Ok, so my wife and I decided we should get our under-used trailer out of it's parking spot and do a little cleanup on it. How tough could it be aside from the obvious washing, waxing, etc.? So we back the big bad F-250 up to it and.... Hmmm,. can't get the tow ball under the trailer hitch! Hmmmm. I do remember when parking the trailer that I thought there wasn't much extra that I could raise the hitch. How the hell do we raise the trailer hitch? I've got to admit it took us any embarrassingly long time to figure out we needed to dig a couple holes to let the truck wheels down thus lowering the ball rather than raising the hitch.
ANYWAY, 15 minutes with a pick axe (even the ground is tough out here) and a couple shovels allowed the hitch ball to dive under the hitch and away we could go! Apparently during the time without the trailer the truck's rear suspension found another half inch or so of height. Interesting! So now we have the rig out and are cleaning away. Not sure yet if we'll go anywhere; My wife isn't happy with the slideout; she is afraid it has gotten crooked in the frame somehow. Maybe we'll just tow it over to Las Vegas and get the dealer's opinion.
In my spare time I decided to make hummus. No photos, sorry. The recipes aren't tough. The one I decided to follow included a can of chickpeas (garbonzo beans), tahini, yoghurt, garlic, EVOO, lemon juice, salt and pepper and a jalapeno. They carefully recommend removing seeds and membrane from the jalapeno first. Then you basically beat everything up in the food processor and there you are. Well, the jalapeno's we've been getting aren't very spicy so I not only don't remove the membrane, I add a second, quite small, jalapeno. The first problem was that the food processor would just throw everything off to the side of the container without even mixing it. Grrr! Finally I pulled it all out and fed it into the processor a spoonful at a time. Pain in the ass but it got the stuff to a reasonable consistancy. Hmmm, I've got to admit, my inner Mexican (I'm from Iowa, German and Scotch-Irish parents, so he's not a big influence) failed me. Damn, that's hot stuff! Well, not to some people, but a little goes a long way for me. Should have doubled up the garlic instead; can't be far enough from the vampires!
We did have a little rain a couple weeks ago; just enough to wake the weeds really. So we have to go kill weeds. We have a fairly large yard and it's all covered with just rock so when the weeds grow they have plenty of room. So my wife and I load up sprayers with Roundup and go to it. We get tired spraying after a while so it takes us several days and took 18 gallons (68L) of spray! We buy the concentrate whereever we can find it (Walmart or Home Depot) and it runs about a $1 a gallon of spray in the really large size and I've got a few more years worth besides. I'm hoping most of our lawn mainenance is done for the year.
Otherwise, not much to report. It's been a REALLY mild winter. Back in December the bird bath was freezing; not much since then. The last half of January and most of February have been about 10 degrees (F) above normal. For example, that means today was 74F (23C), Not tough to take! We had our daughter over for lunch last weekend and ate outside; had a hard time not just laying out there all afternoon. Sorry Boston but there it is. We'd sure love some of that snow melt though!
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Thanks for the update Don. A neighbor here in Palm Springs drove down and the slide in the trailer they leave here came out crooked. It took a bit to straighten it and his wife was still not happy. They are leaving the slide out this summer.
I was looking at Roundup at Home Depot and see they offer battery operated sprayers. We buy our Roundup in the US as it is about the same price as scotch in Canada for some reason.
Have fun and use that trailer!
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