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03-29-2016, 05:20 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central, Pennsylvania
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Spring has sprung...
taken today, boy is it going to be a bad allergy season......
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Sometime life gets in the way of living.......
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03-29-2016, 05:37 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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OH wow ...that is pretty . We too have trees leafing out - no flowering on the trees yet - but I do have a few pansies flowering .
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03-29-2016, 05:38 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Benton County, Iowa
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Jim is that a cherry, flowering crab or something else? It looks like you're about 10 days ahead of us.
Dave
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03-29-2016, 05:44 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: North of Danbury, Wisconsin
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The ice went off our lake on March 22 then froze back over 2 days later. Highs this coming weekend are supposed to be below freezing. Jim ,your pictures give me something to look forward to.
You are about 6 weeks ahead of us so I hope you enjoy the nice Spring weather.
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03-29-2016, 07:19 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Canyon Lake, Texas
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Spring? Hmm. Minus 5C this weekend in Guelph ON. Looks like I'm going to have to hunker down. I'm a wimp when it comes to cold weather. Bring on the heat.
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03-29-2016, 07:29 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: North of Danbury, Wisconsin
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rbryan4
Spring? Hmm. Minus 5C this weekend in Guelph ON. Looks like I'm going to have to hunker down. I'm a wimp when it comes to cold weather. Bring on the heat.
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If the highs stayed in the 60's or 70's all summer I would be one happy camper. I admire anyone who can tolerate temps in the 80's
By the end of summer I will be praying for snow.
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03-29-2016, 07:59 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: North Vancouver, British Columbia
Trailer: 2009 Escape 17B 2020 Toyota Highlander XLE
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Sun came out and temperature is bearable, so I tackled the trailer and green algae. Managed to do the roof and two sides before chill set in.
I know some think the green stuff is a crisis requiring nuclear weapons, but Simonize Wash 'n' Wax seems quite capable of dealing with it.
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03-29-2016, 08:17 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central, Pennsylvania
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great before and after pictures there Glenn
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03-29-2016, 08:17 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gbaglo
Sun came out and temperature is bearable, so I tackled the trailer and green algae. Managed to do the roof and two sides before chill set in.
I know some think the green stuff is a crisis requiring nuclear weapons, but Simonize Wash 'n' Wax seems quite capable of dealing with it.
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Is that some kind of pre-soak you did in the first photo? Looks great!
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03-29-2016, 08:52 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Maple Ridge, BC, British Columbia
Trailer: 2014 17B;2012 Nissan Frontier SV 4
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I love the spring clean and trailer pictures.
Spring has certainly sprung here on the wet coast.
I cleaned the trailer a week or so ago so this afternoon it was off to The White Rock Stroll for fish and chips on the patio at Moby Dicks.
Tomorrow we head to Derby Reach for a few days. So far retirement feels fine (even if Liz doesn't know how to take my pictures for uploading correctly. I'm slowly learning - I took the last three).
Larry
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03-29-2016, 08:58 PM
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Location: North Vancouver, British Columbia
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No pre-soak. That's just the result of liquid flowing downhill because I've got the trailer lower at the front.
I used a soft car wash brush and a turk's head from my boating days. I've still got to deal with the tree sap. Will have a go with Turtle Bug 'n' Sap and a plastic putty knife.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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03-29-2016, 09:00 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: SLO County, California
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Very hot water used with gloves of course really helps. Then using the black label Goof Off is a breeze.
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03-29-2016, 10:07 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Southwick, Massachusetts
Trailer: None, sold my 2014 5.0TA
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When you run out, try rubbing alcohol, I was pleasantly surprised.
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Bob
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03-30-2016, 04:56 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Tampa Bay Area, Florida
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rbryan4
Spring? Hmm. Minus 5C this weekend in Guelph ON. Looks like I'm going to have to hunker down. I'm a wimp when it comes to cold weather. Bring on the heat.
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I agree, Robert. More than half of my life in New Hampshire was enough for me. My (and I repeat "MY") mantra is "Heat is uncomfortable, cold is painful."
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03-30-2016, 08:53 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by C&G in FL
"Heat is uncomfortable, cold is painful."
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"Heat is uncomfortable, cold requires a jacket for easily produced comfort" 
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03-30-2016, 10:01 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Benton County, Iowa
Trailer: 2013 Escape 21 Classic Number 6, pulled by 2018 Toyota Highlander
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"You can always put more clothes on if you have them, you can only take so many off if it's too hot"
Emory Smith
My Dads continuing advice to me on both preparedness and why cold weather was preferable to hot. He trained in the Mojave Desert in WWII and ended up in Northern Germany( Battle of the Ardennes). A 140 degree swing.
Dave
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03-30-2016, 10:15 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Galesville, Wisconsin
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Iowa Dave
"You can always put more clothes on if you have them, you can only take so many off if it's too hot"
Emory Smith
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My sentiments exactly. Many say as they age that cold is harder to take, for me it seems to opposite. The older I get the less I seem to be able to tolerate high heat and humidity. And I have closets full of nice warm clothes....
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03-30-2016, 10:29 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Iowa Dave
"You can always put more clothes on if you have them, you can only take so many off if it's too hot"
Emory Smith
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I never realized that was anyone's quote, but I have said the same thing many times, and truly believe it.
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Originally Posted by thoer
My sentiments exactly. Many say as they age that cold is harder to take, for me it seems to opposite. The older I get the less I seem to be able to tolerate high heat and humidity. And I have closets full of nice warm clothes....
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I am the same. I have WAY more energy in cooler temps, than in warmer ones. If I am working outside, or doing sports like mountain biking, I much prefer the cooler end of the spectrum, but If I have a cocktail in hand, and am hanging around a beach, only then can I enjoy temps in the high 20's C (80's F).
Easter weekend was a prime example. 3 nights in a row temps fell to around -5°C (23°F), and we were up 'til 2am partying away by a blazing campfire. During the day it got fro 5-10°C (41-50°F), and we had great fun outside, playing bocce, putzing away, and even ate our Easter dinner outside.
Not to say I do not enjoy warmth. Days around 20-24°C (68-75° F) are comfortable to me.
Thus the need to get A/C in my new build, as we hope to explore into that sorching, parched southern part of the continent too. 
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03-30-2016, 11:11 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Trailer: 1979 Boler B1700
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Iowa Dave
"You can always put more clothes on if you have them, you can only take so many off if it's too hot"
Emory Smith
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Like Jim Bennett, this is my response as well.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Iowa Dave
My Dads continuing advice to me on both preparedness and why cold weather was preferable to hot. He trained in the Mojave Desert in WWII and ended up in Northern Germany( Battle of the Ardennes). A 140 degree swing.
Dave
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Just like the difference between the coldest winter day and the hottest summer day in central Alberta.
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03-30-2016, 11:18 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Fremont, California
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Great job on the roof Glenn 
and Larry, that first photo looks fine.....I just thought you were in retirement recline, watching Glenn wash his trailer 
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