Toilet Seal Repair

Ocala, Florida

Weather: low 74 degrees, high 94 degrees, partly cloudy skies

Our preps for leaving here next week continued today. That is, if the doctor gives me the okay. If he doesn't, at least we will have gotten a lot of things done that needed doing. But, we tend to be optimistic people, so we fully expect to leave next Wednesday.

My first job was to wash the truck. It has been about six weeks since I've cleaned it up, and it was overdue for a good cleaning. It looks better now, and when I get a good coat of wax on it, it'll look really good. I managed to get some wax on the hood late this afternoon, but the quality of light was such that I couldn't tell how the wax was looking. I'll continue the wax tomorrow, after I clean the RV roof and sides.

While I was washing the truck, Carolyn was taking care of some chores in the bedroom. Most of her job consisted of dusting and cleaning. We've gotten rid of so much stuff that we didn't feel the need to go through the closet or drawers. In addition to her cleaning, Carolyn also fixed a pot of soup for supper, along with some good corn bread. Some meals just seem to go better with corn bread, and home made vegetable soup is one of them.

In between resting and working, I managed to find time to go get a haircut and pick up a new air filter for the truck. Carolyn usually cuts my hair, but she hasn't felt steady enough to do it, with her vertigo acting up from time to time.

Probably the most important thing we did today was take the toilet apart and clean the flapper seal. The seal tends to accumulate a buildup of calcium deposits, which allows the water in the bowl to drip into the black water tank. That means the bowl eventually goes dry, which is not a good thing. That job was one we had been putting off because of the nature of what we had to deal with. Finally, today was the day we decided to stop the drip. Suffice it to say that we don't want to go through that again any time soon. One of those little tasks that we have do in an RV that a house doesn't have.

More later, be safe.

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