Another project done!!

I can't believe that it has been almost a month since I last posted. Thanks to my Dad reminding me last weekend, I decided I better get my butt in gear. Somehow time just seems to be moving very fast this year and we really have not gotten much done yet.

Well, to continue from where I left of last time.... We spend Christmas Day dinner with friends at the Clubhouse and had a very nice time.



As always there was plenty of good food and we ate way to much!! We spend New Years Eve at home with a nice bottle of wine, a good meat and shrimp fondue and actually managed to stay up till midnight after watching all the different firework shows on TV. It is amazing how much fireworks they shoot off down here. It started at around 10 pm and lasted well after midnight.

So the New Year began well and then the weather turned bad. It has been cold, cloudy and wet for most of the month. It seems we get about two warm days and then the next low comes in and it is cold, cloudy and drizzly for the next 5 days and than the whole thing starts all over again.

Ever since we came back to the valley Doug has been talking about getting a camera/monitor system installed on the truck so it would be easier to see the hitch when hooking up as well as eliminating a lot of his "blind right side" when making a left hand turn. Sounds complicated, but you will see what I mean in a minute. It took a while to install the two cameras as well as hide all the cable inside the cab of the truck, due to the lousy weather, but it is finally done. This is the "hitch" camera and the view Doug has when sitting in the truck.

The hitch camera is mounted on the back of the cab and we will paint a white strip on the hitch and the kingpin, so that Doug can line up the two lines and make hitching up a lot easier.
The second camera is the one that I thought is most important.

This camera is mounted in the side panel behind the passenger door and gives a wide angle view on what is coming on the passenger side of the truck. We took the truck for a test drive after the installation and it was amazing to see just how much more you can see. It sure should make things a lot easier for Doug when turning left at an intersection o on an exit ramp of the highway.