Is that rain on the roof?

7:22 am - Thursday - December 21st - GNHS - 57° F, 70% humidity, wind 4 mph out of the south......cloudy today with a forecast high of 67° F, and rain later today through Friday.  On this date in 2017 we awoke to snow on the ground at the Grand Canyon.  It was 18° F when this picture was taken......↴

By Wednesday morning my right knee was feeling much better, and I was able to walk without a limp for the first time since Sunday.  Getting old is not for the faint of heart.  When I was 19 I would have gotten over something like this in a few days, but at 74 it is taking weeks, not days.....ugh!

Even though my knee was feeling better I decided to place myself under house arrest for a third day, and that made TLE happy.  I alternated between ice and heat most of the morning, and then around 12:30 pm I walked, without limping, down to the hot pools/tubs to take another soak.  The water in the tubs was coming out around 120° F, so it took around three 5 gallon buckets of pool water to get it down to where I could handle it.  The heat was great, and after 30 minutes I was ready to walk back to the Newell, and what a painless walk it was!

Wednesday was also the day we needed to dump our black tank.  This job usually falls to me to do, but TLE offered to help, so I would not have to walk back and forth from one side of the coach to the other, and that was nice.  With her help the job was done in about 20 minutes, and we were good for another 10 days.  I usually fill the black tank with fresh water three times after dumping it to be sure all the effluent has been removed, and that is what takes most of the time.  The water pressure here is not very good, so it takes a while to fill the tank each time.  At LPG&RVR the water pressure is great, and the entire process takes about 10 minutes beginning to end.

Around 1:30 pm, right after I returned from the hot tub, I began to hear what sounded like rain on the roof.  We weren't expecting rain until Thursday, so it took a second for it to register.  The unexpected rainfall continued on and off until after sunset.  There was enough sun peaking through the clouds just before sunset to partially light up the Chocolates, and provide us with a modest sunset picture....

....it is always kind of weird to go outside here at GNHS and see the pavement wet in every direction.  It does not rain a lot during the winter here, so when it does it is kind of a shock to the senses.  Most of the annual rainfall in this area comes during the summer monsoons......

....as the evening wore on my the improvement in my knee seemed to accelerate.  After 3 days of almost constant pain I was able to move about, or sit pain free.  As I sit here typing this morning it is a little stiff, so I will reapply the ice, and then go to heat as I have for the previous 3 days, and maybe there will be another soak in the mineral hot springs tub.

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