Our Location today is Tecumseh, Ontario, Canada.
Our suspicions about not being served decaffeinated coffee
on Saturday along with getting to bed later than normal might have been true.
Paying serious attention as to what we were drinking yesterday and going to bed
on schedule seemed to have paid off with both of us sleeping like logs. Sleeping
with the windows wide open made us rest so well we were both up by 7:30 this
morning.
While we were watching the Weather Channel as we ate our
breakfast they showed that we could expect rain later tonight. It also showed a
cool down in the temperatures coming in at the end of the week. After we did
our morning reading Kathy started cooking pepper-steak for supper. So I took
the time to add another coat of Urethane to the top of the cart. When she was
about to start cooking something else I had to remind her of our conversation yesterday
to go finish cleaning the trailer today while the weather was still warm. She
had thought that it was going to rain this afternoon but once I told her
differently there was a quick change of her cooking plans. Having already slightly
sautéed everything in a frying pan we moved it to the slow cooker on low.
We had beans on toast for lunch and were on our way to the
trailer before noon hour. We needed to once again open the slides so we could
clean around the curbside slide which helped make it easier for me to clean the
slide topper as well. Once that was done we closed the slides to make it easier
to clean above the slide toppers.
Kathy continued working on the lower part of the curbside
while I went to the roadside to work above the slides. The other day there was
so much work involved on sealing the roof, cleaning the nose cap and cleaning the
other three slides and toppers that I didn’t have time to clean above the
slides in the closed position. I was more than halfway along the roadside
getting it nicely clean when suddenly the wind picked up to the point I thought
the ladder would tip over and that’s when I heard Kathy screaming. I looked up
to see a huge dust tornado devil pass between the front of the trailer and the
truck.
Kathy said it was a Dust-Devil that had suddenly appeared
about fifty feet from the trailer but it was strong enough to pull her camping
chair and the bottle of cleaner in its direction. She had to turn her face away
because she was being pelted by sand pellets. She also got knocked hard on her
arm when the door latch released and slammed shut. As fast as it appeared after
passing the trailer it disappeared. When she later went inside to get her purse
the kitchen counter, the floor and the sofa had a thick layer of dust on them
that wasn’t there when we arrived.
We made it back to the apartment by 4:30 and the first thing
Kathy did was head for the shower because her hair was full on sand and it had
been warm enough for the both of us to work up a sweat. We enjoyed the pepper
steak over rice for supper and have plenty left for another meal. Kathy did
some reading online while I added yet another layer of Urethane to the trailer
cart.
Our area is supposed to have rain overnight and into the
morning tomorrow but there is always something we can do in preparation for our
trip south in 88 days. Thanks for following along and feel free to leave a
comment. Be Safe and Enjoy!
It’s about time.
Krackers
The World's Great Proverbs
Fools
rush in where angels fear to tread.
There is about no time during the day that I can drink caffeinated coffee. Decaffeinated is always my choice.
ReplyDeleteOh what a mess. You clean; mother nature dirties.
We get to enjoy those dust devils frequently in the desert, kinda get used to them, never know when they will pop up. We tie things down but never use our awning unless we are sitting under it and ready to retract it whenever needed.
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