95% luck.....

 6:54 am - Wednesday - December 7th - GNHS - 51° F, 78% humidity, wind 5 mph out of the west....partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 66° F.  The view this morning.....↴

......and on this date in 2021 TLE and I were watching a slightly more amazing sun rise over the Anza Borrego Desert.......↴

We had one UTV rental Tuesday for 1/2 day beginning at 12 pm....aka: noon.  The trouble with having one 1/2 day rental beginning at 12 pm is that we open the office at 9 am, take care of a few things, and then just hang around until the customer arrives.  We open at 9 am to be available for any walkup customers. Once we open we're committed for the entire day, as we must be readily available if our one customer has an issue out in the desert, and we must rescue them.  Personally, I would rather be super busy as time appears to pass more quickly.  I know it really doesn't, but being distracted with being busy makes it seem so, right?

There are always plenty of tasks around the 'lido deck' with which to pass the time, like fixing the bay door to the Norcold cubbyhole, out of which it slides in and out as the need arises to pilfer some of its contents for human consumption.  Over the past year the 7 rivets which afix it to the aluminum skin of the Newell had worked their way loose, so I needed to drill them out and install new pop rivets.  I can perform this task while keeping eye on the office parking lot for potential customers.  It took me less than an hour to drill out the old rivets one at a time, mind you, to keep the bay door hinge in place, while I installed each new rivet in its place.....

......there was a 1/8" gap between the hinge and skin of the Newell, but with the rivet replacement it is once again sealed against the elements.....

.....our rental customers returned promptly at 4 pm without any damage being inflicted upon the red, 2 seat Kawasaki KRX.  They had a great time witnessed by how completely covered in dust they both were....I wish I had taken a picture to capture their condition, and the bigger than life smiles upon their faces.  See, it is possible to have a great time, and not kill the machine.....lol!  We gave them access to our compressed air to blow as much of the dust and dirt off their persons as possible before bidding them adieu as they walked back to their motorhome.

Within 40 minutes the sun had slipped beyond the western mountain ranges once again, and darkness had descended upon GNHS.  There were some fast moving clouds passing overhead through which the now full moon was peaking.  I managed to get a few pix.......

.....I love my Samsung Ultra 21 phone camera!

TLE and I played 6 games of Yahtzee (that's how many game scores you can record on each sheet of paper, so we just fill it up each time we play).  TLE prevailed this evening winning 4 of the 6 by comfortable margins.  I've decided Yahtzee is about 95% total luck, and maybe 5% skill.  It is that 5% skill that often makes the difference between winning and losing, and TLE appears to be blessed with more of it than I....lol.

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