Merry Christmas!

It's very quiet around here! The girls and number one grandson couldn't come for Christmas because Tessa couldn't get the time off, but we will be celebrating soon. They are coming after the new year but before school starts next semester. David is at work and I am just biding time until he gets out. The Ramcharger is loaded to make the trip down south to our remote property. Since it's just the two of us, we decided to celebrate Christmas there tomorrow. We are leaving tonight as soon as David gets off work. We are planning to take the "short" route which cuts about 30 minutes off the trip. I hope we can find our place as we haven't driven that route after dark before. The GPS is loaded with fresh batteries and we are ready to try.

I have been researching off-grid power again lately. Until we get something together, we have a mid-grade UPS. Right now, it's fully charged. We are taking that with us so we can run a lamp or two and maybe some twinkle lights on Christmas night. We picked up a few pieces of cookware, flatware and utensils and a cast iron dutch oven over the weekend, so I believe that now, we will have everything we need or want in the RV. We can just take our food, fuel and firewood and a few personal belongings when we go down there, which will make the trip much easier. We had a survey done and it turns out that we did not have the trailer parked on our property. We suspected that was true as we looked at aerial maps of the area, but now we have survey pins placed at the corners and the trailer has been moved to it's permanent spot. We can start building the water catchment and other structures that we have wanted to work on since we first moved the trailer out there. The front corner of the trailer was dinged in the move. Hopefully, it didn't do too much damage. Things are finally moving forward.

Here is a photo of the view from the top of our property. If you look closely, you can see the RV near the wall of the creek that runs through the property. Of course, the creek is dry right now.

A fossil that looks like a skull? Maybe...