Monday: We arrived at
the internet café around 8:30 am…but sadly they were just closing up for the
day. Some kind of emergency coupled
with a lack of back-up staff, I guess.
It kind of put a damper on our careful plans. We decided to just go ahead with our
shopping plans in Lake Isabella, and return to the café the next day. We did stop at McDonalds to use their weak
wifi for a little bit. Then we filled a
propane tank and got a new camp chair at True Value. There, I was told that our propane tank was
too old and past it’s inspection validity date. The guy still filled it, but we’ll have to
do a tank swap next time it’s empty.
After that stop, we went to the grocery store. It was insanely busy. I’m not sure if it’s because it was lunch time
or if it was related to being Thanksgiving week, but we were glad to get out of
that crush. Since we got home earlier than expected, we
went on a bike ride to explore the ends of the forest service road.
Tuesday: Luckily, the café was open today. (BTW…this word processing program is
autocorrecting to put the accent on the word café. I would never be so presumptuous. I would, however, be so lazy as to not undo
it). We spent about 6 hours again and
got a lot accomplished. Still wish
there was good wifi at a library, though.
We’re spending guilt money on coffee and snacks to justify our time in
the café. Got back to the RV and
discovered that Cassie had daredeviled herself access to a shelf she had
previously left unmolested on ALL prior trips left home alone. She and Buddy helped themselves to all of
Missy’s mini-cinammon-coffee-cakes. I
was fairly annoyed at the dogs, but found it funny how sad Missy was at the
loss of her snacks. Lesson learned by
humans. From now on, we’ll put all the
food away. Even if it seems out of
reach. Sheesh. Had a campfire after the sun went behind the
mountain.
Wednesday: WINDY…that’s the word for the day. Holy mackerel! With no protection on our awesome bluff, the
winds really buffeted us and the RV. No
matter how tightly we tried to close the windows, we still had howling in
unseen cracks. I hope this is the only
windy day we’ll have to endure.
Apparently the military doesn’t practice flights on windy days, or else
they’ve taken an early Thanksgiving holiday.
No air show today. Bummer.
Thursday: Happy
Thanksgiving! Missy snuck into town to
see if she could sit in the parking lot of the (closed) café and get some more
shows. Turned out to work! So she was gone most of the day. I went on a walk with the dogs. I got 2 loads of wood from a recently (but
not too recently) downed tree by the main dirt road. I’d say it’s about 100 yards from the
clearing. The wood is fantastically
dry and makes for great fires. I pretty
much cleared it of what could be carried or dragged. Now we’ll have to see if Missy gets around
to using her chainsaw on the big trunk pieces.
The weather today was perfection! Sunny and upper 70s. Perfect day to lie out in the lounger under
the sun umbrella. And we’re still lucky
with the overnight temps. Usually they
end up in the upper 30s/lower 40s. We
haven’t had to use the furnace overnight for a good bit now. (We do run it 10-15 minutes in the morning
to warm up the rig when we get up).
Friday: Well, it was
tough to do, but we found a flaw with this campground. Since it’s in the National Forest, people
get to hunt here. Suck. Last weekend we heard shotguns a long ways
off. But today, there was a lot of
activity close to home. I saw hunters
just across a gulch when I was out with Cassie.
I guess we’ll have to use our orange vests on future walks. Twood suck if one of us got shot. I don’t even get what they’re hunting. Until yesterday, we hadn’t even seen any
deer. Actually, on that point, we
didn’t actually hear any shots fired near us today. So perhaps the hunters will figure out the
“no deer” situation and move on. Other
than the increased “traffic” near us (defined as more than 2 cars), it was a
great day. We had a morning bonfire,
helped out by Mother Nature doing the fanning.
Once the campfire was done, the wind died down and the weather was
perfect.
Saturday/Sunday: Busy
days for hunters. We kept a low profile
and hung around camp all day. Still
having great weather…sunny and warm/hot.
Monday: We left camp
early to get water at a nearby Nat. Forest campground. It was completely deserted. Strange.
Today was shower day. We’ve
finally figured out the right recipe for our hair (with the no champoo
technique). Everybody has different
needs with regards to strengths of the baking soda and vinegar rinse. You’ve just got to be patient and mess
around until you find what works for you.
The trouble for us is, we’re on restricted water use. So each time we get it wrong, we have to wait
until the next shower day to try again.
However, that’s the good thing about having a twin. Double the experiments! Each time, we’d both do something
different. So that made it easier to
nail down what works. Hip, Hip,
Hooray!
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