After shul, I went over to my parents’ house where I applied stain to the door I installed between the living room and the bathroom so it will more closely match the other doors:
Trish took a break from Pesach prep to make some beaded cabochons:
After nightfall, we did bedikas chometz:
The RV is clean and ready to go:
Tonight Bubbe and Zayde took us out to Anise, a tapas-centric restaurant that recently opened here in Las Vegas. The food was really good. B was listening closely to whatever Trish was saying:
We also did a bit of laundry at my parents’ house:
Passover preparations continue apace, and we’re taking advantage of the limitless dumpster and A/C here. Did I mention what a tight fit it is here at the RV park?
This morning the kids went with Bubbe to the Henderson library:
Since we’ve used up our 72 hours of curbside RV parking at my parents’ house, we moved over to a local RV park. Thanks to our Passport America membership, we’re only paying $13.50 a night here. We would have camped down at Jean Lake, but temperatures are expected to be in the low 90s this week, and it will be nice to have unlimited water and electricity as we prepare for Passover in earnest over the next few days:
I can’t wait to get back to dispersed camping.
Shabbos was just a bit on the hot side of comfortable, with highs in the high 80s. We had lunch with Rabbi and Mrs. H and their children, which is always a pleasure!
Today we moved back to my parents’ house from the synagogue. This will use up the last 24 hours of the 72 hours per month we’re allowed to be parked in front of their house, so tomorrow we will have to move on.
Today’s project was to replace the RV range with a residential range. Our current oven is about the size of a microwave oven, and Trish could really use more space for cooking more elaborate Shabbos and holiday meals. Here’s what we started with:
The first step was to remove the range:
Next I removed the cabinetry and countertop around the range, leaving a 34” wide alcove for the new range:
Next I added an outlet for the residential range and modified the propane plumbing to attach to the new range while preserving the quick release propane connector for our catalytic heater:
After replacing the natural gas orifices in the cooktop and making a few other adjustments in the oven, the new range was ready to run on propane instead of natural gas. After attaching the propane line and plugging into the new outlet, the new range is ready to go:
The only down side is that the oven seems to keep the 400-watt electric igniter on whenever the oven is heating (as opposed to turning off once the gas is ignited), so we will have to be careful not to use the oven for several hours when the solar system isn’t charging the battery.
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