The Bays

When RVers talk about stuff "in the basement," they're usually talking about the storage bays in the bottom of their coaches.  We've been sorting out and cleaning the basement the last few days.  Almost every RVer that you see has outfitted their bays with various sizes of storage containers.  We label the containers and try to keep an updated list of what is in each bay. After doing one on the west side of Auntie Violet in the hot late afternoon sun, we got smart and did the last ones on that side early this morning.  Then this afternoon we started on the ones on the passenger side, the east ones.  It helped that it was a lot cooler today than it has been and also that the awning shades that side of the coach.

Forry is much more patient then I am.  We found that the contents of one of the storage bins which was full of beading materials, had gotten soaked with oil last fall when the seal on the hydraulic lifter for the living room slide blew.  The lid must have had a crack as there was a good half inch of oil in the bottom.  Needless to say, many of the containers inside were also oil-soaked.  I would have -- and was going to -- toss the whole mess into the garbage.  But not Forry!  He is patiently emptying out each of the little bead containers, washing them and the beads, and then drying them all. 

The nice thing about the bays in Auntie Violet is that they are actually hydraulic drawers.  Since they open up all the way past the side of the coach, there is no having to crawl in and out to work in them or to store stuff. I would sure hate to be doing all of this sorting and cleaning in the other kind.  Especially since we are also removing any evidence of our recent unwanted visitors.