Day 19 Monday

Sorry folks, the days and subsequently the blog are getting away from me the last couple of days.

Katie and I have been debating about how or if we would replace the cloth partitions we had on the carport, which gave us some shelter from the wind and also privacy. After a couple of years the wind had its way with them, and our friend Al was forced to battle with them while the wind was blowing hard and take them all down. The grommets were starting to rip as well.

We were looking at three options basically, one, to take the three we had and combine them into two so that the RV place at the Donna Flea market where we originally got them could reinforce and fix them.

Another option is to take a section of vinyl fencing and install in between the posts that hold up the carport roof. The sections at Lowe's are reasonable 8 feet wide and 6 feet tall for $99. Trouble is getting them installed properly. Other friends in the park actually had them custom made and mounted and labor formed a large part of the cost.

Another option was to do nothing, however, if you want to sit on the patio or have people over for a happy hour it would have to be when there is no wind.

We decided to walk over to our neighbors across the intersection as he has some on his balcony and we wanted to see how they were fastened. He turned out to be a very nice guy, and said we should look at his neighbors setup. We did...another nice guy from Missouri...and he had the same material as we had previously, but these ones roll up like a blind and are 8 feet wide. He said he got them at Lowe's and they come in 3 different colors. We thought these would probably be the answer if they weren't too expensive. The advantage being we came leave them all the way up, or down as much as we want, and they won't take a beating from the wind and sun when we are gone.

Off to Lowe's we went found them, but we wanted 8 footers wide and deep in the color we wanted and Lowe's didn't carry those.

Off to Home Depot we went, and found exactly what we wanted. $99 each, but you can install yourself. We got two for the front two sections of the car port.

It got really hot in the afternoon so we couldn't put them up, so we just did a few chores for the rest of the day and took it easy at night.

and so ends another great day in the Valley....

more later...