Every once in a while, a pleasant surprise comes along. Today brought one of them.

I’ve been having some troubles with the motorhome. Just before the Fourth of July I discovered that the generator would run, but electricity wasn’t getting into the vehicle. Everything I looked at seemed to be OK — but nothing I tried fixed the problem. Further, the rear left turn signal wasn’t working. The bulbs were fine, the front left turn signal flashed quite rapidly, which further meant something was wrong. It acted like there was some kind of a break in the circuit, like may a blown fuse? But where were the fuses? I discovered a couple of fuse boxes, but all seemed to be in order. Finally I resigned myself to take the vehicle in to a repair shop and have them fix the problem. I took it in about 9 this morning. At 10:30 they called to say everything was fixed and the bill would be about $30. The turn signal did indeed have a blown fuse (and they’ll show me where it is). The generator had not been plugged back into the motorhome wiring after the last generator oil change, which I had done just before we brought the vehicle to Pocatello when I took the new job. It looks like they just forgot to plug it back in! Anyhow, the problems are fixed and the price is right. It also means that I spent too much time trying to figure it out myself. I should have taken it to the experts earlier!

We’ll close on our house in about another hour — another big milestone in our move to Pocatello. I’ve just about got all the accounts in Colorado Springs closed and corresponding accounts opened here in Pocatello. The moving truck comes on Monday!