Turning inward.....

 8:05 am - Friday - April 10th - TWW - 52° F, humidity 27%, cloud cover 57%, wind 11 mph out of the south by southeast.....mostly cloudy today with a forecast high of 69° F.  On this date in 2014 TLE and I were boondocking at Lone Rock, UT....

.....in the first picture Lake Powell is to the right.  In the second picture you can see Lake Powell.  One of our top 5 boondock sites ever!  The view this morning.....

As we edge towards departure day we need to begin to turn our attention inward from projects here at TWW to sorting through our stuff to decide what we will take with us, and what we will leave here.  While I performed that task in the trailer, TLE began to go through the clothing we store in garment bags in our trailer.  I found a hole Cushman dump bed full of stuff in the trailer to move to the garage and CONEX.  A year ago we removed about 1,000 pounds of stuff from the trailer and Newell, and didn't miss any of it for a single minute.  While we certainly will not reach those numbers this year, we will remove a few more hundred pounds, including clothing, to store here in the house/garage/CONEX.  There are three bedrooms in the house, and each has a closet.  We left a few items of clothing in one of those closets last year, but will increase that by 3, or 4 fold this year before we depart.

I continued to tend to the smoldering juniper stump throughout the day adding one log after another to keep deep inside the stump.  Additionally, TLE and I spent time at the greenhouse first thing int he morning watering the plants inside the greenhouse and harvesting some more broccoli and cauliflower, as well as watering the potato beds.  Even though we had pretty heavy cloud cover the Bluetti battery bank, and our house bank both reached 100% capacity by early afternoon.  The main house battery bank reaches 100% by 10 am each day....sometimes an hour later if it is cloudy.  When you have 6,000+ watts of solar panels that is what you get.  

We are sleeping with the windows open every night now, with sunrise occurring around 6 am, and sunset at 7 pm....so 13 hours of daylight each day, and increasing by the day.  We run the heaters for maybe 30 minutes each mornings, sometimes not at all.  Meanwhile, in Likely, CA, where we are headed, their overnight low's are in the 20's and 30's with rain showers every few days.  We will be heading back to early Spring temps and weather when we arrive around the 27th.  As you know, we've gotten snow in late April, and early May most years we have been there.

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