Monday January 1st 2018

Happy New Year!

It was a late night yesterday. I was working on my long year end Blog post while “watching” the New Years Eve Celebrations on the TV. Coverage started at eight leading up to the ball drop in New York City and then followed the new year across the country. That’s different than my experience in the eastern time zone. The three hundred thousand plus people visiting Las Vegas got to see fireworks launched from the tops of seven hotels at midnight. I watched them on TV and then looked out the window to see if they were visible from my RV home. The fireworks were visible in the distance low to the horizon. Neither the TV version or the window version kept my attention long. I love watching fireworks but not on TV or apparently distant ones low to the horizon.

The bottom line is I got to bed very late and I got up early to watch the Rose Parade at eight. I’ve been falling asleep at every opportunity since I got out of bed. The first was during the Rose Parade. I didn’t really see any of it. I should have stayed in bed.

It was a nice mid sixties day. I worked around the RV picking things up and throwing things away. The Christmas decorations are now down. The things I’ll keep for another season are put away and the others are waiting for the RV park dumpsters to have room. The cheap little artificial tree will go in the dumpster tomorrow after it is emptied. I wasn’t the only one taking down decorations. On my walks around the park I saw several people similarly engaged. The park staff will probably start taking down the club house decorations later in the week. They were not turned on tonight.

I am now in full blown get ready to travel mode. I leave here in a little over two weeks. I’m starting to re-arrange stuff in the outside storage bins and hopefully throw out the stuff that I shouldn’t be carrying around the country. If I haven’t used an item in the last two plus years, I probably don’t need it. I also need to make an appointment with the mobile lube company to change the oil in the motorhome. It is very convenient to have someone come to you rather than trying to find a place to take the big RV. I had it done here last spring.

First sunset of the year.