Ruth's Life is Good: Thursday 10-16-25 Cleaning the Interior of the Minnie, Project Prep & Pinball

Friday, October 17, 2025

Thursday 10-16-25 Cleaning the Interior of the Minnie, Project Prep & Pinball

Minnie

We had a beautiful day with a lot of sunshine. The low was 58 degrees and the high was 82 degrees.

I crawled out of bed at 8:00 and got dressed. Larry was already outside working on the Minnie. I had breakfast and then I joined him.

The first project we did was wash the motorcycle carrier. It was filthy because of being on the road for eight weeks. Once it was clean we put it away in the garage. Then we laid the motorcycle cover on the driveway and cleaned it. After cleaning the cover we put it over the garbage can to dry. While the cover was drying Larry cleaned the straps for the motorcycle. Once the cover and straps were dried Larry bagged them.

During our trip a few things came up that Larry needs to work on:

1. The engine smog pump became noisy. On really cold mornings it is embarrassingly noisy. After a minute or so it quiets down. - Discontinued by Ford. Ordered one via Amazon, won't ship for weeks.

2. Refrigerator - Temperature limit switch went bad. Ordered via Amazon.

3. Roof top A/C - Seal on roof has gone bad and it can leak water. Blower motor fan is worn out and making noise. Ordered both via Amazon.

4. Laptop - Battery went bad, won't stay running without being plugged in. Ordered via Amazon.

RV's tend to require maintenance. The Minnie is about 30 years old and probably requires a bit more maintenance than normal. I'm lucky Larry is knowledgeable and capable of doing most of the maintenance.

While Larry did some prep work and ordered parts I cleaned the interior of the Minnie. I wiped everything down, vacuumed it out, cleaned the bathroom and wash the floor. I also put the items I washed yesterday back in the Minnie. We're not sure when we'll use the Minnie again so I bagged the items to protect them from dust.

We worked outside for three hours.

Larry put an online order for groceries from Walmart. The groceries arrived at 12:00 and I put them away.

In the afternoon I played seven games of pinball. They were the weekly challenge of F-14 Tomcat, No Fear, The Lord of the Rings, Mustang, Elvira and the Party Monsters, Godzilla and Batman. I got a new high score on the weekly challenge of F-14 Tomcat, which was 1,483,630. This score put me in 39th out of 43 participants. While playing Mustang I entered my initials as high score #3 and Godzilla I entered my initials as high score # 5. I had a great afternoon playing pinball after not playing it for eight weeks.