Rewarding.....

 7:45 am - Friday - December 26th - TWW - 45° F, humidity 69%, wind 12 mph out of the south.....very cloudy today with a forecast high of 51° F.  The view looking south this morning.....

.....and on this date in 2018 TLE and I were on our return flight to Nashville from SoCal where we spent parts of two days celebrating Christmas with our kids.....

.....the Newell was still in Nashville at the local Elks Lodge.  From there we headed to Cedar Key, FL to celebrate New Year with friends we met early in our full time journey.

After two days of little sun, we got more than expected on Christmas Day.  We had expected to have to run our Predator 5000 for several hours, but with the unexpected appearance of the sun we were able to turn it off around 9 am and let the sun do the rest of the recharging work.  Even with the sun's appearance it was still very blustery, and cold after a night of near torrential rain, and winds in the high 30's, so we didn't spend very much time outside.

I did check on our water catchment efforts and found these results:

The 12 gallon barrel behind the shed had 2, or 3 gallons of rain 

water, which kind of surprised me

The IBC tote on the west side of the greenhouse was about 1/6th full

And the IBC tote on the southeast side of the greenhouse was about 1/5th full

.....seeing that much water after just one storm was very rewarding....that's water we would not have had otherwise, and as they continue to fill (more storms next week) we'll be able to use that water to water the plants in the greenhouse, which, by the way, are thriving now that we can keep it warm at night.  The real test will happen over the next 4-5 days when the overnight lows dip into the mid 20's....BRRR!

There were three NFL games being contested on Christmas Day, with two of them being televised by Netflix....bad idea NFL.  I stopped subscribing to Netflix over a year ago due to the sky high price per month at over $19/month.  Anyway, that wasn't why I thought it was a bad idea for the NFL to give them exclusive rights to those two games.  Their whole presentation was not up to NFL broadcast standards.  It was more pleasant to mute the sound, and just watch the game.  Thankfully, the two games they broadcast were totally uninteresting with none of the four teams involved having a chance to be in the playoffs.  The 3rd game, however, was broadcast by Amazon who does a great job with their Thursday night games, and this weeks edition was no exception.   The Denver Broncos played the K.C. Chiefs  in Kansas City, and while it was closer than I expected (the Chiefs barely compiled over 100 yards of offense running and passing combined) the Broncos controlled the game with time of possession, winning 20-13....it wasn't really that close statistically.  Once again the Broncos won a one score game by coming from behind to score the final 7 points.

Dinner in the house was Taco Thursday prepared by both TLE and Phyllis.  Thank you ladies for another great communal dinner!  Charles and Phyllis will be heading back to Phoenix for 10-12 days before we see them again, so TLE and I will be on our own again.

Thanks for stopping by!