Workday

Today we stayed home to get some things done. Not mostly exciting things. We needed to dump our tanks, since we don't have a sewer hookup at Lake Lewisville. We got our trusty blue boy (portable waste tank) out of the truck and hooked it up to our sewer hose. First we filled it with gray water (from the sinks), just to be sure we had the routine down. Next we got braver and took a tank full from the black water (toilet). All went well, except that wrangling the tank around left me needing a break. Even a small tank like our 15 gallon job gets very heavy quickly when filled with liquid at around 8 pounds per gallon.

After lunch we decided to take another load over to the dump station, but one of the plastic fittings on the cap broke, so we made a trip to Mays RV. While we were there, of course we decided to look around. We didn't think we needed anything else, but you never know. I spotted a really neat little wooden table in their lounge area, just the size we needed to fit between our recliners. When Ken asked where they had gotten it, the woman who was helping him said that it was a damaged piece from one of the trailers they had sold, and she offered it to him for $15. We jumped on it. Now all we have to do is get it refinished in light oak instead of cherry. It fits perfectly between our recliners and even has a magazine/book rack on the bottom. The damage is just a bit of splitting on the underside of the table which will never be noticeable. Yay!

When we finished the dumping chore, we decided to reorganize our truck box and the sliding tray in our storage bay, in the process cleaning up and getting rid of some things we didn't need. We had a brief scare when the truck box wouldn't open. Once before we had to have the rivets drilled out on the latch, but this time after a few tries, we got it open. We sprayed silicone on the mechanism, at least the part we could access. We're hoping that will keep it working smoothly.

We've decided to make some changes in our meals so that Ken can avoid eating too much closer to bedtime. Today we had our "main meal" at lunchtime. We're also spacing our our eating, by for example, eating our salad while the rest of the meal is still being prepared. We'll see how much these changes help his GERD symptoms.