The grass is growing up between the wheels of the Airstream and there are cobwebs under the back bumper.  The trailer has sat in the yard for a couple of months, surviving Hurricane Irene, and now we’re ready to take it down to Massachusetts for a week of family visiting.  We’ll boondock in the woods outside our daughter’s house so the battery, which is been slowly draining from phantom loads, is plugged into house current.  I’ve got the extra battery charging as well.

We want to get the refrigerator ready — it’s been sitting with the doors open — and it’s always a hassle to purge the lines enough to get it to light on the gas system.  I run the gas stove, then light off the water heater, and after many tries, get the refrigerator going.

One of our problems has been getting out of our steep driveway without pulling off the back bumper.  I’m going to try something my brother mentioned and not hitch up the sway bars, thus leaving the trailer rear a little higher, until we have negotiated the bottom of the driveway.  We’ll see.

The foliage in Vermont is turning color around here and the area is full of tour buses and tourists.  We’ll get out of their way and be back in a week and it will probably be at peak then.