Life's little annoyances......

 7:08 am - Wednesday - November 2nd - Niland, CA - 61° F, 61% humidity, wind 8 mph out of the west by northwest......partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 73° F.  On this date in 2013 TLE and I were in Park City, UT with my brother and his wife (Dwyer and Lori) for dinner at the Stein Erickson Lodge.......↴

One of my all time favorite pictures

......the view this morning......↴

Tuesday was a day to fix little, annoying stuff that really did not affect our quality of life, but over time become major annoyances.  Since we arrived our Girard tankless water heater has been impossible to regulate temperature wise.  Normally, when taking a shower, we set the temperature to what we prefer....for me it is anywhere between 106-108° F, and for TLE is 101-102° F.  When we turn on the shower water we just turn the knob all the way to hot....makes it less complicated than trying to adjust between hot and cold, and it works wonderfully when you have adequate water pressure.  Here at GNHS the water pressure is lower than we've seen in our travels, and as a result when we turn on the hot water the temp goes right past the preset limit to 124° F.....way, way too hot, right?  If we try to regulate it by mixing the hot water with cold water it shuts off, and all we get is cold water.....doh!  There is no middle ground.  Someone (here at GNHS) had the same issue, and suggested the other day that we turn off the city water when taking a shower, and turn on our water pump to use water out of our fresh water tank....the water pump provides much better pressure.  At any rate, Tuesday I decided to top off the fresh water tank, and then see if using the on board water pump would work, and what do you know?  It worked!  Up until recently we just turned off the water heater and took a room temperature shower.....the water temp coming out of the hose bib here is around 93° F when it is sunny, and warm, so that worked fine, but the temps will be dropping, and pretty soon that was not going to work anymore, thus turning this minor annoyance into a major annoyance.  Okay, one problem solved, and a lot of relief felt on my part......I was becoming convinced that something was wrong with the Girard...my mind always goes to the place where major expense, and difficulty is involved.....most of the time it is something simple, just as it was in this case....

We'll have to keep the fresh water tank filled up all the time now....sitting at 150 gallons after two showers.

The next minor issue was to trim some branches off the tree which hangs over, and brushes against the roof of the trailer when a breeze comes up....a minor issue, but we're going to get winds over 20 mph Wednesday and then it will become a big issue, so I got out our telescoping ladder and trimmed those branches away with our long handled pruners we bought back in Alturas at the Rite Aid just in case of this very situation.....they worked well, and the job was done within 30 minutes......

The branches are no longer touching the trailer

....another minor annoyance was the 'head bumper' rail attached to the underside edge of our overhead cabinets in the salon.....it is only held in place by 3 finishing nails, and 40 years of grabbing onto, and leaning against the 'head bumper' rail has loosened the grip of those nails. Usually I was just able to push it back into place, and it would stay, but Monday afternoon it came down for good, and would not press back into place....now a major annoyance! That is why I bought those finishing nails at Home Depot Monday.  The wood those nails go into is very hard wood, so I had to pre-drill holes for the new finishing nails, and then hammer them into place.  It only took two more nails to re-secure the 'head bumper' rail.....

'Head bumper' rail....all fixed now!

.....and with that 3 more small annoyances checked off the list.

TLE made burritos for dinner......she makes the best burritos!  We dined alfresco, chasing our burritos with......

.....Peanut Butter Chocolate Milk Stout by Lost Coast......I forgot how good this beer is.  We found these at Trader Joe's on Monday.....haven't found them for a few years now, but when you see them you buy them.....

....after dinner we played two complete games of 'Phase 10'....TLE won the first in a blowout, and I the second in a closely fought game.

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