Advice for New Gonnabees? December 05, 2004, 09:01:21 am Yahoo Message Number: 47301We have just ordered a 23 TK, our first RV. Does anybody have any advice for us? We live about 10 miles from the mothership and have talked with Ed and Steve several times. We intend to visit our LD when it is under construction.Anne and David
Re: Advice for New Gonnabees? Reply #1 – December 05, 2004, 09:25:03 am Yahoo Message Number: 47304Quote We have just ordered a 23 TK, our first RV. Does anybody have any advice for us? We live about 10 miles from the mothership and have talked with Ed and Steve several times. We intend to visit our LD when it is under construction.Anne and David Congratulations! You now have 5-7 months of waiting until your baby is ready. I suggest you start at the beginning of the messages on this forum and read those that appear to be of interest or at least start a few years back. You will learn more than you can absorb and time will fly by, and before you know it, you will get "the call". Also, reading the messages will trigger questions specific to your needs. This Lazy Daze message reservoir serves as a great tutorial.Chris Horst 2002 30' IB Denver
Re: Advice for New Gonnabees? Reply #2 – December 05, 2004, 09:28:08 am Yahoo Message Number: 47305Anne and David,Congratulations on your order.My only advice would be to avoid stocking up on things you 'might' want for the LD during the long wait. Start with a minimum set and add things only as you find you want or need them.During our wait, we bought several items such as extension sewer hoses, etc. that we never used.Things we have added later that we feel made an improvement
Re: Advice for New Gonnabees? Reply #3 – December 05, 2004, 09:51:22 am Yahoo Message Number: 47308If you can time it just right, get photos of where the studs, wires, and pipes are inside the walls before they're closed in, for future reference when remodeling, adding things, or even just hanging something up.Joanne A jealous wannabe
Re: Advice for New Gonnabees? Reply #4 – December 05, 2004, 11:40:43 am Yahoo Message Number: 47315QuoteThings we have added later that we feel made an improvement in the LD experience include the Big Foot levelers, the replacement of the LD clock with a radio-controlled 'atomic' clock, and the Coleman stove-Quotetop coffee automat.Barry 2001 RB TX I bought the digital atomic clock at Costco - - neat! It comes with a wireless outside temp transmitter that I installed inside the outside (does that make sense? :c) fridge access cover, near the forward edge to get it as far as possible from the burner. Haven't done any tests yet, but there is a possibility that temps will be skewed when parked.Ideally, the spot for the sender should be out of direct weather (I've seen one mounted in the air stream under the cabover!), in shade and not so close to the ground that ground radiation will affect temps either . . . suggestions welcome on this.Anyway, the digital clock hangs nicely on the original LD screw and with the addition of a couple of squares of Velcro loop material near each lower corner to keep it from moving when mounted. The wireless range for the ext temp is excellent (could be mounted almost anywhere on RV and still work). And, at least here in the Carson Valley or NV (just below Lake Tahoe), the atomic clock function works flawlessly - - even inside my metal airplane hangar.One note, in powering up the clock, if you have any other 433 Mhz device (I have a weather station at my house), it will most certainly prevent the clock from seeing its outside temp unit. Had to reboot the clock when I got it away from home. Great deal for less than $30!bumper
Re: [Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Re: Advice for New Gonnabees? Reply #5 – December 05, 2004, 12:38:25 pm Yahoo Message Number: 47317I mounted the remote sensor on the generator cover. 'Works fine except when you're running the generator or after the sun is beating on that side of the rig. I had trouble with this clock in Alaska. Basically it can only be set for the US time zones. Since Arizona doesn't go on daylight savings, I had to disable the automatic feature. Maybe you have a different model... I bought ours at Camping World.Ed Mertz. suggestions welcome on this.bumper
Re: [Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Re: Advice for New Gonnabees? Reply #6 – December 05, 2004, 03:17:51 pm Yahoo Message Number: 47322I had trouble with this clock in Alaska. Basically it can only be set for the US time zones. Since Arizona doesn't go on daylight savings, I had to disable the automatic feature. Maybe you have a different model... I bought ours at Camping World. We, too, have an atomic clock. When we're in Arizona and the rest of the country changes to Day Light Savings Time, I simply set the clock to Pacific Time rather than Mountain time. Hadn't thought about going to Alaska, but you're right...our clock only has the 4 time zones of the continental U.S. You say you can disable the automatic feature so you can set it to Alaskan time? I'll have to see if ours has that feature, too.Linda & Earl 2004 23.5' Red TK From Quartzsite, AZ
Atomic clock Reply #7 – December 05, 2004, 04:12:10 pm Yahoo Message Number: 47324No, I could only set the clock to Pacific time so when we got to Alaska it was always an hour off. For such a "sophisticated device" I was very surprised to find it had that limitation, but since it was light about 22 hours a day, an hour or two here and there didn't make much difference, especially for retirees... The only feature I disabled was the automatic update system.Ed We, too, have an atomic clock. When we're in Arizona and the rest of the country changes to Day Light Savings Time, I simply set the clock to Pacific Time rather than Mountain time. Hadn't thought about going to Alaska, but you're right...our clock only has the 4 time zones of the continental U.S. You say you can disable the automatic feature so you can set it to Alaskan time? I'll have to see if ours has that feature, too.Linda & Earl 2004 23.5' Red TK From Quartzsite, AZ
Re: [Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Re: Advice for New Gonnabees? Reply #8 – December 06, 2004, 10:33:35 am Yahoo Message Number: 47353. . . My only advice would be to avoid stocking up on things you 'might' want for the LD during the long wait. Start with a minimum set and add things only as you find you want or need them . . .I sure agree with Barry on this one. I bought so many things that I found out later I didn't need. Including the extension for the sewer hose, like Barry bought. Still brand new. Can't throw it away - may come in handy some day. The sad news is I have no idea what these 'things' are that I've given away or pitched.Happy reading of the old posts, and welcome to the list!Sarah[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: Stocking up Reply #9 – December 06, 2004, 01:19:27 pm Yahoo Message Number: 47358"My only advice would be to avoid stocking up on things you 'might' want for the LD during the long wait. Start with a minimum set and add things only as you find you want or need them . . ." --Barry "I bought so many things that I found out later I didn't need. Including the extension for the sewer hose, like Barry bought. Still brand new. Can't throw it away..." -- Sarah I too stocked up in advance of buying Gertie, and indeed a few things did turn out to be nonessential, or I found better ways of doing those particular jobs. But here in the northeast we have a simple solution to such surplus items: the Silent Auction at our twice- a-year get-togethers. It's an ideal way to pass on those things that you don't need, but invariably someone else is delighted to get. Barry himself won a few such items at last September's NE LD Silent Auction, and those of us who will be at the upcoming NE LD Cape Cod get-together (next June) are saving up stuff for the auction even now. So if you belong to a regional RVing group, start an auction tradition of your own! I promise you that everyone involved will have a great time (hey, you can win free goodies-- what's not to like?)...and you'll get rid of those items you bought but ended up not needing. See my "How to Hold a Silent Auction" page (http://www.andybaird.com/travels/NE-LD/ auctions.htm Andy
Re: Stocking up Reply #10 – December 06, 2004, 04:18:34 pm Yahoo Message Number: 47364andybaird@e...> wrote: ....So if you belong to a regional RVing group, start an auction tradition of your own! I promise you that everyone involved will have a great time (hey, you can win free goodies-- what's not to like?)...and you'll get rid of those items you bought but ended up not needing.See my "How to Hold a Silent Auction" page (http://www.andybaird.com/travels/NE-LD/ auctions.htmHmmmm....good idea! Sounds like something the LaDeze might go for for our late March GTG! Start your auction piles, LaDeze!Joan
Was: Stocking up Now: auction stuff Reply #11 – December 07, 2004, 06:32:33 am Yahoo Message Number: 47400. . . Sounds like something the LaDeze might go for for our late March GTG! Start your auction piles, LaDeze! . . . Joan - great idea! I STILL have stuff I don't want anymore. Actually, some of it is as a result of being the recipient of someone else's give-aways. Can you call this a re-gift of a re-gift? Does this make you a re-gifter squared? Or a square re-gifter? These are really white elephants - I'm ready!Sarah[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: Was: Stocking up Now: auction stuff Reply #12 – December 07, 2004, 07:19:00 am Yahoo Message Number: 47401Quote. . . Sounds like something the LaDeze might go for for our late March GTG! Start your auction piles, LaDeze! . . . Andy's auctions are the highlight of our NE LD get- togethers....thoroughly enjoyed by everyone!Lana NE #8Quote [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: Was: Stocking up Now: auction stuff Reply #13 – December 07, 2004, 09:45:06 am Yahoo Message Number: 47419"Sounds like something the LaDeze might go for"Around our house you're known as "Lorna's LaDeze". The few times we passed LD's on the road, we wondered if it was one of "Lorna's LaDeze". It stuck ;-).Karen '89TK NE# CRS
Re: [Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Re: Was: Stocking up Now: auction st Reply #14 – December 07, 2004, 11:38:07 pm Yahoo Message Number: 47458Now Karen, we may be uppity and rowdy, but, trust me on this, they don't call me Madam Lorna -- not yet anyway! Actually, Andy sent me Auction details in time for our August outing, but we just had too much going on to fit it in. Maybe we should try for a week-long GTG next time and squeeze in a talent show too?! In the meantime, I'm in pack rat mode ... just in case Joan, our March Wagon Mistress, decides to squeeze in an Auction. Lorna, listening to the ocean sing lullabies -- heading "home" to Santa Cruz at last.
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