Walkin' and soakin'....

 8:16 am - Monday - December 18th - GNHS - 52° F, humidity 57%, wind 5 mph out of the southeast.....cloudy today with a forecast high of 67° F.  On this date in 2021 TLE and I hiked to the snake rock sculpture about 1.5 miles from our Anza Borrego Desert boondock site.....↴

You can see TLE standing in the background for perspective of how large this sculpture is

By Sunday morning the number of customers in the park was close to zero, and with no advance bookings we did not open the COA office.  Instead TLE and I took another out and back walk down Mineral Hot Spa Road covering the 2 mile distance in just under 40 minutes, and averaging around 3.1 mph....

....when we returned I set up the outdoor TV so we could watch another English Premier soccer match between Liverpool and Manchester United, which we thought would be a good game, and it was.  We both got fresh cups of coffee to enjoy while we watched the complete match.  The air was balmy, and it was delightful to be sitting outdoors. Both teams, as expected, played stellar defense, and the final score of 0-0 reflected that.

After the finish of that match I took some time to repair the right arm rest of my Adirondack chair.  The three wood screws affixing it to the frame had worked their way loose over time.  At first I thought I would just use longer screws, but the next size I had in stock were too long, and would have protruded through the arm rest (they are screwed in from underneath the armrest), and that would have been uncomfortable, lol.  So, what to do?  Well, I put a dab of wood glue into each of the three holes, then screwed the armrest down to the frame, and then let it sit for a few hours.  The glue, theoretically, will keep the three screws from backing out again....we'll see.  So far, so good.  While I was at it I tightened all the screws and bolts on my chair, and then did the same to TLE's Adirondack.

With that job completed I retrieved my anti gravity chair, set it up, and proceeded to watch an NFL game between the Buffalo Bills and the Dallas Cowboys in Buffalo.  The Cowboys have been on a roll this year averaging 40 points per game for the last month, or more, and the Bills have suffered a lot of last minute defeats, so it appeared Dallas had the edge.  Not so fast!  Buffalo held Dallas to just 3 points in the first half, and by the end of the game won handily 31-10....you just never know.

By that time I was ready for another soak, so I headed down to the hot pools/tubs to do just that.  There was just one customer there, so I pretty much had the place to myself again.....

Life is good

....it was a beautiful afternoon with interesting cloud formations.  The water coming out of the tap (foreground) was around 110° F on this day, so I had to add about 5 gallons of pool water to get the temp down to around 105° F....perfect! 

With TLE's help we moved a few things around in the trailer, and consolidated some other things to make the trailer interior a little less congested, but there is still a long way to go in divesting ourselves of too much stuff....it is a slow process, but every time we work at it we can see results, and we are making progress.

With the cloud cover we had most of the day there were no Chocolate Mountains to be lit, and really no sunset of which to speak....

A rather muted sunset

No Chocolate Mountains light show this date

.....and with that another GNHS days came to an end.  It appears we'll have rain Thursday and Friday this week....maybe up to 1/2" of precipitation.....

.....so we've got that to look forward to.  We've got lot of advance bookings starting this weekend, and through New Years, so buckle up and follow along!

Thanks for stopping by!