Archive for ‘December, 2014’

Playing in water

Wild Thing: Bright and Shiny!

That might be an exaggeration, but the temperature was above freezing, most of the snow was gone and the forecast was for colder temperatures so I decided that this was my chance to get the road dirt and ice melt chemicals off the motorhome before they had a chance to do damage.

I have an adapter for my kitchen faucet that allows me to hook my hose (garden hose) to it and have warm water. I used that to fill the hose with warm water, thus making the COLD hose easy to work with vs a cold non-cooperative hose.

Once the hose was warmed up, I re-connected it to the outside spigot which has LOTS of pressure and rinsed off Wild Thing and her undercarriage and her newly installed propane tank!!

Whilst undergoing this operation, it was raining. It was 37F. I hope that the folks that pulled into the new construction project did not see the crazy person “washing” a motorhome…in the rain…at barely above freezing temperatures.

Oh, well.

There was no soap involved and it was not really a wash, it was just a rinse off of the worst of the road dirt and ice melt chemicals.

But she looks much better.

Meanwhile…

Yep, not much snow left.

And it is raining.

Auggie played in the garage.

And that hose is the hose that rinsed Wild Thing… drained and coiled neatly awaiting Spring-Summer.

Woo!

It was a workout.

Everyone is so tired that a nap was in order!!

And then…

AND THEN!!!

It started “slushing”. It looked liked snow in the air, but it was slush on the ground.

“REALLY???”

Really.

Playing in water…

Photos: Friday morning

Bear and I went to town at close to sunrise this morning.

It was beautiful.

We walked at the wild fowl spot.

I took photos as the sun was rising and the fog was lifting…

Photos:

O Christmas Tree: the finale

If these last days were Christmas Eve, you can count on it…Rudolph would have been leading the sleigh…at least in Northwest Montana.

It has been drippy, soggy and foggy.

Not much fun outside for any of us!

But to “O Christmas Tree”…

Yesterday (Monday) morning, I woke to some commotion in the living room.

I went out to find 5 snowflake ornaments on the floor under the tree…

Ok. Not entirely unexpected. The commotion was from Auggie jumping to get the higher snowflakes

Still. Not unexpected.

I admonished.

I picked up the fallen snowflakes…and noticed…a LOT of needles on the floor. Brown, dry needles.

I knew when I put the tree up that it was a bit drier than I originally thought. Bottom line, I took it down.

Sad, but true…the “Auggie tree top/Christmas Tree” went 2 days.

There are a number of candidates for a replacement. We’ll see. I had my “real tree” fun and I have my silk tree and other things in the house.

It is still over two weeks until Christmas so anything goes. If I feel like doing the “real tree” for real, I’ll do it. If not, I will not.

Fog, sloppy mess, O Christmas Tree…Onward!