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How-To Clean The Ice Machine

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Today, we are cleaning our ice machine! Since we’ve had it for a while now and used it a lot, we noticed that it had started to get really dirty. Not sure if it was stuff from the air or if stuff had started growing in the machine from the water.

Anyway, we had to take it apart. We took many different approaches, but must of them didn’t end up working. In the end we finally figured it out and it was actually simpler than expected. The longest part was trying to take the machine apart, since we didn’t exactly know what we were doing.

But, all in all, we got it apart and it was dirtier than we expected! We used vinegar water to clean it because we didn’t want to use soap, just in case some soap got left behind. Who would want to use soapy ice? NOT ME!

Then we had to put it all back together which was rather quick! For safe measures we ran some vinegar water through the machine to get any dirt or potential mold out of the pipes. Took about 3 to 4 batches of ice to get ride of all the vinegar water, but we did and now the ice machine looks and acts brand new!

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HOW-TO RV Cutting Board Stove Topper

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Today, we are creating our own stove cover, a cutting board stove cover! We decided to remove our original one since when we put things like our instant pot on top of it, the cover would bend. So we bought a bamboo cutting board that was made to slide into cabinet. BUT, we gave it a different purpose. It was a fairly simple build and a better stove topper. We use it for cutting our vegetables on too! This was really simple and made things easier on us who work in the kitchen.

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Stokes State Park New Jersey

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Today we are visiting Stokes State Park in New Jersey! This park had free artisan water and some hiking trails, I think. The trees were amazing! They twisted and turned and grew out of each other, it was like something you would see in a movie! It was an amazing trip and definitely worth it!

Stokes State Park
1 Coursen Rd.
Branchville, NJ 07826
GPS coordinates: 41.185348, -74.796163

 

Southern Loop – Yellowstone National Park

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Today we are visiting the Yellow Stone National Park Southern Loop. This loop contains Old Faithful, Gibbon Falls and other cool things. The southern loop is probably my favorite part of Yellowstone. It has a lot of waterfalls and trails as well. It is very beautiful like the rest of the park.

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Watkins Glen Sate Park

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Today, we are visiting Watkins Glen State Park! It’s a gorge FULL of natural waterfalls. You take a long trail to see all these waterfalls, its a mild/rough rating and some parts of the trails are slick due to water from the waterfalls splashing on the trail. You can walk behind some of these waterfalls, which is super cool! Definitely great for taking those aesthetic pictures for Instagram, am I right? LOL! This place was really beautiful and definitely worth visiting, one of the best parts is that it is FREE! That’s right, it’s free entry! I recommend you visit if you can!

Watkins Glen Sate Park
1009 N Franklin St.
Watkins Glen, NY 14891
https://parks.ny.gov/parks/142/
GPS coordinates: 42.375958, -76.871255

 

How-To Rebuild RV Bed

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Today, we are taking out the jack-knife couch bed and building a new bed! We decided that Addie needed a better bed and we also wanted some more storage in that back room, so we made the best of both worlds. We used parts from the bed that went underneath the jack-knife couch for the new bed. The new bed was raised 12 inches off the floor, so we could slide totes underneath Addie’s new bed. It was a fairly quick building process for us, and we really like it! How we did it is in the video!

 

Empty Sky 911 Memorial

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Today, we are visiting the Empty Sky 9/11 Memorial. This memorial was two long steel walls with names written on them. The names were the people who had connections with New Jersey who died when the Twin Towers came down. It had two metal beams that actually came from the fallen towers. This place was right across the river from New York City. It was very beautiful and we enjoyed our time there.

Empty Sky Memorial
1 Audrey Zapp Dr.
Jersey City, NJ 07305
GPS coordinates: 40.708199, -74.034564

 

Trying Sarsaparilla For The First Time

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This video is from 2018 and we try a sarsaparilla drink for the first time.

Spoiler alert… it tastes very close to root beer.

 

Picking Fresh Apples In New Jersey

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Today, we are picking FRESH apples from an apple tree farm! Some of the apples were very perfect and then others weren’t so much, some of them were rotted, so we had to be careful on what we picked! Some of the trees were tiny but others were big, so some of them we had to climb or shake to get the apples off of. BUT, all in all, we had an amazing time and will do it again some day!

Hillcrest Orchard & Dairy
2 Davis Rd.
Branchville, NJ 07826
GPS coordinates: 41.166381, -74.682040
https://hillcrestfarmnj.com/

 

Tom Wahl’s Fast Food Restaurant Review

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The food here was not the best, but it was okay. The people seemed friendly. I would give it a 2 out of 5, I don’t recommend it though. – Amber

https://www.tomwahls.com/