Change of plans.....

 7:52 am - Tuesday - January 20th - TWW  - 27° F, humidity 22%, cloud cover 2%, wind 7 mph out of the east.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 58° F.  the view this morning.....

.....and on this date in 2025 TLE were checking into the Hotel St. Michael for an overnight stay, and had lunch at the Bistro St. Michael.....

....it was about this time I discovered we had left TWW without my overnight bag....no clothes, no toiletries....doh!  A quick run to Walmart solved that problem....lol!

Amazingly, it has been about 2 weeks since we last dumped our black tank, and refilled our fresh water tank, and it was obvious  Monday morning that needed to be done without further delay, so after posting my latest entry to to Blogger we headed outside to do just that.  Within minutes we had run our 175' of fresh water hose to the greenhouse hose bib, and began adding almost 100 gallons into our fresh water tank....in two weeks we had used just 100 of the 160 gallons of fresh water!  I think that's a new record for us.

I had planned to work on a project out at the garage Monday, but I noticed one of the vinyl floor planks in our coach had some damage, plus there were 5, or 6 others with dents from dropping stuff which needed attention, so our plans for the day changed.  We pulled all area rugs out of the coach, then swept the floor.  At that point we began inspecting all the planks, writing black X's on the ones needing replacement.  When we finished the total planks needed was 7.  Up until last winter we'd been carrying around two boxes of the vinyl planks left over from when we redid the floor in 2023.  Now that we can store stuff in the garage we left those two boxes here when we left last April, knowing we'd need them this winter.  We have about 50 vinyl planks left, so we can repair this floor indefinitely as the need arises.  We had the old, damaged planks removed, and the 7 new ones installed within an hour.

We also needed to restock our egg supply so I contacted Dawn and Matt, who live about 2 miles from TWW, to see what they had available.  TLE wanted 3 dozen of the unwashed, pasture raised chicken eggs, and Dawn advised she had what we needed, so after we finished refreshing our flooring, we headed over to her home in the Yamaha Rhino.  Even though we only asked, and paid for 3 dozen Dawn threw in an extra dozen for free. which she has done often in the past.  We always enjoy talking with them, and catching up on what is happening around the area.  They've been living off the grid here for 6, or 7 years, so they know a lot of people.  Dawn even runs a local Facebook group dedicated to news about our community, and that is how I met her originally.

Monday was also the day of the NCAA College Football Championship final between Indiana and Miami.  The way Indian had destroyed the opposing teams in the last two games led us to believe this might be a one sided affair, and for a while it was, but ultimately Miami was within 6 points with 1 minute 45 seconds to go in the game, and was making a drive down the field to win the game.  With about 45 seconds left their quarterback threw a beautiful pass downfield, and it appeared the receiver would catch it for an easy touchdown, but at the last second the defender swooped in front of the receiver and intercepted the ball to end the game.  It was the best college championship game in years, and even though we were rooting for Miami (TLE's home town) we still loved the game.  Miami has won 6 National Championships over the years, and Indiana zero, so it was nice to see a program which had lived most of its life in obscurity come out on top for their first National Championship....congratulations Hoosiers!

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