New Awning

Remember back in July when I wrote about the Big Hailstorm and then a couple of days later I had a blog post on the Hail Damage?  Well we finally got us a new awning August 25th.  It really was an easy process with contacting our insurance company, getting a local estimate, having an insurance adjuster come out from Durango and then a check arrived.  Took a little over a month.  Poor insurance adjuster had to drive five hours out here and five hours back for a 15 minute visit on top of our roof.

Here’s the damaged awning with all the spider web-like rips from the hail stones.

Matt Harris, from our local A-1 Mobile RV Services, had everything ordered and installed quickly.  Matt is a super competent, extremely ethical and reasonably priced RV service specialist.  We are so lucky he works in the area and is available to us.  Matt works out of South Fork Campground which our buds, Rich and Terri Deacon, manage.  So Matt brought Rich along to help him install the new awning. 

Here is a collage of the process of taking down the old awning and threading on the new one. Yes, they are identical awnings….only one doesn’t have any holes in it.  Oh, yes, that is me helping to thread it on.

All done in about three hours for the whole process and doesn’t it look nice?

Thank you Matt and Rich for all your hard work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So we are happy campers again with the rig all fixed up and looking good again.

Remember, you are loved.
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Time Out

No, folks, Jim and I haven't fallen off the edge of the world.  Since our prime rib dinner post we had all the hailstorm damage repairs done, new awning hung and our daughter, Beth, got married at our campground.  All of those events will be posted here shortly, but currently we are in the process of buttoning up the campgrounds for the season.

Today is September 3rd and all the campers have to be out of our six campgrounds by 1:00 p.m. and then we slam the gate shut and lock it.....with us inside!!!

We'll be around here till the end of the week doing our final campground clean-up and shut-down.  Then we will spend a couple of days with Rich and Terri at the commercial campground they manage, South Fork Campground.  That's where we do a deep cleaning on the rig, good flush out of the holding tanks and just relax and visit with those dear folks for a while.

Next we will return to Alamosa and stay at Jim's brother's property out of town a ways till early October.  Jim has his hernia surgery next week and we'll stick around for his recovery, his high school reunion and just plain relaxing for a change.

Well, those are our plans for the immediate future.  I promise to get the photos of the wedding and new awning up soon.....Lory (computer guru)  just got back our new HP laptop from yet another trip for repairs to HP....so we'll see if this fixed all the little problems.

Remember, you are loved.
Read the story behind the saying here