February 13: The day started off cloudy and cool after last night’s rain. It also started with a breakfast party at Lois and Garth’s place. They are from Kelowna, Canada so it was also a celebration of Canada and Valentine’s Day and (almost) everyone wore red and/ white. They have a nice place with a permanent ‘park’ model RV and a building that has a kitchen and living area that they use for everything but sleeping.

There were mimosas, a Bloody Mary bar, jello shooters, coffee with Baileys and that was only the booze! They made fry bread with add your own toppings of jam, powdered sugar, etc. Then a couple of different egg casseroles, sausages, fruit bowl, chocolate dipped strawberries and much more. It was really fun. Bill and Judy had to go sign their papers for the new place they bought so we left after about an hour or so.

Fry Bread

My power had gone out a couple of times yesterday during the wind and I would go out and turn the plug a bit and it would come back on. So, I thought the plug just wasn’t tightened well enough. Then it went out during the night. I got it going again in the morning and was able to make my coffee but it went out shortly after and I couldn’t get it going no matter what I tried. After messing with it and reviewing the issues I kind of thought it was the cord.

When Bill got back I told him what was going on so he got out his electrical testing thing-a-ma-jig. The battery in it was dead and neither of us had a replacement. Trish, Judy, and I had planned on going to the farmers market and the old downtown area so I said I would get another one.

The girls took off and went to downtown Yuma. The ‘farmers’ market was like most these days, mostly booths with non-farmer things. It was fun to see all the stuff and I did buy some small yellow potatoes at the only produce market there. Then we walked along and looked into the stores of the old town Main Street.

‘Downtown Historic Yuma and the Farmers Market

Judy and I dropped Trish off and came home. The guys didn’t seem to be around and then I looked at the table outside the RVs and saw my cord’s plug sitting there by itself and the electrical cord laying on the ground looking beheaded. I was right, it had been the cord. He obviously had found a new battery.

Shortly after that Bill and Frank came back and Bill had bought a new plug for the cord. I said I would have probably just bought a whole new cord and he said, the plug alone was $55 and the whole thing probably would have been $200. Thank goodness I was here when this happened! I probably would have had to find an RV repair place and who knows what that would have cost. Or just headed home using propane and battery power.

Well, the plug was getting juice through it once he repaired it but no electricity was making it through to the camper. It seems it shorted something out (Bill called it something else, but you get the gist) and he managed to fix it but said I needed a new plug into the camper so I didn’t have more problems with it. That will happen tomorrow but I have power tonight.

As this was going on, Courtney called me and said the furnace at my house wasn’t working! He was going to try to get the pilot going again but I told him to get a repair person out to fix it if that didn’t work.

All I could say was if I didn’t have bad luck I wouldn’t have any luck at all? Geez. What else might happen?

And while Bill was working on the electrical issues, I was making spaghetti sauce for dinner. I browned all the meat, veggies, then put it all with the crushed tomatoes and other stuff into the Instant Pot. Since I didn’t have power inside, Frank set up a power cord plugged into Bill’s place and we put the pot on the table outside.

We ended up eating inside the Bryant’s since it was getting cool outside. A nice meal with the spaghetti, Marianne made a nice salad (yay! Green stuff again!), and Trish brought some wonderful chocolate dipped strawberries. Bill even did most of the dishes. What a guy!

Yumm! I was hungry!

Misty finally decided she would go outside. She spent a good 2 hours outside after all the activity around the electrical repairs was done. She rolled in the gravel and dirt, did a lot of sniffing, allowed herself to be petted by Judy, and generally enjoyed herself. Then she went back into the camper and crashed for the night.

Aside from the electrical and furnace issues, it was a good day. And, as I was finishing up the dinner there was a beautiful sunset going on outside. I grabbed a quick photo, then a few minutes later it was even better but my phone was elsewhere. Oh, well, still not bad.

Not a very good photo, but . . .