Stormy Weather

Everything was fine at 10pm when we went to bed, but that peace just lastet until around 2am when I woke up to one hellish noise. Something was terribly wrong. And something seemed to be banging against the bus. The pushing resulted in the bus shaking, and the howling outside was scary. Didn't take long and we both were awake.

I started thinking of our camp furniture outside. Where would that go? 

I tried to dive under the covers, ignoring the outside happenings, but I was fooling myself. I got out of bed looking after how Dixie was doing, she too was awake but not panicking.

Back to bed I tried another round of sleep. The whole thing lasted until about 4am, then the storm went down.

6am I was up again. In California that means daylight. I could still hear some wind outside, but not as bad as it had been earlier. Our furniture had tumbled around, but it was still there, so nothing got lost.

Got Dixie out the door, made some coffee, opened the phone and started reading some of the world's bad news. Have you noticed that there never is good news? We are all fed the bad news, day after day after day.

It takes some strong personality to uphold a positive mood.

After breakfast we took a walk with Dixie. Now that the sun was up, it wasn't bad at all.

After the walk I drove to Holtville to check on the mail and get some vegetables and fruits.

The postmaster handed me a lightweight cardboard box. It turned out it contained a package of 12" long flourescent lights for the rig. This would keep me busy for some time.

We have two kitchen lights which don't work. After replacing two of the tubes, it turned out they didn't work. 

Trying to find out why, I discovered that the former owner had placed an LED light tube into one of the fixtures. To power it, he had cut the two wires supplying power to the flourescent tubes and connected them to the LED. Naturally, I had to reverse this. I wouldn't have played with this at all, if it hadn't been 12V wires. 

After 2 hours of working with the lights, we finally had good lighting in the kitchen area.

And though I have no love for neither plumbing nor electrical matters, I can do simple work involving 12V gadgets. I was quite satisfied with what I had achieved. 

The rest of the day was spent relaxing with another doggy walk around 3pm. Wind was still strong, but I had taken a light jacket, so not bad.

For dinner I prepared sort of an exotic pork stew with lemon juice, banana, onion, honey, mustard, ketchup, a red pepper, lemon pepper and onion powder, finished off with a good Merlot Red Wine.

We had it with cooked rice. It was delicious