We decided we needed another week to finish off all the projects that the inclement (and I use that term with no small amount of irony) weather delayed. Lawns to mow that required at least one day without rain, and other assorted outside final maintenance tasks, that sort of thing.
Lo and behold, today was the 2nd day in a row without rain. We don’t count showers anymore. There’s no point.
I mowed the front lawn for the last time, ever! I’ve been mowing that lawn every Spring, Summer, and Autumn, for ten years. If I never have to mow a lawn again it will be too soon.
And Mrs Widds … remember that video I did a little while back where we tested our solar panels? … and we had a power outage immediately after?
Well, today was the day she installed one of them on our RV roof!
I think she likes it up there … however, note those looming dark clouds
She did an absolute bang-up job, and I love her to bits, and back together again.
The view from the roof
Our new departure date is the 7th, and although rain is forecast from now until then, we’ll be able to finish everything in spite of it.
And I’ll never have to mow that lawn again!
Widdershins Worlds 
there is always far more to do than is realized!
I’d coat those screw heads to stop water penetration.
LikeLiked by 1 person
They’re well doused in silicone. 😀 … an RV’er’s best friend … after duct tape. 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
Just one panel? We had a house roof full of them – but houses use a lot of electricity.
LikeLiked by 1 person
It’s in the nature of an experiment. Being firmly attached to the flat roof of the trailer it will never optimise the sun’s rays, but it will provide a constant trickle-charge when we’re travelling. We left the other one to see how effective it can be when we’re parked somewhere and we can move it to track the sun.
If we work out the bugs when we’re travelling, it will make setting up a system that much easier when we’re settled again.
LikeLike
Excellent plan.
The final step could be a mount which locks to the roof while traveling, and can be pointed in a better direction when you’re parked.
So exciting!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I mowed the lawn today too–heavy going in spots! Lawns are at their lushest now. I don’t water ours in the summer, except the parts that happen to be close to perennial beds. By July, mowing is infrequent. Of course the lawns look lousy then.
But you’re done with all that!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I am sooooo done with that! 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sheep. Nature’s lawnmowers. I take one with me wherever I go.
LikeLiked by 3 people
Sheepsez! Of course. 😀
LikeLike
Good for Mrs Widds. It took me 3 hours to mow the lawns at Newark. Now we have a graa postage stamp
LikeLiked by 1 person
A postage stamp I could live with. 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’m a martyr to my lawns… bon voyage!
LikeLiked by 1 person
If I were into lawns, yours would be a treat to experience, not to look after mind you, 🙂 but to visit and have afternoon tea upon. 😀 … perhaps whip out the flamingos and have a genteel game of croquet. 🙂
LikeLike
Yep whipped flamingoes are a speciality along side spanked dodos and chastised guillemots
LikeLiked by 2 people
Hahahahahahaha! 😀
LikeLike
It’s happenin’.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yep! 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
Not long to go now! How exciting. Bon voyage … A new chapter in your book of life 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
It will be nice to get out of this temperate rainforest area, that’s for sure! 🙂 … but in a few months I’ll probably be grumbling about the heat, or the wildfires, or some other climate variant. My ideal ambient temperature is 15-22C, with at least two days a week of sunshine. 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
It’s ‘NO Mow May’ here, an excellent reason for not mowing to allow the grasses to seed and dear little insects to enjoy. I have actually mowed my little lawns, but only in the middle, avoiding akward spots.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Agree totally. 🙂 That’s been one of my pet peeves here … not being able to turn that ‘dead’ space into a beautiful garden.
LikeLike
Ha ha ha! One day closer to lift off…
LikeLiked by 1 person
That’s us … to infinity, and beyond! 😀
LikeLiked by 2 people
Hurrah to no more mowing! That’s cool you have a solar panel on your RV. Way to go, Missus Widds!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks. 😀 … hopefully the sun will show its face one of these days, and we’ll get to see if it worked! 😀
LikeLike
-grin- I wish I could stop mowing the grass [we don’t have lawn, just assorted weeds]. Congratulations to Mrs Widds for getting up there and installing the solar panel. It’s really getting down to the pointy bit now, isn’t it? 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yep. I’ve got so many holes I’m not sure which are my inside bits and which are my outside bits. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
How goes the countdown?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Boom! 😀 … we officially move into, and move, the RV tomorrow … still a lot of cleaning up to do, and if this bloody rain would just stop, we might be able to get it all done! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
-gulp- good luck?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Unfortunately Mrs Widds slipped and fell last night … bloody rain is making everything sludgy and slippery … so we’re keeping our options open for another day or two … it depends on how she feels in the morning, but she did give her head a nasty knock, so concussion is almost a certainty. 😦 … scary stuff.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oh Widds, I’m so sorry to hear that. Did she get it checked out? I hope she hasn’t tried to soldier through. Concussion is no joke. 😦
LikeLiked by 2 people
We are soldiering … she’s sore and sorry this morning, but otherwise OK.
LikeLiked by 2 people
I’m glad she’s ok, and you too. 🙂 Bon Voyage!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Congrats, you deserve it!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Blood, sweat, and tears, an abundance of good will and it happened … lots of swearing too. 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person