Hammer and Wrench

After waking up this morning we decided to tackle a few items that needed to be addressed around Road Hazard. It seems that I turned into several characters:

Tim "the tool man" Taylor

Snyder

Bob Villa

The bikes needed repair and maintenance. On my bike I had to replace the pedals because one of the pedals broke on our last ride.

On Reta's bike she had to insert this rubber piece between the tire and inner tube to prevent flats. In the last week she had 3 flat tires.

Thorns were going right into her inner tube and we were both tired of fixing flats. Once we finished working on the bikes we were both dirty so we decided to tackle RH. First we made a run to Camping World to pick up a few supplies. We discovered a couple of days ago that we had a small leak in our hydraulic lines for the leveling jacks. The left rear jack would keep retracting and cause the motor home to sag. The whole time we were in Houston I thought the ground was sinking and would complain to my landlord. Sorry, it wasn't your yard. Anyways, it has been leaking and we found the leak but still needed to tend to some other issues with it to make sure we fixed it completely. It required us to get in the engine compartment and also crawl around under the RV. We were quite dirty when we finished but mission accomplished. Since it has been getting very hot during the day we decided to insulate around the windows. We bought a huge windshield screen to block out the sunlight and heat to put on the big window up front. We also bought some pillow like plugs to put in the vents because there was some serious heat coming through.

The only way to finish off the day when we completed our tasks was to hit the pool and relax.

Tomorrow will be back to exploring the hillside.

By the way, on our way to Camping World we saw this exit on the highway. Did I mention we are in Texas? You can't get anymore country than this!

Last thing, if you haven't seen the comment on the Bats blog, my friend Peter wanted to inform me that he had misdiagnosed the snake we found. Anyways, here is his comment which I fell off my seat from laughing after I read it.

"Elton, It's a Blotched Water Snake - Nerodia erythrogaster transversa.Sorry for the misdiagnosis. Hope you didn't fry it up and eat it with some Brazilian goat-eyeballs while chanting around a fire in face paint."

Nice guy.