Another beautiful day

It is so nice here in Quartzsite. This morning's sunrise was gorgeous... It was in the 80s and comfortable all day long and now it's 7:00 at night and a cool breeze is coming in off the surrounding desert. It's in the mid 70's right now but feels like it's about 68-70 because of the breeze.

We're done with most of our work on the trailer. Today we made a dump run - unload garbage, dump the dirty water, load up on fresh water and propane... We found a problem with the propane - the regulator on the propane tanks had a crack in it that was allowing propane to leak out. I figure that the cold Minnesota winter caused the aluminum housing to crack where the brass fittings come into it. So, a new regulator & hoses were in order - $60.00. Not too bad for another 20 years of propane.

Now that we're back to solar hot water, no heating and our propane refrigerator has been replaced by an all electric (solar powered) model, we should be able to go for months without refilling the propane tanks.

Erika took the picture of the lizard that was hanging out on the still warm rocks of the previous nights fire pit. We have time to look around and see everything that there is to see. Unlike living inside an apartment or house, trailer living is somehow closer to the outdoors - more like camping than living in a house. Yet, we have everything, electricity, hot running water, ice cold drinks, internet access, etc. There's nothing quite like it - it's like having your dream home, but you can change your front yard from a desert to a lake just by driving to it...

Now that we have some time to relax and kick back life seems more worth living again... I wish everyone could have this feeling at least once in their lives...