sundog

Transitioning a bit tonight. Seems lonelier, and I find myself wanting to be busy. Last time here it took me about 6 days to get over the "what the hell am I doing here" feelings. This time I prepared to let them come. It's necessary for me to let myself feel lonely in order to get quiet enough to begin to really feel.

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December 18, 2005 7:30 PM
Where is Alan tonight?
114.2269W 33.63403N
Tyson Wells wash of La Posa Long Term Visitors Area.

I wasn't going to write and post photos today, but plans changed as when I succesfully finished putting on cabinet doors and reinstalling the now dry carpet and pad, I got what old time RVers call "hitch itch". To be goin' to be goin' - so I went. Went over and met some camphost/BLM rangers and got the scoop on LTVA areas. Once I pay for the one season (88 cents/day - 4 months - if my math is close, because I'm lazy and guessing - $140) Covers water, dump and garbage - which coming into town I paid $18.70 to do all those things at the RV pitstop. I would have to do it once per three weeks, so the LTVA - which have a modicum of security and the best sites, looked good if I was going to stay in Quartzsite for four months. But I didn't think I would - that hitch itch thing again. But I found out that I can use any of the nine LTVAs including the three that are near Algodones (teeth and doc in Mexico) - that did it. I can move as often as I like and still pay no more for the rest of the trip (well, $3.00 to park my car on reservation property at Algodones - so that I can walk across the border to get perscriptions, a crown and meet my new primary care physician. Dentist will be George Cortez - talked to three people here with bridges and crowns from him. Root canals too. No compliants. Crown on a molar $250. Half of my co-pay in Eugene.

Oh, heard that Eugene was black iced out today - with 99, belt line, and parts of I-5 closed for parts of the day. I had to put on shorts today for a while - sorry - couldn't resist my shivering chicklets. Enough- here's my day in pictures.

Thought I'd start with the end of the day - this is Barsiks new front yard - a dry wash with trees and hundreds of birds. The dry creek bed looks like a cat eating coyote highway to me, so I've warned Barsik. He has left the trailer yet so it may be a moot point.

Here I am down in the wash in front of the trailer. I'm trying to decide how to take a picture of myself without a convenient rock to put the camera on. I decided just to hold it at arm's length and you can see below how well that worked.


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Cabinet pictures are from this morning. Took about 1.5 hours to complete installing the hinges and magnetic retainers, and to put the pad and rug back in. The doors of the cabinets were originally drawer fronts, but installing the desk required it to go over the wheel well and various water and power cables. No possibility of drawers. So just before leaving I found that I could remove the drawer covers and figured out that I could install them as cabinet fold down doors. Works

great and looks damn good too. Recognize this Gus and Teddy. I rescued it after the top had broken in a.move. Cindy, this is a perfect example of the need to use pro-fin or a blending finish. The dark mahagony finish on the rest of the wood in the trailer makes this square blond wood difficult to see as a piece of the trailer. So on a hot day next week - with the doors open and the cat and I outside, I'll do a 800 grit light sand to the blond wood and do a top varnish of a dark mahagony over the the light wood. It won't shift to mahagony, but it will blend better. - refinishing tips for the inveterate rebuilder. Also in the pictures above you can see that the batteries aren't framed in yet- they will be forming the base to a chair.

We'll I've talked to many of you today - free minute day - thanks for the calls. Butch and Gail - see you next monday and I just got to bicycle over and see this hotel that you'll be staying in.

Night chickies!

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