Christmas Lights… Not Just for Decorating!

Looking like something out of outerspace movie

much more than the other-wordly guts inside of an RV

we found a wonderful new way to transition

Christmas lights to the New Year

this week!

Looking at our different water plumbing pipes, the new blanket to wrap our new water pump.

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Have you ever had one of those weeks where

it seems whatever might go wrong did

and you worked one problem then

two more popped up in its place?

Well, this was one of those weeks…

It really wasn’t the worst week coming into

New Year’s Day ~ we had snow and

it was oh, so pretty!

Yoda was excited to go outside and walk

around in it.

He had his first snow experience last year

almost to the day and found that it was pretty fun

to play in!

🙂

And earlier this week I wrote about

winterizing your garden

and shared some pictures of how I wrapped up

all of our plants against the biting cold

and 15 degrees overnight.

{Charles said it was 13 degrees one day he went to work…}

Now I know that’s nothing to what some of y’all

are experiencing this week with Old Man Weather

rampaging and blowing blustery blasting winds and

snow up under your eaves and leaving

sleet and snowflakes

brushing up against your window panes

but it was pretty cold

for us down here in North Texas

let me tell ya…

So,repurposing those Christmas lights

in a weird way

ended up becoming another post about

transitioning one’s decor from the

holidays to winter…

😉

Hubby Charles had gone to work and I awoke to this

strange sound ~ a boom really ~ and our water

was still frozen from the day before.

It was 17 degrees at the time.

I thought I’d better go check things out underneath

as that sound didn’t sound so good

so I pulled out our trusty screwdriver and

took out the six screws holding this makeshift

RV door closed to take a look at our

plumbing underneath.

I found our water pump with a tiny bit of

what had been a small leak.

That was wrong #1.

The day went on and after taking the dog out for

his morning walk and business

I got to experience bathing the old-fashioned way ~

today’s version of an ethereal

rose-covered bowl and ewer ~

mainly our old yellow Tupperware bowl

and a 2 gal. jug of water.

Not really wrong but definitely a throwback.

Christmas lights illuminating the scene ~ the new water pump motor under its warming blanket and all its plumbing pipes.
The large white box by the back wall with grey hose arms coming out of it is the propane heater. It has been acting up
but it had to do with the propane not getting to the heater right and it not igniting it. Happily that is fixed for now. 🙂

Wrong #2 came when I tried to leave to buy a new

water pump and the car wouldn’t start…

It had been glug-glugging for a couple of days with the cold

so I knew it had to be the battery.

AAA came out an hour later and jumped the car

only to then find out that the auto place

down the street didn’t have any more of our Sequoia’s

type of batteries; it would be in tomorrow’s

afternoon shipment.

Wrong #3 showed up the next morning

with another BOOM and later as I was working

on the computer… the lovely sound of running water!

We had water again but not the way we had

hoped.
The waterline release valve for our residential refrigerator
had frozen and split and was gushing
water every which way!
Luckily our plants who were in need
and a bucket propped underneath provided
sustenance.
😉

Luckily this is a minor fix if we can find the part

but it did take talking to several people, lots of walking around
and one of our camp hosts to help me find the cut-off valve
under the kitchen sink and a button inside the freezer to
stop the ice maker from sounding off its
alarm pleading for water.

Did you know the ice maker makes an alarm sound

when it doesn’t get its water??
I sure didn’t!

So… if you’ve wondered where my second post

I normally write each week went well this is where.

There was nothing left of me after the crazy mishaps of

Tuesday and Wednesday.

I’ll provide some links just in case you ever find
yourself in need of one of these:

Remco (55-AQUAJET ARV) Aquajet RV Series Water Pump

iSpring Fridge Connection and Ice Maker Kit for Reverse Osmosis Water Systems, 20ft 1/4″ Tubing with 1/4″ Push-In and Compression Fittings – ICEK

Frigidaire IM116000 4lb Ice Maker Kit

Getting back to the Christmas lights…

By the time Hubby got home from work and I had

called or texted at least 20 times over those two days

there just wasn’t enough light for him to see in the

storage compartment when he went to install the

new water pump and I had been putting away the two

Christmas trees and taking down all the ornaments

and lights…

and I thought just maybe…

😉

Under storage compartment fitted out with a blanket for the new water pump plus an extra heater!
🙂

Those lights worked out really well

at lighting up Charles’ work area!

{ps – It was fun closing him inside the compartment, too, with the heater to keep warm!}

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Christmas Lights… Not Just for Decorating!

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