Before A Wrinkle in Time comes out I wanted to reread the book, so I did…last night. I was about halfway through when I fell asleep and then I woke up about 5:00 a.m. and could not go back to sleep so I finished it. Then I went back to sleep! Admittedly it is super nice to have no job and be able to sleep until 10:00 a.m.!
When I finally got up and had breakfast I made my obligatory Ace run. I needed another length of water hose and some fittings. We decided that before we button up our cabinets we should add another water line that will come from the pressurized pump in our front galley cabinet back to the rear of the van. This way we can have a bike/dog/people washing hose out the back.
When I got back from shopping I removed the toilet cabinet and started adding some holes. With another tube running back under there I had to double up all my holes. I also spent a bunch of time reading and responding to input from the van forum on which I posted my electrical design. It was certainly helpful, though it also made clear how much I still don’t understand about the process!
Somewhere in there we decided to go snowshoeing with the dogs because they are not getting to have a lot of fun with us focusing on the van. My dad came along while my mom relaxed in the car.
On our way back we stopped at a remote store/cafe for some pie a la mode. An old guy was sitting at a big table and we started chatting him up, or he started chatting us up, one way or the other. Anyway, he told us about how he ran off from high-school in the mid-40’s and started working on a freighters and oil tankers. He picked up raw sugar in Hawaii and brought to refineries in California. He went to Murmansk on an oil freighter, during which he talked about German bombers attacking ships in the North Atlantic. He’s already traveled all over the world and in what must be his early 90’s he says continues to travel at least a couple times a year. In just a short time he told us all kinds of stories, such as how shocking it had been as a young man to watch carts collecting bodies in the streets of Bombay. I’m pretty sure he was telling us real stories, though the timelines may have been a bit off. Sara is not so sure. In any event, you never know who you might meet at a remote cafe in the mountains of Oregon!
After dinner I finally got a little more work done. I finished up running the extra water line and installing the final fittings on the water tank. I know I’ve said it before, but now I think we really are done with the tank!
My final project was to take the plunge and install the drawer slides for our first drawer in the refrigerator cabinet. It was actually pretty darn easy, but of course the cabinet is not mounted yet so we will see if it remains sufficiently square when we put everything together.
