It’s early Wednesday morning, this is the only time I can get connected, again that is why the blogs are not being posted daily, by eight or nine getting any cellular is hit and miss. This morning it is 43 or 6 degrees at 5:30 a little brisk, but the forecast is for sunny but only low sixties at best today. We have not been running the heat as with the front windows missing it just seems useless. We should be getting our new glass installed this morning, and it will be nice to get the front of the coach reassembled. Right now the curtain is half removed, our sun shades are removed, and laying on the floor or the dash. I’m going to take the rest of the curtain down this morning and lube the mechanical slides to make it work a little smoother.

Because we had the battery switch fail, so all power was cut from the coach all our instrumentation has lost its accuracy and is out of sink with the batteries, so today I’m going to have to get the battery bank back to fully charged, but with the generator and some solar we should be able to back to our base line and reset all the calibration. You don’t realize how much you depend on the information these monitors give us until you are not getting it accurately.

Well it’s now about lunch time and the fellows are here reinstalling our windows…and I mean as I look through the new glass I really wonder why I put up with the old windows as long as I did. The sight lines and clarity are outstanding, this was not an inexpensive project but it has been of great value, the company that does this work also does the regular fogged windows as well and we could have saved a couple of hundred dollars by just having the top half defogged but because it is in the line of sight from the drivers seat, we felt it would be money well spent.

After lunch we ventured off to Blyth CA to do some grocery shopping, it had been a while and we needed quite a few items, not the kind of items that are readily available in Quartzsite. Blyth is only about 15 miles (20 kilometres) west just over the state line, we needed fuel so I thought we would get some fuel at the Pilot fuel station in Arizona at the state line, but all the fuel stations at the line were out of fuel, you see the price of fuel is the best part of a dollar a gallon cheaper that in California, yes California prices are very similar to the fuel cost back in Ontario, so a lot of people drive to Arizona for the savings so all the stations at the first two exits were sold out. Luckily we had enough fuel to get back to Quartzsite where fuel is still fifty cents higher that in Yuma or Parker, ah the power of supply and demand combined with location.

We really didn’t accomplish a lot today, other than admiring our new windows and getting groceries, but that’s what is so nice about our down time, just not having to do anything other than sitting and reading or just absorbing some much needed vitamin “D”.

Just a down day, this morning has a little rain in store for us, and it is a cloudy dreary day. Our group of coaches keeps dwindling everyday, we lost another three today, solar harvest this morning is nonexistent, so I will need to have a little generator time again today. There are lots of repairs and upgrades going on around us. There is a refurbished “Aqua-Hot” system being installed, there is a coach having the roof repainted, as well as lots of little projects being carried out.

This has been our second full day without the windows in the front of the coach and it is amazing how much more noise we hear, I have finished the lamps today all fourteen of them. And while a bit of a pain in the butt, it was just a time consuming slicing all the wires, the lights are 12 volt so just crimped connections. Miss Laurie is thrilled that there is so much coverage of the impeachment on the television, especially on a day that we can’t do a lot outside. But I guess that will be the new normal for a few weeks, as the drama around the president continues, supporter or not you have to admit there has been no end to the drama…like seriously!

So this evening we have decided to venture into Quartzsite to Silly Al’s, for some pizza and a little entertainment. We would normally not even try this but Ronda and Pat who we met at the rally suggested it and I just thought it would be good to get out, and we haven’t had a pizza fix like forever. So you know it’s going to be a crazy night when they are lined up out the door, but that’s late January in Quartzsite! Only an hour wait, not to bad, and so now we have an hour to meet new people in line, some folks from British Columbia who are down for the winter. And as the night went on there would be a lot more Canadian content…just saying

We are called to a table, order some drinks and pizza, the place is packed. Lots of activity and there is a band that is just starting to set up, “Wicked Truth” they are a group from Toronto, I had seen some postings on Facebook that they had performed at the split rail RV park on Monday night and that they were quite good. Just to add to our night they were introduced by Peter of the “RV Geeks” a Canadian YouTuber from British Columbia, who were there with a group from the “R Village” which is an website that you can post your location on and can see who is camping near you, I have used it in the past not never had much luck with it but it would most likely work better in the craziness that is Quartzsite.