Getting stuff done....

 8:23 am - Friday - November 7th - TWW - 45° F, humidity 24%, wind 2 mph out of the east....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 70° F.  On this date in 2014 TLE and I were taking a walk around Sparks Marina Lake in Sparks, NV.....

....we were working at Amazon in Fernley, NV, about 30 miles to the east, but living at Sparks Marine RV Park in Sparks.  The entire development used to be a giant rock quarry.

Our daily goal here at TWW is to accomplish something every day, and after 8 days I can say we have been true to that desire, including Thursday.  Right after posting my latest missive, I headed over to the garage to retrieve my Honda 2000eu generator, and a battery charger to hookup to the Ford tractor battery.  After sitting for 6 months the battery, surprisingly, was not too low, but needed about an hour of charge to get it where it would turn the diesel engine over quickly enough to start.  My goal was to move it over to the CONEX so I could air up the tires, and have it close to tools when we work on the coolant leak.  After less than an hour the battery had enough voltage to spin the diesel, and it started right up on the first attempt.  As I always say, "those old diesel engines are quite resilient", and they are.  Within minutes I had parked the Ford tractor near the CONEX.  Later in the afternoon I fired up our 150 PSI air compressor (bought it last winter off Facebook Market Place), and aired up three of the four tires.....

....while I was thus occupied, TLE was watering her potatoes and onions at the greenhouse.  I moved both side by sides (Yamaha and Cushman) over near the greenhouse so she could spray 6 months of environmental grime off the windshields and bodies after she was done watering.

After a short snack break TLE and I tackled the main task of the day....the installation of a new sail shade awning Phyllis bought for the wood deck on the house.  It is a 12' x 12' sail....much larger than the 6' x 8' sail we installed last winter.  We had to moved the two 10' long 4" x 4" posts closer together, and using TLE's great suggestions, we were able to install it without using any ropes....

.....I'm finding, quite often lately, that TLE has really great ideas for outdoor stuff like this.  I get stuck with a certain solution in my mind which isn't working, but she thinks outside the box more than I do, and can see it from a different perspective. At first I was skeptical, but in the end it was the perfect solution, and now we don't have to worry about adjusting the ropes as they stretch over time.  This 12' x 12' sail provides much more shade, obviously.  Oh, and I almost forgot, while we were installing the new sail TLE was running a load of wash through the washer and dryer in the house (NO more laundromats for us).

By the time we finished installing the sail, and putting our tools away it was around 2 pm, and since we had accomplished what we set out to do called a day, workwise.  I spent a couple of hour outside on the 'lido deck' reading, and napping before it got too chilly in the shade.

TLE prepared Beef Barley soup for dinner....she makes the best Beef Barley soup!  We watched recordings of 'Survivor' and 'Amazing Race', and then the end of the Thursday Night Football matchup between the hapless Raiders (2-7) and the now 8-2 Broncos.  With the latest come from behind win the Broncos now have the best record in the NFL after 10 games.....I never saw that coming.

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