Aren't broken mirrors bad luck....

Did I mention that our full length mirror fell off of the wall in the motorhome while I was driving out in Arizona....?  I was just going across town from the storage lot to the Valle del Oro campground at city speeds, when KaBooom there was this gigantic crash back in the back somewhere......

The mirror seems to be glass, in a fake wooden frame that was angle clipped together at the corners...  The factory had put a bunch of liquid nails on the back of the frame and then shot a few nails in the corners of the frame into the wall......

Of course camper walls are only about an 1/8 inch thick of wood and then styrofoam like a beer cooler....  Every now and then there is an aluminum girder that is cut into the foam which is then sandwich glued onto the outside fiberglass...   It's barely a half inch thick or maybe 5/8ths.

It amazes me that the brad nails that were in the wall didn't come out of the fiberglass on the outside.....   Of course the glue had dried out in the extreme desert heat and became hard like a rock..... Giving up its adhesive properties in the process....

Somehow the frame was split as it hit the floor but the actual glass in the mirror didn't break....    So now what do we do?

That was the question I posed to Larry, my son Chris' neighbor this morning.... He is a wood worker hobbiest.  He does projects for folks, for pay anyway...  We went over to the motorhome where it is stored and looked over the situation together...

Loyce had the mirror and its broken frame in the back of the clothes closet and under a bunch of other stuff that has accumulated there.......  The extra chairs for the dinette and some kitchen electrics which we carry in their original boxes....

Mostly we decided to see if there is frame material available in the right size and he will make another frame..  This guy is a dynamic wood worker on furniture and hobby items, like a complete wooden trash bin, that Chris has in his kitchen...  Just a gift from Larry, because he is retired and needs somewhere for this stuff to go......

But then, I came home and worried that I really shouldn't have gone over there and asked him to help me......  But he seemed OK with it....

With the cooler weather, the grass has begun to come back up thru the brown dead parts and get high in places....  For a minute there, I thought it might cause me to have to mow it.......   But I got over that feeling and came inside and ignored it.....

Tomorrow is Romeo Riders again and they want to go quite a ways into Southern Missouri, so I need to park this keyboard and go get some sleep....  Have a good day..

Retired Rod