Cliffhanger warning.....

 7:52 am - Sunday - January 19th - TWW  - 19° F, humidity 32%, wind 7 mph out of the southeast....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies (again) today with a forecast high of 51° F.  On this date in 2016 Steven Dempsey took the picture that I have been using since then as the masthead for my daily blog.  We were boondocking at Quartzite with he, and his wife Linda (met them both while working at Cape Blanco Lighthouse back in 2014), as well as Michael Vaccari (met at Amazon in 2012).....

Charles and Phyllis have been going through a lot of wood keeping the house warm when they are here, and we do what we can do to help them restock their wood supply, so Saturday was a good day to do that, since they had just left to return south to Phoenix.  We haven't cut wood for a while, and it was time to pull out the chainsaws, and make a lot of noise, and sawdust.....lol!  TLE loves that 6" handheld, cordless chainsaw I bought off Amazon recently, and it really does a good job on smaller stuff that we've been using the larger chainsaws to cut.  Ever since we cut down that dead tree which was blocking the early morning sun from our new solar array we've been nibbling at the stacks of dry wood, periodically, to refill the wood box on the house deck.....

Phyllis....you've got plenty of wood for your next stay!

....we worked at that for about 90 minutes, and managed to cut and split enough wood for their next stay.

An issue I've been wrestling with since we arrived is keeping the water bay above freezing.  As a reminder, all of our water.....fresh, gray and black, is in this one large 'water bay'.  We have three ways of heating that insulated water bay....1) an electric heater, 2) one of our Suburban gas furnaces, and 3) a chassis heater which runs off the hot coolant being circulated through the heat exchanger.  We use the electric heater early in the season at Likely Place Golf and RV Resort  when the overnight temps dip consistently into the 20's, and since we are plugged into a 50 amp outlet, it is an easy choice, but electric heaters are the death of off grid battery systems like ours.  They draw around 1 kilowatt per hour, and within a few hours our Bluetti battery bank would be at ZERO, so that is not useful.  The Suburban gas furnace which provided heated air to the water bay runs off 12 volt, and propane, and while it doesn't use a lot of propane, even with the new motor, it is still too loud to run at night, and would drain down our house batteries to an undesirable level overnight.  It does cycle off every 15 minutes, but comes on again within minutes, so that is not a practical solution either.  The chassis heater is not a solution as it only works when we are running down the road to our next destination, but we have used it on numerous occasions in the past, and it works well.

Back when we had a sailboat (26' Columbia) which we kept moored down in Long Beach, CA we always left an incandescent light bulb running in the cabin when we weren't there to keep the interior humidity down, and it worked well.  With this in mind I decided to run an electric cord down into the water bay from the Kitchen to power a lightbulb during the night to see if that would keep the overnight temperature well above freezing.  It only draws around 30-40 watts an hour, so would be well within the capacity of our Bluetti battery bank.....

.....so, during the afternoon I pulled out the pan drawer under the stove, cut a hole in the floor using a 1.25" hole saw into the water bay, and ran a cord from the outlet under the sink into the water bay (there are no electrical outlets in the water bay).  So, what were the results?  Well, when we went to bed the temperature in the water bay was 47° F, which is pretty typical.  Usually on a cold night the water bay temp will get down to the low 30's, but on this night, with the light bulb, it only went down to 41° F......NICE!  It got down to 19° F overnight, so that is a big improvement, and it was a good test of my, now proven, theory.

And that was pretty much our day.  We didn't begin cutting wood until almost 11 am, and I was done with my light bulb project by 3:45 pm....time for dinner!  I did a lot of other small stuff Saturday, besides the two things I've just written about, and at some point in the near future I'll write about that, but for now I'm still working out a solution for another issue.....nothing to do with TLE, nor I, but something which needs a long term solution.  So, I'll leave you with that cliff hanger, and bid you adieu until the morrow.

Thanks for stopping by!

A productive day......

 7:34 am - Saturday - January 18th - TWW - 26° F, humidity 43%, wind 4 mph out of the southeast.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 50° F.  On this date in 2013 TLE and I were having lunch at Ken's Seaside Diner....a 50's kind of place....

.....like I said....I love sitting across from this gorgeous woman, and that captivating smile!

Usually I avoid being outdoors before 10 am, but I had a lot to do on Friday, and could not afford to burn any daylight, so I was dressed, and out the door by 9 am.  My first task of the day was to assemble the solar panel brackets which would enable us to place our two 325 watt panels on the ground, and no longer have them on tables, leaning against the cedar shed, and the back of Phyllis' Newell.  Those triangles are not too intuitive, at least not for me.  It took me several attempts to put them together in a configuration which suited the 325 watt panels.....

.....I fully expected this task to take an hour, or so, but by the time I finished attaching the brackets to the two solar panels, then screwing them onto four 4" x 4" x 4' posts it was after 11 am.....lol!  The Hockwald way rears its uncomely head once again.  Anyway, now they are both together in the same place, and will get the sun earlier in the day.  The one that was leaning against the back of the Newell did not get any sunlight until after 10 am, while the one leaning against the cedar shed had sun before 9 am.

Next up I needed to turn my attention back to our house water pump.  You will recall that over a month ago I removed the 13 year old ShurFlo water pump (rated 45 PSI), and installed the brand new SeaFlo water pump (rated 60 PSI).  The old pump was just not generating enough water pressure for our Gerard tankless water heater to work properly.  The issue with the new pump was that if the house batteries (it is a 12 volt pump) were at 100% the pump would continually surge, which the tankless water heater also did not like.  Eventually, about a week ago I finally surrendered, and reinstalled the older ShurFLo, which I almost immediately regretted, because it was impossible to get the water in the shower over 100° F, which means you're taking a barely above lukewarm shower.  After taking my first lukewarm shower I immediately ordered a brand new ShurFlo pump.....

......it is rated at 3 GPM (gallons per minute) at 55 PSI.  The SeaFlo pump was rated at 5.5 GPM at 60 PSI....too many gallons per minute.  It took me over an hour to switch out the pumps, but the result was well worth the time!  The new pump is 1/2 the size of the SeaFlo pump, so is a better fit in the space allocated for the water pump, but the main difference is that I was able to take a shower with the temp remaining constantly at 106° F.....a nice HOT shower!

Just as I was putting away my tools from the water pump project Charles suggested we try and start the Ford tractor.  I had the Honda EU2000i generator powering the battery charger for several hours prior to this while I worked on the first two projects, and by the time we headed over to fire up the Ford tractor the battery was at 13.5 volts....pretty much fully charged.  I switched the setting on the charger to 50 amp quick start, sprayed a little ether in the air intake housing, and she fired right up!  So, for the first time since we arrived 3 months ago the tractor was running, and I was moving it over to the area by our IBC water tote.....

....frankly guys and gals, she runs, and functions like a charm!  I parked her between the Newell and the water tote, so we can work on 'reinflating' that left, rear tire.  Once that is done I will begin the leveling work on our permanent site.  I cannot believe we're finally to the point where we can begin to think about moving the coach to a spot where we'll get better sun on our rooftop solar panels, for longer periods during the day.  I'll spend some time today putting grease into all the grease fittings on the tractor, and, hopefully, by Thursday we'll be working on the new RV site pad!

By 3 pm the temp had dropped from the 53° F high of the day to under 50°, and it was time to head indoors, take that wonderfully hot aforementioned shower, and get ready for dinner.....

....Phyllis prepared a very flavorful turkey soup, and coleslaw for dinner.....good conversation and vino were had by all.

Thanks for stopping by!

Lumberjack TLE.....

 7:19 am - Friday - January 17th - TWW - 29° F, humidity 54%, wind 5 mph out of the south.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 53° F.  On this date in 2017 my youngest daughter, Sharon, was married to Rod.....love this picture of our five children.....

.....left to right: Meredith, Kate, Sharon, Chris and Tim.

It has been a while since TLE and I have cut, or split wood and Thursday morning seemed like the perfect time to refill the wood box on the deck, and resupply our wood pile at the 'sunset deck' firepit.  As you will recall we had cut up a lot of dry wood a couple weeks ago, and piled it next to the house to be cut into smaller length pieces so we could then split it...

.....TLE likes to operate the hydraulic wood splitter, and she does a great job!  We split all the wood that would fit in the wood splitter, then I fired up the 16" Stihl chainsaw to cut the rest of of the logs into shorter versions of themselves, followed by more splitting.

After that we took time to refill our fresh water tank from our IBC water tote.  We were down to 65 gallons out of 150, which is really plenty of water for another couple of days, but the lower the water level gets the longer it takes to refill, so we choose to refill it when it gets below 80 gallons.  We were still filling the tank when Charles and Phyllis arrived for another 3 day sojourn here at TWW.

With them they brought a half dozen boxes full of stuff we had ordered off eBay and Amazon.  I've taken to using eBay more often as their sellers use USPS more often than not, which makes it easier to get things delivered to our PO Box in Seligman.  Amazon seller use UPS Post, not USPS, for addresses utilizing a PO Box, and about half the time there is a delivery issue.  The most recent was that UPS said 'I' refused delivery, and returned the package to Amazon.  The post office does not refuse deliveries on my behalf, and I certainly did not refuse delivery....they just put a note in my PO Box that I have a package.  I think some at the Kingman, AZ UPS depot didn't want to deliver a small package (it was a 6" x 6" wall calendar) all the way to Seligman (an hour and a half drive) so they returned it using the excuse I had refused delivery.  The other issue with Amazon, is that many of their sellers will not ship anything to a PO Box....why I don't know.  Well, their loss is eBay's gain, right?

Anyway, we received the solar panel racks upon which I will mount the two 325 watt panels we own so they no longer have to sit on tables, and be leaned against the cedar shed, and the back of Phyllis' Newell, a small, 6" , cordless, handheld chainsaw, a new ShurFlo water pump, the new Victron charger controller, and a couple of things for TLE.

We didn't start splitting wood until almost 11 am as it was too cold to do anything outside until then, so by the time I opened all the boxes, and played around with the cordless chainsaw it was getting close to dinner time.  With all the deliveries I'll be busy with projects for the near future.

We had a subtle sunset, but no fire....very, very cold at 5:46 pm.  Before you know it the sun will be setting after 6 pm again.  Time marches on....

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Busy work.....

 7:54 am - Thursday - January 16th - TWW - 25° F, humidity 33%, wind 9 mph out of the east by southeast.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 56° F.  On this date in 2016 TLE and I were boondocking near Quartzite, AZ with friends.....Steven Dempsey (friend) took this drone shot of our encampment.....

....they say a million people boondock in and around Quartzite during the winter, but the area is so large that you can always find a place with very few people, just like we did.  We're probably about 1 mile off Interstate 10.

I've said this before, and I'll say it again.  I love spending the winter where I can do what I want to do, when I want to do it, in the way I wish to do it.  After two consecutive years working the side by side rental operation at Glamis North Hot Springs we were both missing the quiet solitude of boondocking in the middle of no where.  We never feel freer and more independent than when we are doing what we are doing now.  Even though we are spending the winter on a property with a house, barn, and garage, it is completely off grid.  We are completely reliant upon ourselves to generate the electricity to power our Newell's 12 volt and 120 VAC systems.  We're not paying anyone for utilities, except for the propane delivery every 4-6 weeks, or hauling water to the property.  However, no matter where we boondock we will need to buy propane eventually, and need to acquire water.  The water is so inexpensive it is almost free, and while we are using a lot of propane, we are paying the lowest price per gallon we've paid in years, so our expenses are minimal compared to living in a sticks and bricks home.

We've been making steady improvements to the property as time permits, and have a lot more planned over the final three months of our stay here at TWW*.  As of this coming Monday we will have been here three months, and still have 3 more months before we return to Likely Place Golf and RV Resort for the summer.  By the time we leave here in late April we will have been living off the grid for 6 months...amazing!

As I look out the window over my desk I see the Eco-Worthy Dual Axis solar tracker has tilted to face the rising sun at 8:16 am....that's 4 minutes faster than normal.....the sun is, indeed, getting higher in the sky.  With each passing day now our solar array will begin recharging our Bluetti battery bank earlier and earlier, and later and later into the day.  The need for running a generator decreases by the day.

There were a lot of little things I wanted to get done Wednesday, and one of them was to deploy some of our solar fairy lights.  I've been remiss in doing so for the three months we've been on site.  I have 7 strings of these solar powered led lights, and managed to get three of them deployed in one of the juniper trees on the driver side of the Newell.....  

....with TLE's assistance I added some insulation to the ceiling in the cedar shed, and will continue to add insulation, as time permits, over the next week, or so.....

....other than those two projects I spent most of my day doing what I would call 'maintenance stuff'.  I started the Jeep again, and it was easier. I'm going to try to start it several times a week as long as it is cold to keep it ready to use.

I also moved our Honda EU2000i generator over to the Ford tractor to charge up the battery, so we can start it, and work on filling the right rear tire with water and antifreeze so we can begin to use it to level our permanent site by the trailer.  It took about 90 minutes to get it to 95%, and I think that will be good enough for now....

I don't remember ever posting a picture of the tractor (loader bucket and gannon)

....we hope to get it started and moved this weekend.  I also started, and ran the onboard diesel generator in Phyliss' Newell, and found it was also much easier to start after only sitting for one day.

The CONEX has needed rearranging for a while now.  In order to use the band saw I needed to move it out of its cubbyhole in the left rear corner of the CONEX to an area about 4 feet from the right rear corner where the cord can still reach the electrical outlet, and can be more easily accessed....

New location

Where the bandsaw used to be

.....finally I backed the Jeep CJ5 up to where the rollup door barely misses the spare tire,  so I could set up a table in front of it upon which to set tools, parts, etc. when I'm working on the Jeep, but still back it out of the garage when needed....

.....by the time I put everything away it was 3:20 pm, and almost time for dinner.

We've come a long way in the past few months continually adapting to changing weather, and conditions.  When we first arrived I was not sure we could realistically live in the Newell all winter at 5,500' without the convenience of being plugged into a 50 amp receptacle, but here we are almost 3 months later doing just that.  We are loving living in an isolated place, where we were completely alone 4-5 days a week.  As stress free as our life usually is, we have attained a whole new level of stress free living.  We are both sleeping so well at night it is a little scarry....lol.  With no ambient light, or urban type background sound present at night, we feel as if we are living on a different planet.

Thanks for stopping by!

*The Wilson Wilderness

'Curbing' our enthusiasm......

 8:09 am - Wednesday - January 15th - TWW - 22° F, humidity 38%, wind 11 mph out of the east by northeast.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 54° F.  On this date in 2022 TLE and I arrived at 'Newell House' in Wittmann, AZ......

....which is also the home of Tom and Darlene McCloud....wonderful Newell friends.  It is one of our favorite courtesy parking places in the USA.  In the foreground is the home, and in the background is the enormous 'Newell House'....big enough to hold two 46' Newells.  There are also two full hookup, 50 amp sites on the south side of 'Newell House' where we usually park.

There were two things I wanted to accomplish Tuesday.....1) Install the metal work I had painted the day before on the shed to seal the round hole I had cut for the Honda EU2000i exhaust, and the long north and south seam in the cedar panels on the back of the shed, and 2) Start my 1969 Jeep CJ9 for the first time in a month.  

With TLE's help we removed the 325 watt solar panel from the table at the back of the shed so I could access the aforementioned areas where the painted metal pieces would be affixed....

The backside of the shed

The view from inside the shed after installation

.....it took me around 30 minutes to install everything, and it turned out well.  My initial hope was that sealing the large vertical seam on the back of the shed would allow the heat of the three Bluetti AC200P batteries to keep the interior above freezing, but that was a fools gambit on my part.  Without insulation the interior will only stay a few degrees above the outside temp.  For instance, when we woke up this morning the outside temp was 22° F, and the interior shed temp was 26° F....not a big differential.  On the other hand, sealing those gaps and holes will keep the moisture out of the shed, so that is a nice trade off.

I was going to head out to the garage next to start the Jeep, but TLE suggested we haul some gravel to that spot on the entrance road to fill that hole resulting from the removal of all that rock.  That, actually, was a good idea as I had set up Charles' propane heater (of the catalytic variety) in the garage under the Jeep engine to warm it up while the battery was charging.  A little extra time would not hurt.

We used the Yamaha Rhino to move the gravel to the hole, and had it dumped, and raked within 30 minutes.  But, you know I could not leave it there.  We had this large pile of those rocks I had pried out of the ground, and I thought they could be used to create a type of 'curb' along the left side of the driveway apron.  We hauled those large rocks back to the property entrance, and found they only covered about one half the distance to the gate, so we scrounged some more rock along the road, and completed it.  In all it took us around an hour to finish the previously unplanned curb.....

While I filled the hole with gravel TLE cut the juniper tree back that was hanging over the road

......this rock is all over the property, and the local area.  Might as well put it to good use, right?

Once we put away our tools I headed out to the garage to start the Jeep.  It has been really cold lately, and the battery had run down to about 55%, so there was no way the Jeep was going to start without charging the battery, and heating up the engine.  By the time I got into the Jeep to turn over the Buick Dauntless V-6 it had been 2, or 3 hours since I turned on the heater, and the charger.  As hoped it fired right up, and was soon purring like a kitten.  I need to remember to start it more often during the winter.

Not much else got done Tuesday, but that was fine.  Everyday we get more done.  Our rooftop solar panels brought our house batteries back to 100% by 1 pm, and the Eco-Worthy Dual Axis solar tracker did the same for our Bluetti battery bank.  The trailer Bluetti gets back to 100% by 11 am everyday, sometimes earlier.  At night I shut off 120 VAC power to the trailer, but the 12 volt DC power is flowing to the solar tracker 24/7.  The Predator 5000 dual fuel generator is running less than 2 hours per day, and on 'warmer' nights, less than 1 hour per day.  Once I rewire the panels on the roof of our Newell from parallel to series we should get down to rarely needing to employ it...at least that is our hope.

Thanks for stopping by!

Breakin' rocks.....

7:38 am - Tuesday - January 14th - TWW - 16° F (COLD!!!), humidity 58%, wind 9 mph out of the east.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 46° F.  On this date in 2016 TLE and I were boondocking at Quartzite with good friends.....

......left to right: Steven, Bill, Jodee, Linda, moi, TLE and Michael.  We met Steven and Linda at Cape Blanco in 2014, and Michael at Amazon in 2012.  Bill and Jodee were guests of Steven and Linda.

Monday was a good day.  We got a lot done, and I even took some pictures!  I've been wanting to break up some of the large rocks which dot the road into TWW for a long time now, and finally decided to take a whack at it Monday.....FINALLY.  Rocks embedded in any dirt roadbed are like ice bergs.  What you see on the surface is about 10-20% of the actual rock, and my experience Monday did not deviate one iota from that theorem.  Using a mid sized sledge hammer, a pick axe, and a long, steel pry bar, I slowly removed large rocks which were protruding 3-4" above the road bed.  It was slow, tiring work, but after about an hour I had a large pile of excised rocks, and a hole about 4' x 4' to fill.....

.....in the picture above I've outlined where the rocks were before I dug them out....not a very big area, and there are probably a dozen spots, or more, like this along the 1/2 mile road into TWW....

....there are a lot more areas like this, and we'll slowly clear them over the next few months...I hope.  From there we drove out to the main north/south arterial road to install 'The Wilson Wilderness' sign I wrote about previously....

.....we managed to find a spot free of sub-surface rocks to pound in the sign using a dead blow hammer. 

The temp barely reached 40° F Monday, and at 7:36 am it was barely 27° F......

......it was after 1 pm by the time we returned from ripping rocks out of the ground, and installing the sign.  While TLE retreated to the warm confines of the Newell I headed out to the garage to apply a coupe of coats of paint to some metal work I'm going to install on the cedar shed to close up the hole I cut for the Honda EU2000i generator exhaust, and the the 6 foot seam which runs from the roof to the floor at the back of the shed to seal it from the cold air. Lithium batteries do not enjoy temps below 32° F.  With the doors closed, and all the holes sealed the heat of the batteries will keep the interior well above freezing.....

.....I had to employ Charles' propane heater to get the temp above the required minimum temperature for painting of 50° F.....I was able to get it to 59° F.....

.....I'll let them dry overnight, then install them Tuesday when it will be significantly warmer than Monday (46° F.....lol).

I ran the onboard diesel generator in Phyllis' Newell for about an hour to exercise it, and keep her batteries charged.  I've been using the BIG Champion generator to do that in the past, but it makes more sense to exercise the onboard generator and charge the batteries at the same time.  I was back inside the warm confines of the Newell by 3:15 pm.....just in time for dinner.

The final NFL game of the 'Wildcard' weekend pitted my L.A. Rams against the favored Minnesota Vikings.  The Rams finished the regular season at 10-7, while the Vikings finished 14-2.  However, you would have thought their records were reversed as the game progressed.  The Rams totally dominated the Vikings from beginning to end racking up 9 sacks.  The final score read 27-9 as the clock expired.  The game had to be moved from SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA to State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona due to the wild fires, and smoke in SoCal, but the Rams played like they were at their home stadium.

As I type today's missive at my laptop the temperature finally reached 23° F at 8:41 am.....

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A pajama kind of day.....

 7:57 am - Monday - January 13th - TWW - 16° F, wind 8 mph out of the east by northeast.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 43° F.  That was one COLD night!  On this date in 2013 TLEW and I were enjoying another Cedar Key, FL sunset.....

....we were there over 5 weeks and I do not believe there was ever a less than spectacular sunset.  We took enough sunset photos to fill calendars for years....in fact one of our friends we met there did just that, and sold them on Amazon!

I guess I shouldn't make a big fuss about how cold the weather has been the last week, or so, since most of the country is under snow cover right now.  I've see snow pictures from Texas, Georgia, Alabama, and many other places one would normally not associate with snow covered landscapes.  Meanwhile Southern California is burning to the ground....literally....go figure.  Anyway, earlier this morning the temp hit a low of 16° F.  That is a new low for us at TWW, but not the lowest temp we have experienced in the Newell.  The winter we spent at the Grand Canyon (2017/18 @ 7,300' elevation) we saw overnight temps as low as 5° F on many an occasion, and single digits on many other occasions.

Phyllis and Charles left for their drive back to Phoenix around 10 am, and we were all alone, once again.  I really had no aspirations for Sunday, big, or small, except to watch a few NFL wild card playoff games, remain in my pajamas, and stay warm.  There were three playoff games scheduled for Sunday, and the first two were really not very competitive.  The final result in those games became obvious before the end of the first half.  On the other hand, the night game between Tampa Bay and Washington came down to the last minutes tied at 20-20.  Washington won on a last second field goal, which hit the right upright on the goalpost, and caromed to the left, and through the uprights for the winning score.

Late in the afternoon I started up Phyllis' Newell to air it up so I could install the rear tire covers she bought.  I had installed the front ones a couple of days ago, but the rear wheel wells of the coach were too low, and I could not get the tire covers on the tires.  Once that was done I was done for the day.

Along with the installation of the two 300 amp hour Cloud Energy lithium batteries, and new Victron charge controller (when it arrives), I am going to rewire the 4 solar panels on our roof from parallel to series to get more wattage out them during the short charging window we have each day.  I should be able to at least double the input wattage, if not more, by making that simple change.  I really don't know why the original installers didn't wire them that way to begin with, but it is what it is.

Each morning while I am composing my latest blogosphere offering I see (I can see the array from my desk in the salon out the large driver side salon window) the Eco-Worthy Dual Axis solar tracker begin to tilt from the neutral position to face the rising sun in the east.  It is like clockwork.  The sun hits the sun sensor on the array around 8:20 am each day (right now), and the array begins to tilt to maximize the absorption of solar energy.  It goes from ZERO to 350 watts quickly, and within an hour it will be closer to 600 watts.  The highest wattage I've seen so far is 630 watts at peak.  Every single day since I rewired the six 100 watt panels into series we have gotten back to 100% on our Bluetti AC200MAX battery bank anywhere from 11 am to 1 pm, depending on how depleted the battery bank became overnight.  Most mornings, like this morning, the battery bank is at 75%, or greater.  By the time we finish making our morning coffees using our electric pot it's into the mid to high 60's, and then the recharging process begins.  I haven't been using the Predator to charge first thing in the morning most of the time.  I am only using the Predator to charge the house batteries for about 1/2 hour from 10:30 am to 11 am each day just as the sun finally begins to light up the roof panels.  I run the Predator again in the evening around 30 minutes to top off the Bluetti battery bank before going to bed....that's it.  There have been a couple of exceptions to this rule when the house batteries got down into the 60's overnight, but for the most part we're sticking to the 60 minutes run time per day.  Both of the Bluettis are far exceeding my expectations for durability, and consistency.  I've only turned either of them off once, or twice since we've been here at TWW.

We've been running the Predator on its gasoline option for the past week as our 120 gallon propane tank was down to 30%.  We get a propane delivery this Monday (today), and we'll switch back to the propane option then as it is way cheaper than gasoline.  As I write Monday morning we still have 20% in the tank.

Oh, by the way, I did remain in my pajamas all day long.....thanks for stopping by!