Saturday, February 27/2010

Today was the day that John decided he was going to start the final leg of the solar panel saga. It can't be totally finished until he receives another piece of equipment and that comes in on Wednesday. He found the airtight, waterproof container he needed in one of my lock and locks and proceeded to drill a hole in the roof of the bus and feed the cables through. It was getting late and we had to watch the men's gold medal curling game and then head back into town for the dinner reservations we had made yesterday. He quickly finished off on the roof of the bus, put the container over the hole in the roof and we headed into town. The question now would be -- did anyone check the weather report BEFORE we drilled a hole in the roof of the motorhome??!! I would think NOT!!!! It poured like the devil while we were gone (of course we didn't come right home). When we finally did return, it was to very wet carpeting and a wet ceiling and I don't even want to think about where all that rain went into the lining of the roof!!! Because it couldn't be left like this -- and now the gong show starts ---- John decides that he must climb the ladder to the roof and spray some foam into the hole to staunch the flow of the rain into the bus. I of course, am not going to mention that John has had a few beer - some may think perhaps one too many!!! The ascent of the ladder did not prove to be too difficult, the spraying of the foam down the hole did not prove to be too difficult - however - it was the descent that proved to be the issue. John came staggering back into the bus looking half dead and covered in sand and gravel proclaiming that he had fallen from the third step of the ladder and isn't it a good thing that he was able to get up and walk back into the bus because he suspected that I (his loving wife) would probably leave him outside in the rain all night!!! Ask me if I laughed???!! Of course I didn't!! I merely said something along the lines of "get your sad sorry ass into that bed before you kill yourself and I have to end up driving this bus home myself"!!!! PS: John is fully insured by the way!!!

The foam will hopefully do the trick and tomorrow I will ask why he didn't simply spray some of that foam into the hole yesterday afternoon while he was finishing up this leg of the project. Oh yeah, MAN BRAIN!!!!