in front of a particular building or corner and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing.
As the first hint of sun was creasing the horizon, she suddenly said, 'I'm tired. Let's go now'
We drove in silence to the address she had given me.It was a low building, like a small convalescent home, with a driveway that passed under a portico.
Two orderlies came out to the cab as soon as we pulled up. They were solicitous and intent, watching her every move. They must have been expecting her.
I opened the trunk and took the small suitcase to the door. The woman was already seated in a wheelchair.
'How much do I owe you?' she asked, reaching into her purse.
'Nothing,' I said
'You have to make a living,' she answered.
'There are other passengers,' I responded.
Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug. She held onto me tightly.
'You gave an old woman a little moment of joy,' she said.
'Thank you'
I squeezed her hand, and then walked into the dim morning light. Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of the closing of a life.
I didn't pick up any more passengers that shift. I drove aimlessly lost in thought. For the rest of that day, I could hardly talk. What if that woman had gotten an angry driver, or one who was impatient to end his shift?
What if I had refused to take the run, or had honked once, then driven away?
On a quick review, I don't think that I have done anything more important in my life.
We're conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments.
But great moments often catch us unaware-beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.
PEOPLE MAY NOT REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT YOU DID, OR WHAT YOU SAID, ~BUT~THEY WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER HOW YOU MADE THEM FEEL.
You won't get any big surprise in 10 days if you send this to ten people. But, you might help make the world a little kinder and more compassionate by sending
it on.
Thank you, my friend...
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
RE: what do your kids enjoy most about camping?
Our two boys are now 25 and 20 and they both ask when we are going camping again.
When they were between 15 and 18, the best thing about camping for them was all the space - they stayed home.
RE: Tread mill?
I've had three treadmills and have broken them all. I am now saving to buy a gym-quality one.
I am sure that my weight plays a major role. The last treadmill lasted about 3 months. I lost 45 pounds by running 6.0 MPH for 60 minutes a day, 7 days a week. Unfortunately I gained it all back since the treamill broke a year ago.
RE: How to handle non-RV family that want to borrow your MH?
I've been asked. The answer is always no. I have let my brother use my (then new) convertible, my Harley and my (unreturned) chain saw. When he asked about the camper I simply said that I will be making payments on it for 15 years and until it is paid for I am the only driver.
RE: WaMu Gives New CEO Mega Payout as Bank Fails
You couldn't get enough of the stockholders to agree on a dog catcher, much less vote out a top executive. Let's compare a ceo and a pro sports coach. They are in charge of running the team/company. They are the ones that get the blame for failures. But I see one big difference, the players of the pro sports team and employees of a company aren't paid the same. You see the coach is limited as to what he can do by his players. The same way a ceo is limited by his employees, but they aren't paid much because the upper management thinks they are a dime a dozen. Unlike pro sports players, not everyone can play pro sports. I would also bet if you done a survey most of todays ceo's have had sonebody help them get to were they are. It's not impossible to start with nothing and make it, but Most(not all) have some help somewhere along the way.
What would the stockholders say? The same thing there saying now I guess. He got how much of a bonus!
You can't make that comparison. The CEO almost always makes the most money. He motivates people under him by offering money/power/prestige/security in return for a job well done. The coach is most likely the lowest paid person in the room. He has to motivate people by appealing to their egos.
The coach has a harder job when it comes to motivating the underlings.
RE: WaMu Gives New CEO Mega Payout as Bank Fails
Not that I think anyone is worth that much, but to play devil's advocate for a moment...
The market determines these payoffs. This guy most likely left a job to take the new one and he negotiated his "out clause".
I doubt he in any way over the past 17 days caused the failure of the bank. I think that he should be kept on and evaluated at 30 days, then if he needs to go, it is without the parachute. If he demonstrates that he can turn things around, he won't need the out clause anyways.
Of course, this would be applying common sense to the situation - which is in short supply these days.
RE: Water leak In 2008 Monaco Knight
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I still couldn't find the air-horn fuse. We were lucky that the horns went off while we were there in the park. And thank goodness it didn't happen in the middle of the night!!!
MM.
Also be thankful that it did not happen on the highway as you followed a group of Hells Angels!!!!
RE: So if you lost your job................
I've worked for my present employer for 20 years. I am in no position to retire. Why? We decided when we had kids that we would be responsible for them. We decided that we would make sure they had every opportunity to be kids and to gain an education (I went to work out of tech school and my wife went to work after 2 years of college because she could not get any more loans). We spent the first few years paying off her college loans. I had to work when I was in high school for the family budget and I swore I would never make my own kids work to pay my way. I was not able to participate in a lot of the things most of my friends did during school because I worked.
My kids got to live the life I wished I could have had. The oldest is now gainfully employed, the youngest is pursuing an education in a field that excites him. I am in debt to my eyeballs due to college loans (equity on the house) and still am a paycheck away from a bridge abutment. My vices are my car, motorcycle and my camper. I am proud of the fine young men we've raised and every time I look at my friends who are much better off that I am, I remember how much joy I get from seeing my kids prosper. I have decided that being a parent was more than a biological function and it extended well past 18 years.
As Alanis Morrisette would say "I am broke but I am happy".
I can't take it with me.
Besides, my kids will pick my home for me......
RE: What if someone offered you 1.5 Million…would you sell?
I began building my house when I was 22 on a piece of property my parents gave us (I was married at 19). They still live next door, my youngest brother is across from them and another younger brother owns the piece across the street from us. I have 2 acres, but the family has about 30. I finished the house by the time I was 25 (sub'd out a lot of the work) and we absolutely love the area we are in. I fought the urge to enlarge the place as the kids got older, and now that they are on their own the place is plenty big enough. I can't imagine there is a place I would rather be. We owe roughly 200K on it and it's valued at 425. I would not sell it for 1.5 million, I plan on living in my home until I am in "the home" or in "the box".
I may be different from a lot of you. I have roots in the community and, while I might like to visit your area of the country I still think this is the best place on the planet.
RE: Death notice by email?
Rebecca It is so strange that you bring that idea up, because I just did that exact thing when my 82 yo FIL died two months ago.
About two years ago or so, I finally convinced him that email was a "good thing", and so I set him up with his own Hotmail account. It wasn't easy, but he finally learned how to add "contacts" to his "address book". It was like pulling teeth sometimes, but he was getting the hang of sending and recieving email.
Anyway, since I set up his account for him, I also helped him settle on a good password. He never changed it, and he didn't care if I knew it. He had nothing to hide. I am very grateful for that, because when he passed away suddenly in Costa Rica, I was able to get into his email account and tell all his many close friends and associates in his address book the bad news. I received replies from all of them thanking me for letting them know, and all sent their condolences.
I still have not had the heart to close his account. I check it every day, I don't know why. Jeez, this is making my misty eyed all over again.:(
A few years ago a friend passed away at age 46. She was on an email list that I regularly sent mail to. I never deleted her name from it. I figured that who-ever was receiving the messages would close the account when they were ready to. The messages I sent were related to something she held near and dear to her heart. They still have not asked me to stop sending, and the account is still open. In fact, I have received responses from the account.
RE: Please, we need your prayers.
All day I've tried to think of what to say and have not come up with anything that seems right. I can not imagine the pain you feel at this time and I really wish there was something I could do to help ease it. You and your family are in my prayers.
This evening I am chaperoning a middle school dance. I will look for something purple to wear.
RE: Wayward kids wandering into campsite
In my experience the kids act the way they do because the parents don't teach them. Or, worse yet, the kids are following the parents' examples.
