He gets more “moved in” each time we visit. The bookshelves are now well loaded.
Outside things are blooming. His plum trees has small plumbs on it. Right now they are about the size of big olives. The rose “bush” that climbs trees has lots of roses on it.
It had some when we were there but nothing like now.
We think we made good progress on his “chicken coop”. We got it to the point where he needs to do a little more planning on how he wants to arrange the nesting and roosting areas. The nesting area will be on the “shelf” that we were using as a bench. I think he plans to put a feeder and waterer under the shelf. I think the plan is to have 3 chickens.
We ordered supper from a local carry out. Kathy and I had different types of cheesesteak sandwiches. Drew ordered fish, enough so that we shared them. Enough french fries came with the fish to feed 6 people. We also had two different types of chicken wings. My cheesesteak sandwich was very good, as was the fish and the fries. Kathy & Drew said the wings were also good.
We arrived back home just after 9 PM and got to bed around 11:30.
We got up this morning at 4 AM. I had ham & eggs for breakfast and left at 4:40 to walk down to the sunrise service parking area, I needed to be there by 5 AM. The first car rolled in at 5:10 AM. By 6:15 there were several hundred cars parked in the grass lot. At 6:10 it was still dark enough that I could still quite easily see at least one star. Most of the cars/trucks were loaded with people. I was told that in the past most people walked the road/trail “up the mountain”. There were 3 four wheel drive crew cab trucks and a four wheel drive SUV ferrying people up the mountain. They filled up the backs of the pickups, as well as the cabs. I think more people rode than walked. Kathy was a trooper, she walked up. I caught a ride up in the next to last truck that went up. I had not been up before and was glad I didn’t walk up. One of the guys had told me that it was a 15 minute walk. Kathy & I walked down and I bet it took us at least 20 minutes to walk down. The road/trail is so steep that when coming down you are constantly concerned about stepping on several loose stones and having your feet go out from under you. These photos don’t come close to giving you an idea how steep it is. I took them from the same location. One is looking up the road and the other looking down.
Kathy was sure it was below freezing while we were “up on the mountain.” I don’t think it was that cold, but it was cold. It was 36 when I left the RV to walk down to the parking area. Weatherbug says that the overnight low was 34.
The sunrise service was good. We could look down and see the lights of Santa Rosa, about 15 miles from here. We got to watch the sun come up, over the mountains to the east, during the service. The view was beautiful.
Over 300 people came to the Dining Hall for the free breakfast. They served scrambled eggs, smoked sausage, french toast, biscuits, sausage gravy, cinnamon rolls, cookies, cereal and drinks.
We got back to the RV around 8:30. When we stepped in we commented on how warm it felt. It was 58 degrees inside.
Kathy is napping and I might do the same before heading off to the Dining Hall to post this. Chris Bebe, one of the local volunteers, invited us to their home for Easter dinner but we are going to stay home and “veg”.
I ended up taking a nap also. After my nap I took the furnace out of the motorhome. It needs cleaned, especially the combustion chamber. (The furnace is the size of an old desktop computer) You have to completely dismantle it to clean the combustion chamber. I didn't want to get into that so tomorrow I will call a couple of RV places to see about taking it to one of them to have them clean it and bench test it. You can't even see the burner viewing window when it is in the RV.
Yesteday, while at Drew's, I started sending out "feelers" to camps in Oregon. We think it will be time to move north in another couple of weeks. I already have a camp in central Washington that wants us to come volunteer but want to find at least another camp somewhere between here and there.
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