January 6, 2014 (Mon) Mars Hill, NC (7) 10/44° - Winterizing for storage is rather straight forward and after years of practice, quickly done. But we'll be living aboard this time which means that we need to make decisions about what gets antifreeze and what doesn't, what goes into the house, what stays in the motor home and where (so it doesn't freeze yet is out of the way). We decided that the holding tanks Black, gray and fresh water) would probably be OK. They have enough liquid and are inside (fresh water) or heated (black and gray) to not freeze in the length of time the bitter cold will be with us. We'll also leave the hot water heater on so we won't have to drain that.About mid morning the women folk piled into a car and headed down the road to The Echoview Fiber Mill in Weaverville just south of Mars Hill. It is an ecologically built building dedicated to the fiber artists and fiber farmers of the area. In addition to classes in everything fiber, they have work spaces devoted to felting, spinning and weaving and there is a beautiful showroom filled with art objects and knitting/spinning related supplies. Wonderful, wonderful!!
January 7, 2014 (Tue) Mars Hill, NC (8) 1/20° - When Mark looked at the thermometer the first thing this morning, it read 1° outside and 33° inside (just barely warm enough to keep things from freezing!). Since the low was supposed to have come sometime in the wee hours, it must have gotten down to 0 or below sometime during the night. We turned the furnace on and watched TV in bed while it warmed up enough inside to get dressed.
Joy considers Friends and Fiberworks in Asheville to be one of the better yarn shops she's been to. Since Papas and Beer, one of the better Mexican restaurants we been to, is nearby and a terrific (and huge) discount shoe store is not too far away we all took an excursion into the big city. Joy got a pair of shoes and Mark a belt at the shoe store before heading for Papas and Beer for a too-big-a lunch. We found Friends and Fiberworks not to be where it use to be but moved several miles south. Not to be deterred by a small thing like a geographical dislocation, we headed for Candler, NC where Joy picked up some supplies for future projects.The evening wound down with a rousing game of dominoes.
January 8, 2014 (Wed) Mars Hill, NC (9) 8/45° - Warmer this morning, 8° (33° inside). Enough said about the deep freeze (almost) except to say that it appears to be over.
The pictures are included as experiments. I'm trying to include images that will be displayed in the email, in the blog and on facebook without having to upload them for each separately. Jane is one of Bob and Pat's cats. The icicle on Lamont's bumper was formed several days ago - when it was still warm enough for water to flow. It survived a 65 mph run on I-26 down to Weaverville and back yesterday.
Today we had to repack Q and Lamont for returning to the road tomorrow. Liquids brought into the house and piled around inside Q's cabin had to be stowed in their proper storage bins and cubbys and pipes filled with antifreeze had to refilled with water. We don't expect super cold tonight.
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