Adventures with Aurelie

The screen on the larger window has given us no end of torment as we spent hours trying to get it to fit the window correctly and stay in the window frame . My dad had stabbed himself with a flat-blade screwdriver before we finished for the day. We had finally managed to get the screen back in correctly. The next morning we went out to start work and the screen had popped out overnight. I called the company for the window who told me this was not an uncommon issue. They would send more clips. Our next step was using Steel Stik (some very cool stuff) to basically cement the clips we had in their place in the screen. Once we let it set and tried again, all the clips stayed in place! But the screen was warped and there are gaps around the edges where it doesn't quite fit in. Once the extra clips come in we will try adding extra clips to see if that will help. The good news is that that window passed its leak test with flying colors! The exciting news is that after failing its leak tes...

Of all things, the windows were holding me back. To start on the van, the windows and roof fan have to go in first. To install them you have to cut holes in the metal of the van and that creates a lot of tiny metal particles that must be immediately and meticulously cleaned before they start to create rust wherever they land on the van. I ordered windows from the place that supposedly had the shortest wait time (everywhere was back-ordered to some degree). My first window arrived at the gate one afternoon. The second window was supposed to arrive at a warehouse in Denver right before I left to return to Texas for a month. The date came, and I called the warehouse before I made the 3 hour drive to Denver. The window was not in. The new eta was April 24th. I would be in Texas, but my sister offered to pick it up for me. On the 27th I called again before sending my sister over. The window was still not in.  ... Was there a new eta? Yes. August sometime. The woman who took my call pro...