Friday, October 22, 2021 – Run Into Town, Trailer Partly Washed and Waxed

Hi Babe,
Another good night sleep, despite someone nearby running their air conditioner all night, not sure what that’s all about, it’s been beautiful weather. Whatever! After chores and breakfast, I started to wax one of the panels on the trailer, and realized that despite my washing it yesterday, it still had a lot of black streaks and water stains, so I decided I had to take care of that first. After realizing those old cans of Streak Away weren’t going to work, I discovered a video yesterday that claimed a product from a Dollar Store, called LA’s Awesome Cleaner would do the job. Though the video was compelling, I was still a skeptic, but with no other ideas to hand, I headed into town. First I went to the post office to follow up on my package, which they were now saying wouldn’t be here until MONDAY, but set it up with the postmistress that if it came in earlier she would call me, and I could either come and get it or she would arrange to have it delivered via the carrier. Then I went to the Dollar General, the only store in town (the place is about the size of Altamont!) and sure enough, they had a half gallon of the cleaner, so I got that and a small spray bottle and headed back. Amazingly, the stuff really worked! I had to apply it a couple of times on the tough spots, but it worked almost as well as the old stuff, with a little elbow grease. So then I had to pretty much wash the whole trailer by hand again to get all the marks off, then I started applying the wax. What a job! There’s no easy way to was a 47′ trailer! I only got one side done, and it’s not coming out quite as good as I had hoped. I’m using a high end Maguires ceramic wax, which I had high hopes for, but it’s not quite doing the job. I guess there’s too much oxidation in the paint, so that means next time I do this, I’ll probably have to do a little compounding on it first. Oh, joy! Another two days of work. I was so exhausted by 4:30 I didn’t even have the energy to walk down to my neighbor Tami’s trailer, which I said I would do when she rode by earlier in the day, but later, she came up and visited with me for a few hours anyway, which was very enjoyable. Oh, and an hour after I got back from town, the postmistress called to say my package had arrived! I think I’ll just go and pick it up, though, don’t want to take any chances on not getting it tomorrow. I’m exhausted, had an ice pack on my knee all evening, more than ready for my shower and bed, so good night, sweetie! Love you!

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