10-3-14 Friday , Ten
Mile, Tn.
Woke up at 0730 in Hornsby Hollow
CG to a downpour. It rained a good portion of the night. I love the
sound of rain on the rig's roof. Got the coffee on and by the time it
was done the rain stopped. Big puddles but the sun is coming up.
By 1200 the sun was shining and I
got ambitous. Picked up a new battery for the chassis at Wally World
enroute yesterday. The deep cycle marine batteries were on sale, I'm
guessing because it's the end of season. I found a large marine deep
cycle battery for $64. Too bad the state sales tax in Tennessee is
9.25%, kinda jacked up the price. Got out the tools and spent about
an hour installing it. Of course I had to clean & polish &
wash & no-oxide all the connections and the battery area. The
chassis battery has about 12 wires connected to it and they were all
corroded a bit. I do try to make a yearly effort to keep that area
cleaned so it wasn't too bad. My before and after voltage readings
went from 11.1volts to 12.9 volts. The old battery was using a lot of
water and just wasn't maintaining a good voltage for the last 2
months ( 11.1v in the morning). I can't complain about the old
battery, it gave us over 2 years of good service. ( Amazing that the
warrenties are for 2 years!! Isn't it !!) Being an older rig, we use
a lot of DC voltage. Another thing I've noticed is the charger has
gotten a lot quieter.
10-4-14
Saturday--
Wow, got an excellent night's
sleep. Didn't get up til 0830. It got Rather cool out last night and
woke up this morning to 46F.. Extended our stay here 1 day due to
forecasted wind gusts of 35MPH. You've heard me say before that I
don't like driving our Class A in the wind. Sunday is supposed to be
a good weather driving day and traffic is usually light. Next move
will be to Ft Payne, Al, about 200mls.
We checked our to do list,
nothing major but still needed doing. After an extended coffee hour
we puttered around and vacuuming, window cleaning and fixing our
screen door and other small chores ate up most of the day til Happy
Hour.
The park has been really quiet.
You can sure tell school is in session as we've only seen a few kids.
The park is mostly empty.
I'm personally enjoying the
solitude. Last night, about dusk, we could see the bass jumping in
the lake.
I see a few of our friends in
Michigan's U.P. and in South Dakota are expecting S N O W
tonight !! YUK !!
REMEMBER, LIVE YOUR DREAMS AS
TIME GOES BY QUICKLY !!
Charlie & Heather
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