What a complete bust!

 7:53 am - Happy New Year! - January 1, 2022 - Anza Borrego Desert, CA - 47° F, 64% humidity, wind 2 mph out of the northeast......mostly sunny today with a forecast high of 60° F.  On this date in 2016 we awoke a a 'post apocalyptic' Octotillo Wells, CA.......↴

This is not fog....it is dust from all of the sand toys....a fine, almost talcum powder consistency

After several days of heavy cloud cover we awoke to a sunny, windless day with the promise of achieving a 100% charge in our house battery bank without the aid of the Honda EU2000i generator, and we achieved 100% by 11:30 am.  

I had one last 2021 project I've been meaning to do for a month, or so now.....change the oil, and air filters in the Honda EU2000i generator.  I've had the oil and new air filters for some time, but it was either too cold, or too windy before.  While I took care of that task TLE drove into town to do some laundry.  The Honda only holds about 1/3 quart of oil, and this Honda does not really use any oil.  I've had it for a couple of years now, and have never had to add oil in that that time.  While I was changing the oil, and filters I took time to clean dust from its interior, and exterior.

I was just finishing when TLE returned from the laundromat.  Once I put everything away I headed inside to watch the first of two NCAA football semi-finals.  The top 4 teams in college football play in these semi-final games each year to determine who plays in the championship game (this year on January 1oth).  You would think, or at least hope these games would hold some promise of good, well played, competitive games, but once again neither was.  The first game featured #1 Alabama vs. #4 Cincinnati.....it was, essentially, a one sided affair that was over before the first half gun sounded.  The final score was 27-6 in favor of Alabama, but it was not really that close.....the score differential was 21 points, and that happens to match perfectly the average score differential of these games over the years.  The second game featured #2 Michigan vs. #3 Georgia, and this game like the first was over before the end of the first half.....the final score was 34-11.....a 23 point differential.....who would have known?

As predicted by the weather guessers the wind came up around 1 pm on New Years Eve rising to 15-20 mph gusts out of the northwest, which buffeted us all afternoon, and into the early New Years morning hours.  As I write this morning the wind is gone.....thankfully....and we are watching the 2022 Rose Parade from Pasadena as we always do.  I'm not sure if I've mentioned this previously, but I grew up in Pasadena, and used to see the parade in person virtually every single year.

Other than the semi-final college football fiascos the final day of 2021 was rather enjoyable, and as the daylight portion of December 31st came to an end we were treated to a subtle, yet beautiful sunset.....

......Happy New Years to you and yours.....what adventures await us in 2022?  Stay tuned, and find out as our never ending nomadic travels continue.

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