Sometimes they live together in peace.
But more often, they get snappy when they get crowded together.
They raise the offside wing, for balance I suppose, then snap with the closer wing. It makes a loud whack. It sounds dramatic but nobody gets wounded. It’s a noisy slap-fight until somebody gives up and flies off.
It’s still happening, but only intermittent showers now. There was more than 5 inches of rain from the storm here. Don’t have an exact count. Up to 10 inches in places. And no Lake Sandpipers.
A little street flooding on the 300 row, but that was gone the day after it stopped raining. The grass in the field out in front of us stayed visible the entire time. So far so good on the drainage!
This is what the interior looked like at 8:00 am yesterday. Behind the driver’s compartment, ten more seats.
We drove it over to storage, removed each seat and put them inside. By noon, the interior looked like this.
This is what it looked like by 6:00.
Judy was very busy. Now she has it almost completely packed!
Today was our last doctor visit. Saw the cardiologist for a checkup. He thinks I’m awesome. We haven’t picked a day to leave yet. We’re waiting for a couple more deliveries from Amazon on Monday. As soon as it feels like time, we’ll head north.
We’re going to take all the seats out of the van and put in a nice sofa that converts into a bed in the rear. The sofa bed is on order and won’t be shipped until late July though. We’ve arranged with a shop in Colorado to install it. We’re not going to wait here in the Valley until it’s ready. We’re going to hit the road before then, gain a little altitude and lose a little humidity. We’ll make sure we’re back in Colorado when it’s time for the sofa bed installation. That means we’re going to have to go with a different kind of bed in the meantime, and here it is. The floor bed.
It starts out as three 6-inch cushions folded up. 18 inches high. About the height of a chair. That’s how it will ride during the day.
It folds out into a bed for two at night. It has a width that will fit just right between the wheel wells.
All set up with our nice puffy down sleeping bags.
We slept on it to make sure it was going to work. It did. This is totally doable.
Picked it up from the dealer at noon.
Tropical Storm Alberto has landed as well. No problem. We drove the van home from the dealer in the storm and then kept on going for another hour, just checking it out. Now it’s parked backed-in underneath the cover. We can get in and out of it through the side and back doors without getting very wet. We bought it loaded with pretty much everything. Plenty of features to explore and plans to make. And now I can remove the blue tape outline of the interior of a Transit Van from our back patio, and it will look less like a crime scene back there.
The frogs have landed as well. The torrential rain has unleashed all the different frogs we have here from their dormant states. Standing out on the deck in the dark, it is a joyful racket of a thousand frogs announcing their return.
