That week went well. Started the job on Monday. Finished on Friday. A
very big, very nice day care/preschool/pre-kindergarten in Edwards. A good
place to work. Good weather. Lots of blue skies. No wind. A little on
the cold side, but we were living pretty well without fahrenheits by the end
of the week.
When you're making your way through really cold weather in a motorhome, you
risk damage to it if you pile more blankets on the bed to keep from getting
cold. You can't be a minimalist. Don't try to conserve propane. You can't
get through it by putting more blankets on the bed; you have to take
blankets off the bed. You have to just suck it up and turn up the
thermostat. Let the furnaces run. The colder it gets outside, the warmer
you have to keep it inside to make sure things don't freeze. Early in the
week, we left the furnaces turned down and put on more clothes. We were
cold all evening in the living room and the water lines froze during the
night. They thawed out after a few hours the next day, but we don't want to
do that very often. By the end of the week, we turned the heaters up a
couple notches in the evening and we weren't cold in the living room at all.
We left the heaters on at seventy degrees all night and took a blanket off
the bed. It worked. At zero degrees outside, we were comfortable all night
and the water worked fine in the morning.
Finished up in Edwards, headed west, and settled in at Dakota Ridge in
Golden by five o'clock. A two-hour drive. We were supposed to head for
Montrose on the western slope, but that job got delayed. We'll have to go
to Montrose some other time. The next job is in Bailey, starting the middle
of next week. I can reach that one from here, and there isn't another
motorhome park any closer, so we'll stay at Dakota Ridge for about ten days.
Big trip coming up after that.
