Happy Monday everyone, although not a work day for us yet, it has been a busy morning, while we are going from hookups to hookups I still flushed the black tank, and have added a detergent to the grey tank. In many cases the grey tank can smell just as bad if not worse than the black tank and with elevation changes it will sometimes vent through the shower trap to give us a nasty smell. I add an automatic dishwasher detergent to the grey tank with enough water to get a good splashing effect while driving, I do it to remove the soap scum from showers and laundry as well as any grease from dish washing. This is non foaming detergent and a cup makes a high concentration to wash the walls, clean the tank level contacts, and will reduce the fragrance. RV shops sell products to add but this a product I have used at work and trust it to do a good job quickly with little effort.

It’s 8 Celsius this morning or 46 Fahrenheit degrees, yesterday the solar intake was 18 amp/hours and while overcast we are expecting sun and 13c or 56f by mid afternoon, the plan is to be on the road by 11 o’clock a visit with my family and on to our summer location by 6 this afternoon.

Well it’s noon and we are in Woodstock, has been a sunny drive from Fifty Point we pulled out at 10:45 so right on plan. Traffic was light but the signs of a hard winter showed on the condition of the highways, lots of pot holes to be repaired. Because it is Easter Monday all my family was able to make lunch today, I have two brothers and a sister, from oldest is Stephen then Heather with Scott being the youngest, Diane and Linda are Steve and Scott’s wives. It is always great to catch up, with everyone’s life and what their kids are up to, we will try to get together for a barbecue in the summer but with everyone’s schedules it will be tough. Lunch was good I had the lunch buffet, so of course I eat too much….won’t need dinner.

Two hours further down the road and we are pulling into Lake Huron Resort, our home for the summer. It is a 200 plus site campground on the shore of Lake Huron, and this is where we will be our work camping job for the season, exact details of our duties will start to come into focus tomorrow at 9 o’clock. We have a site that is located close to the office, quite large, well treed (could be a satellite issue), has a storage shed which will be great to keep the chairs out of the rain. Had a beautiful sunset on day one, everything is a little wet, but there are lots of buds on the trees so spring is here.

Good news we are still treading water, after two days of heavy rain the skies seem to be starting to part, or at least the rain has quit. Although I had lots of computer work that kept me busy for about four hours yesterday, and it’s not often that you actually feel cooped up or boxed in like a couple days of cold rain will cause. If we weren’t going out visiting through this period of time we could be creeping real close to that feeling, but it’s over and weather man says the sun will shine today.

We got another 17 amp/hrs of solar, I know that’s not much but with the rain and no sun conditions, it’s still like a 1 amp trickle charger working for 17 hours. Ok I will admit it I am a little solar bias, but I hope to show everyone the benefits of even a small solar project…..to be continued….lol

Well as I have my coffee this morning it’s a balmy 8 degrees (48 f) which seem much warmer than yesterday and the forecast is 11 (55 f) this afternoon, not Florida weather but a step in the right direction. We spent yesterday visiting with friends and gathering supplies to head up to the Lake (we always do this, I assume it’s because the stores where we are going are an unknown at this point), Laurie was able see friends in the Fonthill area and we spent the rest of the day with Bob and Irina, sitting by the fireplace, catching up, and I was enjoying watching the Heritage golf tournament with Bob (Bobs not really a golf fan but humours me) on my old 65″ 4K television from our house, while Laurie and Irina caught up on water painting techniques, Irina who is extremely talented artist teaches evening classes at the the local high school. Laurie had started painting last fall, but we seemed to busy for to paint over the winter, but I expect she will be back at it this spring.

Today Laurie is doing an inventory of her Scentsy products, and I will be gathering a number of items to take north with us. We will be doing some renovations in the coach, adding more 12 volt outlets, and doing a few chassis repairs this summer. As we work to reduce the need for transformers, we have two iPhones, two iPads, and numerous other things that charge from a USB cord and create a lot of power loss. We take 12 volt DC invert that to 120 volt AC to plug in a transformer to create a 5 volt DC USB supply to charge a phone. So we are adding 12 volt DC supply ports with 5 volt DC USB so the inverter does not need to be on to charge items overnight.

Well it’s a kick back afternoon, watching the Heritage golf tournament from Hilton Head as well as the Toronto Maple Leafs loose to Boston Bruins. There is a little blue sky on the horizon but has not been sunny, imagine that the weather man was wrong again, that is OK we are warm in the coach our 1500 watt heater has kept up to the demand of the spring temperatures.

I think Laurie mentioned porgies for dinner, good comfort food, no plans tonight. We will be on the move tomorrow, hope to be on the road by 11 o’clock which should put us into my Hometown of Woodstock by 12:30 to meet my family for lunch and catch up a little before we move on to Lake Huron Resort. We are scheduled in there at 6 pm tomorrow to meet our new bosses and get settled in for six months as that will be home till late October.