It’s been over a month since my last post. Sorry about the delay, no excuse, I’ve just been a bit lazy lately.
One thing that happened was I had a 10 day cold! This is rare for me and my immune system is rather strong and I wasn’t laid up really, but I did wear my mask when out, and tended to stay home so as not to infect anyone else. I haven’t had a cold for several years now, but this one reset that clock. Ha. I did take the Covid test and that came up negative.
And then, here at the RV park, we all got notice that the park has been sold. Sort of expected it as the owner Darrell is 97 years old. He has family but I guess none of them wanted to take over all the lands and projects Darrell had going on. I was willing to help him on one of the bigger developments he had going nearby which would have been managing the creation of 100 home sites, but he may have dropped that project, but I haven’t gone to visit him since the sale in late May either.
Shortly after I arrived in Milton Freewater and got set up, I started work on the heat pump (HP) which I mentioned back in Winnemucca as not cooling anymore. I bought 2x 5 gallon buckets from Walmart and an 8 foot length of 2X6 and had it cut in half. Made a bench out of it like I did years ago for work on the HP. There’s a picture later on.
Had the young men from next door help me pull it out of it’s basement compartment, opened the top and found that the outside motor had gone bad. Pulled that out, went to a motor repair shop in Pasco (55 miles away), they determined it wasn’t worth fixing, so I decided to just forget it and buy new. Sadly it was during the height of the inflationary period we had so I paid 48% more then if I’d purchased a few months previous. Gouging by Coleman. Cost me $4,000. If you’re interested in the entire story, click HERE. I see that Hebron no longer has stock of that model.
But I did make that trip to Pasco so I’ll post a few pictures. I must have driven this route more than 1,000 times over the years. And here I’ve already reached the Columbia River after following the Walla Walla river 30 miles or so due West. This section of the road is heading due North.
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