Adventures at Mule Creek

 A few weeks ago we built skirting around the trailer with OSB sheeting.  Now it's time to get a little more serious.  Lows next week are predicted to drop to the single digits Fahrenheit.  Time to figure out how to keep all water in a liquid state. For the water supply line, I purchased a heated drinking water hose on Amazon (see it here ).  It cost about $70.  Kind of expensive, but worth it, as long as it works. For the sewer connection, I bought a heater cord with a thermostat (also on Amazon, here ).  I ran the heater cord along the sewer hose, using zip ties to hold it in place. I got some Reflectix insulation at the hardware store.  It's basically bubble wrap-style plastic with a reflective foil coating.  I wrapped the Reflectix around the sewer hose, with the heater cord inside the insulation. I used foil tape to seal the seams.  Make sure to leave the thermostat, which is located in a pigtail at the end of the co...

 Last week I flew to Dallas to help my sister-in-law move 2 storage units full of stuff back to Utah.  We (there were 3 of us) made the 1200 mile trip, in one 26 ft. box truck and one pickup truck, in 2 long days.  Not exactly fun, but interesting and scenic.  Crossing the Navajo Nation, from Gallup, NM to Shiprock, then up to Cortez, Colorado, and over to Moab, Utah is beautiful, especially in the fall. Makes me glad to be back in our little trailer at Mule Creek, looking for work during the day and enjoying the skies at night. Spent some time finishing winterization - added heat tape and insulation to the water supply line, sewer line, and valves.   Haven't found a job yet.  Many possibilities but nothing final.  But it will come. Here's a couple views of Mule Creek's most notable landmark, seen from the front door of the trailer.  

I received the highest score on the test in my Art History class. Wahoo!! The weather is so dry. There's smoke in the air all the time. It's from fires. There are so many fires burning. Our school reported no COVID19  cases today.  In institute I shared the miraculous story of Daria's reunification with her family. There's a young boy in the class who is adopted from Russia. He's looking for his family. I hope he can help me enter the Russian names in Family Search. He has 7 Russian adopted siblings.