Wind abatement.....

 7:35 am - Wednesday - March 9th - Anza Borrego Desert, CA - 49° F, 28% humidity, wind 2 mph out of the west by northwest....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies again today with a forecast high of 77° F.  On this date in 2017 TLE and I were in Tecopa Hot Springs (near Shoshone, CA).......↴

After the extreme exertion of Monday hiking to Coyote Peak there was no doubt in my mind that I would spend most of Tuesday where I belong.....in my anti gravity recliner napping, reading, and just soaking in the big view to our north....

.....oh look, there are chairs by the firepit.....could there be a sunset fire tonight?  And look, the 'Cowboy Wok, and Sea-B-Que are set up....could there be outdoor cooking this night?....

.....if the weather forecast would just hold, and there would be no wind both would definitely happen.  While it has not been overly windy here, it has usually gotten windy late each day, which kind of spoils sunset fires, and outdoor dinner cooking.

I did manage to accomplish two things Tuesday.....I changed the position of the air intake louvers on the driver side of the engine bay to the third position, which is as far out as they go.  It's getting warmer, and necessary to force the cooler outside air into the engine bay to help cool the big Detroit Diesel 6v92 as we head northward later this month......

The louvers are now fully extended to catch more air as we float down the highway

......and I fixed another string of 'fair lights' to deploy around one the bushes outside our trailer.  

TLE brought out her stir fry stuff around 3:30 pm, and whipped up an amazingly  dinner....our only meal of the day.  I had a small bowl of berries (black berries, and raspberries) with some heavy cream around 1 pm, a handful of peanuts, and a glass (8 oz) of V-8 juice, and that was it.

As hoped, the winds laid down by 3 pm, and by 5:20 pm (sunset) it was time to take a couple of sunset photographs.....

....and light the fire.....

......the solar lights finally turned on around 6 pm, and the night became magical.....

......we adjourned to the Newell interior around 7 pm, and spent the remainder of our evening reading.

On the solar front, we've been doing great!  With those two rear solar panels now both tilted toward the sun at the same time we reach 100% before noon each day, and sometimes, like Tuesday before 11 am.  Overnight (sunset to sunrise....about 11.5 hours) we're losing less than an amp per hour leaving us at around 88-89% of full charge.

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