Procrastination games......

7:34 am - Wednesday - January 8th - TWW - 32° F, humidity 50%, wind 15 mph out of the northeast.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 50° F.  On this date in 2016 TLE and I were boondocking in the Anza Borrego Desert near Clark Dry Lake Bed....our good friend, Steven Dempsey, took these pictures the morning after we got slight dusting of snow in the local mountains.....

....Steven has this innate ability, which most great photographers  seem to possess, to capture a scene so that it looks just like it did in real life, if not even more so.  I do it by accident on occasion, but Steven is a true artist, and these pictures are mute testimony to that fact.

We knew Tuesday would be a 'wind event' day, so our plans were to be inside as much as possible.  With the forecast high to be in the 40's, and winds in the 20-25 mph range the wind chill factor would be in play.  An inside project, that I have avoided doing for so long I am a little embarrassed to admit, was to reattach the power strip in the DVR closet over the driver seat to the ceiling.  I had used two sided tape a few years ago to attach it to the ceiling, but the tape failed a couple of years ago.  I reapplied the tape, and it held for another 6 months, but it's been 1.5 years since then and I just let it slide all this time.  My plan then, which never changed, was to utilize 'plumbers tape', and screw it to the ceiling.  My main reason for procrastination on this job was I thought I would need to take the TV down from it mount, to open up the area where the DVR resides, which is a long, boring task.  Upon reexamination Tuesday morning I decided that was not necessary, so the job became much less time consuming.  In the end it took me about an hour to drill the holes, and then form the 'plumbers tape' into a shape that would fit around the power strip....

....upon completion I wondered why I took so long to fix it.

The only other thing I really did Tuesday did take me outdoors for about an hour.  Back when we first got the Predator 5000 I had to change out the the 'fuel' jet for the gasoline application from the 'sea level to 3,000' elevation' one to the one for 3,000-6,000' elevation to adjust for altitude.  It took me a couple of hours to do this as some disassembly is required.  I got it back together, but it wouldn't start on the gasoline setting (this is a dual fuel generator).  It would kind of start, but then die each time.  At any rate, I finally hooked it up to propane, deciding to defer the trouble shooting to another time.  Well, that time was Tuesday.  Why?  Well, I checked the propane level in our 120 gallon propane tank and it was down to 30%.  It's been about a month since we topped off the tank (12/11), and we were told to call for propane delivery when it hits 30%.  They only deliver to the Seligman area on Mondays, so that meant another week.  The generator is the primary user of the propane supply right now, and it went down over 10% in the last week, so I decided we needed to switch to the gasoline option to avoid running too low on propane for our heaters, refrigerator, and water heater.....all important appliances in our household.  That meant I had to solve the problem then, not next week.

I had a feeling that the issue was the cable linkage which opens the fuel bowl port (on the bottom of the carburetor) to allow fuel to flow into it, and then into the carburetor.  after examining the linkage for a while it suddenly became obvious to me that I had reconnected it incorrectly when putting everything back together, because there was too much slack in the cable, making it impossible for the fuel bowl to be filled.  Once I removed, and then reconnected it to the fuel bowl correctly the generator fired right up, and ran like a top (and still is as I write)!  Success!  

After successfully crossing two items off my 'procrastination' list I decided to quit while I was ahead, and spend the rest of the day inside the warm, windless confines of the Newell.  It was the perfect afternoon to catch up on all the YouTube channels to which I am subscribed....I am way, way behind, so even after my viewing binge Tuesday, there is still a lot of unwatched content to view.  Wednesday promises to be another 'wind event' day, so maybe I'll get more viewing done then.

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