This adventure.....

 8:47 am - Monday - February 16th - TWW - 44° F, humidity 42%, cloud cover 59%, wind 13 mph out of the south by southeast.....cloudy, and a forecast high of 52° F, and winds 25-30 mph with gusts to 50 mph today.  The view this morning....

.....and on this day in 2013 TLE and I were on Marathon Key of Florida Keys fame....

.....we drove our 2002 T-Bird the rest of the way to Key West...the furthest, southern most point in the U.S.

We expected to have to run our Predator 5000 dual fuel generator Sunday a goodly portion of the morning due to cloud cover, but the clouds unexpectedly parted enough for a few hours enabling us to shut her down after only 90 minutes, and let the sun take us the rest of the way to 100% charge.  

We decided to make Sunday a rest day after getting a lot of work done this past week.  Round four of the AT&T Pebble Beach Invitational was playing on the TV all day where we saw Scottie Scheffler come from 8 strokes down to finish his round tied at 20 under par with three other players.  However, the other players still had 6, or 7 holes to play when he finished, and ultimately one of them, Colin Morikawa won at 22 under par. It was, however, an exciting round four which saw 8-10 golfers in position to win at any given time.

Winds were forecast for Sunday, but they never really materialized, which is always a good thing.  We are fully expecting the forecast winds for Monday and Tuesday to materialize, and even possibly rain Monday night, so we are prepared, but if those forecasts fail we are ready to get more work done.  

I've been thinking about how interesting this winter has been so far, and how much time TLE and I have had to ourselves in this beautiful, tranquil, and amazingly quiet location.  We have this kind of unified vision of what needs to be done here, and often TLE will suggest working on the same thing I had in my mind for the day.  She is amazingly resilient, and strong for her age, and sometimes I forget, if even just for a moment, she is a woman.  I never ever hear the words "I can't" from her.  Sometimes it turns out she can't, but she is always willing to give anything a try no matter how daunting the task may seem.  I am so grateful for her adventurous spirit, without which we would not have done half the things we have done since we retired, and this current adventure on which we are embarked is no exception.  When we first arrived at TWW in October of 2024 the amount of work needed to make this property not just liveable, but productive once again was overwhelming, and I know we both felt overwhelmed, but we just kept putting one foot in front of the other figuring out things along the way.  Without the two of us being committed to a common vision this would never have worked.  And now, some 16 months into this experiment, we find our selves thriving on this off grid property.  We are now growing our own food, and we've been able to create a comfortable environment here where success is expected.  I say all of that to say this....without Elaine, this whole adventure would have no meaning to me.  Without her hourly, daily and weekly support, which never waivers, we could not have accomplished as much as we have.  Thank you TLE for signing on for this adventure!

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