Fulltiming Road Runners

Ummm… you could say business picked up today at the contact station.  They’ve changed the hours from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. to 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.  We signed up  96 short terms and 1 long term today.  Larry and Phyllis stuck around to keep an eye on the back up and when we got more than 2 campers waiting to sign in, they came over to help.  Boy, were they appreciated!  Last year at La Posa North we had two women filling out the registration forms, 3 guy running to sticker the rigs and Phyllis to do the paper work beyond filling out the registration forms, and we kept all 6 people running/busy…. and that was with from 70 - 80 registrations, and one day of 150.  Today with just the 4 of us (with a bit of help from Reese for a bit of the afternoon) we worked our butts off!  I only managed about 30 minutes all day to sit down.  Just about noon we took out our cheese, cold cuts ‘n crackers for lunch and for me, it was somewhere between 3 and 4 p.m. before I finished my lunch.

Okay… all that above sounds like I’m whining and complaining… but to be honest both Thom and I prefer being busy like this than sitting and waiting for people to come in.  97 registrations beats 13 registrations anytime!

I have to admit that after standing on concrete floors all day has me with my shoes off and me wiggling toes to try to get the ache out.  I’m awfully close to sitting on the couch and giving Thom my feet to massage, but boondocking chores get in the way.  Thom just checked the black tank and it is full.  We need to dump it tonight into the portable tank.  We tho’t we had another day before we’d have to dump, but no such luck.   That means Thom has to fill 3 six gallon buckets with water and tote them to the bathroom.  Then when he dumps the holding tank, after the tank has emptied, I have to fill the toilet to the rim and dump it, then take the buckets and dump them one by one to break up the dam that builds in the tank because we aren’t traveling and sloshing the fluid to break up the “pile” or dam.  Both of us have achy backs tonight so it should be an interesting operation.  At least I’ve gotten quite good at pouring the water straight thru the riser in the toilet so it hits full force on the “pile” to break it up.

I know this is pretty crude sounding to many of ya, but it’s all part of the life of the full time RVer.  We do everything we can to keep from having to hire someone to come out and clean out our black water holding tank.  We’ve seen to many people trying to figure out how to deal with a plugged black tank because they didn’t know how to effectively deal with it.

For those of you just starting out.  If you have full hookups… don’t hook up the sewer and leave the valve open!  Keep the valve closed and let the tank get close to full, then pull the valve and let it drain, and rinse it out well.  If you leave it open, the fluids drain out and solids build up to a big dam.

Good grief… I never thought I’d present a discourse on poop.  Newbies need to know though, so here it is.

We work again tomorrow and after work we have the New Christy Minstrals concert.  It should be a great ending to a busy day.  This group never fails to get me involved in their show.  They are wonderful entertainers.

Okay… I feel this post is very disjointed, so I’m going to end it.  I have to go help dump the black tank anyway.  What a way to end a long hard day!

Ya’ll stay healthy ‘n happy.

Tah!