A long delayed project.....

 7:46 am - Saturday - January 24th - TWW - 31° F, humidity 62%, cloud cover 73%, wind 2 mph out of the south by southeast.....heavy cloud cover as I write with a chance of rain/snow this morning, and a forecast high of 42° F, with an overnight low of 16° F.  The view this morning.....

.....and on this date in 2013 TLE watched our 28th sunset at the Tiki Bar located at Low Key Hideaway in Cedar Key, FL.....

....sometimes these sunsets would last 40-50 minutes.

You may recall, but maybe you won't since it's been so long, but last winter we began to create another RV site, and in the middle of that process the Ford 420 quit running, and even though we got the tractor running again, we never got back to finishing the site, which is just to the northwest of our site.....

.....in that circle you can see the pile of dirt I scraped toward the north to begin leveling the site last winter.  That is far as we got until Friday.  We had just gotten the tractor running again, so I proposed to TLE that the first thing we should do is finish that site.  I never expected to get is 90% done in just a few hours, but we did.....

Making progress

Getting it level from side to side, and front to back

Level and compacted

Underlayment down

Haulin' gravel

Almost done after one year!

You can see the black sewer connection in the middle of the picture above

.....the site measures 10' wide by 40' long. We managed to get it about 90% done before we called it quits for the day.  We have about 3 more buckets of gravel available, and I don't think we'll need that much to finish.  Once we get the site finished we can then move Phyllis' Newell to its permanent site. Special thanks once again to TLE for her help, especially raking out that gravel, which is not easy by any means.

The skies were mostly cloudy Friday, but all of our battery banks charged back to 100% by early afternoon.  It's nice not worrying about our electrical system.  There is something about living off grid that is extremely satisfying, and liberating.  We pay no electrical bills, no sewer bills, and a microscopic water bill of about $20/month, or less.  I know we had to make the initial investment in the batteries  (The Bluetti 2,200 watt hour battery which powers the trailer, the almost 7,000 watt hour Bluetti battery bank which provides AC to the Newell, and the Cloud Energy 300 amp hour batteries which provide mostly DC power while we are at TWW for the Newell, but also AC power when we are on the road), but they will have paid for themselves within another year, or less.

Thanks for stopping by!