Another good man gone too soon.....

 8:00 am - Sunday - November 15th - TWW - 34° F, humidity 52%, cloud cover 22%, wind 7 mph out of the south by southeast......a few high clouds today with a forecast high of 58° F.  On this date in 2013 TLE and I were just south of Lone Pine, CA.....

.....on our way back to SoCal where we began our nomadic journey 22 months earlier.

The rain fell of and on all night long, and we awoke to the sound of rain on our riveted, air craft aluminum roof.  The amount of precipitation we received overnight pretty much mirrored the earlier forecast, which is always a surprise, because the forecast out here is pretty much hit and miss most of the time.  I took my time composing my latest missive as it was very cold, and very damp outside, and I had no desire to be outdoors until both of those conditions had changed for the better.

Charles and I had planned to install a new 2 x 4 under one of the solar arrays on the barn roof, as the old 2 x 4 had disintegrated over the many years it has been in place.....

....as you can see in the above picture (lower left) taken just a day earlier when we installed the replacement solar panel.  While I was not willing to begin the early in the morning, Charles was, so he basically took on the removal of the old, rotted wood, and installed the new 2 x 4 which supports the solar rack....

The old, rotten wood removed

The new 2 x 4 in place, and job done

......It didn't take him too long to do the job, and that was really all we had planned for Saturday, so I, essentially, had the day off work.

TLE and I spent most of the day watching NCAA College Football, and there were a number of games in which we had interest, however, most of the underdog teams for which we rooted lost, except for unranked Arkansas who beat #16, South Carolina, 34-6, and unranked Florida who beat #11, Kentucky, 21-14.  My #18 Trojans failed to upset #9, Indiana, losing 27-13.   In other news, #6 Texas came from behind with 3 seconds remaining to top #21, LSU, 22-21 on a last second touchdown.

Once again we convened in the house for dinner with Charles and Phyllis.  Charles grilled hamburgers for our dinner fair, and they were fantastic!  While we ate dinner, we watched, on YouTube, a live streamed video of good friend, George Cheney's Celebration of Life get together.  I first met George at College in Texas.  During the one summer I stayed on campus I would go down to Lake Loma (man made lake on campus) after work (I worked 6 am to 2 pm on the painting crew) to water ski, and George was usually the one driving the ski boat.  Twice during the past 15 years of travel we visited George and Brenda (wife) at their home in Coeur d'Alene, ID.  He suffered a traumatic brain injury about 6 years ago, and developed dementia as a result.  We last saw him in June of 2020, not long after the injury, and he was beginning to show signs of dementia, but he was still the George we knew and loved.  In October he passed on, and on November 14th, which would have been his 79th birthday, his family held the Celebration of Life party, which we were able to view while eating dinner.  Time continues its relentless journey into the future.....

George and Brenda in October 0f 2020, a few months after we last visited them in Coeur d'Alene, ID....see you on the other side George!

Thanks for stopping by!