The wait gets shorter.

Saturday morning Art had breakfast at the activities center, Bacon, eggs, toast and just had to try it, biscuits and gravy. Never had it before. Interesting, probably won't bother again. Biscuits were OK, somewhat similar to but not nearly as good as Mom's Baking Powder biscuits. The gravy was reasonably tasty white mushroom gravy. Probably a commercial mix, it tasted better than it looked! Not being an egg fan anyway Gillian stayed behind with her own granola and coffee.

Since the rain looked to be holding off, under cloudy skies, early in the afternoon Art decided to go for a bike ride around the area. A few miles up the road towards San Antonio (not on the freeway!) we had seen a Mexican restaurant that advertised 5.49 breakfast.

Art decided to stop in and see what the menu looked like. He ended up staying for lunch! Very good Mexican food. We may go back together one day. Continuing around his planned loop the rain began. No rain jacket of course, the only one Art had brought is a heavier cool or cold weather one. His denim shirt getting wetter he took a side street and a more direct route back to the park.

Checking the tracking number we saw the windshield getting closer! Looking good!

Monday morning it looked like the windshield would be here tomorrow! YEAH!!

We have been slowly changing out the incandescent light bulbs and florescent tubes in the rig to LED units. They have a much lower current draw so when boondocking the batteries will last longer. We phoned a few RV places and found one that claimed to have a good stock. It was on the other side of town, but we headed over.

We found it without difficulty and discovered to our surprise that not only did they have a reasonable selection, but also, a nice surprise, the salesman knew his stuff! Unfortunately they only had one bulb that would fit the bedside lamps or a pack of six. They're not cheap so just got the one to see how it would work. We also bought an LED replacement for the front 18 inch florescent fixture. The fixture takes two tubes but we find it quite bright, we'll try one for now.

Tuesday The glass shop phoned! Cloudy, showery and windy day (it had been a very windy night) though it was forecast to improve later, they said that they could come later but Wednesday would be better for the weather. We were OK with that since we had already decided to wait another couple of days to meet with Mark and Dianne, friends and neighbours from home. They will come mid day Wednesday. Spoiler Alert! In hindsight this may have been a mistake. (Not the waiting for Mark and Dianne!)

Good day to try out the new LED stuff. The one in the bedroom bedside lamps works very well. The one bulb gives more light than the two original incandescent bulbs at much less current draw. We also had purchased a flood for over a dinette bench, the other side already has one. Another good choice.

Now for the front florescent fixture. Art removed it from the ceiling and took it out to the picnic table on our little patio to do the required mods. Take out the tubes, chop off all the wires, drill out the rivets securing the ballast.

The replacement snaps into the florescent tube connectors and wires directly to the feed wires. Art noticed a blank dummy switch. He had noticed that the RV shop had a good selection of such switches so we have decided to add the second tube and install a switch to enable/disable the second lamp. Power to the fixture is controlled by a wall switch.

On the same circuit and controlled by the same switch is another fixture with two thirty inch tubes which are much too bright especially since both fixtures come on together. One of these florescent tubes had died, the other was dying—flickering—so we just took them out. The wires' retaining clips have lost their sticky so they can be seen laying across the glass. Art will tape these up with white duct tape and leave the fixture empty.

Two more to go: The “over” the dinette light. We had long ago installed this light where the coffee maker belonged and soon after removed most of the bulbs leaving just one as it was quite bright. This will be replaced with the LED equivalent. And the bedroom overhead (over bed) ceiling light has 5 incandescent bulbs, same ones as in the dinette fixture takes so we will probably put four in there. IF and only if we can find a new LED compatible dimmer switch. The original one is likely not LED compatible.

Art took the perfectly good 18 inch florescent tubes he had removed into the office to see if they knew of any one who might have a use for them. The eyes of one of the staff lit up. She had two tubes out in her rig.

Probably post a couple of photos here tomorrow. Or the next day, or the day after that or. . . .  :)