Day: July 21, 2013

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A Good Day For Laundry

Today is quite sunny and windy, a perfect day for doing lots of laundry since it can dry so quickly. I started with the bed sheets and then did a couple of loads of tops and undies.

As I suspected, my clothesline doesn’t hold much, only about two Wonderwash loads of clothes or one of bedsheets.

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The clothesline has a tendency to fall over the minute a slight breeze hits it. I tried to stake it into the ground, but only got bent tent pegs for my trouble. So I decided to try bricks and they are doing a fine job of keeping my clothesline upright in all this wind!

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Here’s the antenna in the truck. The wind keeps turning the pole today and I have to keep running outside to correct it and try to get it to stop moving. I am not annoyed. I just can’t be bothered to ‘properly’ install the antenna when I plan to put a building in that part of the yard soonish.

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While the current load on the line is drying, I am soaking my dish cloths and towels in a mild bleach and very hot water solution before washing them.

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I really like having hot water accessible from an exterior tap! This is yet another feature of my RV that I have yet to take for granted. I don’t think I’d be so keen on doing my laundry outside if I had to traipse into the kitchen to get hot water.

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Internet Disbelief

My internet connection really does work CONSISTENTLY now!

I have been online all morning catching up on so many little tasks that needed a fast, steady connection. I uploaded about 1GB worth of pictures in the blink of an eye. I had a couple of Youtube videos to watch; no problem. Getting through all the spam comments on the blog? Easy. And Netflix? No problem there; movies stream seamlessly.

I have sooooo many blog posts to write, dating back to the RV seminar, and the plan is to write them up and schedule them to post at a regular interval.

It sucks that it took a third of the summer to get to this point, but I’m back in business!

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Real Life Frogger

I went for a walk after dinner yesterday, taking the road east and then climbing the steep hill and walking that road for a couple of kilometres.

The road east was alive with small jumping frogs! This is the first time I’ve seen frogs out here! They were just so cute! They ranged in colour from khaki to a bright yellow green. One was even kind enough to hop onto my hand for a picture. Its legs were about twice as long as its body!

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The steep hill was decorated with bright sunflowers on both sides:

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This deer ran through one pasture and over a fence onto the road, crossed cautiously, hopped another fence, and ran into another pasture where it slowed down for a bit before getting spooked and bounding away.

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Almost full moon rising:

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