Amazon Christmas....

7:40 am - Wednesday - November 20th - TWW - 27° F, humidity 40%, wind 7 mph out of the east by southeast.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 62° F.  On this date in 2015 we enjoyed our final sunset at Rincon Parkway (north of Ventura)....the sky was on fire that night....

We were expecting Charles and Phyllis some time mid morning, along with their handyman, Matt, however Matt arrived around 8:45 am, with Charles and Phyllis following 20 minutes later, so we were still in our pajamas....lol!  

Matt was back at TWW to go under the raised foundation of the house to see if any of the plumbing was leaking, since we had lost water from the upper 2,500 gallon tank.  The upper tank needs to be close to full when priming the new water pump.  Last week they were unable to keep the pump primed, so they checked the upper tank to find the water was down quite a bit.  There were leaks originally detected in the plumbing for the two 2,500 gallon tanks and those had been fixed a few weeks ago, so now the leak is either under the house, or in the ground between the tanks and the house.

While that was going on TLE and I were opening Amazon/eBay packages like it was Christmas morning.  It's been about 10 days since Charles and Phyllis were last here so there were a lot of orders in the pipeline that all came in within the past 3, or 4 days.  One of the packages had a, new to TLE, pair of Carhartt bib overalls....

....along with the cool, used,  Born work boots she scored at 'Saver's on Sunday, she is now, officially, ready for some outdoor work!  She looks kind of fetching with that braid, and bib overalls, doesn't she?  She also received a pair of Carhartt bibs with a quilted lining for when it gets really cold.

The long and the short of Matt's excursion under the house was that there are NO leaks to be found, so it has to be underground between the house and the tanks.  He will come back Thursday with a trencher to run a new water line from the storage tanks to the house, and disconnect the old underground line, so we should be good to go, but I've said that before, haven't I?

Everyone was gone by 1 pm, leaving TLE and I to our own devices for the rest of the day.  I took time to assemble three more of those food storage boxes for our long term food supply, which were in one of the boxes we received, so now we have six....

....they'll get filled in short order.  Additionally, we received a boot scraper to scrub the dirt, dust and mud from our shoes before we enter the coach. Keeping the coach floors free of dirt, and outdoor detritus is a full time job as we are in and out of the Newell many times during the day....

.....the final big thing we received is another metal shelving unit for the garage, which TLE and I will assemble Wednesday, plus Charles and Phyllis brought a new roof, and windshield for the Yamaha Rhino they had ordered recently.  Finally, I received several packages of 12 volt electrical connections to resupply my stock in the trailer....I've gone through a lot of those since we arrived.

Another task needing my attention was getting Phyllis' Newell batteries recharged.  I didn't turn off the battery isolator switches soon enough after they arrived and the batteries totally discharged, so I pulled out the large Champion 7,500 kw generator and let it do the work.  Within a few hours the batteries were good to go again.  Now I just need to remember to turn off those two isolator switches...lol!

We had a beautiful sunset, but no sunset fire, as it was too breezy....

.....and thus another day in TWW came to an end....so much to do, but so much time to get it all done.  Just have to keep plugging away, one day at a time.

Thanks for stopping by!