Pullin' Chocks

Back in Junction City, KS

Education; that is precisely what we have had over the two years that we have owned our beloved luxury 5th wheel coach Penelope Pussycat. Some of the lessons have been hard, others easy, and all have been enlightening.  This visit at New Horizons is our 2nd ownership anniversary and is our last warranty service.  As usual we have found ourselves on the emotional rollercoaster as we endeavor to understand the problems and fixes on our complex RV.  We love our RV home and can get quite emotional when our home sweet home has to undergo surgery.  I remember living on the farm, and every so often we would clean out the dogs stall and houses.  They would stand there and watch us with looks of concern, and seem to be asking, "What are you doing with our home?"  We are much the same when our coach goes into the shop.  Tomorrow will be the start of week 5 here, we thought 2 weeks would be all it was going to take this time, but some painting work has taken much longer than expected.  There was a line for the paint booth and we are hoping this week 5 will finish off our work.

One of the great things about being in Junction City is meeting other New Horizon owners. We are all pretty much of like minds and it is great to make all of these new friend connections and commiserate on our very similar coaches.  We learn so much from each other, it really helps in understanding our problems and necessary fixes when someone else has already experienced it.

Most days we walk up the hill to the donkey farm.  Last year when we were here they had 3 donkeys.  This year they already had 10 donkeys when we arrived, and by now there are 12, with at least one more on the way.  We are anxious to return to Rapid City, SD when we finish in Junction City.  We are also planning to meet up with new friends later this summer in Montana.  We are loving the RV life!

This is our hitch connector that was damaged. You can see that top pin out of place; it wasn't making a good connection.  We visitied the local farm store found a replacement plug and accomplished the repair ourselves.

Many coaches for sale at New Horizons.  This is where we stay while getting work accomplished on our coach.  We all call it Camp New Horizons.  We are given very good care while here and are very grateful for it.

Candy gave us a tour of the marvelous 2015 Show Model while we were here.  What a magnificient coach!

We walk up Donkey Hill most days, for the exercise and to see our donkey friends.  They eagerly approach for the daily scratch.

 Our new friends Ed & Lynn joined us on a walk up Donkey Hill.

 It looks like the donkeys are serenading our new friends!

Then the donkey foals started to arrive... this is the first foal we call ND, short for New Donkey.

This is foal No.2 a week later.  We call him Pimilco in observance of the Preakness race there that weekend.

 That's a Brown Headed Cow Bird Pimlico

 This mare carries foal No.3;  I wonder if we will get to see him.  We may call him Belmont.

And that is the Junction City 2015 Scoop from Pullin' Chocks!