Name Change

Mom has decided to change the name of this blog since I no longer live with them. 

She has also decided that new camper gets to be the main guy. 

What a let down, *I* want to be the main guy!!

She said she's going to keep posting pictures of my cousins that she sees so that's cool. Here is one that was at the Port Townsend ferry terminal last week, waiting to go on the ferry to Coupeville.

And here's the new guy on his own truck.

He needs a name and a LOT of work. Since he is home now Mom said she can begin fixing him up.

Replaced?

Have Mom & Dad replaced me?

Sure have!

With this VINTAGE slide in camper

It's not in good shape at all and there is no history with it.

This sink and stove are bigger and there is an oven.

The upper bed area, for the queen size bed, has no mattress and it sags.

Down below the windows there is a portable toilet.

And the table is AWESOME.

All it cost them was this aluminum boat that Dad picked up at the auction 5 years ago and never took to the water. Mom sorta MADE him trade.

Its not home yet because the jack stands aren't made for a dually truck and the truck won't fit between them. Mom & Dad need to get new jacks or borrow a truck to bring it home.

My Missed Adventure

Mom & Dad went on another 'venture without me, once again to 'Sunny & Warm Las Vegas'.

Along the way Mom saw another cousin.

She didn't catch his name and these were the only two pictures she got of him.

I wonder if he is home made?

Look, Dude has two axels!

And a read door,

LIKE ME!!!

On their way home Mom & Dad spotted ANOTHER cousin,

one of my Scamp cousins. 

I sure have a big family.

Dad gave me my feets back.

 

They are shiny white!

 

They were icky but he cleaned them up

 

Dad said he wants my white walls to show.

I don't know what white walls are.

I have walls around me and my tops are white

so maybe that's what dad means too?

 

Mom noticed there are a couple scratches on my white feets from the 'chine that put the tires on.

 

Dad says that can be fixed.

Dad got this rough white stuff out today and cleaned my feets.

 

They were all yucky and dirty and Dad said Rusty.

I don't know who Rusty is but he needs to stay off my feets.

 

But Dad got all the other old white and Rusty off.

 

And then Dad put more white on my feets.

They are starting to look dandy.

Another Cousin, or Rather, Second Cousin

Mom was at work last week and saw my second cousin going onto the boat.

 

Isn't she cute?!?!

 

I wonder where they got to go? Maybe up to the mountains? To Canada? To Idaho?

I'll never know but I hope it was an awesome trip.

Jane came again today

But Mom sent her back home with my wrap. They stood outside talking, looking at it and touching it all over. Jane said shes got concerns about the holes needed in it for my screws that hold it in place. So they decided Jane would take it home and do some more work on it and bring it back later.

 

I saw some of the wrap and it looks marvelous! Its all new and pretty.

 

That's OK, Mom and Dad don't have time for working on me right now anyway, they are working on a camper port for me to spend the cold wintertime under, not getting rained on.

I'll be under one side and Miata will be under the other side.

Mom got word today...

...that my new wrapper is coming home tomorrow! Jane will bring it here for me at 4pm.

I. CAN'T. WAIT.

Jane Was Here!

Jane was here again today and Mom gave her the new vinyl to make me a new wrapper. I'm so excited, just can't wait for my top to be done.

Mom said don't hold my breath, she might not even get it onto me till next spring.

 

There is off white vinyl for the outer wrapper, clear for the windows and screen stuff to keep the bugs out. I do not like bugs.



Behemoth

My grandparents went to the Stokes Auction and brought this huge

behemoth

1983 Wanderlodge with 140k miles

here to live with us, or he is at least sitting in front of me in my yard. He is so big and I am so small.

 

Here is the living area, this couch is across from the sink.

 

This is the cockpit. Notice the phone?

 

Dinette

 

Shower. Lan can stand in it.

 

Other side of the bathroom. Notice the phone?

 

Bedroom. Lots of mirrors, tiny drawers and storage everywhere.

And buttons and lights, EVERYWHERE.

Notice the phone?

 

If you lay down on the bed & reach up, more buttons.

 

Small TV & VCR. Yup, VCR. I'm sure they work.

 

Central Vac!!

 

Looking forward.

 

That stuff on the floor is just more stuff they brought home.

 

See, more lights and buttons.

VRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Dad has been working on my seat benches, getting rid of some dry rot and replacing with some fresh wood.

He used a cutter thingy to tickle the heck out of me,

I was giggling and giggling!

 

He made Mom hold my vinyl and she was scared he was going to cut her fingers off.

 

There was icky smells in the air and stuff flying all over.

 

 

There, that nasty stuff is out of me, finally.

 

The black pipe goes from my water intake to my storage tank.

They are pretty dirty from me sitting around for so long so Dad needs to take it out and clean it.

 

Mom took my guts out again

 

SIGH

 

and sprayed them with Scotchgard to help keep them clean.

 

 

Then she took them into the cave and gave them to Mus Tang!

He's already got nice guts, why does he get mine too?

 

 

But Mom said its so that Dad doesn't get that icky fiberglass stuff on them.

 

Dad is so silly sometimes!

Back Eyes

Dad worked on my back eyes and they are bright & shiny now. Here's what he did.

 

These are what I had all my life.

 

The new back eyes are LED. Dad wanted to make them fit me, not ADD them to me.

So he took them apart.

 

He took their eye lids off and took out their guts.

 

After grinding some extra stuff off them he said they were good.

 

This is that my guts used to look like.

 

And my eye lids; they were old and hazy.

 

Dad buffed them all up shiny!

 

Then he used this sticky stuff to put my new eye guts in the old eye lids.

 

LOOK, aren't they nice and brilliant now?!?!

 

Dad shined up these ones too, can you see a difference here between the left and right?

 

They area all bright and shiny now but without the blue car hooking up to me Mom can't get a picture. Dang.

 

In other news, Jane sent Mom a message, she's working on my guts and it all seems to be going well. No pictures yet.