Magic Mesh Screen Door

Here are the pics of the Magic Mesh Screen Door I just installed.

I got some 1-inch wide plastic trim in a finish similar to the interior T@B finish and a heavy duty Magic Mesh (as seen on TV).

I measure and cut the trim to fit around the inside of the door and mitred the corners. Then I found the center of the top piece and stapled the Magic Mesh to the backside of the trim and cut off the excess on either side and bottom.

Then I taped the entire thing in place with blue painters tape and secured the trim around the door with 3/4" screws. I coated the screws with some Gorilla Glue before screwing in. I did use a drill to make pilot holes.

I had a couple of extra magnets from the material I cut off that I attached to the bottom for weights.





















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Comin next Halloween at Disney World!!! (Yes, I know AGAIN!!)

Part 3 - Crossroads of America Tearjerker Gathering and Beyond, July 13 - 21, 2011

Mornin Sports Fans, well now it is time for the "Beyond" portion of the trip. As I mentioned earlier, I needed to be in Sterling, VA for work on Monday morning, so at 6:00 AM I was up and getting ready to hit the road. I am SOOOOO glad I packed up the night before, cause when I walked out of the camper that morning, the heat hit me like a ton of bricks. It was going to be a HOT one!!! We had GLORIOUS low 80s for the entire week, well now the heat was comin!!!

I was heading East on I-70 in no time.

I got a couple of shots from the highway.

The sun peeking out early morning in Indiana





This is Colts Stadium



I was trying to capture either the Dayton or Columbus, OH skyline, forget which.



Coming up on the mountains of West Virginia



This is where the "places" I've never been before comes in. I had never been as far North as I-70 driving and have never been in Ohio, WV, or Pennsylvania. I wish I had time to physically stop overnight in those places, but I had to get on down the road.

The drive through each of those states was a neat experience and can't wait till the time comes when I can stop and visit the unique attractions in each state of our great country!!

Coming next, meeting up with friends!!!

When this trip to Virginia from Indiana was brewing, I looked at maps and realized I might be near Johns' neck of the woods and sent him a message.

We discovered that I indeed would be coming near to his home, and they had a perfect outing in mind for us to meet.

So, here we are at Quaker Steak and Lube in the Cabela's parking lot near Wheeling, WV.

We spent a lovely couple of hours enjoying some barbecue, kitschy stuff hangin on the walls and ceiling of the restaurant and WONDERFUL conversation!!

I would have loved to wander Cabela's with them, but really needed to continue on down the road.















After leaving the restaurant I passed into Pennsylvania and then back into West Virginia.

Driving through West Virginia was challenging, but beautiful. I don't think there is a flat stretch in the entire state, I was either going uphill or downhill.

Once I got into Virginia and closed in on the DC area, whooeee at the traffic. It took me over an hour to travel the last 20 miles, Holy traffic jam Batman!!

I got to Lake Fairfax Park in Reston, VA about 8:30 that night and set up camp and settled in.

OK, time to finish this one. Not much more to tell, I arrived at the campground, set up and went to work for the next 3 days.

I have a few pictures of the campground, and did have some time my last evening to take a few pictures of some of the amenities at this park.

Here is the web link to the campground and park

http://www.fairfaxco...ax/fairfaxcamp/

A shot of the campground sitting under my awning



A few pictures of my site - A39, 50 Amp Electric, no water, no sewer, but a place to fill the water tank, and dump the waste tanks nearby.







If you'll notice, I didn't put out any signs or my lamp post. Since I was working, and solo didn't want to bring a lot of attention to myself (well as little attention as is possible with my rig) I still put out my string lights cause they actually serve a purpose. They give me light enough to walk around outside without putting on the glaring, bug attracting outside lights on the camper.

A few words about this park. This seemed to be a thriving county park that really did lots for the kids in the community. There were at least three different day camps going on, and apparently the school systems sponsor lots of summer programs, cause I saw lots of school buses there. (Or maybe they are leased for other purposes in the summer). Whatever the case, this area seemed to have a lot for the kids in the summer.

Here are the rest of the pictures of the park.

The lake



A picnic area near the lake




Boat rentals on the lake



Carousel



Water Park











This was a fountain near a restaurant that I thought was pretty




A few night shots of the camper







And that's all folks!!

Thursday morning, I packed up and made the 700 mile drive home. What's funny is one of my coworkers got to the airport before I left and got home AFTER I did, so flying is NEVER guaranteed to take less time to get somewhere than driving :-)

Oh and as promised, the link to my photobucket album that has shots of more of the campers that attended the gathering:

http://s96.photobucket.com/albums/l169/clkelley564/Crossroads%20of%20America/?start=all

Part 2 - Crossroads of America Tearjerker Gathering and Beyond, July 13 - 21, 2011

OK, to continue on, I spent most of Friday afternoon taking camper pictures, then it was time for the Wine and Cheese event.













See that yellow T@B in the background. Those folks showed up literally minutes before we descended upon them and set up tables in their "front yard".

As I said before, I had a front row seat for everything as most of those pictures were taken from my site.

Announcements were made, sponsors introduced, and reminders for the various raffles and drawings were announced. As I said earlier something very good came from this gathering, all of the raffles, drawings, and various ways to earn money were all going to be for Inflammatory Breast Cancer. The amount we ended up raising was astounding!!

A few more camper pictures:

This is a Camp-Inn teardrop. Considered to be the cadillac of manufactured teardrops (with a price to match)



This is a Little Guy Silver Shadow. I seriously considered this camper before I found my T@B



This is a homebuilt chuckwagon kitchen. Before I looked at teardrops and T@Bs this was what I had in my head that I wanted to do. I was a tent camper, but it was a lot of work. I wanted a trailer with a kitchen, clothes storage, and other compartmented storage, so all I would have to set up is the tent and an air mattress.



Another Scotty



After the wine and cheese, I settled in for the night with a movie. Oh a note, there is no cable at this campground and was only able to get limited off air signal from my antenna, mostly a few PBS stations. Verizon phone service worked, but T-Mobile was kinda sketchy. I was able to get internet from my work-provided Verizon air card, but NADA on my T-Mobile service on my droid.

The next morning there was a big pancake and sausage breakfast. I overslept and stumbled outside almost at the end of breakfast in my Mickey Mouse pajama bottoms and t-shirt to grab my breakfast carrying my Snarky mug. I was about to grab a couple of regular pancakes from the stack, but was told "Wait, I have to make you a special pancake" Well, in my fuzzy still sleepy state, I could not imagine what that was, then I was presented with the prettiest Mickey Pancake you ever saw!!! I thought that was soooo sweeet.

As I said, I was still sleep addled, so no pictures :-(

After breakfast and having lovely conversations with lots of good folks, I got dressed (in my purple Snarky t-shirt) and went out to get more trailer pictures.

Here are a few more. I'll feature the T@Bs that attended

This is what my T@B looked like before I decorated it:



A big screen room:



These folks work and live in their T@B almost full time. (I found out later, they were on their own bucket list tour)



Some pretty streamers on their awning

















Anyway, on to the story. As I was wandering around, one of the folks asked me if that was a Disney shirt?? Now, I know we are working hard to get the word out, but I was kinda lost as to how she associated Snarky with Disney. She then said, "That's the Disney font" I would recognize it anywhere!! So we had a wonderful conversation about Disney and their family travels there and Fort Wilderness. Cards were handed out, and the conversation also turned to wanting to camp, but didn't want to pull the camper. (This family actually had a popup, not a tiny trailer.) They mentioned renting a camper once they arrived, and I also took the chance to plug Donnie's site. They came by my camper later that afternoon and said that they had already looked over www.makecampingeasy.com

After wandering that afternoon and finally getting pictures of all the small trailers, I went back to the camper to start my crockpot. Tonight was the big potluck!!! And if you think fiends put on a spread, whooooeeeeee, there was some good eatin.

As dinner time rolled closer, folks started arriving. They commandeered picnic tables from the various sites and the food came!!

A few pics!!









Now for the food

The food table was so long, it was impossible to get it in one shot





If you'll notice on the left of this picture was a beautiful quilt that was raffled off. These folks have some talent















To continue on, after the potluck, everybody cleaned up and headed back to the their campers to wash dishes and get ready for MOVIE NIGHT!!

One of the Indiana directors has a movie screen setup and at dark after the potluck generally shows a movie. Now, in Indiana just east of the timezone line, dark is almost 10pm!!!

I didn't actually sit and watch the movie, cause I decided to go ahead and break camp so I could get an early start the next morning, but I could hear it. The Movie was Back to the Future Part I, which I've seen dozens of times, so listening was all the same to me. I got all broke down and hitched up, so all I had to do the next morning is unplug electric and cover the AC vent.

Nighty, night