Fulltiming Road Runners

This morning bright and early the boss knocked on our door to tell us that he’s got permission from the Forest Service lead and our Area Manager for us to move our rig to a full hook up site at the USFS compound 0.6 miles from here.  That means we’ll have to drive up here to go to work, and I won’t have my own unit for my potty breaks, but we’ll make it work.  At least we should have constant power, but I wonder what the other 3 couples will do.  The electrical issues affect them too.  We can’t move until Friday after 10:00 a.m. because the Forest Service has to move some equipment to make it possible for us to get in.  It’s really ugly there.  It’ll be like being parked in the middle of a bone yard… stored equipment, retired equipment, sheds, rocks, no trees, etc.  I’m going to miss my water birds on the lake behind our trailer, but with luck I’ll get a few song birds at the feeders… and hummers.  We won’t even have a view of water anywhere.

After we get moved, we need to start working on figuring out how we get compensated for the loss of our A/C, and even our $50 bug zappers!

Today, they had the power company come back out and do some more extensive testing.  The guy said it’s possible the transformer has issues, and the wire from the transformer to the main box is too small.  Soooo, it appears the Power Company is partially responsible.  We’ve heard gossip that people from past years have had electrical issues here and we’re wondering why they haven’t looked into it earlier.  It took us hiring a certified electrician to get them to believe there are potentially serious problems out here.

Luckily today was a day off so I was able to work on getting paperwork put away and start getting ready to move.  It was HOT outside so Thom was only able to do some of the things out there that need doing.  Sure is a good thing we had yesterday off also, and did our shopping then.

Tomorrow I work the noon to 5 shift so should get some things done in the morning.  On Friday I work the 7 a.m. to noon, so hopefully we can move the trailer Friday afternoon.  If not then, it will have to wait until Monday.

We have a field of gorgeous sunflowers blooming behind the trailer, so I’m able to get some decent photos of the flowers with the blue lake background.  Here’s one of them.

There’s a good chance I won’t be posting again until after Monday, July 26th, which is nothing new, but at least this time I’ve warned you.

Ya’ll stay healthy ‘n happy.

Toodles!