Scott D. McLean, MD

Hey. Sorry I haven’t been around for a few days. You know how it is when you’re under the weather? Even a 2023 Ford Transit Trail can come down with something.

This time it’s the water system. I bet you were thinking the problem would have been the electrical system. I know! Again!!!? That would be logical, but what about this world is logical these days?

Yep, it must have been those negative Fahrenheit days in Alberta and Montana, and then in Jackson Hole I asked for some simple 110 Volt power for the chilly nights, what you humans might call a thin sheet, not even flannel. Didn’t get it. Too cold to shiver. We trudged on to Park City where a warm snow and temps in the 40’s inspired my humans to try to turn on the spigot inside. I guess they were thirsty or were tired of looking at the stack of dirty dishes.

So they flipped the power on to the water pump and listened for the slurp slurp slurp of the mechanism and instead got yanga dowah yayaya and Scott went aft to see what the engineering section had to say and whoa there was some inundation in the pumphouse. We called the Mobile RV Doctor who sent out two wizards in about half and hour. They were driving a (you guessed it) Ford Transit! Electric! I felt reassured right away.

Yes, the pump was busted from expansion of the agua that split the bottom, so when the pump came on it pumped volumes of water into the garage under the bed. They fixed that with a new pump, then fired that bad boy up and found a leak in the outdoor shower. Not gonna use that for many months, so they capped it off. Tried to run the pump again and oh my gosh just a trickle. What the heck of all heckles? Yeah, you are so right – another busted line, this one to the shower. Sealed that off. Now we have running water. No hot water. That tank is cold as a Republican’s sense of humor, another victim of the Wyoming cold brew that made me so tipsy.

So I used up all the Kleenex and had to resort to a random remnant of a toilet paper roll. It’s not demeaning when your water lines are weeping with the ague. I need some 88 octane to tide me over. Maybe it was the fluoride in the water that made me so susceptible? Yah. I think next season we are blowing out the water lines and tanks from November until April.

Another lesson learned.

Got any Kleenex?