I am so far behind in my blog posts that I have decided to produce just one blog post for all of last fall and winter. I’m going to try to get back up-to-date with my camping trips here, or at least close to it. I’ve read that online bloggers should not post about a trip while they are on the trip, since bad people could figure out my name, where I live, and then figure that my house is sitting empty. So I never upload a blog post while I’m actually on the trip … I always wait about a month or so afterwards. But I’m now MANY months behind … so let me catch up a bit. 🙂
And so, here’s the ONE blog post about this past winter. I brought the trailer back home after that last October, 2020, camping trip to Silver Lake and the Mount St Helens volcano, and then parked the trailer in the storage lot where I live.
As true winter weather approached, I knew that I needed to put the cover on the trailer to protect it from freezing rain and snow. But I didn’t want the cover to be damaged by any sharp corners on the exterior of the trailer … and there are some sharp corners! Here are two photos (below) that I took of the roof of the trailer when the trailer was still brand new and sitting inside a building at the Escape Trailer Industries facility in British Columbia, Canada.
The solar panel is on the right in the photo below … at the rear of the roof of the trailer in the photo below.
Those are some sharp corners!
So I concocted and constructed a foam-and-tape “surround” protection that would prevent the canvas cover from being damaged by the sharp corners. I also taped a large piece of cardboard over the entire area of the solar panel, to minimize any damage if any small tree limbs were blown onto the unit during these coming winter months.
In the photo above, the RED arrow points to my backup camera that’s mounted on the back of the trailer. I built a foam box to surround those pieces as well.
Ok, all sharp corners protected? Aye-aye! All right, let’s get that cover on the trailer.
Here she is … snug as a bug. 🙂
And just in time, too. It wasn’t but two or three weeks later this past winter that a really big (for us anyway) … really big snow storm hit.
Oh my it was pretty. And oh my, am I glad I got that cover on the trailer when I did.
The snow had already started to pack down, and to melt, by the time I stuck this ruler in the snow, out in the middle of the lawn. There had been ten inches of snow. And it hung around for 10-12 days. That’s a lot for us in this part of the world.
Even the bird feeders were socked in and were inaccessible by our feathered friends.
It was gorgeous. And it was so quiet! The silence was partly due to the fact that snow absorbs sound, but it was also partly due to the fact that very few cars and trucks were on the roads. About five days into this snow fall, I either emailed my neighbors who couldn’t get out or I walked to their front doors and asked if they needed groceries or medical supplies. Some did. So I took their lists and drove my big white truck (in 4-wheel-drive, she had no problem with this snow) … and I got the provisions needed and delivered them to the neighbors. My neighbors thought I was a hero, but I made sure they knew that, in truth, the big white truck was the hero. In fact, the big white truck asked if we could go again a few days later, so I got another couple of lists from neighbors and we made the trip out and back again. My truck is the best! 🙂