July 23, 2025
Day 1,391 of the Adventure
Today ended up being one of those chaotic days that felt like I was being dragged around by circumstances beyond my control. It began with a 2am phone call that an electrical problem had developed at the campground. In the middle of the night, those are the terrible things that represent all kinds of questions and problems all at the same time. When awakened from a deep sleep to something like this, it's never something you can just roll back over and forget while you fall back to sleep. Ironically, I had been reading a novel for the past few days about an apocalyptic "grid down" event which had crippled the entire nation. In my world, I was being notified of a micro grid down event in my own back yard. One that I must find an answer for. By morning, with very little sleep, I began the day with a couple hours out of the roof of the summer kitchen, adding several more rows of shingles, not to the north facing roof slope. When the sun got high enough, I abandoned that effort and headed into town to survey the problems with the electrical service to a handful of our rental cabins. Between contemplating it for most of the rest of the night and on the roof and driving to the campground, I had narrowed down my suspicions to just a couple of likely culprits. The most likely, was strain on the system for a small group of cabins from the high heat and excessive A/C use by the guests. My maintenance crew and I studied the system and came to the hopeful conclusion that there was probably too much of a total electrical draw on the specific system serving a cluster of seven cabins, A solution was not complicated but would involve several days-worth of work out in the heat. In addition to several thousand dollars-worth of equipment upgrades. Not even really knowing where to start, I headed off next to a local electrical supplier to attempt to define the necessary parts needed to fix our dilemma. After several stops, multiple purchases of parts, tools and other supplies, A couple stops for gas station food to keep me quickly fueled, I returned home by late afternoon. The next few days will be strenuous enough the way it is, so I intended to cool off. get a little rest and mentally prepare for a tough job. After a diet of gas station food all day, nothing, and I do mean NOTHING..... sounded good for supper. While browsing the cupboards for something "non-invasive" I noticed the cannister of lowly oatmeal facing me at about eyeball level. My stomach said..... "Yeah, I can do that!" So, with that, I cooked up a double serving of breakfast comfort food. After a diet of things that tend to send a body into gastric rebellion, a bowl of oatmeal was just the ticket to tame everything down and deliver a reminder that we shall survive the abuse I had subjected my system to all day. An hour later, I'm feeling mostly normal again!
Adventure Quote: “Life itself is simple...it's just not easy.” ― Steve Maraboli
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