Luck of the roll.....

6:40 am - Monday - November 6th - GNHS - 56° F, humidity 37%, wind 4 mph out of the southeast......crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 89° F.  On this date in 2015 TLE and I arrived at what I thought would be a multi day boondock site near the shores of Mono Lake.  The temps were balmy, the view was wonderful, and the site was perfect.  I tilted our solar panels for maximum effect......↴

...and settled in to enjoy a wonderful afternoon, and it was wonderful....everything for which we had hoped......

....the next morning we awoke to an outside temp of 17° F, and our batteries were sitting at just 60%......

.....I decided to plug the coach into our Honda generator until the sun rose to keep the batteries from draining any further, so I bundled up, and went outside to do just that when I found this......

.....apparently, when I had unhooked our cord the morning before I had failed to notice the plug had melted....how did I miss that?  Anyway, I couldn't plug into anything.  Well, that changed our plans, and you can read about how we solved this problem here.

On Saturday afternoon there were no reservations for Sunday so we suggested to Hunter that he could open the office for a few hours to see if anything developed, which he did, and we had the day off work.  After I finished posting my latest post we retired to the 'lido deck' to watch a British Premier Soccer match between Liverpool and Luton Town.  Luton Town is in 17th place out of 20 teams, and Liverpool is in 3rd, so all we were hoping for was at least a tie to keep Liverpool from tying Tottenham in the standings.  Luton Town scored a goal in the 80th minute to take a 1-0 lead, which lasted until the first seconds of added time when Liverpool leveled the match at 1-1, and that is how it ended.  It was a very good match, which we were not expecting......

Watching futbol!

....after the game I worked a little more on our 'lido deck' environment.  As you know, there is always 'one more thing' to do, and I had several 'one more things' I wanted to do.....

....I wanted to move the umbrella by the Sea-B-Que to the left to cover an area not covered by the 'sail shades (above), and, at TLE's request I needed to install our dual water filter system to assist the usual single filter (below). We didn't use it at LPG&RVR this year as the water quality is actually quite good there, and no need to over filter the water, and waste the filters....they are very expensive......

.....plus I wanted to finally deploy our flagpole utilizing the suction cups I bought last year.  As you will recall I needed to add a cargo strap last year to make sure they did not loose suction, allowing the flagpole to fall.  They worked rather well at LPG&RVR this past summer, so I decided to forego the cargo strap.  They were still holding at 9 pm Sunday night.....

.....and are still holding as I write this morning (Monday)....

....we also moved the firepit onto the artificial turf, but have it sitting upon 4 cement pavers to keep the heat from damaging the turf......

.....we ushered in another sunset from the 'viewing deck', then moved over to the 'dining/game night deck' where TLE prepared Orange Chicken utilizing the Cowboy Wok, which was also deployed at her request.......

.....another restaurant quality dish from TLE.....she steamed some wild rice, and cut up some spring onions which she sprinkled across the top of the dish.  We had some Saki left, so I got that as a bonus.....what a dinner!

For our second game night of this season we pulled out the Backgammon board and played 5 games.  TLE won the 1st and 3rd games on the final roll of the dice, and I won the 2nd and 4th games easily.  The 5th and final game came down to the final roll of the dice for me, and left me victorious in the rubber match.  Of the three games we play on game nights (Yahtzee, Phase 10, and Backgammon) Backgammon requires the most strategy, but even good strategy can be spoiled by the luck of the roll.  On this night the dice favored moi.

Oh, by the way, we did get a reservation for a two hour rental to begin at 2 pm, so Hunter handled that.  The interesting thing is the couple did not arrive until 2:30 pm in their Tesla whose batteries were down to 16% with just 37 miles left in  them after driving in from Riverside.  The nearest charging station is in Indio, around 47 miles from GNHS....doh!  They didn't have their adapter with them, which would have allowed them to plug into one of our electrical outlets....double doh!  Anyway, they had to call AAA to come and haul the Tesla back to the charging station after their ride was finished.....that was an expensive rental for them!  I am still wondering why they continued on past the charging station knowing they would not have enough battery power left to get back?  I would have called and asked us for a 'rain check' (which we have done before), plugged my Tesla into the charging station, and gone home to try again next weekend, but that's just me....lmao!!!  Well, they also rolled the dice, but they came up 'snake eyes'!

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