On our own for the next 3.5 weeks......

 7:35 am - Friday - February 6th - TWW - 38° F, humidity 31%, cloud cover 29%, wind 5 mph out of the east by southeast....partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 62° F.  The view this morning.....

.....and on this date in 2012 TLE were watching a sunrise in Indio, CA....we had just began our nomadic journey six days earlier.....

.......later that day we crossed out of California into Arizona on our way to Texas, and would not return to California again until November of 2013.

Our EcoWorthy dual axis solar tracker tilted at 8:00 am Thursday.  We have not run the generator since Monday evening (February 2nd), and have managed to fully charge both banks of batteries with only solar input each day.  

Elaine and Phyllis worked on the outdoor growing beds first thing Thursday, and Charles repaired, and enhanced the watering system before they left for their return trip to Phoenix....

 ....we will probably not see them again until either the very end of February, or early March as they will be in Texas for two weeks beginning the 11th, so we've got the place to ourselves for almost a month!

They left around mid morning, and then TLE and I took our first 1 mile out and back walk in  a long time here at TWW....

.....we managed 3 mph over the course of the mile walk.

After the walk I began taking down the old solar security lights to be replaced by the more compact ones I recently purchased, while TLE focused on a couple loads of laundry.  One set of the old solar lights was mounted on the dog kennel, and the rest on the front of the house.  Since they were mounted pretty high on both the dog kennel and the house I had to use one of the very tall 'A' frame ladders to reach them.....

The old....

The new...

....next I installed one more piece of fiberglass corrugated roofing to a patch of single layer fencing next to the south gate of the greenhouse....

....which we had missed the other day.  We're just about ready to plant potatoes again, so we'll see if our modifications to the fencing keep the cottontail rabbits out of those growing beds.  By this time it was after 2:30 pm, and time to wrap it up for the day.  

For the first time in a long time we had a sunset fire.  With the sun setting later and later now we have time to eat dinner, and still get out there by 5:15 to watch the 6:o5 pm sunset....

....it wasn't what I would call a spectacular sunset, but it good enough for the occasion.  And thus ended another TWW day!  Thanks for stopping by!