A year in the making.....

 8:06 am - Saturday - February 7th - TWW - 33° F, humidity 30%, cloud cover 7%, wind 4 mph out of the east by southeast.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 63° F.  The view this morning....

.....and on this date in 2022 I was polishing our four ALCOA aluminum wheels on the Newell....

.....it took about 4 hours to clean 6 months of salt air from the Coastal Oregon off of them.

First thing Friday morning TLE and I took another 1 mile out and back walk.....our 9th of this winter....

......once again we averaged 3.0 mph over the course of the 1 mile walk burning 166 caloric units and gaining 42 feet in elevation....

....next we dumped our black tank, and refilled our fresh water tank, which we hadn't done for 11 days (of course we were gone for 2 days for Phyllis and Charles' wedding).  We're getting pretty good at this, and it only took 30 minutes this time.  We only used 85 gallons of fresh water the last 11 days.....that's around 7.73 gallons per day.  

Now that the Ford 420 diesel tractor is running again, and quite well I might add, it was time to finish the new RV site for Phyllis' Newell.  We figured we had 4-5 bucket loads of grave left to finish the site, and that was just the amount we needed.  After dumping and spreading four bucket loads of gravel she was finished....

.....by 1:30 pm we were officially done, and all that remains is to move Phyllis' Newell to the new site, which we will try to do in the next few days.  We began working on this new RV site last Winter, so finally completing it was a major accomplishment for us.

I spent the afternoon disassembling the wind turbine we tried to use last year, but never worked.  As we were getting ready to leave TWW last Spring we took it down, and left it at the back of the garage in front of the Jeep.  I meant to disassemble it when we first arrived back in late October, but never seemed to find the time until Friday.  It took me from 2 pm until 3:30 pm to completely disassemble it, and stow it, which is part of the reason I procrastinated.

Around 5:15 pm we headed out to the 'sunset deck' to light a fire, and watch the sun descend towards the western horizon.  There was a cigar, and two fingers of Scotch, and some Classic Vinyl music....

The sun just 'kissing' the western horizon around 6:05 pm

.....we were out there until after 6:30 pm as the sunset continued to evolve.  By 7 pm we were back inside watching the opening ceremonies for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina, Italia.  I'm not a big fan of 'opening ceremonies', but this one was about as classy as I have seen in all the years I've been watching the Olympics....Winter or Summer.

Our  EcoWorthy dual axis solar tracker tilted at 7:59 am Friday, and for the 4th consecutive day we did not employ our Predator 500 dual fuel generator to add any electrons to our two battery banks.  Electrically speaking, we are on auto pilot....the system continues to regenerate itself each day without any outside assistance.  I know there are heavily cloudy days in our near future when we will need the Predator's assistance, but for the next 4-5 days we are good.

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