Sorry to say I woke up at 3:15 a.m. to the sound of a generator outside my window, I ended up having to put earplugs in just to get back to sleep. Grrrr! I try to be patient with people, but really, I don’t understand why someone has to run a generator all night long! I didn’t see any medical reason for it, so I don’t know what the purpose was, but honestly, it really is inconsiderate unless there’s a need to run medical equipment all night. It’s one reason we decided again peritoneal dialysis, because it required a machine to run all night, and we didn’t want to do that to our fellow campers. Oh, well! Hubby decided he wanted to skip dialysis today, he hadn’t gained much weight even though he’d been drinking a bit more due to the heat, but I imagine he’s sweating some of it out anyway. We had to take a trip into the nearest big town, Morehead, to get some propane. It’s been a good week of experimenting, between running the generator for dialysis as well as for air conditioning, and we’ve learned that we use slightly more than a gallon an hour of propane. Thanks goodness we have four tanks! One 20 pound tank takes about 4.7 gallons, and lasts just about 4 hours. We took two tanks into town to fill up at the Tractor Supply, got a few horse feed supplies as well as some groceries before heading back for an afternoon of rest and relaxation. Since we’re not dialyzing today, we won’t need to use too much propane except to cool off the trailer at the end of the day, and we should have plenty for tomorrow. Our next stop has electricity, so we won’t have to worry about it too much there, thank goodness! But these are the things we needed to learn about our new trailer, just how much fuel a propane generator uses is just one of those things! Now we know! We stayed outside as the temps cooled down, only coming in after 9:00. A short evening, heading to bed early, happy to say our neighbors with the generator moved out this afternoon while we were in town, and, in fact, we’re the only one left in camp, so we should have a nice quiet night tonight! Yeah!
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