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Taken In Quartzsite Arizona Dec 7th 2015
Showing posts with label new inverter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new inverter. Show all posts

Sunday, January 20, 2019

Getting a few things done today and a relaxing Sunday.

Where are we today ?
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sunrise this morning before I headed out
       Wow slept pretty well right through the night and woke up raring to go at 4:30. hmm, well I have some computing to do and a pot of coffee to make. Now as the sun was rising at 7 am I whipped into Blythe California for some needed supplies. Nice that the grocery stores open at 5am (6am arizona time. )  Back home by 9am to enjoy the rest of this sunny day.       
a cool  Boss Hog Bike, v-8 engine
57 chevy rear end
this be our new inverter
       I had picked up a couple of 20 amp mini fuses on the way, because the other were all blowing when I plugged in our 100 amp inverter in the car. So today a test. New fuse and plugged in our Brake  Buddy. No problem. So now we know the inverter is defective. We use it all the time here in the desert when in the car charging our phone, I-pad and even our computers. So after a light lunch I went back to town, traffic was not too bad, better than yesterday. Over to Rv lifestyles to see if they have one. Not what I wanted she sent me to Love's truck stop down the street. They had a nice 175 watt one there for 40 bucks, 3 outlets plus 2 usb outlets, I plugged it and and works wonderfully. We back in business again yahoo!
heading down Kuehn street the local traffic
lots of these atv's
         Now enjoy the warm afternoon sun reading our page turners for a while . Then I took our Roadmaster tow bar off to take to the service  truck to be serviced and checked out. We both had long hot showers and me a shave. will go to the dump station early in the morning to dump our sewage and top up our fresh water tank before it gets too busy. And if I am done in good time will get our tow bar serviced, if not another day.
afternoon sunny and warm,
enough to give us a full charge by noon today 
      Then before we knew it time for happy hour at 3:30 always a fun time sharing more stories and getting to know each other.
another fun happy hour sharing more stories
and a few laughs as well
this be my trivet, for the meatloaf tonight
keeps the meat loaf from burning n the bottom
         By 5 pm we headed home to whip up our suppers,  Tonight we are having a ground turkey meatloaf on our Weber Q to go with our salad.    
meatloaf ready to go
    While it was roasting away, I made our salad, read a bit more and watching the sunset, such as it was.
this was it for tonight's sunset
about 2 hours our meatloaf was done perfectly 
tasty? yup and meatloaf sandwiches for lunches
     Just an wonderful relaxing Sunday enjoying the weather and fun times with friends. Thanks for dropping on by and hope y'all had a wonderful Sunday as well,
      Our  solar eclipse is actually supposed to happen tonight , I goofed in yesterday's posting this is the schedule for it, But with tonight's cloud cover does not look promising. If I get a picture I will post in tomorrow.

Want to learn more about Membership camping at Rock Glen Family Resort ? 
click this link www.geosuzie.rockglen.com to book a tour 
 Where have we been this Winter?

Thursday, September 20, 2018

A soup kinda day, and a new inverter install thanks to a tip from Croft.

Where are we today ? 
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        Cooler and a bit of rain off and on today. A good day to make a pot of soup. So with the left over turkey bones from last Saturday night I set them on to boil and make a tasty broth. While this was happening I went to Forest for a few supplies, in particular to pick up a new 1000 watt pure sine wave inverter that Canadian Tire had on sale. $80.00 off only $239.00. Our other one is a 1200 watt modified sine wave and has served up wonderfully for 12 years.
this be the new inverter with a 2 year warranty
awesome deal!
        BUT. when Croft mentioned his inverter died and got this one at Canadian Tire in BC. it got me thinking. Ours was giving us some issues last winter, occasionally it would shut off for apparently no reason. And we would have to wait a while and reset it. We had thought about replacing it this past spring and totally forgot. Thanks for the reminder Croft. besides we had more than enough Canadian Tire money to buy it here (we like free!). If we need to replace it in the states we would have to spend money.  So I got the new one and installed it in no time. It took more time to empty that compartment and put stuff back than the install. The only thing left is to install the remote switch as the remote for the other one does not work on this new unit. A small project for another day.
              Back from shopping I finished up the turkey barely soup with lotsa veggies we wanted to use up and shared some with Gerry and Melinda. They bought the turkey for the dart club banquet and I cooked it, and they do enjoy my homemade soups.
a nice large pot of tasty soup,
perfect day for it
yup love my soup
           After lunch while doing the inverter install Paul dropped by to chat for a bit then when that was done I got to enjoy my e-reader for a while before whipping up a salad for tonight's supper to go with a grilled chicken breast on our Weber Q 100.
          The old inverter still was working so will keep it as a spare, just in case so we are not stranded.The new one has 2 cooling fans that should help to keep it running much better.
Old one on the left , new one on the right
fit right in the same spot
and so far works perfectly.
now to relax in the shade enjoying our e-readdrs
with my sweetie
2 large bone in chicken breasts smelling
wonderful out here while reading
this sure hit the spot and of course some left over chicken
for lunches
I noticed we were having a nice early sunset
then the clouds began to show some colour too
a nice ending to a perfect day
      We did have a wonderful day , so peaceful here almost like we are totally isolated. Love it when the campgrounds are like this.
       Still enjoying a nice mild evening outside, not a sound anywhere. Gonna wrap up this posting and read a bit then head inside by 9 pm.
       Thanks for dropping by again and hope y'all had a wonderful day as well.
Want to learn more about Membership camping at Rock Glen Family Resort ?
 click this link www.geosuzie.rockglen.com for a tour 
 Where have we been this summer?