El gato GRANDE......

8:34 am - Sunday - October 22nd - GNHS - 73° F, humidity 50%, wind 6 mph out of the south.....crystal clear, blue, sunny, HOT skies today with a forecast high of 94° F.....ahhhh....a break in the heatwave.   Tomorrows high will be just 82° F!  Yay for our team!  On this date in 2012 TLE and I were having lunch at a local Louisville, KY micro brewery.....↴

Saturday's weather forecast indicated another high of 101° F.  I figured I would work 3-4 hours before it got too hot for me.  Around 7:30 am I began my work by building a wooden platform for TLE's office chair, which happens to be her old Ekhornes recliner.  Without the box the chair sits too low behind the office desk.  Last year it sat upon two, unconnected 4" x 4" x 18" pieces of wood, but she wanted something more permanent....something professionally cut, built, and screwed together.  I took me about an hour, but the result was, I thought, quite professional.....

The box

The Ekhornes chair upon the box

.....I was able to use scrap 2" x 4" boards, which were left over from last season (and left on site for the past 6 months), plus a piece of 3/8" plywood I've carried around in the trailer for a couple of years.  After finishing that small project I spent the rest of my time working with Hunter to put together another RZR.  You will recall the picture I took of the unfinished RZR yesterday.....

.....well, here is the finished product.....

....I ended up working with Hunter until almost 1 pm....way longer than I had planned, and by the time I called it I was really getting overheated.  I drank a lot of ice tea, and water all morning, and took several breaks in the cool confines of the Newell.  When I called it quits at 1 pm we had finished installing the roll cage, the four seats, the sound system, and were just beginning to install the three piece roof.  Hunter wanted to keep going until it was finished, so I bid him adieu and headed inside where it was 75° F, not 98° F.  I took a long, cool shower and then spent the balance of the afternoon staying cool.

When we left GNHS last April I intentionally left one of the solar rope light strings on the palm tree in front of the office just to see if they would still be working when we returned, and much to my surprise they survived the drenching monsoons, and intense GNHS summer temps......

....additionally, the GNHS owners have erected (for Halloween), with our permission, a giant, inflatable cat right behind our trailer....

......we remain quite thankful for our wonderful, working A/C.  We've been able to get by with just one of them running at a time, and keep the interior around 75° F.  We make sure and run each of them for a few hours each day, so they are both getting exercised on a regular basis, just like we did when it was hot at LPG&RVR last summer, and like we have attempted to do since we bought the Newell back in 2008, and perhaps that is one of the reasons why they still work very well at almost 42 years of age.

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