Hey there: we are outside Holtville still enjoying the nice weather-been sunny & quite warm. Warm enough to wear shorts for a couple of days but we are paying our dues today as we sit here rockin & rollin in a very good stiff breeze. The inverter is going crazy; it usually stays around 13.05 in the am but this morning with the wind from the turbin & sun we are at 15.00 sometimes. The bushes are blowing horizontally but so far we don’t have to take down the awning.
Prayer flags help our Karma
When we have our wind turbine up it has 3 guy wires holding it up and they can be invisible at times. I have tried tying bandanas up on them but they end up sliding to the ground. I remembered Prayer flags and thought they would be great markers so one doesn’t get hung or drive under them. Of course if you didn’t care about using a genie you could use lights. We are looking for lights that run on 12v. circuits!
one day a rainbow appeared over head
The RV is kind of dark but this rainbow just appeared over our rig and it was just gorgeous. The desert brings some interesting pictures and stories.
For instance Cleo, our little Dorkie dog, came here with a stuffed bunny and after about a week it went missing. We looked everywhere for it and since she doesn’t take it outside, in fact, she is quite possessive about it, we gave up and felt it would show up eventually. Last night Jerry took the dogs for a walk and lo & behold off in the bushes quite a ways from Gypsy what did they find, but the bunny. Cleo is now in heaven and is guarding it again with her life.
Nightime colors are gorgeous here
We get some beautiful pictures of sunsets here-all the pollution over Mexicali I guess.
Today is a day we get to be inside as it is a very strong wind storm. I have been lucky and gotten to work outside some of the past week. I finally am getting all my puka shells I have collected finally drilled out and the sand removed. I have many more than I thought I did. We are getting ansy to go rockin again so when this storm ends and Christmas is come and gone we will adventure out looking for more pretty rock.
Oh an interesting fact for those of you who use wind turbines with RV’s. Yesterday after all the strong wind, we were coming back from a walk and I looked up only to see the wind turbine go slowly to the SW. The two guy wires caught it as it just gently touched the top of Gypsy. Come to find out the the turnbuckle had come apart, most likely from the buffeting wind. We were very lucky the other two did their jobs and kept it from falling. We were also lucky we didn’t suffer any damage from it. It still works and is charging away.