8:28 am - Thursday - May 22nd - LPG&RVR - 56° F, humidity 33%, wind 9 mph out of the northwest......mostly clear skies today with a forecast high of 70° F. On this date in 2012 TLE and I were spending a few days at Craters of the Moon National Monument in southern Idaho. While there we were able to observe a partial solar eclipse.....
.....I was trying to take a picture of the eclipse, but it didn't come out, however, in that red blob below the sun you can see the eclipse....how that happened I don't know.
I always have a bunch of small projects needing my attention around the Newell/American Trailer floating around in my head, and Wednesday seemed like as good a day as any to cross a few of them off that mental list. First up I finally installed a power strip/surge protector I bought way back in January off Amazon....
....surprisingly this took me more time than the other projects combined....lol. When we were staying overnight at the Hotel St. Michael in Prescott, AZ this past January the hotel room had some of these deployed around the room. In addition to the regular 120 VAC outlets there are also USB ports.
Next I used silicone caulk to reseal a seam on the right rear window awning (TLE's bedroom window awning), then used the last of the Sunbrella swatches I got from ZipDee many, many years ago to cover over a rub hole in the patio awning.....
.....the latches have been opening while in transit, especially on our trip back north to LPG&RVR, so it was time to figure out how to tighten them....
.....they're not as straightforward as they look, and it took me about 45 minutes to figure out how to properly adjust them so they stay latched while in transit. I do run a fabric strap across all three doors when we are traveling, and it has been held them mostly closed when the latches open, but I don't want them to open in the first place. They are all tight once again. I love working on small projects like these, and on this particular day was able to get a lot of them done.
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