Sunday February 19th
With the mornings being quite chilly, I had planned to do some cooking this morning to warm up the trailer. I started out making a pot of chili, then baked a pie shell and after breakfast cooked the chocolate pudding for a chocolate pie. I used about a half cup of Cathey’s dried cherries to add to the pie – so it was a chocolate-cherry pie, but the cherries were hardly noticeable except for the texture. By that time it was so hot in the trailer that I went outside to cool off for awhile.
The temperature has been getting down into the 30s during the night but must have dropped below 32 since the water hose was frozen until about 9 this morning. But it was another beautiful sunny, clear day; a very nice day to be outdoors until the wind came up around noon.
Our only venture out today was to McDonalds for lunch; we decided the chili would be better appreciated for supper after the heat of the day was gone. When we got back to the trailer I decided to do some trailer maintenance. I replaced the flexible hose connection to the water inlet and installed quick disconnects on the flexible link and the pressure regulator and inline filter. That fixed most of the leaks in the water line but I still have one slow drip whose source I was unable to identify. Also did the reconstructive surgery on the bumper end that got mashed by its meeting with the concrete bollard in Texas. The metal was easier to bend than I expected. I used a vice-grips with a cheater tube and it turned out pretty good although it would take a little grinding and paint to make it unnoticeable.
We did do a little laundry and while I was in the laundry area I browsed through their little library of paperbacks. I came across an old paperback with three Brother Cadfael mysteries. I brought it home and finished it before going to bed. All stories that I had read, listened to or seen on TV, but still one of my favorite fictional characters.
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