Backing Into Problems

Mark agreed to move Charlotte's new trailer on Sunday.  Charlotte got a new trailer a last week, but the guy who delivered it to her didn't allow her space to park her Bronco, so she asked Mark if he could move it for her.  While Mark was driving his truck over to Charlotte's spot, Butch and I were walking.  Butch was not happy - he just wanted a ride.  Once Mark got around the park I threw Butch in the truck.  He sat in the truck, not making a peep, for at least a half hour.  He didn't care, he was in the big truck.

Butch along for the ride.

While Mark was doing this, I was up in the office helping the other girls decorate the office Christmas trees.  One of the trees is decorated as a Texas tree.

Check out the ornaments - "sheriff" stars, cowboy boots and hats, horses and guitars, one yellow cutout of the State of Texas.  Yeehah! 

There's another tree in the hallway.  This one comes with a control box.  The balls all change colors, but the tree also plays Christmas songs and the lights change colors according to the sounds on the song.  Very cool.  Fortunately, we keep the volume turned off as it is more obnoxious than those dancing Santas that everyone just had to have several years ago.

I forgot to take a picture of the big tree, but it's mostly normal, except for a train that's mounted in the middle.  Unfortunately the train quit working so it's just a track with a train sitting on it.  Again, it would probably be obnoxious while running, but still a fun tree.

We had to work today, and knew that it would be extremely busy - 10 units were arriving with reservations, but 5 others showed up unannounced.  Luckily we had room for everyone. One of the folks that came in had been here last year and needed one of the workampers to back their trailer onto the site. They hadn't practiced since then and Mark had to back their rig onto the site this year. (Maybe they are smarter than we know!)

One young man showed up this afternoon, having never seen or been around a trailer in his life.  He got a new job in this area so he bought an RV.  He brought in a friend with him to help.  Unfortunately, Mark said this guy was no help, and Mark ended up agreeing to back the trailer into his spot for him. When he started backing up there was a loud noise and the front wheels would no longer turn. It seems that the guy just had $1200 worth of work done on the front end and they forgot to tighten up the steering arm causing it to fall off.  Mark put it back together temporarily so he could finish backing in the trailer and the truck could be moved out of the street. Tonight as we were walking Butch after playing canasta (the women finally won, by 40 points!!), we see this same kid outside his trailer with several of his new neighbors, all with flashlights, trying to figure out why the water won't come out of the faucets but will come out in one of the storage areas. We wished them good luck and immediately walked on. We will have to wait 'til tomorrow to find out what was wrong.