Dampening expectations......

 6:22 am - Sunday - November 3rd - TWW - 33° F, humidity 74%, wind 2 mph out of the south by southeast.....forecast of rain later this morning with a forecast high of 50° F.  On this date in 2011 TLE and I were boondocking on Rincon Parkway north of Ventura, CA right next to the Pacific Ocean....TLE looks so mellow....

Saturday was forecast to be a chilly day with the high barely hitting 55° F.  It was mostly heavy cloud cover, but no precipitation, thankfully!  Our goal for Saturday was to get the wood stove in the house working properly.  You could light a fire in it, but as soon as you closed the door it would die, meaning it was not getting any air through the damper control.  We knew we had the damper open, but no air was making it inside the stove.  To fix that problem we had to remove all the ash, then vacuum out the entirety of the interior of the stove.  After about an 90 minutes we were satisfied with our work, and brought in some kindling wood to prove whether, or not our labor was in vain, or not in vain.....

....me thinks our labor was not in vain!  Of course there was ash everywhere, so TLE dusted, and I vacuumed, and after another 30 minutes the living room was once again clean, and the temperature was steadily rising.  Ultimately, before we let the fire die, the room temperature got to 71° F....not too bad.

I spent another couple of hours chopping up kindling wood for the wood stove, so when Charles and Phyllis return they will have a way of heating the house.  Why is that you ask?  Well until the new water pump gets installed, giving the house water pressure (the impeller on the old one exploded), they can't fill the gas water heater, or run the propane heaters, or get the new stove connections inspected by the propane guy, so he can certify the system, and allow the propane to flow from our very full onsite propane tank.....it's kind of a domino thing.

Once I was done with chopping wood, I headed inside to spend the afternoon watching college football.  That's the first time I've done that in at least 3 weeks, and it was nice sitting in my recliner in the warm confines of the Newell, dozing, and watching college football...nice!

That was, in a nutshell, our day.  Our list of things to do is shortening a little.....

.....the clouds on the western horizon cleared just a little giving us a nice sunset....there was no sunset fire as it was too cold, and breezy according to TLE....

....and thus ended our 13th day at The Wilson Wilderness.  Thanks for stopping by!