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Month: January 2010
Gardening in January
Norma asked me to keep an eye on her garden this winter and to cover the shoots with netting when they appear to try to save them from the deer. She told me this would happen sometime in February, which I thought meant close to March. That sure felt like a long way away!
While doing my walkabout the property this week I discovered that there were shoots in the garden! It’s the end of January for pete’s sake!
I therefore scheduled netting for this weekend. I thought my plans would be thwarted by two solid days of rain, but today it’s just overcast with with the odd sunny patch. So, I spent a couple of hours puttering around the garden as well as doing a small job for the neighbour down the hill.
the first mosquito of the season!
it just seems unnatural for stuff to be growing in January!
more signs of life
and yet more signs
puuuurty
deer proofing the shoots
Next step, keeping my eye out for colour so that Norma can see her flowers this year.
Hard to believe winter is already over… It’s actually been over since early December, but I didn’t allow myself to believe it. I think that if we were to have had another cold snap, it would have happened by now.
This is Our Home
I just stumbled onto this wonderful tribute to Canada:
I’ve been almost everywhere mentioned and shown in this video (!) and I have to admit that tears welled up when I got to the segment about the ‘favourite place in the Gatineau Hills’ with its shots of beautiful Wakefield, Quebec, the village I called home for four years. There’s even a reference to Campbell River and an obscure reference to Dawson (midnight looking like high noon on the Dome!).
There have been a lot of songs written about Canada, but this is definitely the most all-encompassing one I’ve found. It tells me that I have fulfilled one of my RVing goals, to see as much of Canada as I have of the US, and reminds me that there are so many wonders back east for me to share with my readers. I’ll get back there eventually! 🙂
Water Heater Hope
Further work on the water heater revealed that the switch to turn it on gets hot if the ignition sequence fails and I don’t turn the heater off. This was decided to be yet another possible cause of the trouble I’ve been having.
I took the switch apart, cleaned the leads, and then reassembled everything. It’s been three days and the water heater has been acting perfectly. Dare I hope the issue is solved? I doubt it will end up being that easy, but I might have bought myself some time.
The End of the Road for Glendale
Glendale RV, based in Strathroy, Ontario, has filed for bankruptcy and shut down its RV operations.
It’s no secret that I love my Glendale RV. If Miranda were totaled today and I had to replace her, I would still go with a Royal Classic, but a more recent, winterized one if I could find it.
Glendale stopped making class Cs in 2004 to focus on Titanium fifth wheels, a crushing blow, in my opinion, to Canadian full-timers looking for a good class C.
When I was doing my research before buying Miranda, I contacted Glendale to get more information about their 1997 Royal Classic. The person who responded to my query the next day said she had nothing on hand but she’d check out the archives when she had a chance. A couple of days later, a scan of the promotional brochure landed in my inbox. They also gave me leads on where I might be able to find double pane windows should I ever need to replace mine. That’s dang good customer service. A Titanium owner I occasionally correspond with had to take his rig to Strathroy for repairs and had nothing but praise for Glendale’s customer service, also.
I guess that all there’s left to say is “Thanks Glendale for making me such a wonderful home on wheels.”