Day 265: Ranges and Ovens

This morning I took my angle grinder to the Suburban-brand oven grate from the old RV and modified it to fit our new Atwood oven.  Now we once again have a grate for meat and a grate for dairy:

Day265_01

This time around, we’re a little more reluctant build a second oven into the kitchen like last time, at least for now, so I built a quick and dirty slide mechanism for the second oven to emerge from one of our basement doors, so it can be used as a kind of outdoor kitchen:

Day265_02

It uses the same propane connection that is used for the generator:

Day265_03

Here it is retracted.

Day265_04

Tomorrow we hope to complete the sale of the RV and move the bike rack over to the new RV.  We hope to leave Las Vegas on Friday.

Day 264: Pillows and inverters

Grandma DiAnn and Barry stopped by to see the new RV.  We had a nice time visiting, especially the part where we gave Grandma DiAnn her birthday present and M’s guess of her age overshot by over a decade.

Oops.

Grandma DiAnn gave B a pair of pillowcases that her mother had embroidered:

Day264_01

The new inverter arrived today.  I bought a slightly smaller and cheaper one in case Camping World blows up this one as well.  I took this opportunity to modify the wiring so that I can disconnect the solar controller or the inverter or both from the battery using the selector switch.  Before, the solar controller was downstream of the inverter, so when the inverter’s 150 amp fuse blew, we temporarily lost solar as well.

Day264_02

We’re trying to wrap up what must be done here in town as temperatures are expected to be in the high 90s this weekend.  We also really want to get back on the road!

Day 256: Chol Hamoed, Day 4

Note: this post was written after the conclusion of Passover.

Shabbos on BLM land was a bit warm but nice.  We would have preferred to be in-town for Shabbos Chol Hamoed, but the new RV is too heavy to legally be parked curbside on public streets, and we didn’t want to overstay our welcome at MKT.

To keep the RV cool, I had installed awning track on the two sunward slides to accept the two halves of the sunshade we bought in Quartzsite.  Here they are in their tracks, but after the stakes that hold them away from the RV have been removed:

  Day255_01

This afternoon, we headed back to MKT for the last two days of Passover.

Day 254: Chol Hamoed, Day 2

Note: this post was written after the conclusion of Passover.

Once again we spent the day tidying up after last week’s whirlwind of activity.  There was a good bit of goofing off to be done as well:

Day253_01

Before Passover, I moved one of the precharged pressure tanks over from the old RV and managed to squeeze it in the new RV between the water heater and the underside of the stairs up to the bedroom:

Day245_03

That same day Trish installed bedside shelves to hold our alarm clock, etc.:

Day245_04

Once again, good Shabbos from BLM land just South of Las Vegas!