After our long day in Lake Tahoe yesterday, we decided we needed a day off. And, since the electricity is off in the entire area around here, most places are closed. So, we just stayed "home" and boondocked. We did turn our generator on 3 times -- at breakfast and lunch, for coffee, and at dinner for the microwave. Otherwise, our batteries were good enough to keep the main light on and one outlet to charge computers, phones, etc. We did get a little concerned when we first turned on the generator this morning, and we get the message on the display to "check the oil level". Well, here we go again. We know NOTHING about the generator--like where the dip stick is, or even how to check it. No one ever told us we needed to check the oil level in the generator. We hardly ever use it, so why should it be low? When one of the maintenance men from the campground drove by in his electric cart, we asked him if he knew about RV generators. He came over and showed us how to open the generator panel, where the dip stick was, and that the oil level was actually OK. The online manual says to check the oil level every 100,000 hours of use, or one year, whichever is earlier. So, it has been a year. Does that message just automatically appear, or is the oil actually low, and the guy just didn't know how to read the gauge. If low, we don't have any oil to fill it with, but we do now know where to pour it. So--get some oil, and learn the proper level on the dip stick.
Otherwise, it was an easy going day. The wind was gusting a lot. We have never been in such high winds, when the weather was sunny and warm. Only when there were storms. But, the high winds are why the power company turned off the electricity, to help prevent forest fires. The high winds blew down tons of brown pine needles. I am used to 2-3 inch pine needles, but these are 8-10 inch ones.
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