Auntie Violet Gets a Bath

Auntie Violet was dirty!  She's been through a lot of dust and rain this year and it was getting pretty obvious something needed to be done.  We actually have all the necessary supplies and equipment to give her a bath, it's just a matter of getting some cool enough days and enough personal energy to get the job done.  I went down to the office of Old American Kampground this morning to pay the $4 fee for washing a rig at the park (many parks and resorts do not allow any washing at all).

We have this stuff called Quick and Easy Wash that we bought at Johnson RV a couple of years ago.  It only takes four capfuls of the stuff to two gallons of water.  You scrub it on and then wipe it off.  We actually only used a total of two gallons of water on the rig -- the rest was left as dirty water in the bucket.

Auntie Violet is parked on a site carved out of a hillside and we are actually a good foot or more down from the next site up the hill.  This left only a small area under the slides.  The only way we could get at the bays was to crawl under.  The green mitt on the timber is what I used to put on the wet solution and I am using the blue microfiber towel to dry and polish.  I wasn't real sure I was going to get back out from under there!

Forry's sitting by the long-handled pole we used to do the upper part of the coach.  I used a wet microfiber mop on the end of the pole and Forry dried with microfiber towels on another pole.

We have quite a collection of microfiber towels of various sizes that we have gotten from Almost Heaven Microfibers. We've bought them at the Gypsy Journal Gatherings, but they have a website www.almostheavenproducts.com that sells them as well.

We did the front and one side of the coach this morning and then waited -- and rested -- for a couple of hours this afternoon until the sun was no longer hitting it to do the rest.  Auntie Violet looks a whole lot better this evening.  I guess manual labor is as good a way as any to celebrate Labor Day!