If all goes well, and I don’t see why it shouldn’t at this point, we now have exactly one week left here! I just hope it isn’t going to take too many months to get the garage and bath built! Living in an RV and a tent isn’t exactly going to be fun.

I checked the temps for here and OR over the next week and did not like some of what I saw. It’s not only going to be murderously hot the next 3 days and not cool down till after the swap meet but also because OR has more like a 30-degree temp span rather than 20 like MA, it’s gonna be mighty cold during some of the nights! Oh well. Better than sweating like pigs, I guess. There’s a saying Nervous used to say: When it’s cold you can put on and put on, yet when it’s hot, there’s only so much you can take off.

Later…

Tom broke down in the RV on his way back from the store. Just what we need, too. If this shit had to happen, we’re just glad it didn’t happen in the middle of the long, straight, seemingly endless stretch between Maricopa and Stanfield or Stanfield and Casa Grande. We’re also glad it didn’t happen on the road to Oregon, leaving us stranded and forced to walk God knows how far, while we left everything we own behind at the side of the road for anyone to help themselves to.

Instead, it happened just a little while ago just two miles from the house on the dirt roads. He walked back to the house from there which took 15 minutes, but he said he didn’t mind. He can take the heat way better than I ever could. It’s the cold I wonder about, though he says he can handle that, too. I mean, I get cold just like anyone else, though unlike him, I spent 26 winters buried under many feet of snow in subzero temps.

Anyway, we were forced to shell out $53 for a new battery. What happened was the battery pulled loose and a wire shorted. The engine died and he coasted to the side of the road. He saw smoke rising from the hood but didn’t yet know it had caught fire. When he burned his hands opening the hood, then he knew. Fortunately, he was able to blow it out from there and discover that the engine had no damage. We’d really be in trouble if it had as that’s a huge expense.

He walked home, then drove the truck to get a new battery, stopped to put it in, then drove home. I offered to have him drive us to the RV and to drive the car back while he drove the RV since it’s just a couple miles, but he said the walk would do him good, as after all, he’s got to be in shape to build the house.

I doubt there’ll be any significant delays getting out of here any more than I was surprised by how fast the house sold. We’re not wanted here by whatever evil lurks here, and God wants us to move on and be constantly on the go for the millionth time, so none of these sources are about to throw hindering blocks at us.