even though I have almost nothing… I still have too much.
The weather was still beautiful today, with 75° for a high, but that's going to end Friday when the high temperature for the day is supposed to be in the mid-50s, Saturday in the 40s, and Sunday back in the 50s again, with rain all three days. But as usual in the Fall, the temperatures will be back in the 70s by Monday.
I'm supposed to go to the grandkid's last flag football and a soccer game on Saturday morning, but I don't know if they are even going to be the last games since it’s supposed to rain all day Friday and Saturday. I guess the coach will have to decide on Friday night and email everyone to let us know if we need to show up.
I've been doing little odds and ends around the camper, slowly preparing it for travel. I'm trying to lighten the load by getting rid of some of my duplicate tools, but since I've done that a couple of times already, there's not much in my toolbags that I can get rid of.
I also have a rather large plastic box full of big tools that will not fit in a tool bag. It mostly consists of Milwaukee battery-powered drills, saws, angle grinders, and other large, bulky tools that I may feel a need for someday. But most of those kinds of tools are used for various do-it-yourself projects, which I don't do much of anymore, so I should just leave them at my daughter's house and use them in the summer to make changes to the camper.
That would be the smart thing to do, but that's not how my brain works. I only do things when I feel like doing them, and that feeling may strike me in the winter when I'm far, far away and have nothing available except a hammer and a pair of vise grips to rebuild the Lance.
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I keep my tool bags on the floorboard where my backseat used to be. I carried two or three times this many tools in the Arctic Fox, but the Lance doesn’t have much space, and my three-quarter-ton truck doesn’t have the carrying capability to tote everything I would want to carry along.
Who needs a backseat? The junk I carry everywhere is more important than passengers.
I usually don’t take my Viair compressor everywhere I go unless I’m traveling or, in this case, getting ready to travel.
Under the compressor is a black zipper bag that contains my heavy-duty jumper cables. I learned early on that regular Walmart jumper cables don’t pass enough 12 volt power to jump a diesel truck.
under that is my container of bulky tools, mostly battery-operated tools.
Beside that is a container I need for the truck: fuel filters, a multimeter, Flat Fix, and other such items.
I used to use these tools frequently when I had many projects to accomplish to supposedly improve my RVs, but now, due to laziness and procrastination, I’ve mostly learned to accept the camper as it is.