Only three weeks?

 7:35 am - Wednesday - November 11th - TWW - 42° F, humidity 38%, cloud cover 0%, wind 11 mph out of the east by northeast......crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 66° F.  On this date in 2013 TLE and I were near Lee Vining, CA.....

......enjoying the view of Mono Lake from the Conway Summit vista point.  We had not been back to California since we left February 1, 2012 on our nomadic journey....we had been gone for close to 2 years.  The view this morning.....

......notice anything different?  Yeah, you're right, the weeds are gone!  Contrast this with yesterday's morning view.....

....I was determined that Tuesday would be the last day the 'morning view' picture would have a lot of long weeds in it.

I had two things I wished to accomplish Tuesday.....1) Connect the concrete piers to the new EcoWorthy solar rack, and 2) cut down some more weeds with my Echo SRM-266T string trimmer.  The first task required TLE's assistance.  While she lifted one end of the solar rack I would slide two of the concrete piers under the 4 x 4's to which the solar rack was attached.  It didn't take long before all 5 were in place, then it was just a matter of using lag screws to affix each pier to the 4 x 4's.....

....each of those piers weighs at least 50 pounds, so times 5 that means we've at least 250 pounds plus of weight keeping them from being blown over in a big wind.  I think, beginning to end, it took about an hour for the entire job.

Later in the day I got out my Echo SRM-266T string trimmer to trim the weeds around the ten 400 watt solar panels behind the barn which supply solar energy to the two large house batteries for the 3 bedroom, 2 bath house.  Due to the heavy monsoon rains we had in the last two months the weeds, which rarely get more than 6" high, had grown to 2, or 3 feet high around the panels partially obstructing the sun.....

....and, as I mentioned above, I trimmed around Phyllis' Newell, and the area in between her Newell and our Newell.

In between all that I took time to run both the Yamaha and Cushing utility carts out to the access road, and back, plus TLE and I ran a hose from one of the greenhouse totes into the interior so she can water her plants more easily.  I even took time to relax on the 'lido deck' eating a snack, and drinking some ice tea before heading back into the trailer to finish removing my old stereo system, which I used to broadcast Sirius/XM Radio.  I've had that stereo system since 2004, and it has worked well all these years.  Since I've reduced the number of Sirius/XM Radio receivers from three down to the one in the car, and now use a Bluetooth speaker to stream Sirius/XM Radio in the trailer, I don't need the stereo anymore.  I also moved the three battery chargers for the various cordless tools I own from the wall on the right side of the work bench to the tool table where the cordless tools are kept when not in use.  Since we are now permanently parked I don't need to have them on the wall anymore....

The old TEAC stereo with a woofer, and 2 speakers

Where the battery chargers, and one of the stereo speakers were hung

Where the stereo and the other speaker hung

The 3 battery chargers

......by the time I finished cutting down the weeds around the 10 solar panels behind the barn it was almost 4 pm, and time for dinner.  I think that's the longest I've worked in one day since we returned 3 weeks ago.  Wait, has it only been 3 weeks since we returned?  Seems like longer, but in a good way.

The weather trends for the next two weeks are what we would expect as we move deeper into November here at The Wilson Wilderness.  For the next couple of days we'll have temps in the 60's, then quickly slide into the 40's and 50's by by Saturday when it is supposed to rain (66% chance of rain), and by Tuesday of next week we'll see lows in the high 20's overnight.....winter is on its way!

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