Okay, here is the ongoing saga of the freeway cat. Some of you already know about our motorhome steps not working before we left on our trip. Well, when we got to Ferndale we called a few Camping Worlds (which had no motors for our steps) and a few RV sales and service stores and they were any where from 2-4 days out. So Karl tried his standard RV parts stores in Bellingham. At first they were only going to diagnosis the problem and see what parts were needed to fix the steps and the fog light. Surprise!!!!! They were able to find a motor in another package and asked if we wanted to hang around for a few hours and they could fix everything. So did we want to wait a few hours or come back later in the week and get it fixed then? Well, duh! So off they went to find out what had to be fixed. After about 30 minutes the tech came back and wanted to verify what we really hit to knock out the fog light because not only did the cat tear the light completely off the frame but it also kicked back up and actually broke off the entire frame made of hard plastic that the fog light was attached to! Now they had to fix that with fiberglass. So our little kitty cost us about $500!!!!!!! But, hey, our steps are fixed!



We finally have Cody (Karl's grandson who is with us for a few weeks) getting ready to paint the milk house. It's not very big, but it will give him something to do. Unfortunately the weather hasn't been very helpful in painting. On Saturday the temperature was in the low 80's. For the last two days it dropped to the low 60's. Welcome to the Pacific Northwest. Today they are both off playing golf. Or I should say Karl is golfing, Cody is driving the golf cart (heaven help everyone!). And I am REALLY enjoying a QUIET time in the motorhome without a chattering 13-year-old. He's like the Energizer Bunny - keeps on going and going and going. He should calm down by Thursday since we are surprising him and not telling him his dad is coming up for the weekend.