Day 87. Scappoose, OR

Pix are of precautionary steps taken to protect the EDGE (see text) and our Scappoose campsite.

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We checked out my house (vacant/for sale) on Monday, did minor interior cleanup and fixup, will go back later this week and do yardwork. A yard maintenance outfit does the mowing, etc but doesn't maintain the property like an owner would. Well......some owners anyway.

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Tonight we're dining with Columbia City neighbors/friends Jim and Paulette; they live a few doors down from my house. Great folks, always enjoy their company. They visited us in LHC last season. Our friends John and Mollie will be joining us also.

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Trish is off to visit one of her daughters in Portland today, while I finish removing 12000 miles worth of tar, grime and bugs from the front of the EDGE. Or maybe not, supposed to hit low 90s today and I can't do crud removal until the work area is out of direct sun, mid afternoon.

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Got a couple new chips in the front EDGE fiberglas but nothing drastic. When we drove from OR to AZ late last October, an early snowstorm hit east of the Cascades and the roads were graveled for hundreds of miles. The lower front of the EDGE was beat all to hell, dozens of chips. To cover the chips and avoid recurring damage, we applied a heavy coating of brush-on pickup bed liner material to the damaged areas. I also installed mud flap extensions to the stock mud flaps on the pickup, adding 5" of depth and 3" of width. These 2 precautions greatly decreased the damage and tar buildup on the EDGE front and were well worth the effort.

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Our park is a county facility bordering Scappoose International Airport. Yeah, right, 'International' - who am I kidding? There are only 6 rv hookup spaces here and only 3 have usable sewer connections. The dufus that laid out the utilities obviously never spent any time in an rv; if he had he would have known that rv sewer hoses aren't 35' long. We may have to pull out and dump mid-stay - not a big deal but still a pain in the butt.

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Back to the smartphone, it's a Motorola Droid that uses Google Android software. I'm debating what to name it. I kinda like Floyd. Trish suggested Ann, and commented that when I say I'm going outside to play with Floyd, it sounds like I'm maybe light in the loafers. Huh! She's getting pretty sassy (again), gonna have to increase the frequency of spankings (again).

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Do any of you readers want to weigh in on this? No, not the frequency of spankings - the best Droid name. Input is welcome - as are additional name suggestions.