My neighbour (who keeps feeding the gulls *shakes head at how idiotic people can be while continuously wiping bird crap off her rig*) hooked something BIG on his fishing pole this afternoon:
Reeling in a pelican.
Trying to calm it down.
Keeping it steady while someone ran to get snips to cut the fish hook.
He doesn’t seem any worse for wear.
Happily paddling before flying off.
Good morning blogosphere! It’s a glorious day out here in Texas! The sun is shining! It was warm at 6:30 a.m.! Life on the beach is great!
(No, I have no been dipping into my secret daiquiri stash this morning. Why do you ask?)
Not that you asked for it, but here is a battery status report. I’ve been full up since the weekend. These are the kinds of readings I’ve been going to bed to for several nights now, and this is after charging computers all day, running the whole house inverter to vacuum, leaving a couple of LED lights on all evening, etc.
voltage at 12.63
0.3 amps going out for the fridge and other systems like the propane detector
down 1.5 AH from 144 available to me
99.5% battery capacity
When when I need to charge the computer after dark, I usually see the voltage fall to about 12.3 when the computer is unplugged, but then the batteries rest overnight and I get right back up to 12.5 or more in the morning, matching my battery capacity readings.
We haven’t even had full sun all week, either. Lots of white wispy clouds.
I went to bed very early last night, so I was out walking the beach very early this morning:
I’m thinking a structure like this could be good for my property in case I ever have to leave the rig there in the winter (not with me in it!). I could wrap the sides in heavy plastic for further protection from the elements.
Another style.
I was excited to see cacti in the Okanagan, but these are much cooler!
Lots o’ spikes.
Ouch!
Warren Schmidt’s RV!
Another RV shelter.
Love this, but a bit too rich for my blood!
More cacti.
The most bizarre structure on the beach.
There are boxes in the cubes. L says these folks come here once a year for a few weeks and add on to the place. I checked Google Maps and the last time the Google car was around here, the place was just a platform, no boxes on it. The big question is: what’s with the yellow cube?
As for the last picture, I had a eureka moment as I put water on to heat for washing up after dinner. I was having leftover pasta and that stuff is a bitch to reheat as it sticks and dries out. I simply put my meal in a bowl that I set in the pot of hot water, put on the lid, and turned the flame to medium-low. Ten minutes (and a bunch of sunset pictures later), I had a hot meal waiting for me that was a breeze to clean up after!
Today was really low key. It’s a chilly and windy out there, so I’ve stayed in. An invasion force of pterodactyl-like pelicans landed this morning and have been providing Neelix and me with entertainment all day.
Caroline and her husband came by in the afternoon to tour the rig. Her husband gave me his thoughts on how and where I could add a giant monitor to my office setup. The number one thing keeping me from doing so is that I want to run the monitor off DC, not AC, so that I don’t have to turn on the inverter. He said that it’s doable so I’m going to do a bit more research on that.
Caroline had a nice present for me, a cross-stitch project that she’ll never get to, so I’ve already started on that and will continue tonight with a movie. I found a DVD with eight surprisingly good movies on it for just $5 at Walmart and have been watching one a night. It’ll be nice to have something to keep my hands busy in the evenings now.