A riveting day......

7:20 am - Friday - April 17th - Wittmann, AZ - 56° F, 38% humidity, wind 7 mph out of the east by northeast.......clear, blue skies today with a forecast high of 82° F.  On this day in 2016 we were in Yuma, AZ to attend to dental appointments the next day in Los Algodones.....

......we walked from our hotel over to Prison Hill Brewing for some brews and dinner.  One of our favorite micro breweries ever!

We began our Thursday attending the virtual graveside funeral of my mother, Virginia Dale, at 9:30 am via 'Zoom'.....

.....my sister Hilary, her husband Bob, and daughters Stephanie and Caroline represented us.  It turned out to be a beautiful, sunny, but very cold day in Spokane (33° F at 9:30 am).  There were 5 bouquets of flowers representing Virginia's 5 children and their families.....

......it was a relatively short, but touching ceremony as we bid adieu to our mother for the final time......

.....a video was made of the ceremony, which my sister will edit, and forward to each of us at a later date.  Most of my children were able to be in attendance via 'Zoom'.

We had heard from Glenn and Laureen earlier in the morning, and they had advised they would cover the final 430 miles from Las Cruces, NM to Wittmann in one day, so we spent the rest of the day thinking about, and planning for their arrival around 6 pm.

In the interim I began to wipe down the exterior of the Newell again.  You will recall I cleaned the exterior while we were in Borrego Springs boondocking in February.  Since then it has rained a couple of times, and it needed attention once again.  While I wiping off a couple of months of grime I noticed numerous rivets were missing on each side of the coach, so I took a break from cleaning  to retrieve my rivet gun, and rivets to replace the missing ones.....

.....in several cases there were multiple rivets missing in succession.....

.....in all I replaced 9 missing rivets.  This is more than usual, but it has been over a year since I did a complete rivet inspection.....

 
......I received a call from Laureen around 5:20 pm advising they were 35 miles out, and should be in Wittmann by 7 pm.....wait, what?  It's only 35 miles...that should take no more than 40 minutes.  Then it occurred to me that she was on daylight savings time, and thought it was 6:20 pm.....I reminded her that Arizona does not participate in DST....we laughed a little, and then promised to meet them out on Center Street in Tom's Razor to guide them into Newell House....

 
.....they arrived on Center Street just before we arrived, and while they were waiting for us they smelled and saw smoke coming from under the driver side dashboard......by the time we arrived they had applied a liberal dose of a fire extinguisher and prevented flames from appearing.....what a way to arrive!  

Once we were sure there was no ongoing issue we led them over to Tom's property and got them parked.....I noticed the entire front of their '82 Newell was plastered thick with a bug apocalypse....lol.

It turns out when they had the alternator issue on Wednesday that their Dometic fridge stopped working along with the headlights and turn signals, so we've got our work cut out for us before we even get to the solar installation.  It should be an interesting 10 days, or so, right?

We ended the day with a nice outdoor fire before adjourning.  Glenn and Laurren were invited by Tom and Darlene to stay in their guest bedroom until we get their Newell habitable again.  

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