Another Step...

 

Still working our "getting away" plan.  This morning, we loaded up the Equinox, hitched it up to the cargo trailer, and headed for storage.  Working our plan when we got there: check tires on the coach, pull it out, fire up the generator, turn on the A/C, turn on the fridge, and start loading stuff from the car into the motorhome...

 Putting stuff in the closet and drawers.  Then, we pulled the slide-out in, backed up the coach, and backed the cargo trailer into the storage unit.  Unhook the car from the trailer, back outside with that, and pulled the coach into the storage unit.  Yes, it is long enough for the motorhome and the cargo trailer.  We looked in the cargo trailer - everything made this 40 mile ride just fine.  Locked things up and headed for home.  

It was 100º when we left the storage unit.  Got down to 95º as we rolled into town.  That is unusually high for here at the coast.  Before making the turn towards our island, I suggested we go across the causeway and run the Equinox through the car wash... with all the wind and dirt in the air, the car was gritty to the touch.

Then back home.  Rufus was happy to see us; I think he sometimes wonders if we're coming back when we start carting stuff out of the house and leave.  He is laying on my arm as I am writing this - one very contented boy to have his people back.

My music room is looking empty...

The rest of the house has things that will need to go; there is an order for the loading, and we need some things around the house until we're ready to close it down.

More closing down stuff to do around the house, but we are on schedule.

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This is not the "longest day of the year."  It has 24 hours, the same as every other day.  It is the day each year with the most time of daylight.  And, from here until the Winter Solstice, the amount of daylight each day will decrease.

Might be a good day to visit Stonehenge.  It wasn't a particularly good day to visit here... the heat index got to 114º today... well, that's what one of the weather weasels said this evening.  It was hot; didn't seem that hot.  ERCOT is telling Texas residents to reduce their energy usage from early afternoon into the evening - record high energy usage is predicted the rest of this week.

Happy Summer Solstice!