A Little Work on Therapy

First off, I want to say I am glad that none of our blogger friends  were hurt (that I know of, anyway) in the nastiness that Sandy brought to the east coast.  My heart goes out to those who were in harms way and for those involved in the aftermath.  I am counting my blessings for sure tonight.

Bet some of you folks know exactly where this is!!


For those who don’t know, this is at AM Solar in Springfield, OR.  We went in to have our solar system checked out.  It seemed to be discharging faster than it should but the problem most likely lies in the way the charge controller reads out.  We are going to have a nice battery monitor installed so we can tell exactly where our charge level is.  That should give us some added confidence to maybe try a bit of boondocking – not too much, mind you – just a bit!!  I have been following along with Paul and Nina and also RV Sue as they camp around the Alabama Hills in one of my favorite areas of the whole wide world, and I think I might like to do that for a night or two.  I do like my creature comforts and we don’t plan to do a lot of off the grid stuff, but having the ability to make that choice is nice.  We also replaced four of our interior lights with LED lights, which will also help us conserve energy.

AM Solar sits on a beautiful piece of property and Russ could not help but take a few pictures while we were waiting.

Wouldn’t it be nice to look out of your window at work and see something like this?  (If you weren’t retired, that is!)






 

There were ducks in the pond and two cormorants high up in a tree.  The service writer told us they also have a couple of eagles that come around regularly.  It’s almost like a mini-vacation to visit AM Solar!!

For lunch we went to a new place in town very close to our house.  It’s called Wayback Burgers.  Apparently they are a franchise operation but it was one I had never heard of before.  Their website shows quite a few locations back east but only one here in the wild west.


The burger was okay but probably nothing I would go back for.


The bacon was only 60 cents extra and that’s about what it was worth!  The bun was very good and the fries were okay.  Everything is served on metal plates lined with newspaper print waxed paper.  Perhaps it is because they are new, but their service was not the best either.  Oh well, it was okay and we got to see my sister and her hubby so it was a fun afternoon.

Although we are not “on the road” we haven’t been sitting on our keisters gathering moss either!!  We have been doing some nice drives in the country.  One day we took off on a road not even knowing where it went.  It was great fun and I’ll write about a couple of those trips next time.  

Travel safe and stay warm and dry.