Things for today

So some cool and not so cool things have happened so far this week.

So we are performing in a play here in Acton, CA, "A Christmas Carol", we had 3 paid performances Fri, Sat and a mantinee on Sunday. At least a 1/3 of the people in the show have never been on stage so there have been lots of nerves but now with some under their belt they are doing ok now when going out on stage. Both Fri and Sat thier only about 75 or so people there but on Sunday there was almost a full house of maybe 150 or so!! For a town as little Acton is that is a great turnout. We have 2 more shows coming up Dec 7th and 8th and those will be last until the next show. Thom plays 3 parts and I play 2 for it.

While getting ready to go to the theater for a show thou this past week our neighbor Neil came over and asked if we were having a problem with our electric ..... long story short his cord attaching to the pedistal starting smoking and sparking. We unplugged as fast as possible and the next day the park fixed the plug on their end and Neil stopped to get a new cord for his end. It seems that something like a spider/bug had gotten right in the wrong spot inbetween the plugs that caused the short and almost fire. Things are back to working for him and nothing else got damaged!!

We are getting a new inverter/charger for the MH/RV this week. It seems that the old 1500 watt inv/char does not have enough "juice" to run the microwave/convection oven at 1.62khw (which is 1600 watts). The new one will be 3000 watts and pure sine so that should be able to run and keep things going much better.
My advice to those looking at a new or used MH/RV/TT/5th wheel is to make sure the inv/char (if it has one) actually is able to handle all the electronics that are in it!! The one we are getting will allow us to add solar and be able to handle the electric stuff coming and going out. The one we are getting the normal price for everything for it would normally be at least $2k to $2.5k but once it's gotten its got and we won't have to worry anymore about for at least a few years. I say all the parts cause you also need a system control panel that goes with it and that can run you $200 to $300 depending on where you get it. You also may need a new cable to hook it up to the batteries, also a temp sensor for the batteries, they need more or less to charge them depending on the temp outside. As you can see there are lots to learn and research with these things.

About a month ago looking at the cold weather coming we started thinking about heating for us. We ended up getting an electric fireplace - http://www.lowes.com/pd_348139-47166-73092_4294765308_4294937087_?productId=3455832&Ns=p_product_avg_rating|1&pl=1&currentURL=%3FNs%3Dp_product_avg_rating%7C1&facetInfo= - it actually has been working fairly well in here keeping it warm. We don't even put on the electric heating pad most nights it seems to work that well. The cat even will lay in front of it like a dog would, lol. We did make sure that which ever heating we got that the current inv/char would be able to run it effciently. This one is only 1350 watts. I do turn it off if I want to put the microwave on. As it is I don't run the micro as much I would like until we get the new inv/char. I like to bake so until that happens I can't :( .

As for the new LED lights we still have some to do and Thom will be starting again from scratch and we will tape them to put here and on youtube if anyone would like to do what we have done. But those will be probably after the new year.

We may be going to Vegas again for New Years eve but we will not know until it happens as alot of times we make a spur of the moment decision on things like that, lol.