Friday afternoon, the parts arrived....and the axle was the wrong one!!! Sooooooo, since our friend John that lives here, also has a bus, same year as ours, Jimmy went and took the axle off of his to put on ours. This, at least, got us to our place in Alto, on the other side of town. Now, he will take it off and replace it on John's bus.
The correct axle arrived today, Wednesday, from New Jersey. They shipped it with the axle sticking out of the box! Crazy, huh? We're suposed to get more snow this weekend, so will be changing the axle tomorrow or the next day, but, at least we're in our comfortable spot with the bus plugged in and running water and the deck to relax on. (We've got it all closed in and my pellet stove heating it, so it may be 27 degrees outside, but it's a toasty 65 to 70, inside!)