Our Location today is Tecumseh, Ontario, Canada.
Again both Kathy and I had a great night’s sleep and again I was
wide awake before 7:00 this morning. After opening the curtains in the other
rooms and getting things ready to make breakfast I sat at my computer and got
all my morning reading completed before Kathy woke shortly after 8:00. As soon
as we’d finished with breakfast Kathy went to do her morning reading while I went
back to our Solar panel project.
Since I have no way of welding the aluminum frames together
an alternate means of fastening these parts together had to be devised. The practical
way was to use pop-rivets which meant drilling a lot more holes at the right spots.
After I’d laid everything out I moved my workbench back outside on the balcony
where I started squaring all the components of the frames.
Kathy had done more research this morning about when we head towards
the southwest for the 2016/17 winter
season. She’d already plotted the course and was curious how far I expected
to drive each day. Since we’ll be Fulltiming by that point there shouldn’t be
any rush and we’ll travel according to the weather and how we are feeling. Now she
has the direction she’ll research things to see and do along the way.
After lunch I started to assemble the frames on a tarp on the
living room floor but working bent over doesn’t help my back too much. Through
the course of my career I received a number of back injuries because other
people didn’t think before they did things. One fellow thought he was being
helpful standing behind me and when his footing slipped kicked me in the middle
of my spine with a steel toed boot.
When I attached the
first corner of the frame together I learned that the rivets I had in stock
were just a touch too short. Another trip over to Home Hardware needed to be done. When I returned with
the proper length of rivets the frames went together well but they still had
some flex. Luckily there was a short length of material left that I cut in half
that I used to brace the frames solid. Unfortunately when working bent over on
a tarp the measurements don’t always turn out the way they should but luckily
for me I can shorten the frames with only a loss of time tomorrow.
For supper Kathy had me grill some spare ribs that she had
marinated on the Weber Q while she
cooked an Acorn squash and sautéed some Baby Spinach for our sides. Just as we
were sitting down to eat we realized I had to go pick up our grandson Tyler
from Football practice. Luckily Kathy was able to call him on his cell phone to
say I’d be a few minutes late. Strangely my food was still warm by the time I got
back from bringing Tyler home.
Tomorrow the area weather will start looking more like a typical
fall and the temperatures will drop. We actually broke a couple of long
standing records this past week. Hopefully the real cold temperature will hold
off until after I’ve installed the solar panels on the roof of our trailer. Thanks
for following along and feel free to leave a comment. Be Safe and Enjoy!
It’s about time.
Pictures from they Keys.
Pictures from they Keys.
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Perhaps you will find after full timing for awhile that planning will only be tentative since the great thing about full timing is changing your mind on a moments notice:)
ReplyDeleteThats the beauty of fulltiming, just go with the flow always a place to park for the night and so much to see and do. Our plan is we actually have no real plan just hang out in the southwest and enjoy.
ReplyDeleteForget having a travel schedule. Just look for interesting places to see and visit and everything else will fall into place.
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