RV cutting board/stove topper, flat cable & helping a dog in need

Hi all, I hope everyone is having a good day. I've had a low key type of day, which sometimes we all need. A friend came over early this morning to get some items. I'm dog sitting this weekend & then got a call to help someone with a Rhodesian Ridgeback that gained an eye infection while in boarding. She was not able to adminsiter his eye ointment, so I drove over there to help her. His eye looks bad, she will be taking him to an eye specialist tomorrow. I hope his eye will be treatable & ok. Needless to say, she's very upset over her baby! Too bad while in boarding, the necessary attention was not given there & then.
I also got pics of the little hummingbird sitting on a tree branch! Will have to edit that later & get pics up if they turned out. He was so tiny & it was hard to find in the viewfinder of my camera as he was the same size & color of the tree leaves.

I also wanted to share my RV cutting board that I got for my stove top a few years back. When I went to an RV place to get one, I was astonished how expensive they are & the ones I saw had the rubber back matting glued down to them. So I went to WalMart & bought a nice sized cutting board & bought the non slip matting & I just put that under the board, then I place the board on the stove top. It has never shifted off during my travels! I really do not use it for a cutting board though as I want it to always look nice. I could use it if I baked to roll cookie dough or something like that though...that's an "if" mind you ;-)

My RV does not have a stove top cover, so most folks that don't have one of those use the cutting boards for extra counter space. My lamp & items look nice sitting on it.

Another thing that some may not know about is a flat cable that you can use in a window if you use satellite. When DirectTV installed my satellite a few years back (I no longer have cable, but still kept the cables & flat cable), I was concerned about them cutting a hole in the RV to add a cable connection as mine does not have one! I was really worried about that! So I googled & learned about flat cables that could be ran through windows. I was set out to buy one, but the cable folks showed up early. Fortunately, they already knew how to work with RV's & they had flat cables! BUT they were going to cut a small hole in my screen to run it through! I stopped them & told them my screens move like my sliding windows do, so they did not have to do any cutting - whew! Where I am parked now, satellite can't reach me due to too many trees. But that's really ok because I don't need that much tv anyhow right now. Lifes been too busy for that.

Oh & I watched a movie this after noon. The Green Mile with Tom Hanks. Wow, what a movie & what a tear jerker it was. Good movie, but a little tough to get through...

Have a good evening everyone & as always, be kind to your pets, clean up after them on your travels & respect your neighbor.  Toodles! 

 

New Blogger

OK, so I've had my blogger account since 2008, it's now 2011. No need to hurry huh? Anyhow, I hope to organize & offer up RV solutions, fix it's & such. Also will add videos of travels along the way as well. I've done some traveling, but not tons. I show dogs, (Salukis), but it's been a slow year for me due to an injury that I'm still awaiting surgery on. (ankle surgery).
I lost my house about a year after Hurricane Ike, so I pretty much am living in my RV in a friends driveway for now. My friends have been extremely gracious to me! And I try to help out daily, with helping to care for their dogs, cooking, etc.  The waiting for the surgery has pretty much put a hold on my life - I sure hope it happens soon so I can get on with my life!
My RV is a 22' Coachmen ClassC with a rear kitchen. It's a small comfortable RV & I've done several upgrades on it over the years I've owned it. I bought it outright, it's sooo nice to have it! Bought it for dog shows & emergency evacuations. At the time, little did I know that I'd be eventually living in it. I would have bought one that's a bit bigger had I known that at the time as I share it with my dogs & cats. But in time, we will upgrade to a bigger rig. Still want to stay with the ClassC, but one with a bedroom & more room for all of us.

In the meantime, I do have a youtube account under the name of ReignBeauHounds, which I have a few RV travel vids, vids of my dogs & a few fixit it vids. Feel free to visit youtube & put the name ReignBeauHounds in your search & you will find my channel there.
I'm also a member of many RV forums. They are the best - I encourage anyone that has an RV to become a member of at least one forum. They are generally full of very helpful knowledgable folks.
Thanks for reading & I hope to keep contributing to our little RV community!

And remember, take good care of your pets, respect others around you, keep your nose clean. :-)