Working Monday

 We were awakened by a loud clap of thunder early this morning (I think it was around 4:00 am). Then came the much needed rain and by the time it stopped around 7:20 am we had an inch and 2 tenths of this life giving liquid. 

The rain gauge was photographed for the record then dumped. Ruth heard the rain and thought we wouldn't be walking but since it stopped just in time we did. We only did one round then went in to visit with mom and Karin. Mom was much improved this morning. She slept well, no coughing at all last night and both of them got their first good night of sleep in 10 days. I was the first to leave mom's as I had a full day of work waiting. The first chore was gather a folding table and our camping chairs and put those in the motorhome then the truck was taken over to hook up the camper that was parked at the big barn yesterday over to my place so I could clean out the tanks. When I went to hook it up noticed a new dent in the front.

The man that rented it must have jackknifed it but the dent didn't do any structural damage so we will not have it fixed, The black and gray tanks had not been emptied so this camper took a while using the black water flush to get the sensors to show empty. Shame on those renters. They told me they were emptied and the sensors must not be working. As I had them meet me at the new barn there was not any supplies to check the tanks while they were unhooking from their truck so I believed them.  Once they actually were emptied the sensors worked just fine. This was also the camper that came back with a shredded tire. They claimed they had a blowout on the interstate. Mark took that shredded tire down to East Peoria Tire and Jesse Rieker got Mark all fixed up. The rim had also been damaged (the renters probably hit a pothole) so we had to buy a rim and a tire. All 3 campers were given a disinfectant cleaning and clean sheets put on. The 2 at Joan's house are going back out on Wednesday and the camper and motorhome at our house are going out on Thursday with our family for our canoe trip down to Montauk State park in Missouri. We are going to be canoeing the Current River. Today the Jadwin canoe rental was called and 10 canoes reserved for Friday August 2nd.  We will need to be at the rental by 8:00 am as we are going on the 16 mile trip this year.  Braelyn arrived to finish cleaning the apartment and I went over to get the 3 bathrooms and the kitchen cleaned in the new barn then after lunch also got the windows cleaned and the game room cleaned up. I discovered the batting cage machine had been taken apart. That was put back together and checked out to make sure it worked. 

I still need to clean the gym but by this time it was already 3:30 pm and I still needed to get to Sam's Club to pick up supplies for the camping trip. That took longer than expected but I had a huge cart full of food and supplies. This evening Mark got the new spare tire mounted on the camper and did the dishes here. Thankful he is feeling somewhat better.