Something I'd rather not do.....

 8:28 am - Friday - February 25th - Newell House, AZ - 40° F, 52% humidity, wind 2 mph out of the west by northwest.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 63° F.  On this date in 2021 I was able to reinstall the heavy Leece-Neville alternator on the big Detroit Diesel 6v92 in less than 40 minutes ......↴

Thursday dawned quite cold.....33° F at 8:30 am!  We do not sleep with the heaters on as a rule, but when we went to bed Wednesday night we left the front electric heater set on 60° F, and I am glad we did.  The bedroom temp got down to 50° F overnight, and getting out of bed to turn on the other two heaters was not something either of us wised to do, but someone's got to do it, so I did.  I have been sleeping so well at night since we began this intermittent fasting thing, that I awake feeling very refreshed, and seem to remain in deep sleep much longer.

As many of you may have noticed the shelves in the local grocery stores are getting more bare by the day.  When we shopped at Basha's in Wickenburg the other day what we saw began to set off alarm bells, so TLE decided to head into Surprise early Thursday to stock up on a few necessities, such as TP, paper towels, and Kleenex as well as some basic foodstuffs.  While she was gone I did my 1.25 mile walk, and then did some strength training....TLE did the same when she returned from shopping.

The USPS came through Thursday with the new thermostats, and we took delivery on the package mid afternoon. All that remains now is to receive the second package which has the correct gaskets, and on that front we got more good news.  Instead of being delivered on Monday the 28th, the package will arrive on Friday, the 25th, which means I'll be able to begin work on replacing the two thermostats by Saturday, instead of Tuesday.  Our boondocking site in the Anza Borrego Desert is calling, and we are beginning to get 'hitch itch'.....lol.

TLE and I spent the afternoon removing the salon TV from its perch over the center console between the driver and passenger seats.  Removing the TV is the only I could get into the TV cabinet to remove all the old cables, and wiring which were no longer in use.  That area has been mostly unusable for years, plus I had power cords running from one side to the other connecting to just three available outlets in order to power everything needed for our automatic Winegard HD dish, the DirecTV HD receiver, and our Sony DVD player.  In the first picture below you can see I was able to attach the cabling for the satellite dish, and HD receiver to the ceiling, and get it out of the way of everything else.  Additionally, I installed a 6 outlet power strip in which to plug everything needed to power our audio/visual entertainment center....

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.....the next picture reveals a more orderly TV cabinet where every connection is visible, and there is now only one power source......

.....by consolidating everything on the left side of the TV cabinet the other two thirds of the space can now be used for storage.  TLE took immediate advantage of that extra storage space, and it is now occupied by all of the TP and paper towels she acquired in her Surprise shopping foray earlier in the day.  In all it took about 2.5 hours to clear out all the old cables, and wiring, and then reorganize what remained into a less cluttered, more compact and accessible setup.  I have been thinking about this task since we installed the new HD satellite dish back in October of 2019, and even more intensely since we had that power issue with the outlets back in mid January.  Frankly I was not at all looking forward to doing what needed to be done.  In the end it wasn't as difficult as I had imagined....isn't that almost always the case?

And thus ends another day of accomplishment, and I, in fact, did not really include it in the list of things I really wanted to accomplish while we were here, but knew I needed to do it for my own sense of order, and peace of mind. Every time I had to work on anything in that cabinet it was a nightmare, but I still continued to defer action as long as everything was working.  My philosophy was why fix it if its not broken, right?

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