23 July 2016

Jim, James, and Burt finished seeding and rolling the new lawn areas.  James and Burt used a special machine (Jim owns a lot of man-toys!) to chop up and spread bales of hay over top of the seeded areas, which will help to retain soil moisture and keep birds from eating the seed.  Before noon, the guys set to work back-hauling all (and by “all” I mean “a LOT”) of the equipment that accumulated here over the past few days.  Chree spent much of the morning finishing the interior RV cleaning while I tackled the under-coach storage compartments.  After everyone left, Chree and I loaded our residual viniferous supply  into the wine cellar (we’re down to only 60 bottles; the cellar can hold up to 300).  James returned mid-afternoon to see the RV.  While he was here we ran through the RV activation checklist, which I thought would be an excellent way for him to start learning what’s what and where’s where.  While we were about that task, a tremendous storm blew through… literally.  Rain rate was well over 5″ per hour… though we only got ¼″ of actual moisture.  The wind was scary-strong!  Branches came down everywhere!  The supply of electrons from Green Mountain Power was, no surprise, an early casualty.  Chree says the whole-house generator we installed was one of our smarter moves.