Drying out....

 7:52 am - Saturday - February 15th - TWW - 32° F, humidity 92%, wind 5 mph out of the northeast.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 52° F.  On this date in 2013 TLE and I were on Marathon Key in the Florida Keys riding our bicycles.....

.....the sunny, cloudless view this morning.....

The rain fell until around 5:30 am Friday morning, and thus began the 'drying out' phase from our winter storm.  The cloud cover was still very thick, and stretched from horizon to horizon.  We ran our Predator 5000 generator for many hours Thursday to maintain our two battery banks, so we were hoping to see some blue sky break through that seemingly impenetrable cloud cover.  Meanwhile the steady hum of the generator could be heard in the background.  Most days now we don't even run the generator first thing in the morning anymore, and our batteries still get to 100%.  It's nice to sit looking out the driver side salon window with no sound, but we're not there yet.  We still need to turn on our three Suburban gas furnaces to transform the Newell interior from a space that is only suitable for hanging meat to one that is hospitable to human life.  It takes about an hour before we can begin turning off one heater at a time, and get back to the 'QUIET' we so enjoy.

After being cooped up inside the Newell for the second time in as many weeks I had to get out and do 'something'.  I decided to use the time to service our two Stihl chainsaws.  While the chains on each are pretty new, and still pretty sharp, a little work with a chain file never hurts anything, plus I needed to work on my chain sharpening skills.  I think I spent the better part of two hours working on the chainsaws before putting things away, and heading back into the warm Newell interior.

I passed the afternoon watching Round 2 of the Genesis Open being held at Torrey Pines (San Diego) this year.  Normally, this tournament would have been held at Riviera Country Club in L.A., but due to the fires in January it had to be moved.  It's nice to have golf back on TV again.  Frankly, I miss playing golf, and I miss putting, but I intentionally left my clubs at LPG&RVR knowing I would not have time this winter to play.  Being able to watch golf alleviates some of the angst.

We're back into a warming trend over the next two weeks where we'll see daytime temps consistently in the 60's, and even into the 70's for a few days.....nice!  I had to hook the Honda E2000i up to the trailer Bluetti AC200P battery for a couple of hours as it was down to 14% after two days of heavy cloud cover.  That's only the second time since I plugged that Bluetti into the trailer that I've had to do that.  I don't foresee that being necessary for the rest of the February based on the forecast.  We did get quite a bit of sun later in the morning, and all of our battery banks arrived back at the desired 100% state of charge.

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