It was 15°F (-9°C) at 7:25. J started to make vegetable soup in the crock pot. I worked up two blog entries, then contacted the seller on eBay of some Dyson accessories to see if shipping would be combined.

I had lunch around 12:30 of Genoa salami and Swiss on rye and worked on getting our Kyocera KR2 wireless router to behave. I wasn't able to connect my MacBook Pro to it last night in order to share the bandwidth of my Verizon Wireless account with J who is running out at the end of her billing cycle. I finally got the router to behave today.

I went outside and tried to form an air bubble in our hot water heater. The water heater's supposed to have an air bubble at the top to provide a way for the hot water to expand without leaking out of the over-pressure valve. Plus, the air bubble also acts as a pressure dampener for the whole plumbing system and makes the water pump cycle less frequently. J came up with the idea that we have an air bubble problem that's making our water pump sound bad. I think she's right because our water system gets extra pressurized after we run the water heater for a while — a good indication that we don't have much of an air bubble if any.

From what I've read, the easiest way to form an air bubble is to turn off the water pump, open up the hot water valve on any faucet, then manually open up the pressure relief valve until the water stops coming out. After the water stops, then shut off the pressure relief valve, close the hot water valve on the faucet, then turn the water pump back on. Sounded easy enough, but when I opened up the pressure relief valve, only a few drops of water came out — I didn't make much of a bubble.

I came back inside the RV and started to repack some hardware and parts in a new small bin that we picked up yesterday. I wasn't happy to discover that the bin wasn't quite tall enough for some of the items I wanted to put in it, so I left around 1:30 in the Jeep by myself.

I went to Home Depot to see if they had some spray-on non-slip stuff for an area rug, and they only had non-slip mats. We got some new area rugs for the RV yesterday, and the non-slip pads I made from general-use non-slip pads aren't quite cutting it.

Then I walked to the WalMart next door and picked up another small bin that was tall enough for the items. I also looked at cloth to see if they had some canvas that I could use to sew up a holder for four light stands similar to a Smith-Victor Light Stand Carrying Case. They had some nice duck cloth that should work, so I just need to figure out how much to get.

I returned to the RV and finished repacking the hardware and parts using the new small bin. The seller of the Dyson accessories said he'd combine shipping, so I completed the three Buy-It-Now purchases to get a Multi-Angle Brush that looks like the best general dusting attachment that's available, a Mattress Tool which should be good for all fabric surfaces, a Stiff Bristle Brush which came bundled with the Mattress Tool and is of suspect usefulness, but the price was right, and a Flexi Crevice Tool. I got ready to leave around 4:50, and J said we weren't leaving until 5:50 — oops! I started to work up a blog entry. We left around 6:00 after meeting the new neighbors who were moving in.

We took J's vegetable soup, and some not-yet baked Texas Toast, over to SJ&DilK's (J's Son J and Daughter-in-law K's) for dinner. I also took a load of laundry — how exciting. GA (grandson A, age 8) invited me to play his new Wii Sports Resort game, and flying the airplane was fun. It was easy to fly under the bridge and do rolls, but it was more difficult to shoot down target balloons because you can only look forward which makes turning around for a second pass a challenge. When GJ (grandson J, age 4) flies, he loves to crash the airplane because the pilot bails out with a parachute. We had dinner, then I played some Table Top Foosball with GA. After some dessert of fresh-baked chocolate-chip cookies that DilK made, GJ sat on my lap while watching GA play some Wii Sports Resort basketball. GS (granddaughter S, age 2.5) gave me a nice long hug on our way out — love those cuddles!

We returned to the RV around 8:30. I looked into other ways to create a water bubble in the water heater, then continued to work up a blog entry. I turned on the hot water heater for a while because it's supposed to get down to 9°F (-13°C) over night.