We are making progress!

 

Friday January 1 the RV cover was finished and Saturday Jan 2 the solar fellows showed up and they finished putting up the solar panels on Monday January 4 but that doesn't seem to mean much as here we are at February 1 and all the inspections still are not done! Perhaps by March 1 we will be back in place and everything will be done??

                                                 Putting in the inverters for the solar

                                       Lift to get both the panels and the workers on the 16ft high cover

                                Workers on top of the cover getting ready to put the solar panels on

                                                          Solar panels

I met with a friend for lunch on Jan 7 at Cracker Barrel and learned on Jan 9 that she had been exposed to someone with Covid so we cancelled our appts. until I learned on January 12 that my friend had tested negative. Better safe than sorry.

January 14 we once again became AZ residents getting our AZ drivers' license and registering the car. We had to have an appointment due to Covid and picked at great time of 1 PM as we had no wait. There was a line when we left almost an hour later however.

Larry made arrangements to have a steel gutter made for the RV cover and it was delivered January 18. Larry worked on the gutter sealing it and then painting it. Unfortunately we were not able to get it up before we had quite a rain storm on Monday the 25^th. We even had hail and a bit further north of us snow! Larry was able to get piping in from the house to the back of the property to help keep the water from the roof off of our RV pad and it worked well.

                                               Gutter for the back of the RV cover

                           Larry on the lift putting in the pipe to take the house rain water to the backyard

                                                        Hail on the driveway

I had a wonderful birthday as Todd came for a three hour visit and then the gutter fellows showed up and it was installed rather quickly and Larry was SO relieved to get it up finally! We went to Olive Garden for supper. Larry worked on getting the pipe from the newly installed RV gutter over to our rain harvest tank and finished Thursday at dark the 28^th.   On the 29^th we were able to 'test' the gutter and pipe as we had an afternoon of steady rain and it did a good job as we now have water in our rain harvest tank. That night we went to Red Robin with Dawn and Vince to celebrate my birthday, returned to their place to play Train and have angel cake and ice cream. The 30^th we received a deposit on our HydraLift from a fellow from Tacoma who has a Harley and loves to ride and wants to see all of America and is buying a motorhome for that dream to come true. It really was a full exciting week! 

 

                                                   Drain pipe into the rain harvest tank

                          Larry using the backdoor of the trailer to put his ladder on to reach the top of the cover

                                          Backing the trailer into place under the new RV cover

                                         Drain pipe from the new gutter to the rain harvest tank

Sunday Jan 31 we moved big rocks (that we put in four years ago!) from beside the pad to the front beside the driveway to help stop erosion and make way for smaller rocks beside the MH so they will be easier to walk on. We both are extremely sore and are looking forward to our afternoon appointment today with the chiropractor.

                                                 Where we removed the rocks

                                                                 Size of the rocks

                                                        Another beautiful AZ sunset!