Awake: 5:55am Temp 67 sleep 6+26 cloudy overnight @ Newell campsite.
About half of the Newell service techs are working an extra day today but,
not with overtime; an extra day will be added to their Christmas Holiday
time instead.
Kathy & I attend the 9:00am Mass @ Sacred Heart church. Only 7 attendees
total. Shortly after I awoke this morning, as I usually do, I turned on
our Aqua-hot system to heat up the 17 gal reservoir for hot water for
washing our faces, etc. I have a choice of using the electric heating
elements or the diesel fuel burner. About twice a month or when dry
camping, I’ll use the diesel burner. It’s recommended to use occasionally
to avoid any algae from building up with stagnant diesel fuel. Well, when
we return to our bus after Mass, it was obvious there is a large moisture
spot on the concrete centered under our aqua-hot; this is not normal.
Looking into the compartment, I could only suspect….something is leaking.
Good for us, the guys are working today. I notify Creslie, he assigns
Dwight & minutes later, Dwight concludes it’s an inside job since our
temps are falling fast with strong winds from the north. Kathy takes
advantage of the time; goes downtown to check out a few more thrift stores
she noticed yesterday in a different part of town.
@ 1:15, Dwight drives our coach in bay 15, does his magic on disassembly
of the diesel burner motor, finds the German made fuel pump caput,
replaces it with a new modified one & finishes up by re-parking our bus
back in our campsite by 3:45. It was mentioned that a few yrs ago, there
was a recall on that fuel pump & we knew nothing about it. I’ll have to
talk with John about that on Monday.
6:45 dinner: Home made crab cakes, brown & wild rice, corn off the cob
from cousin Florentz’s garden, spinach salad & toast.
Evening time: a wide & good coverage of information exchanged with the
busy couple, Grace & Gary in Landenberg, PA.
High temp=67 Lights out: 11:57pm
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