Watch the Rincon sun come up, and then gown down.....repeat 8 times

Thursday was the 8th day since we arrived at the Rincon.....we hadn't been into town since Sunday with my brother and sister-in-law....and the VW had not moved an inch since the prior Friday.  Life on the Rincon takes on a sort of preferred monotony.....the sun comes up, the sun goes down.....in between you take walks, you ride your bike, you read, you nap and all of that with very little human interaction outside of that with your spouse.....like I said, a preferred monotony.  You look forward to that flash of sunlight through your front windshield at 0720 hours ......the chilliness you felt just before that flash of sunlight is once again vanquished for another day, and you know this will be another t-shirt, shorts and flip flops Rincon day.  The days of low highs and very low lows are gone......the high each day on the Rincon is about 70-75, and the low is 55-60........there were a few weeks when we didn't see a high over 60, and often not over 50.  I was telling TLE last night (Thursday) that I have been sleeping like the dead every night....it must be the ocean air all day long, and the sound of the waves at night.

When we arrived at the Rincon last Thursday we paid for one week, not being sure whether we would leave the 21st, or the 22nd to head for Riverside, CA.  Thursday we made the decision to leave the 21st (Saturday), so I went down to the 'Iron Ranger' and paid for two more nights, which comes to 9 nights and 10 days on Rincon Parkway......seems much longer to me.....in a good way.

Around 1000 I took my daily 10 mile bike ride down to Emma Woods State Beach and back, then joined TLE on the 'patio' to read, and nap.....not necessarily in that order.  As we relaxed we noticed the Rincon was beginning to fill up much faster than when we arrived one week ago.  Last Thursday at noon there were 30-40 sites still vacant.  By noon this Thursday that number was down to less than a dozen, and this morning maybe a handful of sites are left to be snagged by some lucky people.

Around 1300 hours we headed into Ventura to shop at the Von's......I wanted to grill filet mignons Thursday night, and there is always something TLE needs......we were back just before 1400.

TLE decided to try a feature on her iPhone 6 she had not accessed previously.....time lapse photography.....I'm a little jealous as my Samsung Galaxy Note does not offer this......below is what our Rincon sunset #8 looked like in time lapse format.......

Time lapse video courtesy TLE of our 8th Rincon Sunset

.....below are my meager one dimensional representations of the same event.......

Of course, Thursday night is also TNF (Thursday Night Football), so while I grilled our filet mignons, I enjoyed the beginning of the game, and the long, long sunset afterglow......

.....we continued watching the football game over dinner....the game ended just about 2030 hours, and we then switched over to watch 'Blacklist' (which was recording while the game was on), then 'Bones', and finally 'Elementary' before retiring for the evening once agin.

We reached 100% charge on our house batteries for the 5th consecutive day Thursday just before 1400 hours.....we were only down to 88% when I got up Thursday, so that was a recovery of 12%.  The day before we started the day at 87% and recovered back to 100%.  This morning as I write we only went down to 90% overnight, so we will, undoubtedly, get back to 100% again today.  This is working soooo good I am trying to figure out how to squeeze in one more 160 watt panel on the roof.....I think I can make it work....we'll see.

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