This afternoon, we took the recycling to Reno. We really couldn't put it off much longer, because there wasn't any more room in the minivan. (To recap: the county in which I live does not offer much recycling, and certainly not curbside pickup. The nearest comprehensive recycling center is in Reno.) Because the recycling drop-off center closes at 3 ( Read more... )

Yesterday, after getting propane from Hanneman Service, we worked on swapping the repaired tire back into place on the Astro. We also discovered that the spare tire was very low on air. The tire says it should be 44 psi, but it registered less than 20 when we tested it. Hanneman Service used to have an air station, but too many people were leaving ( Read more... )

When we had to swap in the spare tire on the Rolling Stone back when one of the tires failed, and after we replaced the four main tires, we were left with a problem. One of the carriage bolts, or rather, one of the fittings on that bolt, had failed, and we could not re-mount the spare on the bracket on the rear of the RV. It turned out to not be a ( Read more... )

[Back-dated due to an internet outage]

We now have four solid new tires on the RV; however, not all is well yet.

( At Last )

We continued with the process of replacing the tires on the Rolling Stone today as Lisa's stamina and my time to shuttle tires and wheels between our house and the nearby tire shop allowed.

( Shuttling Tires and Dodging Spiders )

I got the email from TireRack.com this morning, so this afternoon when I got off work, Lisa and I drove over to USA Parkway and the warehouse, backed up to the retail customer pickup lot, called the designated phone number, gave my particulars, and presently a worker appeared with a cart containing our tires. I showed my ID and credit card with ( Read more... )

Some of you may recall that we had a nearly catastrophic failure of one of the tires on the Rolling Stone, and that when we took the RV to Big O Tires, they insisted that the only tires out there that would work were made in China. We put this aside because the Winnipeg trip was approaching, but we sort of need the RV to use as an alternative ( ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Lisa got out the torque wrench and tighten the lug nuts on the spare tire for the Rolling Stone and then lowered it off the jack. Some of you may remember that we had a tire more or less shred itself (I think we were lucky to get home) and that we had put the spare on. We did not lower the jack, planning to replace the tire soon (we did ( Read more... )

Lisa and I did manage to get to Reno and Sparks this afternoon, but we did not get that tire replaced. The only tires Big O Tires sell that fit the bill are Chinese-made, and we will not buy them unless there is absolutely no other alternative. The shoe repair place says that they cannot resole my boots, so either I will have to use some spray- ( Read more... )

No, not another tick bite. The leg is getting better, although the edema in my right foot is still annoying. Keeping my leg elevated last night helped some. The pain is mostly gone except around the actual site of the bite.

I had today off from work as part of the use-it-or-lose it PTO regime, and so around Noon we went to Reno to do grocery ( Read more... )