Hi Wave!

Yummy homemade tomale supper.
Since our plumbing was frozen I filled one of my nifty collapsible 5 gallon jugs for water. We fulltime RVers have to be resourceful don't you know?

Tish is checking out our new Wave 8 Catalytic Safety Heater that Mike at Jolly Rogers RV, Cheyenne, Wyoming, installed today! Yippee! Yesterday he finished installing the Go Power solar monitor/control panels. See below. We are really able to boondock with this wonderful equipment to keep us comfortable and powered up. The Catalytic Wave heater is a radiant heater that takes no electricity and runs off of propane, see the hose plugs into the valve Mike put in beneath the pantry. You can situate the heater wherever needed in the RV. Roseanne of Jolly Rogers RV said this Wave 8 Catalytic Heater will easily heat my 29 foot trailer. It does use oxygen so a vent or window must be cracked when it is in use. We fired it up this afternoon and it has a lovely ember glow to it. Mike said his kids like to use his Wave Heater rather than the RV furnace because of the beauty of the ember effect.

Last night the temperatures here in Cheyenne dipped to -2 with 20 below wind chill. This morning about 4:30 I discovered the temperature in the RV was 60 degrees and the plumbing was frozen! That has happened before on cold days when I wasn't running the furnace enough but last night the furnace ran non stop and the plumbing still froze. Since the 5th wheel was to be pulled into the shop today I knew the plumbing would thaw. But tonight the kind people at Jolly Rogers RV told me they were leaving my 5th wheel in the cozy warmth of their shop and we can stay in it! What kind people to trust me, a stranger, in their shop. It is a toasty 74 degrees in the trailer tonight while it is 6 degrees at 5:00 pm. Predicted to go to -1 but since it's already down to 6. I'll bet the temps go even lower than last night's minus 2.

Today after Mike finished the Wave 8 installation he completed repairs on my fresh water tank that he discovered earlier this week was ready to drop out of the RV. Eventually it would have fallen out on the highway somewhere had this not been discovered by Mike. He showed me the steel beams were broken and bent right in the middle where the tank sagged down. He suspected the steel used for these beams holding the fresh water tank were way too light for the load they have to carry (60 gallons of fresh water). So he welded on brand new heavy steel beams then placed heavy plywood on top of them for a platform which was missing before, one of my new electric heat blankets and then the tank on the top of all that. That will keep this tank from freezing when the blanket is plugged in. This fresh water tank has always had problems with freezing up in cold weather because it is in the coldest most vulnerable place and basically not heated very well. Whether this will solve the frozen plumbing problems I don't know but it will prevent expensive damage to this important tank. My 3 other electric heat blankets will be placed over my two grey tanks and my black tank.

Then to top it all off Mike gave me two of the dozen homemade tamales his friend gave him today. So now I will have a wonderful supper. What kind people they are at Jolly Rogers RV.