We have a total of three propane bottles: two small seven-gallon bottles and one large 27-gallon one. As of yesterday, Lisa was down to just the last small bottle. Originally, the plan was to take the large bottle to be refilled; however, it was raining most of yesterday. We can't transport the large bottle in the minivan because you're not ( Read more... )

It being the first clear and sunny day in quite a while, and with Lisa able to walk on her own again, we tried to go to Reno today on several errands, one of which was as a place that closes at 3 PM. As we neared Mustang (about 2/3 of the way there), traffic came to a halt. I was able to bail off at Mustang, where we could see an electronic sign ( Read more... )

Today was notably warmer than the last few days. The snow is starting to melt from the East Lot, and it was warm enough that after I got off work, Lisa put the large propane bottle on the hand truck and we trundled down to Hanneman Service to fill up the 27-gallon bottle. As always, it's a bit of a challenge to push the hand truck back when the ( Read more... )

After all of that wind yesterday, we did get some rain with not a lot of lightning in it, which helped get some of the smoke out of the air. Today after lunch, I was able to get that errand done, which was refilling the large propane bottle. We don't go through the propane so fast in the summer, of course, but it's still used for cooking and also ( Read more... )

I mentioned yesterday that we refilled the large propane bottle. Today we took the small one. A few days ago, Lisa discovered to her dismay that she'd run down both bottles. Normally, she keeps the small bottle turned off so she knows when the large one has emptied; however, she'd left both bottles open, so when the big bottle ran out, the ( Read more... )

While it's snowing again in the Sierra Nevada, this set of storms hasn't passed over Fernley and indeed with temperatures above 10°C, I all but let the fire go out today, and I have a fan running to push warm air back toward the back end of the house. We wrestled the large 100-pound propane bottle down to Hanneman Service and refilled it, and ( Read more... )

Lisa and I walked to the post office today after my lunch, as is our common practice. On the way back we saw that Bob Hanneman, owner of the place where we buy our propane, was out and about getting ready to do a AAA service call. We stopped and showed him pictures of the adapter fitting to allow the 100# propane bottle to be used with "hard nose" ( Read more... )

Lisa and I went to Reno this morning and started the day with a leisurely brunch at the Peppermill (possibly the best meal value with our locals' discount that they have, in my opinion). Well-fed, we went to Safari RV to seek out the adapter to allow us to connect our new large propane bottle to the existing trailer fittings. Now the adapter we ( Read more... )

After trying the advice we got from the propane service person (not the one at the place where we normally buy our propane) about connecting our RV fittings to the larger bottle (it did not work; there was still a tiny leak so we disconnected the bottle and set it aside) and then comparing it to some research I did online about the POL and ACME gas ( Read more... )

We took things fairly easy today. Because the weather was so nice (a high of 12° C seems positively tropical), we did deal with one outside chore: installing the new propane gas hose on the travel trailer. This was more difficult than I thought it would be. First, the replacement hose is five inches longer than the one it is replacing (we couldn't ( Read more... )