Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog for January 8th, 2016

Friday, January 8, 2016, 1900 Hrs, 41 degrees, fair.

Today was a bit busy for me. Today the weather is clear with a fair sky and the high is in the low 50’s, no wind at all. How wonderful!

I managed to remove the standing water on the ground to get mud to dry up faster so I can work outside better when it fully dries up. Finally, the front of the unit has stopped dripping! Hopefully I can finish up sealing around the roof tomorrow, but I still need an roll of aluminum tape as I mentioned a few days ago. I will also try to seal up around the exterior window edges with silicone.

I also cleaned up the mess here in my RV and removed most of the dry mud on my doorstep. I still need 3 pallets, a small sheet of plywood and a fake hard grass doormat that would prevent tracking in more mud when I enter my RV.

I took a nap for a couple of hours today and to find out when I woke up that we sold 2 more items from our eBay Store. I went into our trailer and pulled them out and it was easy for me to find them, wrapped them and labeled them and will take them to P.O. tomorrow because eBay only allowed me to mark tomorrow as the shipping day.

After that, I spent another 2 hours fixing up errors in our eBay Store, during that time I noticed that HotSpot wasn’t running fast as it should be, there was no warning about running out of limited space. I will check tomorrow to see if it is back to normal speed.

That’s about it for the weekend. Hope you all have a great weekend and stay warm!

Bobby Fleener

Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog for January 7th, 2016

Thursday, January 7, 2016, 1900 Hrs, 41 degrees, cloudy, light wind.

Good evening!

Pretty weird today! This morning I woke up with calm weather, partly cloudy and the temperature still sticking to the upper 40’s all day.

Some of the ground was almost dried up and some area have mud and standing water. After I was fully woke up, I went on the roof to check out where the leaks is at, I had to squeeze standing water off the roof so, and it’s still to damp to for a coating of roofing cement tar, so I rather wait a bit longer.

After I sweep off the standing water on the roof, I notice that front unit as slowing down the drippings.

I finally can get into our trailer to pull out 2 eBay order and get ready to ship it out. When I was halfway to the post office, Beth texted me that she want me to removed the plate from Astro van and ship it to her ASAP. I had to “About Face” back to our land. I yank 2 plates off of the van and wrapped it into brown craft paper, and labeled it along with a USPS tracking # label.

I went to the nearest Post Office on Lancaster Blvd, but the clerk refused accept it. Sounds like she was hired without any training! So I had to go to another Post Office which is 5 miles further southwest, it appears to be HQ Post Office of Lancaster. This time, that clerk is very nice and understanding what “Free Matter for the Blind” means and she accept it, scanned it for me and it’s on the way. How nice!

Anyway, this morning I checked out weather website and it said it should be light rain starting at 5 pm, but it never came, how odd! Just a few minutes ago, I check it again, no rain for a while, tonight will be in the lower 30’s and partly cloudy, tomorrow in the 50’s. The 30’s is no good but the 50’s is okay to me.

I came back safe and sound. Took care of the Astro van as I told Beth I will add 1 more gallon of gas into it.  I put 1 ½ gallons of gas in it, but gas meter won’t change, nuts! At 3:30 pm had a quick dinner and hot coffee with 1 hour break, then off to work on eBay.

Finally! I finally caught up on getting all the braille magazine into new listing in eBay! YAY!!!

Well, ok, that’s it folks!

Bobby Fleener

Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog for January 6th, 2016

Wednesday, January 6, 2016, 1800 Hrs. 44 degree, strong winds!

Hello again!

Today is not such a good day for me, too much wind and heavy rain off and on all day today and it's still darkened around here. This morning when I woke up, I felt the RV shaking and I thought it was wind and later on I learned that it was an earthquake!

I didn’t do anything too well today because of the lousy weather. Right now at this time, it is still windy as I can feel the RV rocking. I really want to work on our trailer and some of the details outside, but I felt it’s not safe for me to do some of the work.

As per a weather website, there will be more rain tomorrow morning that should end that afternoon and it will resume again on Saturday morning!

I did fire up both cars this early afternoon while the rain stopped falling from the sky for a short time.

I also have notice some more rain leaks around, 1 in kitchen and 1 in my bedroom which it is minor issues and the leaks on front unit are dripping bit faster than it was yesterday. I still need a roll of Aluminum tape so I can fix this. As soon rain stops, properly on Friday to fix the leaks in those 2 location and try to fix front unit.

I also fixed some errors in our eBay store for a short time. Beth had given me approval for “Moving Sale” which I already set up and it will start tonight at midnight and ends on February 7, 2016 at midnight, so that’s a good 30 days sale! You can visit our eBay at: www.tinyurl.com/ocdac

Please, once again, visit our Amazon website wishlist at: http://tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist

We need your support!

That’s about it for today!

Bobby Fleener

Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog for January 5th, 2016

Tuesday, January 5, 2016, 1830 Hrs.

Hello viewers!

Well, this morning, I woke up at 7:15 am with murky weather at 36 degrees with back pain and it seems it rained lightly last night, as it was cloudy and very moist outside.

As I was warming myself while my coffee was brewing with the generator on, I went to fire up both cars to charge up the batteries and found the mud to be quite slippery.

I have updated some of our eBay items on the shipping details and fixed some errors. I finally caught up with listing the new Braille Magazines today in eBay which I haven’t done for the past 2 ½ weeks. I still have to add more magazines! Yes, I am a bit behind and trying to catch up on everything! I am still awaiting Beth’s approval to have a “Moving Sale” at 10% off on everything in our eBay Store for 30 days to see if it helps to raise funds.

Rain came in at 10:30 am causing this place to darken and it is hard for me to do video work as I was planning. No, I can’t use lights over the generator because I need to save gas. Leaks still going on at the front unit, but this time is a minor, like an IV drips slowly. I had to put pot under the drip and drilled small holes to let it flow out. I am gonna need a roll of Aluminum Tape (like the A/C Technician use) so I can cover the vents opening and put some more roofing cement over the top of it which is already covered by plywood by previous owner.

Just learned we have sold 1 item in Ebay, but I can’t pull this out yet as the ground is still muddy. I went outside to get some water and found the mud here is very slick like you walk on ice in an ice skating rink with your tennis shoes on. I had to dance to keep from falling. (Roll eyeballs)

During the dark day, I had fixed up the pottery that Beth bought and put it together, fired up with 4 tea candles and let it burn until it ended, but it never warmed up in here, grrr, what a waste of candles! I think Beth got the 2nd pot that won’t fit in right, I guess. It has been in the 40’s all day.  I took almost 2 hours of nap today to help me feel more relaxed over my back pain.

The wind is picking up on me now by shaking the RV good! Now I am worried about getting toppled over!

Anyone, PLEASE help us, we need lots of donated materials for this ranch project, we also need a truckload of firewood, materials for a storage shed ( at least 20’ X 20’). You can either:

1. Visit our Amazon Wishlist at: http://tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist
2. Send check or Money order to OCDAC, 2255 W. Ball Rd., #2430, Anaheim, CA 92814 to help us purchase items we need.
3. Contact Beth at 714 699-3323 and ask what you can do to help us
4. Or email me at bobby.fleener@deafadvocacy.org with any questions.

If you or your company supports us, your name will appear on our RRMR website at:

http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch

Tomorrow I will try to pull out 1 eBay order, make a video or two, find a way to wash my clothes and finish off work on the eBay Store, all that depending on the weather and the muddy issues.

Good night folks, I better shut everything down for the night due to high winds!

Bobby Fleener

Vice President - OCDAC

General Manager - RRMR

Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog for January 4th, 2016

Monday, January 4th, 2016, 1940 Hrs.

Hello you all and Happy New Year!~

This is my first time to use this blog about RRMR at our temporary land near Lancaster, California. I will be starting to use the blog daily except Sunday and depending on the weather here.

As you are now aware, we have moved our eBay store from Orange County to here near Lancaster. After the Christmas holiday weekend, we moved from there to here. Horrible day, AAA refused to take the trailer from Orange County to here, however, they did accept to take our soon-to-be non-op Astro van to the land. Beth had to rent a truck to tow our trailer to the land. The trailer came loose as she was towing it so I had to meet her to help put the trailer back on and continue towing the trailer to the land as she had to go back to O.C.

On the next morning after I brushed my teeth, a county sheriff deputy came in and knocked on my RV windshield trying to get my attention. Silly!

I came out and spoke with the deputy, who wanted to check us out. I told him that I am deaf and he understood. What a nice guy! I showed him our paperwork with the lease as well our property map. He checked our license plates on both RV and Astrovan and checked my ID and he said we are good to go. WHEW!

Yesterday, we had to move our RV again by towing it with the Astrovan to the spot I wanted, Beth did a fine job by steering the RV which is hard to steer without the motor running. After that she helped set up the solar panel then she had to go back to O.C. when it became dark.

This morning I woke up with a small water leak as it had rained lightly overnight. I found on the roof that there was standing water near the front of the unit, I had to clear that out and clean up a small mess.

I spent an hour and half working on the roof by removing the old roofing seal and replacing it with a new seal where the leaks were and the front end of the rim that was in bad shape. Then I patched up the remaining bits of bad seal all around. It took a ½ gallon of the seal that we bought yesterday. This is really weird because the weather website it said it should be raining on Tuesday, but why is it one day early?

Today is the first day back to work on our eBay store after 1 week of “Vacation Mode”. As you see in the picture below I had to pull out 3 orders from the trailer and put everything back in, wow! It took me an hour!

After I took care of the eBay orders, I went back on the roof to make sure that it’s good. As I was climbing up the ladder on the back of the RV, it didn’t want to hold my weight so I had to use the fiberglass ladder to get up “there”!

For tomorrow’s work, I will try to work on videos and painting if it is not raining.

That’s about it!

Bobby Fleener