Gravel time.....

 7:16 am - Sunday - January 26th - TWW  - 32° F, humidity 39%, wind 9 mph out of the southeast......crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 50° F.  On this date in 2018 TLE, our daughter Meredith, and I were riding the Grand Canyon Railroad from Williams, AZ to the Grand Canyon Village....

.....the view this morning......

As cold days go, Saturday was not that cold, however, if the wind had been  blowing it would have been very cold.  Since rain/snow are being forecast for Monday (70% chance as I write) we wanted to get the 'underlayment' down on our new site by Sunday afternoon, and a layer of gravel upon that to keep the ground underneath from getting wet, and spongy as red clay dirt is inclined to get when it rains.  We also needed to refill our fresh water tank as it was down to under 40 gallons, so I pulled out the battery we use to power the water pump, and began to fill the tank....it takes 20-30 minutes to put in over a 100 gallons of water so while that was ongoing I fired up the Ford tractor to begin hauling gravel.  While it was warming up we unboxed a 12' x 40' piece of underlayment which perfectly covered the site I had cleared on Friday.

In all I moved four buckets of gravel to the site, then the hard work began....raking it all out to cover the entire sheet of underlayment, and make it level......

....I'll need to haul a least two more buckets of gravel Sunday morning to completely cover the underlayment so none of it remains exposed.  We were done filling the water tank, and raking the gravel by 1 pm, just as the winds began to return.  The Ford tractor worked well, and I am getting used to the controls, which are way different than those of the Kubota tractor I used at Seal Rocks RV Resort back in 2020-21.  Having access to a running tractor is a real game changer here at TWW

It was pretty much cloudy all day Saturday so the Predator 5000 ran quite a bit in order to get the Bluetti AC200MAX battery pack recharged, as well as the house batteries.  I even had to hook up the Honda EU2000i generator to the Bluetti that powers the trailer to get it back to 100%, which it did in about an hour of run time.  That's the first time since I hooked up those two 325 watt solar panels to keep it charged.  Both Bluetti battery packs got back to 100%, but the house batteries only got to 80% with little, or no sun on the rooftop solar panels.

I did something Saturday afternoon I haven't done in some time....watched a golf tournament all afternoon.  The Farmers Open was in progress at Torrey Pines Gold Club in San Diego, CA.  The weather there was very similar to the weather here in Northern Arizona....windy, blustery, and cold.  It looks like SoCal is going to get about 1/2" of rain today (Sunday), and with the rain after those fires there will probably be some mudslides in the burn areas.....hope it is not too bad.  Those poor people in Malibu, Pacific Palisades, and Altadena/Pasadena don't need anymore misery.

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