Wednesday November 20:

Today I must spray the UV protectant on the roof while Claire cleans the refrigerator for storage.  I'm hoping the plastic doormat we use under the cat's litterbox will act as a wind screen to allow the spray to reach the roof before it blows away...  :-)  After all, UV protection is not a BAD thing for a litterbox pad is it?  The roof job is VERY tiring, yet it does not seem like it should be so.  I think exposure to the wind itself is fatiguing.  The job took a bit less than half a gallon of 303 protectant.  Hopefully it does the job.  I stopped half done to refill the spray bottle and rest.  Took a break and went to the area of the Historic Gold Rock office/store and took pictures of the exhibits of old mining equipment.

There were tent poles left by General Patton's troops when they trained here in 1942 before embarking for the deserts of North Africa.

 The poles are the long ones at the top of this picture.  I returned and VERY reluctantly went back at the roof.  The wind was down a bit, but it did not compensate for increasing fatigue.  :-(  The job got finished, but I am glad our fixed departure date is near;  these "get ready" tasks tend to grow to fill all available time, and I'm ready to be finished.  :-)  Tomorrow we leave here after vacuuming, cleaning a few more areas, showering, then dumping.  We kept our water tank filled from Squaw Lake, as the water here tastes a bit salty.  We do not want to leave the tank full anyway.  I checked the battery with the hydrometer and the cells were mostly 88% charged, with one at 92%.  I decide to do another high (14.4) voltage charge cycle to try to force it higher and more equal before storage.  Still, that may be as good as four year old batteries get....  :-)