that's MY list

So I just shared my "100 things" post with T, and he shared his opinion on whether these items were important or not. I suggested he go make his own list.

Let me be clear. This is my trailer. Mine. I did the looking for it. The finding of it. My name is on the title. And I corrected T all along, it was to be referred to as "my" trailer, not "our" trailer. I did, however, very graciously offer to let him sleep under it when I followed along as a sag-wagon on his planned Appalachian Trail hike.

As we parked the "new to me" Cavanner in our backyard, T set the jacks in place and muttered something I didn't quite hear. I leaned in, peering at him laid out flat under the belly of the trailer, as he repeated "There's a lot of room under here." "Good thing," I replied. He can keep his stuff there, too.

Our backyard chickens have a new neighbor.

Now, the trailer sits. Part by part is being plucked, pushed, and pried off and out of the trailer. This work does not go quickly. And the task is made heavier by the list I keep of everything to be replaced, repaired, improved, refinished.

Everything out!

"On-frame" or "off-frame" is the first question. And right on its heels is "do we remove the interior skin?" On the second question: Yes. We must remove the interior skin and floor to examine the frame in order to know if it requires repair. The frame is the steel structure on which the trailer is built. With its skin of aluminum wrapping under its belly, and 60 years of weather and road miles, the frame is housed in a humid environment that may have left it weakened by rust. The floor has been patched over time and covered over by carpet squares. Carpet. Out. Linoleum tiles. Out. Moldy plywood. Not a good sign...

Carpet, linoleum, plywood to remove...look along the baseboard edge to see the original paint color and finish!