Putting The Canopy Over The Fifth Wheel

 We moved up onto Kelpie Kapers Farm in January. At the time, we just wanted to get out of the RV park and up here, especially after going through that flood. We decided that we wouldn't put the awning up over the trailer at that time and would wait until summer instead. Well, summer came and went and a few weeks ago, I put my foot down and told Bob that I was tired of looking at the stuff lying around and it needed to go up. STAT. He availed to his friend, Frank, to come up and help. They got this up within a day and a half. Not bad for two old guys, if you ask me.

They made excellent progress yesterday. They got the frame up and 8 out of 10 of the cross-pieces in place.

They left the very end pieces for this morning after one slipped yesterday. No harm, no foul.

This awning is 13 feet high in the center.

Poor guys. They were up the ladders. They were down the ladders. Ugh! They had a ladder on the deck.They had a ladder in the back of my truck.

Here's Bob putting in the final screws.

Frank is up the ladder.

We have a small walkway between the trailer and the deck. I asked Bob to shove it up as close to the deck as he could, so he put it right there up on it.

I now have my full deck. There's no more sheets of canopy roofing on it! Next up is Bob getting the hot tub wired in.

As soon as the last roof panel was put up, I could feel an immediate drop in the temperature inside.

And we're able to fully open our outdoor kitchen hatch up.