Rain forest, or high desert?

 8:07 am - Saturday - November 22nd - TWW - 46° F, humidity 55%, wind 12 mph out of the east by southeast.....some blue sky today, but still very cloudy with a forecast high of 55° F.  On this date in 2022 TLE and I were living at Glamis North Hot Springs, and running the side by side rental operation for Colorado Outback Adventures.  It was the day before Thanksgiving, and my son and his wife, Rochelle, would be arriving at Ocotillo Wells (opposite site of the Salton Sea) for their annual Thanksgiving bash with friends and family, so we decided to drive around the Salton Sea to spend a few hours with them....

.....we had rentals to tend to on Thanksgiving day, so we couldn't spend Thanksgiving with them....we've hooked up with them several times over the years in the desert, and if we know they are close we always make an effort to do so.

We are currently in the longest wet streak we have seen in our one plus winters here at TWW.  It rained here (TWW) several times while we were in SoCal, and has rained every day since we returned this past Tuesday, except for Wednesday.  True to form it rained on and off most of Friday.  It is beginning to feel like we live in a rain forest, not the Northern Arizona high desert.

I did manage to get a few things done before the first rain hit, and one of them was to get the Champion 7,500 kw generator started, and running again.  The battery had been charging overnight, so first thing Friday I walked over to the battery room where the genset is stored.  It took a little bit, but she fired up, and ran quite well.

Next I checked the coolant level in the Ford diesel tractor, which is parked by the CONEX right now, and found it had not gone down overnight (a good sign), so I started her up again, and let her run for about 10 minutes to see if there were any coolant leaks, and there were NONE!  Back in business baby!

While I was over at the CONEX I decided to start up the 1969 Chevrolet C-50 and move her around the property a little.  It's still too muddy to do much driving so I didn't push my luck.  Hopefully we'll get some sun and wind to dry out the roads a little so I can scrape them smooth again with the Ford tractor.

Once that was done I moved the Champion 7,500 kw genset over to the garage interior for the duration of the winter, and then the rain began to come down....and with that my work day was finished.  I returned to the dry, warm confines of the Newell for the balance of the day, and spent time reading, and napping.  The rains came and went all afternoon, but finally abated early evening.  Will we get through one single day without rain on Saturday?  Stay tuned!

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