Lights and a swizzle stick

Today we were getting ready for our 3 day weekend of camping.  We leave tomorrow afternoon, but first we had a few things to get done.

We discovered that we had a leak coming from one of our top, rear marker lights.  The light had recently been serviced by a local RV dealer because the fixture itself was leaking.  But in the repair it was made worse to the point where rain water was pooling inside the trailer.  Not good.  So we ordered a different fixture from eTrailer and installed it today.  I think Jon's fingers might fall off from all the silicone he had to get off the surface before mounting the new one, but it looks really good.  We'll see how this one works out and maybe we'll replace the rest of the rear lights.

We also got a new macerator.  This little device is a water pump that also has a garbage disposal like action.  The nice thing is that it will push the water uphill which is sometimes a necessity for us with our low trailer.  Sometimes the top of the sewage dump is higher than the level f the outlet on our trailer.  Lots of stinky slinky dances...

So we decided it would be best to try this at home for the first time instead of at the RV park. (We've seen the Robin Williams film RV...)  So we also decided while we were at it to clean out the black tank with a handy device called a swizzle stick.  Well, I'm not sure that's the actual name, but we have names for everything.  This is a stick that goes down the toilet into the black tank.  Water runs through it and out this nozzle at the end that spins like crazy blasting out your tank.  Well, all I will say is that it's clean now.  What a joy.

Now I'm seeing that the weather forecast has changed to lot of rain over the next day or so.  We're not too thrilled about that.  But w'll be in wine country in NE Ohio, so there's always something to do even if it's raining.