It's 'Jake' with me......

7:18 am - Tuesday - March 7th - Wittmann, AZ - 52° F, 48% humidity, wind 7 mph out of the north by northeast.....clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 77° F.  On this day in 2015 we were hiking the Honaker trail near Goosenecks State Park in Southern Utah....

.....this trail is about 2.9 long from the top of the canyon, to the San Juan River at the bottom.

Our original Jello plan was to be departing Wittmann on Monday to drive 60 miles over to All Aboard America in Mesa, AZ to have our coach drive train inspected before we would begin our trip to Alaska for the summer.  Since we arrived here in Wittmann  on March 4th the entire world has changed.  Our trip to Alaska is put off another year, unless something dramatic happens in the next month.  We still have our two reservations intact (Seward, AK over 4th of July, and Denali National Park later in the same month) just in case something changes.

From All Aboard America we were to begin our trip north to Springfield, OR to A.M. Solar where Glenn and Laureen would have their solar system installed.  Now, instead, they are having system shipped here to Newell House in Wittmann, AZ where we, with Tom's help, will install it.  Glenn and Laureen should be arriving here within the next 10 days.  Once the solar is installed our Jello plan calls for us to head north from Wittmann into western Colorado, and just make it up from there.....we'll see what develops.

One of the things I was going to have Leo, our mechanic at All Aboard America, check during our service appointment was our Jacobs Engineering Brake to be sure it was working properly.  Since we cancelled that appointment I decided to check it myself.  In layman's terms I flip a switch on my console to activate the 'Jake' brake, and a signal is sent over a 12 volt wire to a solenoid, which sends oil through a small tube to activate the engine braking system.  If those tubes come loose, there is no oil pressure, and the 'Jake' will not work.  Leo found these tubes disconnected a few years ago, and reconnected them.  

I've never pulled the valve covers off before, so was is virgin territory for me.  There are two bolts on top of each valve cover, which afix the cover to the engine......

......once they are removed it is a matter of lifting up the valve cover to check the oil tube connections.  You can see the tubes in the picture below.....

 This is the driver side of the big Detroit Diesel 6v92

.....there are six tubes on each side of the V-6, for a total of twelve, which send pressurized oil to each 'Jake' activating them.....these six tubes have a screw cap on each end, so there are 12 (24 in all) of these on each side to check to be sure they are still connected, and tight.

It took me a couple of hours beginning to end to remove the two valve covers, check all the oil tube connections, and then put everything back together.  It was harder in some ways than I expected, but overall it was easier than I thought would be.

This was the only thing I accomplished Monday, but it was enough.  Now I know my 'Jake' brake is functioning properly, and I have added one more skill set.  I spent the rest of the day reading, and napping.  It was a beautiful, balmy day, but we did have strong breezes late in the day which made it a little difficult to BBQ the salmon steak TLE had defrosted earlier in the day.

We had another 'Zoom' call with my mother (her 5 children and spouses), but on this day she had declined rather rapidly from Sunday, and was coming in and out of consciousness throughout the call.  Right after the 'Zoom' call I called our very good friends Bob and Karen who live on Whidbey Island in Washington using Facebook....I don't know why I don't use this option more often, as you can do a video call so easily.  We have parked the Newell on their property several times over the years.......

Near Coupeville (Whidbey Island), Washington

......I have known Bob since summer camp in 1963, and TLE has known him since 1962, or possibly earlier.  We've known Karen since the early 70's....they are dear, dear friends.  Bob had called earlier to convey his condolences regarding my mother, and it was a very timely call.  He and I always seem to sense when the other needs encouragement.

TLE and I continue to be in good health.  It appears that the Chinese virus epidemic is peaking much faster than all of computer modelers expected, and with far fewer deaths, and hospitalizations than predicted.  As you know I call weather forecasters weather guessers for obvious reasons.  Computer modelers who use computer models to predict the impact of a pandemic are even bigger guessers than they......while their models have been pretty accurate predicting the number of deaths from day to day the last few weeks, they have been off by factors of anywhere from 3-12 when it comes to predicted hospitalizations, as you go state by state.  Initially they were predicting a million dead in the U.S. from this pandemic, then a week ago that came down to 100,000 to 250,000, and now just yesterday it is down to under 83,000, and falling.  So far we are just under 11,000 with the rate of new deaths appearing to plateau now.  As real life catches up with the modeling guessers I expect the total predicted deaths to come more in line with reality on the ground.  Our economy was literally shut down based on these bogus computer models.  Is the virus extremely contagious....yes, but that depends on where you live. If you live in NYC, or Boston, New Jersey, Chicago, Detroit, L.A., San Francisco, etc. it is very easily spread due to the high population density.  If you live in rural America, not so much.  We have also found out as recently as yesterday that the 'bearded' experts were completely wrong, perhaps lying, about the effectiveness of face masks, and are now saying they are very effective....what a bunch of B.S.  When the advice of 'bearded' experts conflicts with common sense go with common sense.  All that being said, we are still practicing 'social distancing' and wearing face masks when we must go into town to shop.  All that being said, every single death is one too many no matter what the cause, right?  Looking at the macro view of what has, and is happening I have this really bad feeling we have been led astray by the computer modelers.....that's my two cents, and I'm sticking to it.

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Amazing Grace.....

6:55 am - Monday - April 6th - Wittmann, AZ - 48° F, 58% humidity, wind 5 mph out of the northeast........clear, blue, sunny skies today (again) with a forecast high of 75° F.  On this day in 2014 we visited Desert View, Grand Canyon for the first time.......

.....we stayed at a small RV park in Cameron, AZ, and drove to the Grand Canyon from there.  Who knew then we would spend 4 months living in working here from November 2017 to March 2018.

I did something Sunday I have not done for over a month.....I took a long bike ride.  Around 10 am I got on my bike and headed out not knowing how far I would go, or where I would go, which is what I love to do.  I initially rode 227th Avenue (about 90% dirt/gravel) all the way north to where it intersects Highway 60.  There I transitioned to a dirt access road the local electric company uses to access their power lines along the highway riding it all the way west to Patton Road, then on Patton (all pavement) to 227th Avenue again which is dirt all the way back to Newell House......

....in all I covered 12.9 miles of which about 70% was dirt/gravel, but that is no problem for my Haibike SDURO eBike.....I did the entire ride in assist level 2 (has 4 assist levels) averaging around 15 mph.

I returned around 10:45 am to a message on my phone from our local free range chicken egg supplier that I could pick up another 2 dozen eggs at noon time.  I took time to plug in the battery for the Haibike which was down to 81%....it recharged in less than an hour.  By the time it was done it was time to head over to 211th Avenue to pick up the eggs....the round trip takes less than 20 minutes.  Later in the afternoon when the shade was covering the VW I got out my car washing gear, and washed off a couple of months of dirt, and grime.  

At 6 pm we had another Zoom call....this time with my mother, who was transferred to Hospice care earlier in the day from the hospital where she will spend her final days in her physical body.......

.....my brother-in-law, Bob Hammett, asked somewhat jokingly if she would sing part of 'Amazing Grace'......many of my friends know my mother has a wonderful singing voice, and in the 60's and 70's performed often for several thousand people at one time.  I remember her singing this song in Blythe Arena at Squaw Valley, CA for around 9,000 people back in the mid 60's....acapella.  I still get goose bumps.  At any rate, she paused for a second and began to sing.  My sister-in-law, Jeannie Hockwald, managed to catch the last few seconds of the first verse, which I transferred to YouTube......

.....my mother is over 90 years of age, and has congestive heart failure, so I had no idea if she could sing, or not, but sing she did, and right on pitch......it was a gift from God to hear her sing, and to know her voice was still in fine shape after all these years.  We talked with her for the better part of an hour.  I feel blessed this morning.  I love you Mom!

What would my daily missive be like without a health update for TLE and I.....we continue to be asymptomatic.    Arizona stats......2,269 positive, 25,141 negative....64 total deaths.  Nationally our stats are.......334,487 positive, 1,450,919 negative with 9,586 deaths.

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Battery wars....continued

7:20 am - Sunday - April 5th - Wittmann, AZ - 50° F, 56% humidity, wind 6 mph out of the north by northeast......clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 77° F.  Here is a throwback picture from this date in 2017......

On this date in 2017 we were walking on the beach near 

Pismo Beach, CA and staying at the local Oceano Elks Lodge

When last we left off one of our 8d batteries had given up the ghost......

Deceased 8d battery

....and my friend Tom had ordered two new 8d batteries from O'Reilly's in Wickenburg, AZ which is about 22 miles to the north via Highway 60.  Around 11 am Tom and I loaded to two old 8d batteries into the rear of their Honda CRV and made the drive into Wickenburg.  As you all must know any quoted price on a new battery includes the requirement you must give to them your old battery, or core, which is why we hauled those old batteries 22 miles into Wickenburg, plus who wants old batteries sitting in your garage for years on end, right?  The quoted price was $195 per 8d battery, plus tax.  The total came to $430 for the two batteries.  We were back home about 12:30 pm and proceeded to unload the new batteries, but before installing them Tom helped me.....or should I say I helped him install a new positive battery clamp on one of my cables.  Years ago when we first got the Newell I had to replace this clamp with an off the shelf one that is attached using a screw clamp.  This is not ideal, but I did not own, and still do not own a hydraulic crimper.  Tom owns such a tool, so we removed the old clamp, and crimped on a brand new one.......

New positive crimped clamp installed

.....once the new clamp was installed we proceeded to load the new batteries onto their sliding trays, then reattached the positives and grounds to their respective terminals......

.....and we were done.  On top of that everything worked just as it should! We should now be good for another 8-10 years on our house batteries.  Just as it was when we owned our sticks and bricks home unexpected repairs crop up from time in our home one wheels, and we deal with them and then get back to living the nomadic dream.  When we arrived in Wittmann on March 4th replacing our two 8d house batteries was the last thing on our collective minds.  Of course, if we had to have a battery sulfate, we could not have been in a better location to deal with its replacement.

Once I had put away all my tools, and supplies I cleaned up, and then took a LONG nap.....as you know I take a lot of what I would call 'cat' naps, but I haven't had one of those LONG naps in a very long time.  When I awoke it was after 3:30 pm....I must have been tired.

Our Wittmann weather has been absolutely idyllic the past 10 days, and that trend continued on Real Saturday.  We continue to be.....wait for it......we continue to be asymptomatic.    Current Arizona stats are: 2,019 positive tests (there are 7.2 million people in Arizona) out of 27,160 total tests.  A total of 267 people have been hospitalized over the course of the last few weeks, but we do not know how many are currently in the hospital.  There are 41 reported deaths from the Chinese virus over the last three weeks.....for a little perspective....in Arizona 3 people die every day in auto accidents, so over the same 3 week period 63 have died in auto accidents.  A little more 'micro' perspective.....I had a greater chance of being killed in a car accident Saturday than I had dying from the COVID-19 virus.

For a 'macro' perspective the national numbers are as follows: Out of almost 1.7 million tests performed there have been 307,000 positive tests.  Out of those 307,000 positives there have been 8,300+ deaths to date out of a population of 330 million.  Of those 8,300 deaths 3,600 are in the state of NY, and most of those in just three counties.  The source for these numbers, and the ones I report each day is COVIDTRACKING.COM/data, which is updated numerous times daily.

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Something's rotten in Denmark.....

7:19 am - Real Saturday - April 4th - Wittmann, AZ - 48° F, 55% humidity, wind 6 mph out of the northeast.....clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 79 F.

I thought it would be interesting to go back in my blog to April 4th for prior years to see where we were and what we were doing. On April 4th, 2015 we were boondocking at Goosenecks State Park in Southern Utah near Mexican Hat.  This is one of my favorite boondocking sites ever......

.....unfortunately Goosenecks is closed right now to visitors, except those who live within San Juan County.

As I mentioned briefly at the beginning of yesterday's post, we awoke to a sulfating 8d battery.  You know a battery is sulfating when you think you are smelling rotten eggs.  When I opened the bay door to the 'house battery' compartment to investigate the source I was met with an overwhelming wave of rotten egg smell.....yuk!  It was one of the 'house' batteries that I replaced back in May of 2008....so it was almost 12 years old......I originally thought it was 8, or 9 years old, but after doing some checking I found out how old it was.....amazing!  Before I did anything else I retrieved a 1/2" socket, and a 3/8" ratchet to disconnect the now deceased battery from our 12 volt system.  It was too hot to touch from sulfating all night long, so I let it cool down for a few hours, and then removed it.....

.....once it was cool enough to handle I removed it from its cradle and set it on the ground.  While I was taking care of the battery my friend Tom made a call to the local O'Reillys where he does business and negotiated a great deal on two 8d batteries for $195 each.  Most people, including Tom, will recommend that you replace both batteries at the same time.  Over the years I have just replaced the one that went bad, and it has worked out okay, but this time I decided to go ahead and do the recommended thing.  Tom ordered two 8d batteries for me, and we will drive into town Saturday to take delivery.

After posting my daily blog entry I set about rearranging where our bicycles are stowed when in travel mode.  When I bought the Haibike eBike I just stowed it in the space where the Cannondale tandem used to reside, and left the other two Cannondale's in their existing spots, but I found that it was extremely difficult to stow the Haibike there.  It was just too tight, so I switched the bike tights and am now stowing my Cannondale Bad Boy in the corner, and the Haibike in its former spot.......

 The Bad Boy in its new travel position

......I then moved the Haibike to the back of the trailer with TLE's eBike so now I have room to workout again......my 'back machine' is now set up again, and I can walk from front to back of the trailer without having to squeeze between bikes.....

 The bike tight for the Haibike is now out of the corner

......I also got another Amazon delivery.....my bag of 40 polishing wheels for my Black and Decker dremel......

.....after my work in the trailer was finished I called it a day, and spent some time on my laptop doing some research for our future travels.  We capped off our day soaking in Tom and Darlene's Jacuzzi with Tom.  It was a beautiful, clear night sky with stars everywhere....a great way to finish another day in the Wittmann desert.

Good news on the mother front......my mother's Chinese virus test came back NEGATIVE, which we expected, so she can now be transferred to Hospice care, and that will happen today, Saturday.  She is comfortable, and in good spirits.  TLE and I are also still negative for any COVID-19 symptoms.  The Arizona numbers this morning are as follows: 1,769 positive tests, 22,904 negative tests, 249 people who are currently hospitalized, or were hospitalized at some point, with 41 deaths to date.

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A day of ups and downs......

7:38 am - Friday - April 3rd - Wittmann, AZ - 56° F, 48% humidity, wind 4 mph out of the northeast.......clear, blue, sunny skies this today with a forecast high of 80° F.  Woke up this morning to one of my 8d house batteries sulfating.....haven't had that happen for over 3 years.  Basically that means this battery, which was 9 years old, finally gave up the ghost......not too bad.  I'll write more about that tomorrow.

You might have noticed I posted my daily missive late Thursday morning.  I had it mostly written by 7:30 am, but we had to leave to make the 25 minute drive over to the COSTCO in Glendale, AZ to arrive in time to participate in the new senior hours which has the store opening from 8 to 9 am for those over 60 years of age.  I had two prescriptions to retrieve, and we were going to make another try at getting some Charmin, Cottonelles, and Kleenex.  We arrived just after 8 am to find the parking lot full, and people already exiting the store with full carts....wait, what?

We soon found out from a COSTCO associate that by 7:15 am the line to enter the store was too long to wait any longer, so they opened the store 45 minutes early, hence the full carts we observed at 8:05 am.  And it was a long, long line......

....we grabbed a shopping cart and made our way to the back of the line, which, as you can see, was way in the back of the parking lot.  Once you reach the COSTCO building in the background you have four 100 yard switch back lines to get through before you are able to finally enter the store.  Now, we could have played the prescription card, and been taken directly to the pharmacy, but we would not be able to take a cart with us, and we needed a cart for all the bulky stuff we hoped to be able to buy, so we had to get in line.  As a side note we wore our nitrile gloves, and new face masks, as were about 80% of the seniors in line.

We finally entered the store around 8:40 am......for every 50 people who exited the store they would allow 50 more to ingress.  While I walked to the pharmacy to pickup my meds, TLE got in the one way line to get TP.  On this day they were passing out 24 roll packages of TP, and we got Charmin, which happens to be our TP of choice.  She also got a 12 pack of Kleenex, but they were out of Cottonelles, as well as any generic offerings.  By the time I finished paying for my meds TLE was mostly done shopping.  The actual checkout line was not that long, and we were soon exiting the store and making our way to the VW with our spoils......

......we then got in line at the COSTCO fuel station to fill up the VW gas tank at $2.19/gallon for premium unleaded.....by, and far the best price we have paid in over 3 years.  Next up was the local Walmart Supercenter just 3 blocks away where we hoped to find some Cottonelles, and we scored there getting the absolute last package of the same.  TLE bought some produce, and a few other things.  By 11 am we were on the way back home with everything we had set out to procure arriving back at home base in Wittmann just after 11:30 am.

While TLE was putting away our spoils an Amazon package arrived via UPS with our new panniers for our eBikes....frankly they exceeded my expectations.  They were quite easy to install, and within minutes I had them attached to both bikes......

....for some time I have wanted to fabricate some sort of box to contain all of my Sea-B-Que grill tools, and the box which contained the new panniers was perfect, so within 20 minutes I had cut it down to fit the space......

.......and finally I had what I had wanted for a long time now.  By this time it was after 1 pm and time to take a break, which I did.  By this time TLE had gone inside for her daily card games with Darlene.

Around 3:20 pm I got a text from my brother, Dwyer, advising he had received a text from my sister Hilary's husband (Bob) advising my sister had to call '911' for my mother (Virginia) as she was in respiratory distress (fluid in her lungs).  She was rushed by the EMT's to the ER at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, where she was admitted in short order to an isolation unit within the hospital until they can rule out the Chinese Virus, which will take some 3 days for test results.  In the interim no one, including my sister, can see her, or be with her.  We can only call her in her room.  In the mean time they have stabilized her, and after some treatment she is now breathing more easily.  Virginia is over 90 years of age.....she is 20 years, and three weeks older than I....we were both born in October.  The frustrating thing is I cannot get there right now to be with her.  We pray she will recover, but she has several 'co-morbidities', or underlying issues, including her advanced age which are in play.  Your prayers for my mother will be greatly appreciated.

TLE and I are doing well.....no symptoms.  In Arizona our numbers are as follows:  1,598 positive tests, 21,111 negative tests, 32 deaths, and 228 hospitalized.  Nationally the numbers are: 241,734 positive tests, 1,046,279 negative tests, 5,862 deaths, and 33,040 hospitalized.  Of those numbers we see NY has 92, 381 positive tests, 146,584 negative tests, 2,273 deaths, and 20,817 hospitalizations.....staggering numbers for sure.....NY has 2/3's of all the national hospitalizations.

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Wednesday......

6:49 am - Thursday - April 2nd - Wittmann, AZ - 52° F, 53% humidity, wind 2 mph out of the northeast.......clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 79° F.

About mid morning I finished off the repair of the artificial turf by applying Gorilla Tape to each of the seams.  Once that was done.....didn't take long.....I rolled the carpet back to its upright position, and the 'lido deck' was once again available for use.......

.....and use it we did.  Wednesday was the warmest day we've had in a few weeks at 82° F, so we spent a good part of the morning and early afternoon sitting outside reading.  After my marathon day stitching the remaining cuts I had opened back in 2016 I was ready to take it easy Thursday.  Early afternoon TLE surprised me with a nice lunch......a deconstructed BLAT.....

 Proof I am loved

........I read until about 3 pm, and then went inside to finish watching the last 5 episodes of season 2 of 'Luke Cage'.  TLE was home from playing cards around 4:30 pm to begin preparing dinner.  We had roast beef, and vegetables covered with hollandaise sauce.....yummy!

We had a very subtle sunset to bring to an end the daylight portion of our Wednesday......

......TLE and I continue to be in good health......no signs of the Chinese Virus yet in our little Wittmann enclave.  Over all in Arizona we have had 1,413 test positive, and 19, 645 coming in negative with just 29 reported deaths so far.  Nationwide there are 212,695 positive, 956,302 negative and over 5,000 deaths.  So far the national case load centers in states with large population centers, and NY state is still the epicenter.

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Stitch in time........

8:20 am - Wednesday - April 1st - Wittmann, AZ - 62° F, 52% humidity, wind 4 mph out of the east by northeast.....heavy cloud cover today with a forecast high of 82° F.

Back in the summer of 2018 after we had left Smuggler's Den Campground to spend a month on the property of our friends Tony and Janet I began to stitch several cuts in our artificial turf which I had intentionally cut so it would fit around our concrete picnic table in our site at TVC (Tahoe Valley Campground) in the summer of 2016.  When the old picnic table was removed I just used Gorilla Tape to put the small area of turf back together, and it worked okay, but after a lot of rain the tape would begin to come off.  With time on our hands in September of 2018 I decided to buy some sail thread (I wrote about that here) at the local West Marine store and begin to stitch those cut sections back together......

Back in September of 2018

.......I laid out the turf upside down on the grass next to our site at Tony and Janet's home, and began the slow, arduous task of undoing my mistake from two years earlier.....I should never have cut that turf!  Over a couple of days I managed to get about half of the stitching completed, but our time was up in Southwest Harbor, so I decided I would finish it when we got back to SoCal.....yeah, right!  My process was to first stitch the sections I had cut back together, then apply clear silicone caulk to the stitches to protect them from the elements, and then cover each seam with Gorilla Tape.....

.....and for the spots I stitched that process has worked out quite well.  The seams have held, and are still solid after 2.5 years.  On the sections I had not stitched I just reapplied a new round of Gorilla Tape.  So, fast forward to January of 2020 when we are leaving RORVR after 9 months.  As we were folding up the turf to insert it in the trailer those unstitched seams pulled loose from the Gorilla Tape, and it became obvious that I would have to finish that long delayed project.  That date with destiny came Tuesday morning.  I rolled back the edge of the turf where the remaining cuts to be stitched are located, pulled off what remained of the Gorilla Tape, then began to stitch the remaining cuts, determined I would finish this undesirable task in one sitting, and I did......

....I probably laid down around 200 'whip' stitches in all, and I got it done in about 4-5 hours.  Above you can see the entire area I repaired Tuesday, and below is a close up of the 'whip' stitches on one section......

......once all the stitching was complete I laid down a bead of the GE clear silicone caulk over all the seams......

The seams are caulked

......once the GE clear silicone caulk has cured I will reapply Gorilla Tape to the newly stitched seams, and then roll the carpet back to right side up.  It only took me 4 years to correct my bad decision back in the summer of 2016.

By the time I put my materials away I was around 4 pm, and I was tired, but it was a good tired, and now one more thing is crossed off my 'TO DO' list.  I watched a few more episodes of 'Luke Cage', plus another episode of 'Outlander' (season 5, episode 2) with TLE, and it was time to call an end to Tuesday and head for slumberland.

TLE and I continue to be asymptomatic, and continue to do well.  The Arizona numbers are shown below.....

.....Arizona numbers are still not alarming.  Here are the numbers nationally.....

.....NY has 1,550 of those deaths and almost 76,000 of the national cases, and continues to be the national epicenter.  The rural areas of the U.S. continue to be way less affected than the large urban areas.  Most states have just single, or double digit deaths reported, while a few have triple digit deaths.  World-wide numbers how 889,213 cases, and 44,323 deaths.

We get a little stir crazy now and then, but once I can immerse myself in another project it goes away.  Of course, the list of projects is diminishing, but "I'll worry about that tomorrow" to quote Scarlet O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.

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