Awake: 5:38am Temp 27 Sleep 5+10 light snow overnight @ Denver/ Englewood, CO.
After coffee, at 7:26am, I called the campground office & talked with Beth regarding the power outage; she understood that a transformer blew out & the guys will be replacing it sometime this morning.
Next call I made to the office was @ 12:50pm. This time I talked with Janet & she told me the transformer has been replaced & the campground has power." Wonderful!" I replied, & I thanked her for the good news.
So....I shut down the generator & expected to be done with using our fuel to keep warm, etc. But...hold on there! We're back on battery power. After making a few checks, inside & outside, it appeared that when that transformer went bad, our motorhome's electrical sensors reacted to a fail safe system that would avoid sending in bad voltage on the AC input line.
What I had to do was to reset the system by shutting it all down & starting over. That took about (15-20) min to get everything restored. Total generator run time was: 13.8 hrs.
Meanwhile, long since I've been told that a layer of snow can be an insulator, & underneath, the temp would remain 32 degrees. That may be so, but I couldn't quit thinking about all that snow on our roof & waiting patiently for the melting process.
So, up the ladder I went, carrying the squeegee. I spent over (2) hrs cutting blocks of snow & then pushing them towards the rear of the motorhome where there is an escape slot for just this sort of thing.
Anyway, @ 1st, it was kind of fun, like steering a boat down the mighty Mississippi or herding a bunch of cattle over the western plains; those blocks of snow would slide like a hockey puck on ice. About an hr later, it became more laborious.
Around 6:20 pm, my sister, Corinne, called; she has been using a wheel chair, a walker, anything that works to avoid severe pain when she puts weight on her left leg.
She has had x-rays, & an MRI & so far with no conclusive results. All we can do is add her on our prayer list for now. Her spirits have been positive @ this point.
Speaking of Corinne, with her permission, she has notified the Johnstown diocese that she will not be signing up to be the Campus Minister for U.P.J. (University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown) next fall, 2010. She will be looking for some other job, maybe in the Pittsburgh diocese. Now we really need to get those prayers working for her.
Dinner: Tuna & noodle with asparagus.
A surprise for me; Kathy felt guilty that I exerted myself so much by getting the snow off our roof that she volunteered to do the dishes tonight. Gosh! She's a girl Friday on Wednesday & Thursday: cleaning snow off cars & now dishes. I was very thankful.
Katrina called about 8:15pm. She & Becky were doing some late evening shopping & were in our neighborhood & wanted to pay a visit. Kathy gave her a few quick directions & within min, they rang our doorbell.
Kathy gave Becky a tour of our home-on-wheels while I yakked with Katrina. Both girls looked a little hungry so out came the popcorn & some Sprite. We talked for close to (2) hrs & then they had to leave.
Evening movie: "Party Girl." We watched ΒΌ.
Lights out: 12:22am.
After coffee, at 7:26am, I called the campground office & talked with Beth regarding the power outage; she understood that a transformer blew out & the guys will be replacing it sometime this morning.
Next call I made to the office was @ 12:50pm. This time I talked with Janet & she told me the transformer has been replaced & the campground has power." Wonderful!" I replied, & I thanked her for the good news.
So....I shut down the generator & expected to be done with using our fuel to keep warm, etc. But...hold on there! We're back on battery power. After making a few checks, inside & outside, it appeared that when that transformer went bad, our motorhome's electrical sensors reacted to a fail safe system that would avoid sending in bad voltage on the AC input line.
What I had to do was to reset the system by shutting it all down & starting over. That took about (15-20) min to get everything restored. Total generator run time was: 13.8 hrs.
Meanwhile, long since I've been told that a layer of snow can be an insulator, & underneath, the temp would remain 32 degrees. That may be so, but I couldn't quit thinking about all that snow on our roof & waiting patiently for the melting process.
So, up the ladder I went, carrying the squeegee. I spent over (2) hrs cutting blocks of snow & then pushing them towards the rear of the motorhome where there is an escape slot for just this sort of thing.
Anyway, @ 1st, it was kind of fun, like steering a boat down the mighty Mississippi or herding a bunch of cattle over the western plains; those blocks of snow would slide like a hockey puck on ice. About an hr later, it became more laborious.
Around 6:20 pm, my sister, Corinne, called; she has been using a wheel chair, a walker, anything that works to avoid severe pain when she puts weight on her left leg. She has had x-rays, & an MRI & so far with no conclusive results. All we can do is add her on our prayer list for now. Her spirits have been positive @ this point.
Speaking of Corinne, with her permission, she has notified the Johnstown diocese that she will not be signing up to be the Campus Minister for U.P.J. (University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown) next fall, 2010. She will be looking for some other job, maybe in the Pittsburgh diocese. Now we really need to get those prayers working for her.
Dinner: Tuna & noodle with asparagus.
A surprise for me; Kathy felt guilty that I exerted myself so much by getting the snow off our roof that she volunteered to do the dishes tonight. Gosh! She's a girl Friday on Wednesday & Thursday: cleaning snow off cars & now dishes. I was very thankful.
Katrina called about 8:15pm. She & Becky were doing some late evening shopping & were in our neighborhood & wanted to pay a visit. Kathy gave her a few quick directions & within min, they rang our doorbell.
Kathy gave Becky a tour of our home-on-wheels while I yakked with Katrina. Both girls looked a little hungry so out came the popcorn & some Sprite. We talked for close to (2) hrs & then they had to leave.
Evening movie: "Party Girl." We watched ΒΌ.
Lights out: 12:22am.
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