Deferred tasks.....

 7:10 am - Monday - April 24th - LPG&RVR - 37° F, humidity 65%, wind 6 mph out of the north by northwest.......crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 60° F.  On this date in 2014 TLE and I were in North Platte, NB have a late lunch at Bailey's American Cuisine...we were overnighting in the Walmart parking lot across the street....very handy.  Unfortunately, they were a victim of the Wuhan flu, and are no longer open for business.......↴

Since we arrived on the 13th I have deferred a lot of things around our encampment until our first 4 day weekend, so by Sunday there was a lot of pent up demand for creating a more permanent situation.  Some of the tasks deferred were, in no particular order, connecting to the city water (we've been using our fresh water tank, and house water pump since we arrived), finishing the positioning of the trailer (awaiting the arrival of our new Trailer Valet XL, which arrived a few days ago), and deploying more yard lights. To be sure, there are numerous other tasks, but I will get to them in a future post.

First up was to connect the new Trailer Valet XL to the tongue of the trailer and continue to rotate the trailer (from right to left facing the trailer from the front) until the back was parallel to the road....

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.....it took a while, but TLE and I got the trailer rotated to where we wanted it, and the Trailer Valet XL worked like a charm!  It's 10,000 lb capacity made things much easier.  One of the benefits of the XL is that it is NOT permanently attached to the trailer like the old one was, so it can, and will be kept out of the weather, thereby extending its useful lifespan.

Once that was done it was time for a lunch break, and then I spent time leveling the trailer from side to side by jacking up the driver side, and putting a couple of boards under the tires to raise that side about 2", and it worked.  Once that was done I reinstalled the four piers under each corner of the trailer to make it stable, and then reinstalled the tire covers.....

.....next I utilized two snow marker poles to wrap some of my solar rope lights around.....

......however, I neglected to take pictures last night.  Lastly I deployed the long string of white rope lights around the driver side of the Newell, and completely around the trailer, but once again failed to memorialize them last night.  Trust me, they look as good as always, and they keep the mice from getting into our coach.  Haven't found a mouse inside our coach since late 2019 because of those lights.

Lastly, I finally connected the coach to the city water supply as it appears we are finally past the sub freezing temps here at LPG&RVR.  The water pressure here (over 70 psi) is wonderful compared to the water pressure at GNHS (40 psi on a good day).  Good water pressure makes for nice, long, hot showers.  When the water pressure is too low the our Girard tankless water heater does not perform well.  By the time I finished with that final task (at least the final tasks for Sunday....there is more to do) it was approaching 4 pm, and time to relax...enough work for one day, right?  We still need to deploy our dining canopy, the Edison lights which adorn it, and move the picnic table. It won't be long until we feel like we're home.

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