We’ve been waiting since we returned in April for 3 days in a row without rain so that we can clean the RV. It’s been a long wait. Not that we minded. Cleaning an RV is not something you happily anticipate, like an ice cream cone. Nope, it’s something you want to put off. (Maybe we should have looked for 4 days in a row.) But our time frame was 1 day to wash, 1 day to wax and 1 day to do maintenance - 3 days. The weather report says a ‘very slight’ chance of rain for the next 7 days
And this weekend is the time and this state is the place.
Never mind that Iowa is sweltering under temperatures of 95+
Never mind that the humidity is an oppressive 75+
Never mind that the heat index (the famed ‘feels like’ temperature) is 105+
Nope, this is the weekend.
We sweetened the chore by eating breakfast out Friday morning before we headed over to the storage facility to pick up the old Safari Simba, our rolling winter home.
The temps were as predicted but it was a bit cloudy so the sun wasn’t hitting us as hard as we had anticipated and it wasn’t as bad as we had thought.
Rags, buckets, brushes, extension poles, ladder, hoses, wax. Yep, we’re ready.
I got out the soap and read the directions. It says to mix 1 oz of soap with a gallon of water. Now, I’m standing in the garage ready to wash a car - I don’t have a clue how much an ounce is. Would you know? Well, let’s do the math. I once learned ‘a pint’s a pound, the world around.’ So:
1 pint = 16 ounces
2 cups = 16 ounces
1 cup = 8 ounces
1/8 c = 1 ounce.
There, 1/8 of a cup is what I need. I have a general idea what 1/8 of a cup is. But, I’m still in the garage, not close to my measuring cups in the kitchen. So, I did what I should have done in the first place, just poured some soap into the bucket and filled the bucket with water.
Washing went fine - we think that lots of the dirt and the bugs have come off in the Iowa springtime rains so it really wasn’t as hard a scrub as we’ve had in the past. (Or, maybe it was the way I mixed the soap.) In fact, we even got to the waxing today. We bought some great wax and I define ‘great’ as easy to put on. And, this stuff sprayed on and wiped off easily. Gary, the ladder guy, did the top half and I, the feet-firmly-planted-on-terra-firma gal, did the lower half. And, we moved around that RV pretty fast.
Since Gary works on and walks on the RV roof, he decided not to wax that. Did I marry a smart man or what?
It’s shiny, it’s clean and it’s ready for a rally we’re attending in August. Can’t have a dirty RV at a rally.
Then, early Saturday morning, I heard the pitter pat of little rain drops on the skylight in our bathroom. So much for that ‘slight chance’ of rain.
We’ve always thought that the muggy days of July were good for corn growth. Today in the paper, it says that muggy temps are good for growth but - not for pollination. And, this is pollination time. That’s your trivia for the day.
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