Three naps.......

7:34 am - Thursday - February 14th - Wittmann, AZ - 52º F.....wait, what?  Yes, 52º F at 7:34 am....unprecedented!  The humidity is at 72% since it has been raining overnight, and the wind is at a low 6 mph out of the east.....very cloudy today with more rain, and a forecast high of 55º F!

Wednesday began with a subtly beautiful sunrise, but what is the saying?  "Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning!"......rain is on the way.

I was awake before 6 am Wednesday, but stayed in bed until after, finally getting up around 6:15 am.....much too early for a retired person.  Oh well, on those days you just get up knowing there will be one, or two.....maybe even three naps during the day.  Believe me, long, guiltless naps are one of the perks of retirement.

Keeping in line with the previous 5 days in Wittmann I had more projects on my mental list which need a check mark next to them.  You will recall I cleaned our rear facing radiator back in Inverness, FL a little over a month ago.  At the same time I washed out both engine bays.  In the intervening time there have been a lot of windstorms, and everything was quite dusty in there once again, so time to get out the vacuum and clean it out!

I couldn't even read the engine specs there was so much dust in there!

Once order was restored in the engine bays I turned my attention to the trailer interior.  That has not been vacuumed in a few months and it was quite dirty, so I spent another 45 minutes picking up more dirt.  I may have to change out the ShopVac bag with all that mother earth inside!  Fighting the ever present dirt is an ongoing battle when you spend you life mostly parked on dirt/gravel/sand.....we can vacuum the Newell interior in the morning, and we are right back at it by late afternoon.  All the going in and out inevitably results in dirt being tracked into our Newell and trailer interiors in spite of our best efforts.....but, he he heard himself say, I would not have it any other way!

Clean again......the Airstream mat was left by a customer at TVC a few years ago....I liked it so I use it in the trailer

Speaking of vacuums, after vacuuming the trailer TLE brought her Bissel out for me to fix the cord.  Apparently when I had worked on it a few months ago I had failed to properly secure the power cord in the housing so it could not be pulled out.  It took about 30 minutes to rectify my mistake.

It was now closing in on 12:30 pm and time for the first of several naps.....TLE prepared a nice sandwich for me, after which I took a 30 minute nap.  Now I was ready for the main project event of the day.....install the new LED strip lights under the rocker panel on the passenger (starboard) side of the coach to match the new ones.  The process went much more quickly this time as I still had the soldering iron, and 12 volt bench tester on my work bench.  As is appropriate, I spent most of my time preparing the surface of the rocker panel to receive the adhesive backing on the strip lights.  The actual installation just just a few minutes.

Another project checked off the mental list, so another nap was in order.  One side note resulting from me vacuuming out the passenger side engine bay....I happened to glance up at the very large air filter and noticed the date it was installed (I always write the date installed on all the filters) was 2/5/2015.....it's been 4 years since I installed that filter....seemed like it was just a year, or two ago.  

 To  rectify my oversight I went online and ordered a new filter from Filterbarn shipped to my current location.  I should have it in a couple of days, and will be able to check another item off the list.  Have you ever noticed that as you run through a mental checklist you seem to add an item for every item checked?  

It was now late afternoon, and is most often the case in the desert it begins to cool off quickly after 3 pm.  Wednesday's high was 68º F, enabling me to spend most of the day in my preferred uniform.....t-shirt, shorts and flip flops.  At any rate I was done with projects for the day so retreated to the warmth of the Newell and took another nap.....sweet....three naps!

TLE made a wonderful taco salad for dinner, and then we watched some recorded programs before heading off to slumberland around 10 pm.....a very profitable day in every way!

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