A story with pictures (Annie)

So, as you know, we've been working on and in the Duck to get her ready for winter habitation.  Pipes and hoses are insulated, trouble lights are hanging in wet bays, Carrot is growing her winter fur, it's all good.  Next step, put some skirting around the Duck to help keep our bottom warm.  Our floors, too.

After a trip to Lowe's for some foam board insulation, I started measuring, cutting and fitting while Roxi did this...

No glove,  no love

Working with the foam board was pretty darned easy, and it's pliable enough that I could shove and bow it into place, then tape with aluminum tape.

Not bad, eh?

After that was done, Roxi looked at it and said, "Yeesh!  Yuck!  Ugly!  Hate!"  Or words to that effect.  So we started talking about things to put over the blue.  Opaque plastic?  Black plastic?  Hey, how about brown tarp!

It's so nice, let's see it twice

So off we went to Tractor Supply to buy the same color tarp.  We bought enough to go all the way 'round the Duck, though we haven't actually gone all the way 'round the Duck (IF you know what I'm sayin').

We didn't cover the exhaust because we want to exercise the engine, same with the generator (absent on picture day).

Covering the ugly

This is a cat

Once the tarp was covering all of the blue, we weighted it down with rocks, bricks and wood.

Roxi, sportin' wood

Then we called it a day, pleased with ourselves and hoping for some good wind breakage.

Three days later, we had wind.  Boy did we have wind!  Constant 30mph winds with 50+mph gusts.  

What the!

Sonofa...  (it even blew our license plate swirly!)

It's kind of back together now.

On the 15th, our local propane and propane accessories company came out to deliver this.  

Screw it, I'm turning up the furnace!