Today we stayed in camp.
Our friends Lorie and Barry had told us that camping is hard work, and that anyone that tells you it isnt, is definitely lying.I think I would have to agree.
We are waiting for a service person to look at things in our camper. There is a small leak in the shower that prevents us from hooking up directly to the waterline, and it would be awesome to not have to fill the tank manually all the time. The water pump is making strange noises and there are some other small things that we want looked at.
While waiting for the service person it was clean up "house" day. Now that sounds easy right? It should only take a few minutes right? Wrong! It takes about an hour to go through it all.
Lets talk about making the bed.
For starters, we have very narrow sides to walk to the bed and no way to get near the top or head of the bed. So even getting into bed at night is a combination of huffing and puffing to wriggle your butt close to where you think you can now put your head down on the pillow, only to realize you are still about 6 inches shy of where you are supposed to be. This then requires that you sit up, watching out for the shelf (which is deadly by the way)and wriggle a bit more, being careful not to over wriggle, otherwise hitting the window on the way down. And there is no magical way of getting it just right. Feet pushing and pulling, and some arm curls are often part of the process before you can then lay down in your happy place.
The same process can be repeated several times throughout the night depending on the number of bathroom breaks required.
So making the bed is a task and work out in itself. In order to get the fitted sheets into the front top corners, you must full body lay on the bed with the first corner of the sheet in hand and lift the mattress and catch the corner, hopefully tucked over enough while you roll to the other side and repeat. But you must not in anyway have the sheet under your body as you attempt these 2 corners or you will be quickly cocooned into the sheet and forced to remain there until you either struggle your way out or fall into a deep sleep. The latter is nearly impossible because your feet are awkwardly hanging off the bed and your arms are stuck.
After you manage to to get the top corners of the fitted sheet on the bed, you are saying a small prayer of hope that you did use the right corners. Nothing worse than patterned sheets with no indication of top or bottom,and there is no way to measure a fitted sheet to know if you have a long side or a short side in hand.
Once you get the top corners done and it stays, you can then proceed to roll your body down holding the remaining parts of the sheet taunt to finish the bottom corners. The top sheet is not as hard but requires several throwing sessions to get the sheet close to the top of the bed and then spread out as best you can. Thankfully, I am getting very good at sheet tossing, and can then do the blanket tossing over the pillows to create a somewhat made up bed. Add a few toss cushions and a throw blanket and you are done.
This could be an Olympic sport in the Annual Camper Olympics. I would definitely qualify for a gold metal in the form of camper accessories of some kind.
Bed making took 15 to 20 minutes to accomplish. At least I was multi tasking. I made the bed and got my 20 minute workout done at the same time. I am grateful that Tom makes the bed most of the time and I do the dishes. A very fair trade if you ask me.
Then it was time to tackle the bathroom and the kitchen. Sweeping the floors, a handful of dishes, 2 sinks and a toilet. Not washing the floors until the service guy has come but a quick wipe in case he has to get down on the floor. By then over an hour has passed. While I worked on the camper, Tom put together a BBQ we bought for the camper. We left ours behind both the big patio one and the camper size travel one. Every day we realize stuff we left behind that we sure could have used. But oh well, our garage sale money was meant for buying replacement things and so this new travel BBQ is one of them. It took awhile to put together but is ready for the hotdogs for our weekend party in camp. With our new BBQ sitting on the folding table ready for us to test out for supper, our dog Jack decided to get his lease caught up in the table legs and took down the whole table. BBQ was unharmed but another mess to clean up.
The rest of our day was for the most part uneventful.
The service guy was awesome, Tom learned a lot from him and the repairs are minimal. We now have continuous water for the camper and less things to worry about. Cost $250.00 This fellow comes highly recommended and he will be our service guy for when we close down the camper at the end of the season. We have also paid for our campsite for a month so will be here at least until Sept 11th, hard to imagine.... Today I am grateful for camper repair people, and water flow.
The meows look settled into their new lifestyle!
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