Summerized the new place today

Lary and I went over to the new place and got it ready for summer's heat down here, which is up to 120 degrees F during July August and September. The rubber stopper for the kitchen sink had already stuck firmly to the arborite kitchen counter, so you know it's been hot here already.

The new insulated roof on our park model trailer I think has made quite a difference to the inside temps, and the roofers eliminated a skylight that had been letting in quite a bit of heat. Sounds as if the previous owners had had some leaks around the windows, but we haven't seen any evidence of that.

The owners had cut lengths of special silver insulating material to cover the windows and keep out the summer heat, and they were already labeled with which window they fit, plus there was a special tape to use to fix them into the frame of each window, so it went fairly quickly, though with the doors closed, it was pretty stuffy inside. And of course it got progressively darker, too.

There is a dove nesting on a strut on the outside front metal shutters of the unit, and today we saw her 2 babies, she was feeding them, looked like she was regurgitating food for them. With the sheers and heavy curtains drawn back we could see her pretty clearly.

Yesterday we had watched a kildeer family here in our campsite park, they were so interesting to watch the young kildeers learning to hunt and feed in the rocks of a wee pond here.

We also put most of the patio furniture in the wooden shed which has a ventilator turbine fan on it, and filled a household garbage can with water and left it on a towel inside the bathtub, to slowly give the house its needed moisture. There is also a bucket of water over the garburetor in the kitchen, and saran wrap over both the toilet bowl and the toilet tank, to maintain the toilet seal and try and avoid getting sewer gas up into the trailer.

Finally we covered the bed and furniture with plastic sheets, and laid down all the lamps, and unplugged all the appliances. Hopefully that will keep the place safe, and OK in the long hot summer months. Also be safe if this area has an earthquake of any serious magnitude.

It was quite a bit of work, and as this is a windy month, and has been a windy winter, there is dust everywhere outside. It doesn't seem too bad inside our new trailer as yet, let's see what happens after a few hot dry months have passed.

Wendy and Dave invited us over for Happy Hour tonight, and we will go out to dinner together tomorrow here in Desert Hot Springs before they leave Thursday and we go Saturday.