This is the view out the side hatch for today's coffee break. We're learning a new routine this long time out on the cut. Having used only 2.5 hours of engine time for domestic use since June, now that we have the solar panels to charge batteries, we're learning new times to do things.
In addition to making sure we both take our work-time breaks, we're doing laundry at the end of a work day and not the beginning, so that the BFG heats the evening's water. We used to run the engine for 2-3 hours a day to both charge the batteries and heat water, but no longer. What a wonderful change to our lives. Now all is as quite at this scene all day long. And only in the general flurry of coming home tasks do we hear an engine - and for only 45 minutes. In the time of putting away bags, sorting lunchboxes and walking Josie, we hardly notice the laundry being done.
Ahhhh.
