Today my weather webpage says there's less than 13 hours of daylight. I have always hated watching the days get shorter and shorter because it meant winter was comming. Since I'm going to leave for a warmer climate in October, I am wondering if this will change my outlook on the expanding darkness. I like the night. I've always been a night person, usually able to get more done in the solitude and stillness of the night. With an expanded darkness but not the extreme coldness I have to deal with in Illinois, maybe I'll have increased capacity for getting things done, although I've been pretty good of late in getting things done. Since I've been at the campground, I've put new zippers in the canvas of the popup part of the camper, hung curtains over the openings where the sleeping platforms are (I use the one on my side for storage), hung the mesh type baskets you see hanging in kitchens for storage, built a countertop that sits over the 2 burner propane stove that's built in (I don't use it but rather a hotplate) so I can sit my computer monitor on it and I have the cpu underneath. I am in the process of building a door that can be locked to go over the opening where the cpu is. I sewed and constructed an awning that hangs over the front door and is fairly sturdy but will be easy to take down and store the poles-1/2 in. pvc pipe and fittings-quite cool actually. I built a step but I might redo it. I think it needs to be wider. I've done all this with a manual saw, lol. Oh, and I redid the bottom half of the door but I'm short a bit of luan plywood so I have a bare bit about 5 inches wide and 21 inches long in the middle of the door. But I really HATE to go buy a whole sheet for just a little bit. Even if I replaced the whole thing it would still be just 27"x21". Thanks to dad for letting me have the scraps of plywood I find in the garage. I've had to play with the hardware for the door. The problem was that there's a catch between the top of the door and the bottom of the door so that when the camper collapses the top half installs on the ceiling. Now this wouldn't ordinarily be a problem except that at some point the maniac who redid this camper (whoever he was I'd like to strangle him) moved the hinge for the bottom part of the door over so he could use a thicker bottom half of a door. The result is that the top and bottom of the door don't work together right and the aluminum hasp that was screwed to the bottom part of the door with a wingnut broke off because of the wobble back and forth this disaprity between the hinges caused. So I had to figure out how to fasten the top and bottom of the door without it being permanent and make sure that it would have plenty of play so that it could be fastened. I ran down to ACE Hardware (they know me there, lol) and got a chain door lock. This allowed me to connect the two halves and still be able to unlatch it to lock the top half of the door for when I collapse the camper and has enough play so that the door swings right. I might have to tighten it up a bit, I'll have to see.

I also managed to buy a new potty. It's a Century and it was the cheapest one I could find that wasn't a hassock toilet. $65+tax at Wal Mart. At least now if I have an issue in the middle of the night I won't have to try to run the block down to the bathrooms without having an accident. :P