Charles W. Moore

Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 January: Jess Arrives

Friday 12 January

It has rained most of the day and the cold front is passing through.  Rain was very hard at times.  We are getting ready for Jessica’s arrival and we both took showers and SAM swept the floor.  We have another arrival today with a Airstream type trailer.  They seem sort of nice and they will be here for a month.  He is a sailor and they sailed the west coast clear down to Cape Horn and rounded her in a 43 Westsail.  Can’t wait to hear his adventures.

Thursday 11 January

Today we went to the First Assembly Seniors group meeting.  We had to calculate our body mass and I am borderline obese.  To even get to a reasonable level I would have to lose 38#.  I am 202 again up from 180 a couple of years ago when I could not eat right.  We had a vegetarian been soup and I pigged out on this by eating two bowls.  After that we pretty much holed up in the RV with all the intermittent rain but we made a quick trip to Walmart to buy a fan for the RV so we could circulate the bedroom air a bit.

The RV Park is getting busy and three new people have moved in this week.  Last night some guy in a 5th wheel pulled in at 1200 midnight and woke us up.  It took a while to go back to sleep.

10 January Rain, Another Day In Paradise

Here it is.  Another session of intrigue and drama within the family and one or more outside the family.  That is all for tonight.

Tuesday 9 January: Overcast, rainy and warmer

A slow day and we finished the last book on CD by Rosenberg and went tho the library and got two more.  While at the library we bumped in to a old marina friend, Richard, and we had a nice chat.  Another highlight was that we used the air conditioner to keep the inside temperature at 75°.  This was good because there was the possibility that the heat pump might have an issue based on the performance on the heating mode a couple of weeks ago.

Slowly the RV is becoming like home.  However, I must admit I am not one of those who is a daily mover and I like to stay awhile and see the sights.  We are watching the forward tv now and the showers are on the way with an outside temperature 68° and SE light winds.  Yea, I will take the warmth.  I hear we can expect next week overnight temperatures in the low 30’s.

Monday 8 January: Chores

This is a work day.  SAM has her’s and I have mine.  First we worked as a team while I removed the 4 final screws holding the fascia of the forward TV.  The TV is a big monster of yesteryear which we want to replace with a UHD flatscreen.  We have wanted to remove this for a week or more but we finally set a date and moved forward.

After SAM departed to do the laundry, I started finding places for the big items we had just removed.  This necessitated moving, cramming and finessing those items.  In the end, things looked nicer fit in the compartments better and generally was much more tidy.  I had a few minutes, I thought, before SAM returned so I decided to try out the front TV antenna with the 32″ flatscreen I brought along.  Long story short, it worked fine and showed 57 digital stations found. I place the monster 32″ up on the dash temporarily and we watched TV from the salon of the RV last night.

We finished the Book “The Third Wave” and now we are listening to Joel Rosenberg’s “The First Hostage”. I like his books and think I have listened to most and read a few. They are due back on the 16th so tomorrow it is listening time again.  No TV!

Sunday 7 January 2018

This being a Sunday we left for First Assembly about 1005 hrs in cool but brilliant sunshine. My oh my, how the sunshine lifts the spirits.  Today was Baptism Sunday and it was also the new member introduction to the congregation.  The were quite a few of them.  Everyone was in a friendly spirit today and we spent a long time talking with new and old alike.

Afterwards, we went to Publix and SAM went in to buy some more staples while I remained in the car to fiddle with the smartphone and items to be updated.  We enjoyed the ride home in the sunshine.  Lunch was fixed and eaten then I took a nap with Abby in the favorite chair then piddled with a picture of our RV in the Clay Fair RV Park.

Now, as I play and the sun has gone down behind the tall pine trees the radiating heat has disappeared, it is starting to feel like it is getting cold.  However, the temperature is the same inside so I guess the cold is imagined.  All the scheduled events on the RV did not take place but I guess there is always tomorrow or the next day or the next. Moore Later

6 January a Saturday

I was out in the crisp N. Fl air this morning: Not so early but early enough. I dumped the Black Water and then hooked the hose to that tank and flushed it well.  The level guage is working again – Yea.  After that I piddled around and drained the hose and cleaned up the watter sid of the locker. I made sure the new heaters (100W bulbs in trouble lights) were off.  PS: the lights glow all nigh indicating how much pee or poo is going down you know where.

I spent time on the amateur radio and computer today.  I moved some stuff inside to outside storage bays and took an after lunch nap with Abby to my left side. We never made it to the laundry – bummer.  Now, SAM is worrying about the outside night lights not being on.  Lots more happened but I forgot.  Perhaps I will change.

We are looking for a new site near the Hamcation in Orlando and then perhaps to Broward County site where it is warm.

5 January: Lazy Days

As I write, the sun is behind the trees and it is getting dark here at the Clay County Fair RV Park.  This night promises to be in the mid-20’s again.  Hopefully, we have this cold weather thing mastered as much as can be mastered.  The lights are on in the septic and city water bays.  The water at the outside faucets and  am running water inside to partially fill the greay water in preparation of flushing the black water lines.  I will be ready for darkness and the dropping of temperatures.

This morning I was sort of foggy and a bit out of it but I tackled the Allstar Node 43584 no IP issue.  Iam not sure what causes it but I surmise it is the password getting corrupted and it is no able to log into the LAN side of the hotspot internet connection.  Also puzzling was the fact that I could not log into root with the password.  Finally, after much trials I got logged in and changed the password so that was golden.  Then I accidentally deleted the wireless config file so had to generate it again but this time I put in the wrong password.  So around the barn again and put in the correct one and it worked OK.

SAM and I went to the First Assembly to pick up some of our mail and Amazon deliveries.  Our new LED 110 VAC microwave counter lights. The color temperature is 6000K and this is too white for me but they work fine and will probably last forever (I hope so).  Our sewer hose washing adapter arrived too so now we can rinse the sewer hose without splashing ourselves. Then we went to lunch at Burger King and returned to the RV.

So ends another day in the life of retirement at the Moore’s.

4 January 2018: Same place

The day had not dawned and the water went fizzle.  Frozen hose, outside temp 27° and standing pipe frozen too.  Disconnected hose and brought inside.  tried the onboard water and it worked so it was all outside.  Went back to sleep.

As the morning dawned I remembered the appointment with Rick Mobi-Mechanic to work on tow-dolly.  This guy tore into it and cleaned things up so now it worked relatively well. So on the way back we stopped by the Home Depot in Orange Park and bought a couple of old style metal trouble lights plus 4 each 100W incandescent light bulbs.  When we got back we put them in the septic and power bays on the RV.  Hopefully, no freeze tonight.

Just about dark the manager of the park came by and told us it would be in the lower 20’s tonight and he was cracking the water valve and said it would be best if I removed the Y valve and the carbon filter.  I did this with him and put the filter inside to drain.  Tonight we will leave the water running and the grey water valve cracked to allow the tank to drain.  In addition, I dismounted the sewer connector and put it inside the closure and re-installed the connector ( it would not fit through the opening on the RV).  Both 100W light bulb are on now and the black water tank is glowing.  Tomorrow morning we will see the product of our overnight events as it glows with the back lit 100W bulb. SMILING LIKE CRAZY.

SAM is fixing dinner and fussing so I had better quit this worthless pursuit and get back to what is important.  Bye from Moore.