Appreciation.....

 6:13 am - Saturday - May 13th - LPG&RVR - 44° F, humidity 70%, wind 0 mph out o f the north.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 78° F.  On this date in 2012 TLE and I were visiting the Kennecott Copper Mine near Salt Lake City, UT.....look at the size of those tires........↴

By the time our 4 day weekend is over each 8 day cycle I am totally ready to go back to work, and that is how I felt Friday.  It is why I love these 4 days on/4 days off 'weeks' .  The four days is always just enough down time.  I never felt that way during my workaday life when we had just the traditional 2 day  weekends. Even when we had longer 3 day weekends it never seemed to be enough.  Four is just right!

We're beginning to get into that sweet spot of the spring when the temps are hovering somewhere in the 70's, the skies are blue, and there is very little wind....breezy is fine, windy is not.  Still looking forward to mornings where no heaters are required to make the Newell interior livable first thing in the morning....in fact, I'm looking forward to nights when no heaters are required whilst we slumber.  The overnight lows have settled into the 40's range for the foreseeable future.

TLE began the day defrosting our Dometic absorption refrigerator, which she had not sone since before we left Glamis North Hot Springs.  She almost immediately regretted that long interval.  The cooling fins in the back of the fridge part are usually just covered with frost, but over time that frost had turned to ice, which means it will take here twice as long to defrost as usual.  The same with the freezer compartment.

While she did that I took care of dumping of our black tank, which must always be the approximate same time interval, or bad things begin to happen....lol.  Fortunately, we can go around 9-10 days between dumps, and with the great water pressure here it takes about 1/3 the time to fill, and flush the tank, so it is not a long, drawn out deal like it was at GNHS with the very low water pressure, and having to hookup, and then restow the sewer line before and after each dump.

My long time friend, and ex-brother-in-law, Claude Banker, was on his way to Oregon with his wife, Gail, to celebrate his mother's 103 birthday,  and decided to stop by LPG&RVR on this way there.  We haven't seen Claude and Gail in about 2.5 years as they live in Kansas now, near Gail's son.  At any rate they arrived around 2:30 pm, and after hugs headed directly over to the restaurant at the Clubhouse for a late lunch, and a lot of conversation.  I talk with Claude every month, or so, but it is always way better to talk in person.  The time flew by, and soon it was after 5 pm, and time for them to head back into Alturas where they spent the night at the Niles Hotel.  They'll continue the last leg of their journey to his mother's home on Saturday.  Claude and Gail, it was so great to see you!  Thank you for taking the time to stop by!

Friday evening TLE and I headed out to the 'lower deck' to play Backgammon.  You will recall she beat me pretty handily at Yahtzee Thursday night, but on this night the dice favored moi....she won the first game pretty easily, and I was thinking "here we go again", and then I won the next 4 in a row.  You just never know what 'Lady Luck' will do on a given night.  We sat and talked after the games.  We've begun a new tradition....each evening we tell the each other what we appreciate about the other.  It is really interesting to hear the other's perspective.  We are both somewhat surprised each night by the other's observations, but that is a good thing.  Others rarely perceive us the way we think they do.

Thanks for stopping by!