Town interval.....

 7:11 am - Saturday - March 14th - TWW - 42° F, humidity 17%, cloud cover 41%, wind 4 mph out of the south by southeast.....partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 73° F.  The view this morning.....

....and on this date in 2012 TLE and I had just disembarked from the Galveston Free Ferry on the Bolivar Peninsula....

....we were on our way to Louisiana....about 6 weeks into our nomadic life.

Charles and Phyllis headed back to Phoenix around 8 am, and shortly thereafter TLE and I took our 15th 1 mile out and back walk of the winter.....

....as has been the case lately, we averaged 2.9 mph.

We hadn't been to town in about 9 days so around 10 am we headed into town to pick up our mail, so some shopping, and get some Gelato at Highway Hot Dog.....

A scoop each of Dark Chocolate and Cookies and Cream for moi, and for TLE a scoop each of Apple Pie & Caramel

....we made a stop at the General Store to buy some hardware items, such as some perforated angle steel to mount the 100 watt solar panel for the 4Patriots solar charger we're using in the garage to power the chest freezer.  We mounted it on the back of the garage about 6 feet up so it can get sun all day long.  It was sitting on the ground next to the garage, and only getting sun a few hours a day.  Charles has ordered 2 more of these panels, which should be enough to keep the battery topped off while powering the freezer....we'll see.....

....I screwed a 2 x 4 to the garage, and then added the perforated angle steel on top of that so we could hang the solar panel....it worked better than I had expected.

While in town we also filled up two 5 gallon gas cans as we were down to one 5 gallon can.  We've now got 15 gallons of unleaded regular and 15 gallons of diesel on hand, but I doubt we will significantly dent those supplies the rest of the winter.

Our favorite coffee shop in town, The Commodore House, reopened on the 11th after being shut for a couple of months in the off season, so we made a stop there for a cup of coffee to enjoy on the way home, where we arrived around 12:30 pm....

....once home I began work on the aforementioned solar panel hanging project.  By the time I finished it was close to 3 pm.   For the first time in a while I wore shorts and a t-shirt all afternoon, and for the first time in weeks we did not need to run any of our heaters in the evening.  We decided to take a night off from the 'sunset fire deck', but I'm sure we'll be back out there Saturday evening.

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