Good Friday.....

7:14 am - Saturday - April 11th - Wittmann, AZ - 51° F, 60% humidity, wind 7 mph out of the east.....cloudy today with a forecast high of 69° F.....the view this morning......↴

.....on this day in 2017 we were in San Luis Obispo, CA at the Elks Lodge.  We rode our bikes along the Bob Jones Bike Path to Avila Beach and back......about 18 miles round trip.

First of all, TLE and wish all of you a memorable Good Friday.  It has particular significance to us at this time as my mother hovers near death in Hospice up in Spokane, WA.  Her last wish before she became comatose was that she would live until East Sunday.  The hospice nurses are amazed she has come this far all things considered, but she is still breathing as of this morning, Saturday morning (just now), however, my sister, Hilary, just received a call from Hospice that her breathing intervals have slowed significantly, and suggested she drive down as soon as possible.  She is a Christian, as are 4 of her children, including me, so we believe there is a life after this one, and as my mother transitions from her mortal life to what comes next we stand with her, and are cheering her onward to her new life.

Friday I avoided getting involved in any projects as I wished to be available at a moment's notice should my mother's condition change.  I did help Tom transport a 'router table' over to his son-in-law, Jon's home using his Hallmark enclosed car hauler trailer.  The table was quite heavy, hence the use of the trailer.  While we were getting ready to load the table Tom showed me the solar system he set up to power the trailer's interior lights, as well as the electric jack.  It is made by Renogy, and costs less than $200 to install, including an AGM battery.  The package includes the panel, cable, charge controller, and all the necessary things to do the installation.  I have been thinking about this for some time.  I have a little more to power than Tom does, including a Fantastic Fan vent, my radio, and TV.  The solar panel in the picture below is a 50 watt panel, and should do the trick for my purposes......

.....I'm going to do some more research, but expect to order this kit within the next few days so I can get it installed before we leave.

Shortly after I wrote the sentence above we received a 'Zoom' link from my sister, and all of us joined my mother for what may be the last time......

.....from left to right, Virginia (my mother) who is resting comfortably, but unresponsive (Hilary is just out of frame), Kate (our daughter) and her husband, Nick, our daughter Meredith, my sister Jill, my brother Dwyer, Stephanie (Hilary's daughter), my brother Philip and his wife, Jeannie, TLE and I, our son Tim, our daughter Sharon, Danielle (Philip and Jeannie's daughter) and her two children, and Hilary's other daughter, Caroline.  We spent about 90 minutes talking, laughing, sharing our love with my mother and each other.....it was good.  My mother's breathing continues to be intermittent......about 10-15 seconds between breaths.  It was a blessing to see her resting so peacefully as she waits to meet her Creator....not long now Mom.....we love you so much, and we will miss you terribly, but you are going to a better place where your 90 year old body will no longer hold you back.

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More unexpected.......

7:30 am - Friday - April 10th - Wittmann, AZ - 51° F, 54% humidity, wind 1 mph out of the northeast......clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 72° F.  On this day in 2015 we visited the 'Four Corners' monument......

.....we were boondocking at Goosenecks State Park and made the drive from there.  Four days later while in Mexican Hat our fuel pump on the VW died....you can read about that here.

Thursday we had 20+ mph winds out of the south by southwest, which is a bad direction for our ZipDee patio awning here at Newell house based on our orientation.....it was roughly the same angle of the wind that tore three of the stitched seams apart a couple of weeks ago.  Usually we do not worry about stowing the patio awning unless the wind gets over 25 mph, but the direction of the wind is also a factor.  At any rate, the final seam at the end the awning nearest the rear of the Newell pulled completely apart.  Oh well, more of the unexpected, so nothing could be done until the wind died down, and by Thursday morning we had zero wind from any direction, so I retrieved the lumber from the Newell House which I had used two weeks ago and set everything up, but waiting for the sun to get higher in the sky to heat up the Sunbrella fabric.  The seams on either end of the awning are the easiest to repair, because you can access them via the telescoping ladder without getting on the roof.

I forgot to mention that TLE spent the day driving with Tom and Darlene up to their cabin in Happy Jack, AZ to check on the progress of a new deck they are having built.  I decided to remain behind to be able to spend time via Facebook messenger on a video chat with my sister Hilary who is on site with my mother in Hospice.  It is really hard to see my mother in her current state, and not to be able to communicate with her, but we think she is still hearing us talk, so we did just that for about 1/2 an hour before it was time for the medical staff to reposition my mother, so I bid adieu to Hilary until later......

......this time, instead of stitching a few spots to draw the fabric back together, I decided to use a stapler to tack it in place in three places......since the 2x4 was on the underside of the fabric I just stapled into the wood.....it worked like a charm, and much, much more effective than stitching the fabric, and quite a bit faster......

 One of the three staples

......once that was done I proceeded to apply the clear silicone caulk to the seam, and then let the sun finish the job of curing the caulk for a couple of hours before removing the lumber.....

.....and, once again, order is restored to our precious 'lido deck'......no more seams to repair now as they have all been fixed over the last 5 years.....

All fixed

......after I put the lumber, and ladder away I went into Newell House to play one of the pinball machines Tom has there with a 'Creature from the Black Lagoon' theme.  The other one has a 'Gilligan's Island' theme.  I spent about 1/2 an hour playing and managed a high score for me of 14 million......

......after that brief interlude I spent the rest of the binge watching season 3 of 'Jessica Jones'.  TLE was home just after 7 pm, and another day was in the books.  TLE and I remain asymptomatic.....that's all folks!

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The unexpected......

6:38 am - Thursday - April 9th - Wittmann, AZ - 42° F, 82% humidity, wind 4 mph out of the north by northwest.......clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 69° F.  On this day in 2014 we were boondocking at Lone Rock Beach, UT......

 Lone Rock Beach, UT

Horseshoe Bend

.......this was our first of three visits to one of our favorite boondocking sites.  On this particular day we visited the iconic Horseshoe Bend vista point.

I began Wednesday with no particular plans, or aspirations.  As I was walking out the door to the trailer I noticed TLE had pulled all the glassware out of the cabinet on the right side of the sink.  She was intent on cleaning the glass door, as well as the interior which has mirrored walls.  I had been noticing for some time that the strip LED lights I had installed in that cabinet years ago were failing, and only about 6 of the 36 LED's were still working as you can see from the picture below......

.....since the cabinet was empty I decided to seize the day, and remove and replace the 10 year old strip lights.  As I pulled them out they broke like pretzels......normally these all weather LED strip lights are very supple, but these had gone bad in a big way.....

....I had about 26" of all weather strip LED's left over from my rocker panel project a week, or so ago, so I cut that length in half.......

.......and wired them together in preparation for installation.....

......I apply a water based 'flux' to the wire ends, and to the contacts on the LED strips before soldering the wires to the strip....this helps the solder to make good contact with both surfaces.....

....and a soldering iron I bought at Radio Shack a few years ago to do the soldering...it works well....

.....it took a while, but I have nothing but time on my hands, right?  Finally I was ready to install the new all weather LED strips in the cabinet.....

   The two new all weather LED strips are now wired together

.......installing the new LED's was very easy, and within 20 minutes the new lights were installed.  All I had to do was peel off the protective strip to expose the adhesive strip and press them against the ceiling of the cabinet......

.....and we once again had the cabinet lit.......

......while I was on a roll I decided to begin replacing the lights in the engine bays.  About 9 years ago I replaced the original light, which was completely inadequate with a fixture containing two strips of LED strip lights....it was a big improvement, but I was still not happy with the amount of light.....

The old one

....when we were here in Wittmann a year ago Tom show me some LED lights he had bought for just this purpose, so I bought a box of 5 off Amazon, and installed two of them in the trailer to replace the old, inadequate lights there.  It took me less than 30 minutes to remove the old engine bay light, and install the new one in the passenger side.....

 Much brighter!

.....with that my unexpected day of lighting projects came to and end.....I'll install another one of these in the driver side engine bay on Thursday.  That is how some days evolve when an unexpected opportunity presents itself.

Oh, and by the way, it is now official.....my sister and brother-in-law are coming to Wittmann.  They placed their order for a solar system with A.M. Solar and it is being shipped via UPS to our Wittmann location where we will install it when they arrive in a little over a week.  We are very excited about this development.  Also, TLE and I continue to be without COVID-19 symptoms.....we are healthy, and just taking it one day at a time.

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In the crosshairs......

7:00 am - Wednesday - April 8th - Wittmann, AZ - 52° F, 56%  humidity, wind 3 mph out of the northeast.......clear, blue skies with a few clouds today and a forecast high of 74° F.  On this day in 2012.......

......we were in Savannah, GA for the first time......we dry camped in a field at Red Gate RV Park as they had no sites available.  We still owned our 2002 Thunderbird....I really miss that car!

We haven't left the Newell House property since we drove into COSTCO last Thursday, however, on Tuesday we had an appointment at Walmart to pickup our online order.....mostly greens, and veggies......at 12 pm.  We left around 11:30 am arriving at the Walmart pickup area around 11:55 am......

.....just as last time, we parked in Reserved 1, called the number to advise them we were there, and within minutes an associate appeared with our order.....

.....within a couple of minutes our groceries were loaded, and we are on our way home.....

.....hmmmmm.......the last time we were here the associates were just wearing gloves, but this time they had face masks, and no gloves.....go figure?

We were gone less than 60 minutes when we rolled up to the Newell to disgorge our groceries.  TLE discovered that she had inadvertently ordered 2 of everything, which was not her intent, so we have a lot of greens, and veggies, and enough 1/2 and 1/2 to last a month....hope it lasts that long!

During the course of the afternoon, and early evening we had two more 'Zoom' calls with my siblings, and my mother.  She is in a semi comatose state right now......asleep most of the time, and waking up for short periods of time.  She is comfortable, and appears to be hearing what her children are talking about.  Several of us told stories from our childhood.  Even though we are meeting 'virtually' it is the first time in years we have all been together in the same conversation for a very long time, and that is good.

After our final 'Zoom' call was over around 7:30 pm we were invited to sit by the outdoor fireplace with our hosts and talk about things other than my mother's declining health....it was a nice distraction.....thank you Tom and Darlene.....you are the best!

With a full moon rising out of the east the night sky lit up.....the moon was so bright it was hard to look directly at it.....crazy!

TLE and I remain in the asymptomatic category......no COVID-19 here in the rural back roads of Wittmann, AZ......thank God.  The IHME (The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) whose computer models our collective governments (Federal, State and Local) have been using to make policy lowered the expected number of expected U.S. deaths from this virus from 83,000 down to 60,415......this is just a week after they forecast 100,000 to 240,000 U.S deaths......as you all know there are not even 100,000 deaths world-wide right now attributed to the Chinese virus. Just 3 short weeks ago they were forecasting over 1,000,000 U.S. deaths!   We are beginning to see signs that we may have already, or may be near the U.S. apex of this battle.....again way earlier than forecast by the IHME.  Look, I am not alleging a conspiracy, or even incompetence.......what I am saying is no one really knows what to expect, or how to design a computer model that is even remotely accurate......we/they don't know what we/they don't know.  The hospitalization forecasts are still being wildly exaggerated (again I do not believe intentionally) by the IHME models, but they are getting more accurate as they continue to modify their algorithm.  Nonetheless, policy continues to be made based on total guess work.....guess work that is shown to be wrong on a daily basis.  We will never really know whether it was really necessary to crater our economy, and put 20 million people out of work.....there is no way to know the unknowable.  This experience should stand as mute testimony to the fact our government's power to protect us from a pandemic has limitations.  If you rely on the expertise of the 'bearded' government experts more than your own common sense you will get burned almost every single time.

Based on what we do know, and what is glaringly obvious after a few weeks is that if you live in a large population center you should seriously consider moving to a more rural locale, right?  What's the point of making a lot of money working and living in the big city if you cannot protect your family from a pandemic?  That's just common sense, right?  How many will do just that will probably not be many....some will get the lesson and move, and others who know they should will not because it is easier to keep doing what they are doing and hope the next pandemic will not put them in the crosshairs once again.

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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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