Snow day.....

 5:58 am - Sunday - November 17th - TWW - 30° F, humidity 69%, wind 8 mph out of the east by northeast.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 51° F.  On this date in 2015 TLE and I were enjoying our 6th Rincon Parkway sunset.....

The weather report indicated a small dusting of snow overnight, but you never know how accurate the weathers will be.  Personally, I was hoping for NO snow.  We were planning to drive to Prescott Saturday, so went to bed early, and were up by 5:30 am to find this....

....it appeared we had received somewhere between 3 and 4" of snow overnight.  TLE and I are no strangers to snow as nomads.  As you know we spent an entire winter (2017-18) at 7,000' elevation at the Grand Canyon and awoke to snow many times.  This was a very 'dry' snow, but when it melted everything got muddy.  With it still snowing at 5:30 am, and so much snow on the ground we made a game time decision NOT to drive to Prescott, postponing that trip until Sunday.  Since we had declared a snow day, what better way to spend it than in the big house with a roaring wood burning stove providing wonderful warmth, watching NCAA college football....

....so that is what we did for the entire day.  We never got out of our pajamas....perfect! You can see there are kettles on the wood burning stove....we used that very hot water to make tea throughout the day, whilst occasionally adding wood to keep the stove at its hottest.  

I wasn't a total slackard Saturday.  I think I've mentioned that Charles and Phyllis have a Gen 3 Starlink setup, but it was kept outside when they are here for internet, but when they would leave it would be brought back inside, and disconnected.  Charles ordered the 'wall passthrough' kit from Starlink, but hadn't had time to install it, so I offered to do so Saturday, and Charles accepted.....

Through the living room wall out to the deck

Now the router and power supply can reside fulltime in the house....they are water proof, by the way, but it is better if they are inside out of the elements

The deck pass through is complete

....Starlink provides everything for the installation of the 'passthrough' including a tube of clear silicone to seal the hole, a long drill bit to drill the test hole, and the hole saw to enlarge the hole.  All you need is a drill.  I took me less than 15 minutes beginning to end.

TLE and I knew at the beginning of the day we would HAVE to dump the black tank, so around 1 pm, when the outside temps were at their zenith, we did the deed, returning quickly to the warm confines of the big house for the rest of the day.  It was nice to have a day off work, and just laze about.  TLE made dinner (mushroom/onion Alfredo) in the Newell, but brought it into the house for our dining pleasure.

My USC Trojans finally managed to hold a 4th quarter lead and win their game against Nebraska Saturday 28-20.  They'd played 9 games prior to Saturday, loosing 4th quarter leads right at the end of the game in 5 of them I think.  Their record was 4-5 coming into the game, so they are at least back to .500 at 5-5.  For me, that was the highlight of the day, although there were several other interesting games of the 'close' variety.

We're slowing adapting to the cold weather.  As you know, we don't sleep with any of our heaters running, so when we get up, usually around 7 am on most days, there is a mad scramble to get all three gas heaters on, and warming up the Newell interior.  Most mornings it has been in the mid to low 40's inside, but this morning (Sunday) it was 37° F....ugh!  Thankfully, those Suburban heaters warm the interior up pretty quickly.  After turning on the three heaters I hop back into bed with TLE to let the interior warm before getting dressed.....takes about 10-15 minutes depending on how cold it got during the night.  Right now it is a 'balmy' 68° F inside...actually quite comfortable.

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