Author: Steve

Know how big trucks have those backup alarms that go beep beep beep when
they’re in reverse? Some motorhomes have them too. Ours has one in fact.
I don’t think it’s necessary. I think everyone around knows when I’m
backing up. I think the alarm is unnecessary, but I didn’t get to decide
whether they put it on our rig or not. I don’t think anyone else did
either. What brought this up, is the first night we were here. Weather permitting,
we generally sleep with the window open next to my head. That night, before
dawn, I awoke to the beep beep beep sound of a large motorhome backing up.
It’s not uncommon to hear someone start and leave before dawn. It was
taking this guy a while to get going, so I just reached over, closed the
window and went back to sleep….. kind of. I could still hear it. It
seemed like it would get fainter, so I knew he was really leaving, but then
it seemed like it was louder again. This guy was taking forever to get out
of there. Finally, after a very long time, I got up to see what he was up
to. I walked out into the living room, figured out the alarm on the Bose
radio was going beep, beep, beep, turned it off and went back to sleep. I
have no idea how the alarm got triggered. We never use the Bose radio for
its travel alarm. Guess it just jiggled on while we were driving the day
before. More mysteries of life on the road.

No more cold weather. No more January weather in December. We’re set for
highs in the forties, lows in the twenties. We got through that deep
freeze. Some people here had a lot of trouble with things freezing up. Our
pipes never froze up completely. We had a few faucets that didn’t work in
the morning a couple times, but they each thawed out later in the day. No
damage. We did go through a lot of diesel fuel to keep warm. The furnaces
ran nonstop when the temperatures were single digit or lower. We used sixty
gallons of diesel over a period of three weeks for the furnaces and had to
drive across the street to the gas station to refuel.

Football is a stupid game. The Broncos won, and it’s still a stupid game.
Twelve to ten. What a win.

It warmed up today, all the way to freezing. The low tonight is only going
to be nine degrees, but that’s twenty degrees warmer than last night. It’s Judy’s birthday today, she gets to do anything she wants, and I have to
be nice to her for the WHOLE DAY!

Last night’s low, ten below. We were one of the few RVs in the park that
had any water at all. We had cold water in the bathroom sink and hot water
in the kitchen sink. Nothing in-between. As we warmed up to zero during
the day, all the water came back on. Another cold one tonight, then we’re supposed to warm all the way back up to
freezing.