Remember this picture from yesterday?
I know the story behind it and I want to post it first because it is so sad.
The people who are building this house are named Woods. So, it is no one from the Tiffin family. This couple had a little girl who at 7 weeks of age was diagnosed with cancer. As the little girl grew she did not get better. She passed away about a month ago at 22 months of age. The little girl loved castles and her grandfather promised her he would build her a castle. He and the entire grieving family are keeping his promise. They are building a massive castle in the memory of the little girl. Her name sounded something like Meleah but I did not verify the name. I couldn't. I was too heartbroken . I hope and pray that this family will find comfort in working through their grief by building this monument to her. I cannot imagine, in my feeble mind, how on earth I could ever live in this building. So, now we know the story behind this castle. It is not at all what I expected. I must move on to another topic now.
Also remember I have been telling you that this was an old airport runway? I wanted to prove it.
We are parked on runway 8.
We arrived at our assigned bay early this morning. We had to wait for them to open the door. Our assigned workers introduced themselves and shook our hands. What a surprise. We knew going into this bay that the floor to the wet bay was probably in very bad shape. We had no idea. When they unbolted the doors we do not ever open, we nearly fainted, both with shock and embarrassment. The floor which Jerry had wired in and duct taped to get us here literally disintegrated. It just crumbled into one huge pile of garbage. And all three tanks sunk down to fill the space. Oh my what a sight. We were left speechless and after finally closing our mouths we just had to walk away for a minute. So much could have happened on our way here, but once again, Divine intervention allowed us a safe trip with no problems. God has been so good to us! The workers said they had actually seen worse but this was extremely bad. So, a four hour job turned into 8 hours. While neither of us did a lick of work today we were completely wiped out and terribly exhausted when we got back to our site. We are just sitting here like blobs.
We put our name back on the list for the third recall. That means we will need to be here until late next week. We still have more painting work to be done plus some clear coat must be replaced on the top. We had wanted to be out of here by the end of this week to avoid the nasty weather. But it isn't going to happen, so we will once again tough out freezing weather. If ever we get to decent weather we might not be able to move for a while.
We liked the way they jacked up the coach. Jerry was not allowed to drive up onto the blocks, but he could drive it off.
Not your ordinary jacks.
Another interesting fact.
Tiffin has most of their parts made locally and if not here, at least in the United States. However, all of their windshields are made in Turkey, of all places. This building had hundreds and hundreds of windshields for every Tiffin coach ever made. They are crated by year and model. We have no idea what Turkey can do with a windshield that no company in the U.S. cannot do.
We could have had tomorrow to rest and catch up on sleep but Jerry wants to see if Red Bay Paint and Body can do any work at all. Hopefully tomorrow we will get a call scheduling our second recall for Friday.
Oh, by the way, at breakfast this morning we discovered that the group of people we thought were local are actually full timers who are here getting work done also. They have all been going to the Baptist Church here. So, in came the pastor for that church. He stopped and introduced himself and talked to us for a long time. What an extremely nice man and very entertaining. One of the older men (Tommy, I think, probably in his mid 80s) in the coffee group was at the Iron Bowl on Saturday. So, he sat with us and showed us the video of himself at the game. He was so funny and we enjoyed visiting with him, too. He said it took them 4 hours to get out of the parking lot in Auburn. Unbelievable! What a day we had!
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