The hot one!

 7:39 am - Saturday - March 21st - TWW - 52° F, humidity 13%, cloud cover 19%, wind 4 mph out of the southeast.....mostly sunny, blue skies today with a forecast high of 85° F.  On this date in 2015 TLE and I were enjoying a sunset fire.....

....at Lone Rock, UT (just north of the Arizona border on the shores of Lake Powell).  The view this morning....

We enjoyed a somewhat relaxing day Friday.  Our main goal was to finish draining the water from the bottom tank before Charles and Phyllis arrived late afternoon.  We were sure it was almost empty....maybe 100-150 gallons remaining, so we refilled the IBC water tote on the southeast corner of the greenhouse, which we had used to water the potatoes Thursday.  When we turned off the pump there was still water in the bottom tank, so we began filling 5-10 gallon water containers TLE uses inside the greenhouse to water the plants (cabbage, cauliflower, onions, broccoli, etc.), and just we finished the final container water stopped coming out of the water pump, but we weren't done.  There just wasn't enough natural water pressure left in the bottom tank to push water uphill to the greenhouse.  We decided to just water the juniper trees across from the water tower, and within 20 minutes the flow stopped completely....finally it was empty.

It was still pretty early in the morning, maybe around 9:30 am, so I decided to bore those holes I mentioned yesterday into the stump from which I cut the 5' tree trunk on Thursday.  Once that was done I filled all five holes with diesel, then lit it.....

.....it burned just like I thought it would, and continued to do so all day, and into the early evening.  It's not done yet, so I'll add some more diesel on Saturday, and light it again.

Friday was another hot day (our hottest since we arrived back in late October) with the high temp getting to 90° F.   The interior of the Newell remained pretty comfortable until around 1:30 pm when it began to get very warm.  We had all the windows open, something we haven't done for months, and the roof top vent fan running to vent hot air out the roof.  Running our A/C off our Bluetti battery bank is not an option as it would deplete it too quickly.  Those AC's are 44 years old, and draw lot of amps.

Charles and Phyllis arrived around 4:45 pm.....we had already eaten at 4 pm knowing they would be arriving near 5 pm, so we spent an hour, or two inside the house, where it was quite comfortable (that house is very well insulated) until almost 7 pm talking about life, and what they wanted to get done this weekend.

By the time we returned to the Newell the UCLA March Madness game had just 5 minutes remaining with UCLA up 9 points over UCF.  They hung on to win by 4 points, so they will play in the 2nd round of 32 on Sunday afternoon.  I don't have high hopes for them, but they are playing their best basketball of the season right now, so who knows, right?  That's the whole point of March Madness....anything is possible.

Thanks for stopping by!