The water wagon.....

 7:35 am - Wednesday - January 7th - TWW - 31° F, humidity 80%, cloud cover 77%, wind 2 mph out of the southeast.....cloudy today with a forecast high of 45° F.  The view this morning.....

....tomorrow, January 8th, the high will be 35° F with a low of 18° F, and Friday pretty much the same.  There will probably be some more rain, and also snow in the next few days.

We had not planned to go to Seligman this week, but the growing scarcity of produce made it a necessity, plus our PO Box had received a number of items we ordered from Amazon late last week, so we decided to make a dash into town around 10 am to  do some shopping and retrieve our Amazon orders from the Post Office.  Much to our surprise as we turned from the east/west arterial onto the main north/south arterial we saw that they were scraping it smooth again with a road grader.  The last time it was done was back in mid October, just before we arrived.  Usually they scrape that road every 60 days, but it is just one week shy of 3 months since then.  When the road is smooth, we can reach Route 66 in less than 10 minutes, but when it is washboardy as it has been for a long time now, it takes 10-15 minutes to egress, even with the Explorer.

We reached town around 10:30 am, stopping first at the Route 66 General Store (hardware store, mostly) where we filled up another propane tank, and one of our 5 gallon diesel containers in advance of the very cold weather coming on Thursday and Friday.  We'll probably have to run our diesel heater 24 hours per day for a few days to keep the greenhouse inside temperature at a livable temperature until this cold front passes through the area.  

From there we drove over to the Post Office to retrieve our packages, and while I was about that TLE walked over to Family Dollar to buy a few things.  Our final stop was the Seligman Market to buy produce, and according to TLE they had a great selection on this day.  That is not always the case, but this winter, more often than not, they have had a good selection.

We were home by 12:30 pm, and by 1 pm Charles and Phyllis had arrived for a two day stay.  Once they had unpacked their Ford truck, Charles hooked up the water trailer, and for the first time in 2 months we headed to the water station to pump just under 2,000 gallons of water into the six IBC water totes on the trailer. At TWW we have one 2,500 gallon tank out by the orchard, and two additional 2,500 gallon tanks at the water tower next to the house.  The orchard tank is just about empty, and the water tower tanks have around 1,500 gallons left.  We'll make one more water run Wednesday to top off the tower water tanks, and then we will not have to worry about water for a while again.....

.....it takes 45 minutes to an hour to fill all six IBC totes on the trailer.  When we arrived at the water tower it was 2:15 pm.  There were two people ahead of us with single 300 gallon water tanks to fill, so by the time we filled our six it was just after 3:15 pm, and around 3:40 pm when we got home.

We had dinner around 5 pm, and for the first time in a few weeks I took and 'usie'.....

.....those Houghtaling (Hoteling) girls have great smiles (Houghtaling is their maiden name).

Thanks for stopping by!