Like we never left.....

7:42 am - Tuesday - April 25th - LPG&RVR - 34° F, humidity 67%, wind 0 mph out of the east by southeast.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 67° F.  On this date in 2014 TLE and I were in O'Neill, NB taking advantage of a free campsite at Carney Park (found on 'Days End Directory')......↴ 

We hadn't been shopping in 12 days, and it was time to make the 20 mile drive into Alturas for the first time this season.  We do not normally wait 12 days to shop, in fact, we usually shop every 7-8 days, so the cupboards were getting a little bare.  We enjoyed a leisurely morning before getting dressed around 10 am, and heading into town.

Our first stop was at the local Ace Hardware store on Modoc Street to stock up on all things mosquito repellant.  There are no mosquitoes now, but within 4-5 weeks, if not sooner, there will be.  We bought three citronella bucket candles, which we found to be quite effective on the 'lido deck' last year, plus another spray bottle of mosquito repellant.  I also picked up numerous other small items (garden hose washers, a new grounded male electric plug to replace one which had gone bad on one of my extension cords, etc.)....

New Adirondack cushions

Citronella bucket candles

From there we headed to Rite Aid (no prescriptions to fill just yet) where TLE picked up a few things, and we also bought new cushions for the Adirondack chairs.  Our last, but most important stop, was at Holiday Market where TLE and I filled up a small shopping cart of food items.

We were back home a little after 12 pm.  While TLE put away the grocery items I headed out to the trailer to install the new male ground plug on the extension cord.....

.....I've been meaning to fix that cord for over a year, but now it is done, and I can stop feeling guilty for procrastinating.   Actually, it was more a matter of forgetting to buy the replacement every single time I was at the hardware store for the last year.  I'm not really a procrastinator by nature, just essentially becoming more absent minded with each passing year, but it looks like procrastination on the surface.  I also deployed the solar spot light for our flag, and deployed our Sea-B-Que grill, and gas firepit.....

The spot light can be seen at the top of the picture inside the red circle, and the solar panel for the spot at the bottom of the picture, also circled in red

The 'lido deck' looking more complete, but we've a ways to go before we pronounce it ready for occupancy

.....one more thing is needed to complete the 'lido deck' and that is the Edison light lit dining canopy, which TLE and I will work on Tuesday....we need to level some ground, and do some raking, but I think it will look great!

We're heading into a warming trend as the week progresses, and will have three days over the weekend of 80's temps.  The contrast between daytime highs, and nighttime lows is about 35-40° here at LPG&RVR.  The highs don't come until 3, or 4 pm each day, but by 5 pm you can feel a chill in the air....it cools down rapidly at over 4,000' elevation....even in the summer.

I have 5 more solar string lights out on the Sea-B-Que table charging up, and ready to deploy, hopefully Tuesday.....

.....around 4 pm TLE and I took our first 'out and back' walk of the season out to Jess Valley Road and back, which is just over 2 miles.  As we walked, talked, and enjoyed the amazing view we both commented how it seemed like just a few weeks ago we had done this very walk, and yet it has been over 6 months.....

....we managed to average about 3.3 mph, and covered 2.04 miles in just over 37 minutes....not too bad for our first walk in a few weeks.  By the time we returned to home base it was almost 5 pm.....time for adult beverages, and thus another LPG&RVR days comes to and end.  We've now been back for about 12 days, but it feels like we never left.....life is good!

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