There's No Place Like . . . Maine

Our replacement parts arrived by 10:30 Tuesday morning - much to our surprise! Guess it pays to break down near a large metropolitan area. We were so sure that they wouldn't get there on Tuesday that we were being very lazy. When Bryne knocked on our door to deliver the legs, I was still in my nightgown!

Roger got right to installing the new legs and already had them on by the time I had our breakfast/lunch ready. By 1:00 p.m. we were hooked up and I started to retract the legs. Oops! Roger hadn't got them adjusted just right and they wouldn't retract far enough for us to get the blocks out from under the legs. We both stood there thinking "what do we do now?" I piped up that perhaps if we unhooked the truck, raised the trailer higher, then raised the truck higher & reconnect, we could then retract the legs enough to get the blocks out - and then Roger could make the needed adjustments. Made sense to me! Roger looked at me and said - just a bit sarcastically - "And how would we raise the truck?" "Simple", I said. "Just use the boards we carry to level the trailer on occasion." After a bit of thought, Roger agreed it just might work. (It did, thank you very much!)

As we drove down the road to our next destination, I was 'ribbing' Roger about not giving me credit for my ideas. He, very generously, agreed that I have some GREAT ideas. . . it is just implementing them that often creates quite a challenge for him! But in the end, he did give me credit for a simple solution to a perplexing predicament.

Arrived in Freeport, Maine about 4:30 that afternoon. Oh, it's good to be back in Maine. I started to say it's my third favorite place to be (behind home and Newfoundland), but we've really found so many 'favorite' places up here in the Northeast, it's really hard to choose.

We are here for a new owner visit, but the previous owners are still here, and have done our job for us very nicely! So this will be a very easy visit in one respect, but difficult in other ways. It's hard to be somewhere you are not really needed, and at the same time, do our job. First visits are always hard for me. But this morning, we'll do our 'walk-about' and take lots of pictures; it's a great park and I'm sure the new owners will do very well.