Preparing For The Arctic Blast, It's Still On It's Way

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First an update on our friend Brenda the photographer who has COVID.  She's still in the hospital after two months.   She can now answer yes/no by blinking and also squeezes the nurses' hands.  Other than that, she is still having issues with her kidneys and other functions.  She will probably be one of the long haulers.  Juan's BIL lost two cousins last week to COVID they were anti-maskers.   The fight goes on here in Mexico and although the president now has a negative test result after his 16 days of COVID, he says he refuses to wear a mask.  It's almost as if he wants people to be sick.  

The vaccines have been negotiated various times and still, we have no results.  The registration system they created for people over 60 crashed continually for over a week until people gave up.  There were only two fields; your name and your CURP (federal registration number).   Finally, we were able to get in.  So now, we are happy to be registered to receive the vaccine in the next 15 years based on the 717,000 received so far.  We are getting a shipment this week of another 400,000.  Yippie!   We decided that it is time to make some travel decisions but those will be in an rv with no contacts.  We won't be flying anywhere for the next few years and until we are vaccinated and the borders opened, we won't be rving in the U.S.  I just need to get out.

To fight that urge to get out, I decided to do this the other day.  We had purchased a tent for family use about five years ago and it sat in the storage shed.  It would have been used for the family when they brought the kids but never cared much for our rules so they pretty much stopped coming.  I took it out Sunday morning and set it up.  My first thoughts were that it would be a huge fiasco.   I searched for a video and found several on Amazon that shows how to set up the tent.  It took all of 1.5 minutes to set it up and the same taking it down.  Truly amazing.  This came to mind because our trailer awning is wearing out and I never liked it anyway.  The support arms always rattled even with a slight wind or someone walking in the trailer.   I know there are pop up rooms out there that literally pop up like this tent we have but needs to be square or rectangular and best without a pitched roof but a low-profile roof.  When it sits up against the trailer I want to be able to walk from the door to the popup room.  Any suggestions are appreciated.

We are waiting for the arctic blast and here is what is happening now.  Last Saturday it was 36C/97F and since then a balmy low nineties.  Today although hot, the air is thick and the sky is low and cloudy.  The forecast says we may have snow on Monday but if I say we are, it will peter out and you won't see our yard in white.  It happened just a few years ago.  But as I post the weather forecast, it is changing already.  We had our LP tank filled for our radiant heater and the larder is full.