Daily Archives: December 12, 2014

Finally . . .

We finally managed a stay-at-home day, which was really nice after the last few non-stop days. We sat outside for a while with Mister, having our coffee and muffins and watched the whitetail deer run around the fields. Then a little later Donna Huffer and Bob Parker came over and spent some time.

Then we all headed back in, first pulling off the stickers off our shoes, and then picking them out of Mister’s coat. And even with all that, one or two sneak through, only to be found later by our bare feet. It’s the one real downside to staying here at Colorado River.

Later in the afternoon, I strung up some Christmas lights along the rig’s awnings. We’ve also got a lighted wreath that I’m going to put up later.

Rig Christmas Lights

Of course it’s hard to go all out when we don’t know how long we’re going to be here. But since we’re still waiting to hear from Galveston Bay RV Resort as soon as they get their new sites open, we don’t want to go overboard and then have to take it all down.

For example, here’s what we’ve done in the past at Galveston Bay.

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We’ll have to see how soon we get down there before we decide how much more we’re going to decorate.

My new power converter is humming along just fine, keeping both the engine batteries and the coach batteries topped off with no problems. I’m probably going to order the new 50 amp transfer switch in the next couple of days so I can go ahead and get everything installed under the bed.

Progressive Dynamics (PD52V) 50 Amp Automatic Transfer Relay System

In looking at the size of  new power converter and the size of this transfer switch, it’s amazing how much smaller these components are now compared to the units installed 15 years ago  when our coach was built.

Later, about 5pm Jan heated up our leftover German food from our visit to Schobel’s Restaurant  this past Wednesday night. With the Schnitzel, German Potatoes, and Red Cabbage, it was just as good as the other night.

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Thought for the Day:

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” – C.S. Lewis

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