Things continue to go downhill!

May 24 –  We were to meet one of the other couples at the Visitor Center to meet the staff there and pick up our reservations for the day, but at about 8:30 Terry showed up to give us a tour.  We covered a lot of ground.  We didn’t realize how big the park is and where all the fishing and boating ramps are and there’s a 4^th small campground that is first come, first served across the lake with no hook ups at all, but there are restrooms.  It was pretty interesting.  We met his wife who works in the office and one of the other office ladies.

When we got back I tried calling about the washer again and was told to unplug it for at least 15 minutes then try it again.  Well, of course that didn’t work so we loaded 6 loads of wash in the truck.  Xena has had a couple of accidents and we had lots of linens and Molly had thrown up on the bathroom rug.  Our little washer can’t do blankets, etc so we went to the first campground and they have a nice laundry room with 3 washers and 3 dryers.  I did the wash and Bill took it back to the RV and started putting it in the dryer.  The big bulky stuff I had to dry in one load there and did the rest in our little dryer.  It took all after noon but the laundry is all done.

While we had lunch we watched the tow truck pulling houseboats from dry dock to the launch.  One of them is the one that a pair of volunteers live in.  They said they will be very busy tomorrow putting more boats in for the weekend that will be left buoyed.

Bill put out our rope lights but it has been pretty windy still so didn’t put up our cactus and other light yet.  Tomorrow is supposed to be the last of the bad wind.  I brought the slide in again on the windy side most of the afternoon.  Terry delivered our “Mule” this afternoon.  We have rakes and shovels and garbage bags.  We went for a test drive over to the maintenance area and Terry gave us each 2 shirts and a new cap.  Bill got a key to the storage in the restrooms.  We only have to stock the toilet paper, no cleaning toilets!  Looks like we are ready to start working.

I called Whirlpool back and they gave me the numbers for the two closest authorized repairmen.  One is in Pagosa Springs and one is in Durango.  I left a message for the one in Pagosa Springs and hope to hear from him tomorrow AM.  Would like to have it fixed by the middle of next week. 

Then we attempted to set up our satellite.  That was a huge NO GO!  I decided to give it a rest and fix dinner.  We bought some fresh made sausages in Albuquerque so for dinner Bill had an Italian pork sausage and I had a really delicious chicken with spinach and feta cheese one.  He had baked potato and I had sweet potato and we had steamed broccoli.  We were both pretty hungry and didn’t say a word during dinner.

Then it was back to working on the Direct TV.  First the guy told us the box was bad and our second box was not on the account.  Then the next lady told us to try all kinds of things with the second box and she deduced that the boxes are probably fine but something wrong elsewhere, so we have a tech coming NEXT THURSDAY!  A whole week.  With the antenna we get one station and it’s a bit dicey.  We just not must be living right!  We heard from Carole today and some of our luck must have rubbed off on them, as yesterday she had a double tire blow-out and had to get a new tire on and this morning she checked the pressure before leaving Texas and had a flat and had to have them come out again and they got another new tire and ended up staying another night since it was so late getting the repair done.  Bummer for them!

So we gave up and had our strawberry parfait desserts and I wrote postcards and Bill read.  Since no campers are scheduled to leave tomorrow we don’t have any “work” to do.  We will go get our P O Box and Bill wants to see if it is dollar taco day at the place people here say to go.  He cleaned the front of the RV today and wants to take the truck for a bath tomorrow.  Since they are doing road work on the road we would take to Ignacio and Durango, we won’t plan to go that direction.  If we decide to go to a movie we will go to Pagosa Springs.

I have a good view from my computer desk that I can see who comes and goes from our campground and we just had 2 late arrivals that we will have to check on in the morning to make sure their reservation started today.