Half day off.....

7:03 am - Monday - November 25th - TWW - 34° F, humidity 72%, wind 5 mph out of the southeast....partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 60° F.  On this date in 2021 TLE and I were boondocking with our kids at Ocotillo Wells (near the Salton Sea) for the Thanksgiving weekend....

 .....I think we had 10 RVs there that weekend.  The view this morning.....

.....looks like more high cloudiness to go along with that forecast 60° F.

I have developed a sort of morning routine here at TWW....I'm most always the first one up, and my task is to 'light the fires' so to speak.  First I turn on our gas oven to kind of take the chill off the Newell interior, without any noise, then hop back into bed.  Once the temp has risen a few degrees I get out of bed again, and go outside to turn on the big Champion generator to power our charger/converter, then turn on the three gas furnaces.  Why, do you ask?  Well, part of the service I will be performing on the three furnaces will be to refresh the 12 volt electrical connections for each furnace, which seem to be less than 100% after 44 years.  When the voltage to the furnaces is not high enough, due to the compromised 12 volt connections, they squeal like 'stuck pigs'.  Firing up the Champion generator boosts the voltage to the heaters sufficiently to prevent the irritating squealing.  Once I refresh the connections this should not be an issue anymore....that's my yet to be proven theory.

Next I check the charge on the Bluetti battery bank, and if low, I turn on the Honda EU2000i to give them a boost before the sun gets high enough to begin charging them via the solar panels.  By this time the Newell interior is quite hospitable, and I can make some coffee, take my daily pill ration, and get to writing my latest blog post.  TLE is usually stirring by this point, and joins me in the Salon to welcome in a new day at TWW.

Our main focus of Sunday was to begin the assembly of our new cedar shed.  Don't you love the smell of cedar?  When we opened up the box containing all that cedar on Saturday the fragrance was almost overwhelming....like opening a new bag of coffee beans.  Monday morning, with the assistance of Charles and Phyllis, we unloaded the box....

One of the rear panels for the shed

The freshly assembled shed floor

....our first task was to assemble the floor (above) of the shed, which went pretty smoothly.  The wood pallet to which the shed box was strapped, is really quite nice, with pretty nice plywood, so TLE and I are inclined to place it under the newly assemble shed floor.... 

In this picture you can see we have placed the large wooden pallet under the shed floor we assembled Sunday

....Charles and Phyllis left for their return drive to Phoenix while we were assembling the floor.  By the time we finished the floor, which was our goal for Sunday, it was after 12 pm.  I spent the rest of the afternoon watching NFL football, which I haven't done in a while.  It was nice to have half a day off work.  We'll get back to the shed assembly first thing Monday.  Our goal is to have it mostly assembled by Monday afternoon, applying the finishing touches on Tuesday. We'll see how that plays out in real time....lol.

The afternoon was delightful....the Dallas Cowboys broke a 5 game losing streak, and the K.C. Chiefs barely won their game with a last second field goal to win by 3. My Denver Broncos won their game over the Raiders, and Seahawks bested the Cardinals.  Regrettably, my L.A Rams got clobbered by the Eagles to end the NFL festivities for Sunday.

We were treated to a beautiful sunset, which was not viewed via a sunset fire....too breezy for that.  I did venture out for a few minutes to memorialize the light effects....

....and thus another TWW day came to an end.  

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