I'm in a cave

Dad moved me into a cave with another car, one that's named after some animal. A Mustang. It looks kinda like me, its mostly red but it has a black top, not white.

Mom said it will be good for me to live in here where she can work on me all winter.

The cave is dark but the air moves around from a fan. I can't wait for Mom to do some more cleaning inside me.

My Big Brother

This is my big brother

 

His name is TRAILS WEST.

Instead of letting people sleep and eat in him, he carries big beasts around inside him.

He can take 4 at a time.

He is WAY bigger than I am.

 

T.W.'s floor is wooden, like mine, but he has rubber mats over his wood.

Mom took one out to see how he was doing underneath &

she said he had rotten floors (like I have rotten seats).

 

So Dad checked him out really good. Yup, rot.

 

Dad took almost all of his floor out.

 

Dad had to do some SAND BLASTIN'

and WELDING.

 

Look at him now, all nice strong floor boards, new metal & paint and all cleaned inside. Well, his floors, anyway.

Mom took T.W. and a couple of those beasts out on the open road today.

I didn't get to go.

 

Mom said he is nice and sturdy with no sag or bouncy.

 

But the jokes on T.W. !!!

Those beasts POOPED on his new floor!

More Cleaning Today

Mom came inside and did some more scrubbing on my insides today. She was inside for about an hour and did the front left corner and the wall below the window. She said shes bout half finished now.

Can you see ANY difference between the left & right sides of this photo? The right side has been cleaned.

Mom said there's got to be an easier way...

Shes been using a spray cleaner, sponge & toof brush.

Mom did say I don't smell as bad but I'm still stinky. She has that new heater inside me that keeps me warm & is drying me out so the mildew doesn't come back.

I Have Dry Rot

Mom didn't clean inside me at all today but she did straighten up a bit and took more pictures.

This is under one of the seats, DRY ROT. Ugh!

 

She said its not a big deal because it gives her a reason to replace this original stuff with custom cabinets.

Look, my water storage tank.

 

This is the other side & its rotted too. I bet my floor is too.

 

She found a plug but on my outside I have a note that says not for 110. So what would it be for?

 

Mom is now researching everything she can online about getting me new parts. 

I stink a little less

Mom said I stink so she got me wet inside with stinkier stuff that's supposed to make me smell better.

 I have 'MILDEW' in me.

Its all over all my vinyl walls and ceiling and that's what Mom has been getting wet.

Can you see the dark stuff on my insides? That's the mildew. Mom says its nasty and I can't have it any more.

 

 

Then she started giving me a bath with the smelly stuff and warm water. She had to use the rough side of the wiper thingy & then she got out a toof brush. She told Dad that she had to scrub every line of my stitching, both directions and all the little squares. 

 

This is one part that wasn't very bad, she had already washed me with the warm water.



 

Then she used the toof brush and made me less smelly.

She doesn't like that I still have mildew but I don't have as much.

 

Dad made me my very own 4 inch drop receiver hitch, I'm so excited. This means we can hit the open road soon.

 

Or maybe not soon but it will be funner for all of us when we do go bye-bye.

This is the front top corner after Mom wiped it but hadn't scrubber me yet.

 

And here is the same corner after she used my toof brush and the green spongy thing on me. What a difference, huh?

Mom got me my very own heater too! Now I'm nice and warm inside but mostly it will help me dry out and help get rid of my mildew.

Is mildew like a bug? Do I have fleas? 



 

These are some of the tools Mom had to day. She kept getting more warm water so I didn't get chilled. See the sponge in the bucket? She used the scratchy side for the stubborn mildew.

And there's my toof brush!

 

While Mom is working on me she keeps the door closed with this bungie cord.

 

See my hole? Mom took my dead bolt out and got me a new one but the new one doesn't fit. My door wouldn't close.

So she had to take it back to the store and she couldn't find one that would work. Mom was sad. But I still had my old one and its working OK for now.

With the heater on inside me she is using the bungie cord still because my door won't shut. The 'lectric cord is in it.

 

So close!

If I could just grab on I could go for a ride!

I'm Legal

I don't for sure know what it means but I'm 'LEGAL' now. 

My New Home

Mom and Dad came to see me today and brought me home, yippee-ki-yay! 

 

Actually I didn't know what they were doing at first. They brought more wires for my pig tail and new back eyes and one of my new kicks was flat.

 

Dad had a bucket of thingys and started tickling my hind end.

Then I had new back eyes on!

 

They talked about 'dapters and counted 3. I felt kind of wobbly.

 

It took a long time to get all of my new parts going right, that new pig tail has another one with it now. Its hooked up to my new back eyes and to my new friend, Blue Escape.

 

But when Dad started driving down the road I was scared so I bucked and kicked and bobbed from side to side. He stopped at a store and got 2 big bags of some smelly stuff for dogs and put it inside me but I still bucked so he stopped at another store and got 4 boxes of water and put it inside me too. Then it was a lot harder to buck so I about quit doing it.

 

We went a long ways down the road and stopped at Jean and Terrys place for dinner but they didn't feed me anything. Hmph!

And those smelly dogs got icky nose marks and slobber on my outsides. YUK.

 

Finally we got to my new home. It's dark out so I don't know what it looks like and I don't know where I'll be parked. Mom & Dad were talking and said 'garage beside Mustang' and 'carport' but I don't know what those things are. I guess I'll find out sooner or later.

 

Mom did go inside me & lifted up my pop up for the first time, it felt good to stretch but I was all stiff and didn't want to go all the way up. It's going to take some practice.

 



Can't come home yet

I need new red eyes, mine aren't working. Otherwise, I'm sure I'd have been home by now. Dad wants to put holes in my bumper and screw on some new ones, Mom says NO. She doesn't want me to have new holes. I don't want me to have new holes either!

They worked on my red eyes for a long time. Sometimes they lit up and sometimes they didn't or they were on backwards.

But Grandpa Don gave me new black on my tongue so part of me is shiny and that makes me happy. He gave me a bottle too.

Dad put the new pigtail on me but I don't know why its called a pigtail, I'M NOT A PIG!  I don't look anything like a pig.

While Dad had my kicks off he got a look at my belly. I'm pretty simple, really.

He said if he wants to, he can just unbolt a few bolts and take my bottom off.

 

I like my bottom on.

Here's Dad and my pig tail.

It doesn't look like this...

Does it? Ok, maybe a little.

Anyway, the point is, I can't come home until Dad gets my eyes fixed so I'll sit at Grandpa Dons for a while.

Mom says I will have a garage to live in at home. With a Mustang. I'm wondering what a Mustang is?

My new life begins

I was pulled from my safe haven where I'd been sitting nice and comfy for a long, long time. I creaked and groaned a bit but it felt good to come out into the sunshine.

I was walked around and told I was filthy. What is filthy? Does anyone have a mirror?

The lady sprayed me and gave me a good massage; ah, that felt so good. Then she washed my eyes so I could see better.

I can SEE!

Another lady came and got inside my tummy and starter taking out all the junk I'd been saving all this time. Lots of junk came out. They didn't call it junk, they called it 'supplies'.

She said I have MILDEW and spiders! I'm glad those tickley things are gone.

The lady said I'm going to move. But they did move me, up onto the hill above my safe haven. I've been sitting here all summer. Once in a while someone comes to visit but not very often. I wonder what's up?

They did give me new kickers.

 My old ones were kinda cracked up, from all the laffing we have done over the years.

My new kicks are speedy fast and bright black. Yippee, I can't wait to go for a spin.

I can't wait to get out on the open road and have adventures again. I wasn't made to sit idle for year after year.

I promise, on my honor, to share everything with you, my fans. Everything I do at home or on trips, if I get new clothes or I have an operation. We should have a nice time together.

Love ya,
LRC