2nd full day.....

 7:36 am - Saturday - November 1st - TWW - 50° F, humidity 16%, wind 4 mph out of the east by southeast.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 76° F.  On this date in 2011 TLE and I were dry camping at Rincon Parkway.....

....right next to the Pacific Ocean just north of Ventura, CA.....we pretty much had the place to ourselves.

When we have the Winter off work we rarely, if ever, get up before 7 am.  Every day feels like Saturday again, especially here at The Wilson Wilderness, where we get to decide every day what will do, and for how long we will do it.  Friday was our second full day here  this winter so we still had a lot to do getting our site set up for the Winter.  We had big aspirations: 1) tilt the roof top solar panels on the Newell, 2) pull out all of our artificial turf pieces to begin setting up the 'lido deck', and 3) organize the trailer interior.  That, my friends, is one big bite of the proverbial apple, especially for two folks in the later half of their 8th decade.

I'm super happy we only have to tilt those roof top solar panels up, and then down twice per year....I don't go up and down ladders as fast as I once did, and now, for my own safety, TLE is there holding the ladder.  It took us about 40 minutes to get them cleaned, and tilted....

....then we turned our attention to dragging out the artificial turf, which doesn't take too long, but that big piece we've had for over 10 years is big, and heavy.  Once again within an hour they were all unfolded, and in place between the Newell and the trailer....

....with the additional pieces we bought last summer, we can now walk from the Newell to the trailer without shoes, or flip flops.  TLE also added the red sun screen for the afternoon sun (the Newell faces due east).  By the time we finished that I was ready for a break, and changed from my long sleeve shirt, and overalls to a t-shirt and shorts for the afternoon session.

Next up was to bring order out of chaos in the trailer.  We packed everything away in there back on October 8th, so it's the first time anything in there has seen the light of day in a while.  We first removed things that will go into storage in the garage for the winter, and then began to set up tables for our pantry annex, and my tools.....

Chaos has been replaced by order

The pantry annex with a small table of various types of hammers and mallets

The tool table

The Black & Decker Workmate

....by the time we finished with the trailer (about 90% done) it was after 2 pm, and time for a snack, and a short nap.  Frankly, I'm amazed we got it mostly all done in one day....actually less than 5 hours.

By the way, I neglected to mention in yesterday's post that Ken from Yavapai Bottle Gas was able to come out Thursday afternoon to replumb our 120 gallon tank into the Newell.  I was pretty sure I could do it, but it's worth $75 to have a professional do it, and make sure nothing is leaking, and that all of our appliances still worked.  I wasn't expecting him to to be able to come out that soon.  Next Tuesday Yavapai will come and fill our tank which sits at 36% right now.

Late afternoon TLE and I went out to water the small orchard we have here (almond, pecan, apple, plumb, nectarine, and peach) as well as our garden next to the greenhouse (onions and potatoes right now).....

....by the time we finished it was time for a shower, and dinner.  

It was a good second day with a lot accomplished, and now the rest of the setup is easy by comparison.  We need to reattach the hardline sewer connection in the next few days before we need to dump our black tank.  Our IBC water tote is full, and ready to resupply our fresh water tank.  For our evening entertainment we watched recorded episodes of Survivor (1), and Amazing Race (2), and were in bed a little after 9 pm.

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