The day after.....

7:54 am - Sunday - April 7th - Fontana, CA - 54° F, 73% humidity, wind 3 mph out of the west by northwest......partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 86° F.

For the first time since we arrived in Fontana TLE and I took a walk Saturday.  I've been so consumed with completing projects in advance of our travel to Alaska we hadn't taken time to walk.  We left on our walk around 10 am intending to walk out to Sierra Ave. and back....about 4.2 miles round trip.  As we began the walk it was still quite cool, and I was almost wishing I had warn light gloves to compliment the long sleeved flannel shirt I was wearing, but eventually the sun peaked out from behind the clouds making it much more comfortable.  Having the Pacific Electric Trail to ride bikes upon, or to take a walk upon is a wonderful local resource. It is much quieter than walking up and down Arrow Route, or Foothill Blvd.  It took us about 90 minutes to do the round trip walk, and that included a stop at the local Stater Brothers Supermarket on Arrow Route to pick up a few necessities.

I wrote previously (here) that I had ordered new VW taillight lenses off eBay, and by Friday they had both arrived, so I set about removing the old, cracked lenses, and installing the 'new' (new tome) ones.  I've had those taillights out so often recently that the entire job took about 20 minutes beginning to end.  The first time I removed them was back in Southwest Harbor when I had to replace the left brake/taillight bulb (double contact) I had to go on YouTube to find a video on how to remove them.....it is not intuitive.  The new to me lenses have NO cracks in them, and should outlast me.....

 No cracks!

.....from there I moved to the most important task of the day.....dump the black tank.  It had been 9 days since we last dumped, and to be fair, we could have waited another day, or two, but the fuller the tank is the longer it takes to dump, and flush the tank properly.  After the prior dumping debacle (the Shurflo macerator pump crapped out)  I was able to employ the recently purchased and received NEW Seaflo macerator pump to perform the task, and it worked just as it should.  The actual dumping and flushing took about 15 minutes, but deploying, and then putting away all the equipment (hoses, pump, etc.) takes about 25 minutes total.  Looking forward to once again being able to dump directly into a sewer connection via a sewer hose.....much, much faster.

Once I was done dumping the black tank it was time to sit down and cool down a little before taking a much needed hot shower.  The rest of the afternoon we watched a couple of English Premier Soccer matches enjoying the still cool temps knowing full well that Sunday and Monday we will once again experience temps of 86° and 90° F respectively.  Thankfully it will cool back quickly into the 60's and 70's beginning Tuesday.

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