Our fans......

 7:43 am - Sunday - July 25th - Seal Rock, OR - 50° F, 100% humidity, wind - zero mph out of the north.....foggy right now with sun later today and a forecast high of 63° F.  On this date in 2013 we were hiking in Glacier National Park......↴

The Highline Trail near Logan Pass, GNP

Wild Goose Island, Lake Mary, GNP

After several sunny days Coastal Oregon threw us a curve ball...we awoke to north wind, fog, and a very, very heavy marine layer.....no sitting outside sipping coffee on this day, for sure.  Around noon time when the sun made a very brief appearance I pulled out our telescoping ladder to get up on the roof to remove, and clean the fan (motor and fan blade) which vents the hot, sometimes smokey air from the stove area.  I have never cleaned this fan in the 13+ years we have owned the coach.  Due to its location, and purpose it there was a lot of grease build up, needless to say.

There is a shroud which covers the fan vent hole which is affixed by 3 sheet metal screws to the frame of the fan......

The vent screen was almost completely plugged with grease

.....once I had the shroud removed I was saddened to see it was way worse than I expected.....the vent screen was almost entirely plugged with grease, and the entire area around it is covered with grease and pine needles.  Two bolts hold the fan in place, and unlike the difficulty I had removing bathroom fan from the inside of the coach, removing the bolts from the top was much easier.  I took the fan assembly into the trailer to clean it on my work bench using WD40, Formula 409, and a bristle brush to remove a few decades of grease......

Before degreasing.....very sad

......in all it took me over an hour to clean the fan motor and fan itself.....

Reassembled

....then it was time to clean the vent screen, and the roof area outside the fan vent....the Formula 409 worked the best at degreasing the fan vent and roof top......

Who would have thought that screen was gold in color?

.....once the vent screen and roof was clean it was time to reinstall the fan assembly, and screw the shroud back in place....

.....by the time everything was back together the wind was blowing pretty hard, and it was time to put things away and retreat to the warm confines of the Newell for the balance of the afternoon.  After a suitably long, hot shower I retired to my recliner to watch TV, and take a nap.  The fog rolled back in around 4 pm, and soon everything outside was wet, and shrouded in mist....about as opposite as you can get from Friday's weather.  As we slipped off to slumber land around 10 pm one could hear the wind whipping our flag ferociously....yup, a very different day.

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Your junk, my treasure.....

 8:30 am - Saturday - July 24th - Seal Rock, OR - 54° F, 100% humidity, wind - zero mph out of the north.....marine layer this morning with a forecast high today of 64° F.  On this date in 2014 TLE and I were riding our bikes along the Truckee River out to Squaw Valley, and back to Tahoe City.....lunch at The Bridgetender Tavern........↴

We did something we have rarely done lately because it has been so overcast, and cold in the mornings, but when you get your fourth straight day with sun in the morning you have to take advantage of it at some point.  After I finished my blog TLE and I went outside with our morning coffees, and ensconced ourselves in the Adirondack chairs......just being in the moment....enjoying the view of the sun hitting Seal Rock, and the ocean.  Basking in the morning sun with a 'cup of Joe' (coffee for the uninitiated) is one of my delights in life, and Friday morning did not disappoint.

We sat there for about an hour talking about this and that, and then TLE mentioned she needed to defrost the Dometic absorption refrigerator, and I mentioned I needed to take care of a few things in the trailer, plus we wanted to go into Waldport to do our weekly shopping, plus visit a few of our favorite junk shops to see if there was anything without which we could not see ourselves living one more day.  TLE was done with the defrost pretty quickly, and we were off to Waldport by 1 pm.

Our first stop was the local clothing donation kiosk near Waldport Flea Market to drop off a large bag of clothing we were putting back into circulation, then into the flea market for our first round of 'junking'.....

.....the flea market is right next door to 'Fresh Mexican Food' where we have dined twice before.  As we were getting back in the car to drive over to the other two junk stores in town (Enough and Lil Joes General Store) I suggested to TLE that we return to Fresh Mexican Food after junking for some lunch in their alfresco dining area to which she immediately agreed.....

The alfresco dining area located to the left of the restaurant

....after browsing through the other two stores (we bought nothing this day) we headed directly to Fresh Mexican Food, and were seated at one of their outdoor tables within seconds of our arrival.  We both had ice tea, and for our entrees I ordered their Camorones de Monterey (bacon wrapped shrimp), and TLE their Camorones del diabla (shrimp with sauteed mushrooms).....

Bacon wrapped shrimp.....simply amazing!

....the chips and salsa were as good as we remembered them, and our entrees were just the perfect portions......just enough to make you want a little more, but not too much to overfill your tummy.  We had a nice view of the Alsea River as it flows into the Pacific Ocean, and the outside temperature was just perfect for a nice, leisurely late lunch.  After paying our check (the prices are quite fair by the way) we headed over to Ray's Food Place to do our shopping, and then home where we arrived a little after 3 pm.  I purposely avoided imbibing any brews with lunch as I wanted to avoid a long nap after we got home, but it was to no avail.  I still ended up taking an hour long nap in my recliner.....lol....all that fresh air, and great Mexican food got to me anyway!

For the fourth night in succession we had another beautiful sunset.....

.....I managed to get outside just as the sun touched the western horizon once again.....it does not get much better than this, and such is life on the Oregon Coast.

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Very fresh......

7:18 am - Thursday - October 1st - Seal Rock, OR -  55° F, 100% humidity, wind - CALM.....heavy overcast this morning, clearing later, with a forecast high today of 67° .  On this date in 2015 our solar panel installation at A.M. Solar had been completed in just 6.5 hours......↴

We went from two 150 watt solar panels to 4....two 150 watt panels, 

and two 160 watt panels, for a total of 620 watts

I was expecting to do some weed whacking Wednesday, but around 9 am Wednesday morning I got a text from Terry to meet with Greg at 10 am to do 'highway pickup'.....in other words, pick up trash along a 1 mile section of US-101 that is in front of SRRVC*.  TLE left for work at 9 am, but returned soon thereafter advising she was going to work with me.....cool!  Greg was at our site a little before 10 am with the 'picker's, and trash bags provided by the Oregon DOT.  We were to proceed north along the western shoulder of US-101 up to the entrance to Seal Rock Recreation Site (a parking lot that gives tourists access to the beach), and then back south on the eastern side of US-101....always facing traffic.  

We set out shortly thereafter and begin picking up trash consisting primarily of thousands of cigarette butts, but also paper, soda cups, coffee cups, etc....we found 8, or 9 single socks, a wine bottle, a glass soda bottle, large, liter size pop bottles.......

.....by 11 am we had reached the entrance to the beach access parking lot, and had each filled a bag....did I say there were thousands of cigarette butts?.......

.....almost exactly 1 hour since we began.  We took a short break, and then crossed the highway to the east side, and began working our way back to SRRVC* arriving back at the entrance to the park just before 12 pm, and the end of our 2 hour shift.  Traffic was quite heavy during our two hours walking the west and east shoulders of US-101, but after 15 minutes you kind of get used to it.....kind of.....we ended up filling 5 bags with trash.  It's the first time TLE and I have worked together since our last days at RORVR last January.

Wednesday morning when I was trying to take my blood pressure I discovered my Beurer Health blood pressure monitor has passed onto the next electronic life, so right after we finished our shift we changed clothes and drove into Waldport to see if Hi School Pharmacy had another one.....they did not, but we were just a block from 'Fresh Mexican Food', the local Mexican restaurant, so we decided to check them out.  Yelp gives them 4 stars on 80 reviews....we would be more at 3.5......

....we were quickly seated, and within minutes had ordered our menu choices.....Chile Relleño/enchilada plate for TLE, and the Chile Relleño plate for me (no enchilada)....we both ordered ice tea.....sorry for the fuzzy picture....my 'usie' skills were not well used on this one....lol.  Overall everything was good, and did indeed taste fresh....not the best Mexican food we have ever had, but pretty good for the Oregon Coast.

After a very pleasant lunch we dropped some donations off at a local thrift store box, visited the local Napa Auto to buy some motor oil and window washer fluid, and while I was doing that TLE filled up the VW gas tank at the Chevron station next door.....they still pump the gas for you here in Oregon, and they even wash your windows.

We were back home by 2 pm, and spent the afternoon reading.  What did I do about the blood pressure monitor?  Well, I really like the Beurer one as it has Bluetooth capability.  When I take my blood pressure each morning it automatically transfers that day's data to a program on my phone where it is stored.  I found one on eBay for $40, and ordered it....it should be here by Monday.  They had the same one on Amazon, but for some reason it cannot be shipped to my current address....that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

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*SRRVC = Seal Rocks RV Cove