Movin' In

Jim and Phebe left around 9 this morning on their drive north. We then began “moving into the house”. This involved bringing in things like bathroom gear, clothes, a few select kitchen items and all our food. We also took advantage of the luxury of a washing machine and did our week’s worth of laundry, including all our bedding from the Arctic Fox. While we change the sheets in the 5th wheel weekly, lots of dust and other elements find their way in, so it’s best to give everything a good cleaning once in a while. Bob intends to wash the exterior of the 5th wheel sometime while we’re here. After 4 months on the road and something like 3000 miles it badly needs a bath! And the house is equipped with a “solar dryer”, so we haul our wet laundry to the rooftop deck and peg it out on the line. Even jeans are dry in less than 2 hours because of the warm sun and stiff breeze in the afternoons. Gotta love it!

We did take some time to read our books and enjoy a cool drink on the roof top deck, so it wasn’t all work and no play. While up on the roof, we heard bells in the distance. We looked out over the dry wash (arroyo) adjacent to the house and saw a group of free-range cattle passing by. We’ve occasionally seen groups of cattle wander up the road immediately outside our house, which is one of the reasons it’s important to keep the gate closed, as any landscaping would soon be gone if these cattle, which are accustomed to foraging in the dry desert, got in.

Working in the Office

Bob also spent time adjusting our internet to work here in the house. While not entirely successful, we do have something that works for now. This interim solution has resulted in our creating a “home office” at the location where the antennae cable enters the house and the wi-fi repeater resides. This repeater is not working as intended, so we connect the laptop to it via an ethernet cord, which unfortunately is only 3 feet long. We have a tech guy coming by in the next day or two who we’re told will be able to fix us up. If not, we’ll just buy a couple of longer ethernet cords so we can move laptops out of the BATHROOM. Actually it’s the spare bath, so it’s not quite as hilarious as you might think.