Annual service.....

 8:30 am - Wednesday - June 24th - LPG&RVR - 71° F, humidity 25%, cloud cover 75%, wind 13 mph out of the northwest.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies this morning with a forecast high of 87° F, down from 90° F yesterday.  On this date in 2020 TLE and I were visiting Devil's Tower.....

.....in Wyoming.  One of those ubiquitous bucket list items, right?

Something I have not done for over a year is service our two 44 year old A/C units.  That they still work, and work well, is remarkable to me, hence I am remarking.  A service basically consists of removing the filters, cleaning them, and then vacuuming the condenser coils free of lint buildup.  Considering it has been over 12 months they looked pretty clean, but that is the reason we use filters, right?  98% of the time we can only run one unit at a time as it just gets too cold.....

The front A/C....Rotary Duo-Therm Sunchaser XL

These units are no longer in production

....the only time we run both at one time is when it is over 100° F, and then only for an hour, or two during the heat of the day.  Typically, just running the rear A/C unit keeps the salon at a comfortable 76° F.  To be sure they both get exercise on a regular basis TLE will turn on the front A/C when she takes her lunch break on days we work, and it will run for 3, or 4 hours until I get home.

Anyway, that was the extent of my physical activity for the balance of the day.  As has been our habit for the past 10 days we watched more FIFA World Cup soccer matches, or fútbol matches as the rest of the world calls them.

On a side note, with the end of the War with Iran world oil prices per barrel have fallen from a high of $110/barrel to just under $70/barrel as of this morning....down over $3/barrel since Tuesday...

....which means gasoline/diesel prices per gallon should begin to drop, also, which will make our return trip to northern Arizona much more affordable in October.

We normally eat dinner around 5 pm when we are at LPG&RVR, but we wanted to eat alfresco so we delayed our dinner until 7 pm when the temperature would be back down in the mid 8o's, and the sun much lower in the horizon.  TLE made Missouri Pot Roast sandwiches, served on a Kaiser roll.  We invited Claude for dinner, and had a great time as we always do. 

You may not know that Claude and I, when we were much younger, used to do long range, multi day bicycle tours.  I recorded those trips in 'journal' form and posted them on Crazy Guy On A Bike (crazyguyonabike.com).  This link will take you to four of those journals, if you are interested.  Our longest tour was just under 500 miles from Indio, CA to Lone Pine, CA through the Mojave National Preserve, Baker, CA, up through Shoshone, CA, through Death Valley, over the Panamint and White Mountains to Lone Pine, CA....I entitled the journal "Mystical Mojave Meanderings".....check it out....

.....it does not seem that this was 18 years ago, but it was.

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