Now for the worse month of the year!

 Now that the shade project is finished I helped Larry remove the four solar panels from the roof of the MH. Since we are under the RV cover now they are not getting any sun and he wants to put them where they will do some good. He built a frame to put them in and then we talked about where to put them since we have a limited back yard. He came up with the idea of putting the frame on the back door of his Man Cave and then they would shade the back of the trailer. A bit later he decided he could take the automatic tongue jack off the Man Cave trailer (since it doesn’t move any more) and use it to adjust the solar panel frame for the best positions for summer and winter so that’s what he has been working on much of the month. The weather has been cooler and we had a week of monsoon rain with twice getting heavy rain and lots of wind. The rain was most welcomed although all at once wasn’t so great.

Solar panels off the MH

Larry making the ram to lift the solar panel frame

Larry welding on the ram

Frame for the solar panels

Ram for the solar panels finished except for the power

Aug 20 we went to Tempe to celebrate our first great granddaughter’s 9th birthday. It was held at the community pool which has inside air conditioned meeting rooms for the party and a really nice swimming pool so the kids had

a great time. It was fun seeing everyone again.

              Milli opening her presents

Larry framed and poured concrete for the inside entrance of the walk gate

(we had to remove the nice brick walkway when the RV cover was put in)

and he did a nice job. I helped him and we both suffered many bug bites

from what we can figure out are ‘Buffalo bugs’. I was wearing a muscle shirt

so I had more bites on my arms and back than Larry did and am just now

getting over the itching. The weather held and we had no rain. The bad thing

is the temperature has gone back up to 109º!

     Larry pouring the concrete

 Freshly poured concrete

Finished product all cured and ready to walk on!

For our anniversary we went to Olive Garden for supper and then to the movies and saw “Top Gun Maverick”. I’m not a movie fan but I did enjoy

the movie. Since Larry was in the Navy and on an air craft carrier and we lived in San Diego, I figured he would enjoy it and it would take him back to yesteryear.

For Larry’s birthday Vince and Dawn treated us to Carlos O’Brian Mexican Food and then we had cake upon returning to their house. Larry took the day off from working as it was again really hot

(108º).   We ended the month on a good note.

           At Carlos O'Brians

Dawn and Vincent unaware of me taking their pics!

    

            Us at Carlos O'Brians

  Larry's cake and present at Dawn and Vince's