Motor Home Upgrade and Guests

While we are camping in Edmond, Oklahoma to visit family, we have more time on our hands than usual. Denisa did some sewing, and also hemmed up some pants. Perhaps that is why Mark got inspired to do a craft project too. When we first bought our used motor home five years ago, we weren't thrilled with the light colored upholstery on the dining room chairs.

We found that two of the chairs were missing, so our dealer sent us replacements. But they were upholstered in a different fabric, that was also very light.

The third and fourth chairs are usually stored under our bed, but we decided a couple years ago that we wanted matching fabric on the four chairs. We also wanted a darker fabric that would blend with the busy black and tan upholstery found elsewhere in the motor home. So we bought some fabric two years ago, and it has been patiently waiting for a rainy day when we had nothing better to do but re-upholster furniture. Today is the day! We would start by taking out the 50 staples that held the outer layer of each chair cushion.

Removing that layer would uncover more than 100 more staples that had to be removed to get the old upholstery fabric off.

Then it was time to cut the new fabric and start stapling it in place. Mark says he pities the poor fool that has to take out all the staples we put in. Denisa just hopes that "poor fool" isn't us.

The finished project was successful. We now have a matched set of chairs with a darker and less-busy covering. It was a good project for a rainy day!

We're now ready for company!

So we invited Denisa's sister and brother-in-law over for breakfast one day, and our son's family over another morning. They were on their way home to Kansas City after the first birthday party weekend.

While their guests ate, Gram and Granddad were busy feeding Carter her breakfast. She ate three plates full of strawberries, grapes, and bananas.

We loved having sit-on-the-floor company as the whole family joined Denisa for play time.

They also joined us for a walk around our campground loop, where we could share our peaceful home.

That sunshine turned to rain, and we were faced with another string of rainy days and severe weather warnings. Sheesh!

Instead of staying up all night to listen for tornado warnings, we left the motor home sitting here, and we spent the night at Denisa's sister's house. Like most houses in Oklahoma, they have an underground storm shelter. Luckily, we didn't have to use it. When we returned to check on the motor home the next morning, we saw that Lake Arcadia was merging into the camp site across the road from us. We had purposefully picked an elevated site, and we watched as one of our neighbors was evacuated from their lower site.

That same afternoon, we moved the motor home to its new storage spot for the next couple weeks. We're ready for another car road trip, so the motor home is staying high and dry at our relatives' house until we continue our quest to the north.