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Zion National Park, UT – Saturday September 10, 2016

One of the things I purchased while we were at the big house this summer is a sun shade for the awning.  I wasn’t sure how the power awnings would take the wind until this spring I saw people at the Goodyear RV Resort with power awning staked out.  This will really work well when we’re at Spring Training next March.  The motorhome faces south and this shade will help in the late afternoon and evening sun.

Zion National Park, UT – Friday September 9, 2016

Last night I worked on updating our travel logbook I keep in an excel spreadsheet.  Last year created a worksheet with summary information about each night and campsite information.  I worked backwards from now and got to 2012.  Last night I put all our Zion stays into this worksheet.  As of 2014 we had 96 nights here at Zion starting in September of 2003, we did not come to Zion last year (2015).

Also updated the maps for Monday 9/5, Tuesday 9/6 and Wednesday 9/7 and moved a couple to post so they  appear on the correct calendar date.  The Ipad program I use will only post a date as of the date it is actually published.  The PC program will allow me to set a publishing date to anything I want, this allows me to coordinate the blog post calendar on the right side of the page to the correct day’s information.

Don’t have a new picture for today so I’ll show our campsite again.
Weather has been warm; 92 yesterday, 94 today and going to be 96 on Saturday.

Zion National Park, UT – Wednesday September 7, 2016

Zion National Park is just the greatest place.

We have one of the largest sites in the park, B44 right on the river. A river site is at least 5 degrees cooler.  It is now 10:30 p.m. and it is still 75 degrees outside.

Tanya and I are still in the Fall newspaper.

Updated maps – Will post maps after I upload data from Inreach. Don’t know why this has two lines for today’s travels.
Drove to our campsite to drop off the car and then dump and fill with water.

Again don’t know why the GPS is jumping around so much.  Still a good pictures

Written on IPad.

 

 

Pony Express Rest Stop, Hwy 93 – Monday September 5, 2016

Another night at highway rest stop.  We pulled into a corner so we could have the bedroom slide out.
It is a big parking area out in the middle of nowhere.  Nice and quite p, Two trucks and two cars when we called it a night.
It has some neat art and information about the pony express.

Updated maps 9/9/2016 – Will post maps after I upload data from Inreach.  

 

Home – Timing of Home Repairs – Wednesday August 17, 2016

Yesterday I finished up a home painting project.

When I painted the house the molding around the front porch pillars where pretty rotted at the corners and would not go back around the pillar housings.
I decided they needed to be replaced and did not reinstall the original ones.
As you can see in this picture these pieces have two angles on them. Their is a 10 degree angle from the outside edge up to the inside edge and also the inside of the molding has a 10 degree angle coming down from the main pillar.  Last winter I cut all the pieces of molding out of lengths 2X4’s and over the last couple of days I got them painted and install on the porch.
I think they look pretty nice.

I titled this post “Timing of Home Repairs” because I removed these pieces of molding when I painted the house in 1980.  Some project just shouldn’t be rushed.