Vulcan mind meld.....

 7:29 am - Thursday - December 11th - TWW - 35° F, humidity 38%, wind 3 mph out of the east by southeast....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 69° F.  On this date in 2012 We were having our last lunch before our last Amazon shift....

....in Campbellsville, KY....what a great group!  Spending time with these folks at breaks, and lunch made the whole experience more bearable.

My back was still bothering me first thing Wednesday, but by 10 am it began to loosen up, so I got dressed, and headed out to the greenhouse to help Charles set up the new diesel heater he bought to keep the greenhouse interior above freezing at overnight.  We chose this heater because it can be set to automatically start heating at a given temperature, and then shut off when it reaches 7° F above that set temperature.  It was not very intuitive, but by combining both of our brains we managed to figure it out....lol.....

The diesel heater installed

The exhaust pipe routed outside 

Air intake

The hot air duct

.....we set it up on the west side of the greenhouse where it was easy to vent the exhaust.  In all we sent over 2 hours putting it together, and then learning how to program it....the later part was no where close to intuitive, but we ultimately prevailed by using the Vulcan mind meld technic....lol!

After a long break I spent time starting up Phyllis' Newell, and releveling it.  I was pleased that the chassis batteries had held their charge, and was able to start it on the first try.  The back, just like ours, tends to settle down over time, so I used the same method we used on ours at Likely by placing two 3 ton jack stands under the frame at the rear of the coach.  We'll see how that works out over time.  Next it was time to run our Newell for a while to relevel it after a few weeks.  The big Detroit Diesel 6v92 started on the first try.  The PSI in the two air tanks was still over 100 PSI after several weeks, which is good considering how cold it has been until recently

TLE made her famous Chicken Marsala (with a side salad) for our community dinner, which was served around 4:30 pm.  It was delicious, of course!  After dinner I went outside to check on the diesel heater setup, and saw that we were about to have a nice sunset, so I quickly rallied everyone out to the 'sunset fire deck', hauled out our camp chairs, and started a fire.....

A cloudless sunset

I love how those contrails look like they're on 

fire as the jets fly into the sunset

....we (FINALLY) had our first sunset fire of the winter, and it was a perfect, lovely, balmy evening to do so.  We have enough firewood set aside to last us this Winter, and the next, and maybe one more after that.  We sat enjoying a little Frank Sinatra, sipping wine, and talking until well after 6 pm.

It's pretty rare to find one amazing place to spend 1/2 the year at such as LPG&RVR, but to find two enchanting places in one lifetime is amazing.  We love being here at TWW!  It's as if there is no one in the world but us.

By the way, our house batteries have returned to 100% charge every day since we returned from Thanksgiving in Phoenix....life it good!

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