February 3rd 2020

8 o’clock Sunday evening and we made it all the way to the end of the Super Bowl, it was a real close game, until the Chiefs come to life in the fourth quarter. Yes they staged a pretty strong comeback, took advantage when any given the opportunity and forced some timely turnovers, and after a fifty year drought, were probably favourites for quite a few fans whose teams were long out for the season. So a heart felt congratulations to the Kansas Chiefs on a hard fought win!

Our last Monday in Quartzsite, as we start north on Friday, or we aren’t going too far, only north to Plamosa road BLM for the weekend, we are hoping to hook up with “Love your RV” a Canadian YouTuber, who has been traveling for a number of years, Ray is one of the people we followed as we prepared and planned to go full time. We reached full batteries again today, but I’m going to dig in today to see what I need to do to run new cable from the solar controllers to the batteries.

Well today’s weather is windy, which in Arizona means dusty, so today’s forecast is for a high of 55 or 13 a big change from the 80 or 24 of yesterday in fact the next three days will be cool with overnight temperatures near the freezing point, but as we look across the country weather map, I think were ok with our forecast. As I scan some of the over night news, it has been amazing how many people and Presidents, didn’t know the Kansas City is actually in Missouri. Those are probably the same tourist that used to come to Niagara in the summer with their skies looking for snow…aw I miss some of those days. It’s amazing in a world of information being at your fingertips on almost every electronic device that you don’t look up some information or data like where the Super Bowl champions are from…just saying

So we are on the last few days of President Trumps impeachable show, you can’t call it a trial, you can’t even call it a hearing…because everyone seems to agree with what happened, even the Republicans seem to understand that what was done is impeachable, they just don’t think it’s worth of removal from the office. Hell even the president says he did it as he gloats that he can do what ever he wants. As an outsider the whole thing is unbelievable, and more entertaining than most reality shows…like you can’t make this shyt up, and everyone is either in one camp or the other, but it is becoming very apparent that no one is getting voted off the island just yet…but I don’t think it’s over yet.

The crowd at Quartzsite is dwindling, well at least the short timers at the LTVA, there are still the ones that are here for the season, but the 14 and 28 day group is really thinning out, the reality is unless you are running the ATV trails, or running around with metal detectors, once the big tent collapses so does a lot of Quartzsite.

Brrr it’s a crisp 41 or 4 degrees this Saturday morning here in the desert near Quartzsite and the forecast high is for the low seventies or twenties, after a big day yesterday today will be a relaxing day. Again I have the boiler on to take the chill off of the coach. The batteries are good this morning yesterday was one of our best solar harvests and I’m expecting to have a good day today with nothing but sun in the forecast.

Mr. Sam has expressed his displeasure with being left alone all day yesterday, he has regressed from that independent cat that wondered into our lives a little more than five years ago. He has turned into a cuddle kitty, oh he will put on a good show…but he still needs to be cuddled after he wakes up and just loves to be held and petted. Well it was a good day for Mr. Sam as he made it outside a couple of times today to enjoy a beautiful day in the desert between his naps…

Today I decided was a good day check one more item off my todo list and to clean the barbecue, it was just due for a good cleaning, it’s about six months old and has done a fair bit of cooking, before the comments start…I do clean the grill after each use with a scraper and brush, this barbecue has been a good choice, after cleaning today I barbecued pork chops for dinner and I also cooked a tube of breakfast sausage patties, to be warmed up for breakfast for the next week or so. This cleaning involved the removing the burners and removing the crusties from the bottom of the que, cleaning the scrap tray, and scraping the bottom of the grills, it doesn’t cook any better, it just looks cleaner.

Our electrical system is working the way it is suppose to, (and I had hopped) we use power as we normally would if we were plugged in, oh there are a few restrictions like no air conditioner, but we try to avoid areas that need a lot of air conditioning. So every night we use up about 220 to 250 amp hours of battery and everyday the panels recharge the batteries to allow us to do it again. We have (well to clarify Miss Laurie has) made bread with the bread maker, used the instant pot, and tomorrow will make chicken wing dip in the oven, all without the need of the generator. So today by about 2 pm we topped off the batteries, the solar controller, finally made it to a float charge. To day our solar system brought in about 362 amp/hours while the day before the harvest was 418 amp/hours because we were recovering from a cloudy day and our bread making, but neither effected our normal living…just like being plugged in…just saying.