We have a winner!

 7:22 am - Wednesday - February 4th - TWW - 37° F, humidity 22%, cloud cover 0%, wind 9 mph out of the east.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 64° F.  The view this morning.....

......and on this date in 2017 TLE and I were at the Desert Bar near Parker, AZ.....

Listening to live music at the Desert Bar

.....with Steve and Candy Landry.  Reachable only by four wheel drive, high clearance vehicles.  The Desert Bart is completely off grid, and relies upon 100's of solar panels to charge batteries to power everything at the bar.

Our main goal Tuesday morning was to get the Ford Diesel 420 tractor running, and moved out of the entry driveway before Charles and Phyllis arrived.  It was perhaps our earliest start in over a month when we headed outdoors at 9 am.  In order to get the tractor running I first needed to haul the Honda generator, an 8d battery, tools, and jumper cables out to the tractor.  Once I had the battery charging, and the 8d battery attached via the jumper cables, I then reattached the fuel shutoff valve, installed the repaired fuel line, refilled the diesel fuel tank, filled the fuel filter with diesel, and then bled the air out of the fuel lines running up to the three cylinder heads.  It took me just under two hours to get all that done.  Just as I was about to try starting her Charles and Phyllis arrived....doh!  So, so close!  Within 5 minutes of their arrival we had the tractor running, then quickly moved it to its parking spot near the CONEX where we can plug in the battery maintainer, and keep the battery topped.  I think this is the smoothest I've heard the tractor run since I first began using it last winter.  

Charles and Phyllis delivered the final two IBC water totes (there are three in all) for the house water catchment system we will be installing on Wednesday.  They paid only $40 per tote (a very good deal), and they appear to be almost brand new.  In addition to the totes they delivered 3 gallons of Chevron Delo 100 40 wt., which I ordered from Amazon for our Newell.

Now that the tractor is running again we can finally move the gravel to the site we built for Phyllis' Newell, thereby finishing it, then move the Newell, which has been parked next to the barn since last winter, to its permanent site.  Things are beginning to move quickly here at The Wilson Wilderness!

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