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Day 26043! 12 Feb 26!

Thursday, February 12, 2026

A Dailylife Wife photo of the Verde Valley on the way back over the hill from Prescott, above Jerome.  Sedona is at the base of those rocks in the middle.  Only 30 miles by road, less by air.

~Curtis in Arizona!  {!-{>

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Day 26042! 11 Feb 26!

Thursday, February 12, 2026

We went to lunch at Red Robin in Prescott.

Membership has its privileges.

~Curtis in Arizona! {!-{>

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Day 26041! 10 Feb 26!

Thursday, February 12, 2026

The Dailylife Wife got me Lego at Christmas…it was on my list…

Then I found a lighting kit…

Yeah, this one is going into a glass box to keep fingers off it.  Even mine, probably!  I have it with me here in Arizona in case of cold nights…

~Curtis in Arizona!  {!-{>

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Day 26040! 9 Feb 26! (and Starlink is still clicking along just fine!)

Sunday, February 8, 2026

The Dailylife Wife made pot roast tonight in the Instantpot!

Because the new update to my Mac Mini it won’t let me use my Adobe Photoshop Elements, I am “editing” in Preview; yeah, I didn’t realize you could do that either!  It is a light edit, but it is working for now.  Preview has a “Remove Background” button.  I haven’t found out how to adjust the selection it uses yet, so here it is!

I had to take out the trash, and while it is a very un-spectacular sunset for colorful clouds and such, it is a very nice light.  The new car!

And two different views of the front office, each from a different photo.  I am not sure which one I like the best.

And one of the ol’ homestead…

~Curtis in Arizona! {!-{>

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Day 26039! 8 Feb 26!

Saturday, February 7, 2026

We got our Starlinkbox and a few associated bits and I spent yesterday making it all work!

But wait…what is that one the box?  It appear to be footprints.  Hmmm…No apparent damage.

I took the actual antenna out so you can see what’s in the box. The antenna is about 12” x 18”, and 15? lbs.  Left bottom is the router; left top is the power supply; top right is the power cord; that big elongated circle on the bottom right was where a 50ft network cable to plug the antenna into the router was.

We put the antenna up on the slide roof.  It is a pretty clear view in all directions.  I restrained the cable hanging down some.  We got a special network cable that you can close a window on to get it into the trailer.  I had to turn the antenna around.  It is facing south here, and the Starlink orientation app said it had to be facing north.

Once inside we plugged the router and power supply into power and the network through-the-window cable adapter.  There is a convienient space on top of the valence or whatever is over the window shade.  We got a plastic rack for the router and power supply from Amazon to sit on top, shelf like.

Finally, proof it is working.  It wasn’t the easiest thing I have installed for computers, but it wasn’t too bad!  No dropout, glitches or spinning circles yet!

~Curtis in Arizona! {!-{>

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Day 26038! 7 Feb 26!

Saturday, February 7, 2026

Early morning, pre-sun.  Out my bedroom window, from behind the shade.

With a little editing.

~Curtis in Arizona! {!-{>

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Day 26037! 6 Feb 26!

Saturday, February 7, 2026

It came!  Of course, I didn’t find out it about it tomorrow…errr…early morning on the 7th.

So I will be working this up today…errr…tomorrow…

~Curtis in Arizona! {!-{>

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Day 26036! 5 Feb 26!

Thursday, February 5, 2026

A quick shot of returning to the RV park after a couple miles on my bike.  Now it is a bit warmer I am hoping to get up to ten miles/day.

~Curtis in Arizona! {!-{>

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Day 26035! 4 Feb 26!

Thursday, February 5, 2026

I finally remembered to put the new tire cover on the spare at the back of the trailer!

I was trying to find a mount to go over the spare tire to hold a mast for our upcoming Starlink antenna.  There are many, many holders for Starlink or flagpoles that are an L shape with tube for the upright where the mast goes, and the bottom you just park your vehicle on, but not to mount ON the spare tire.  There are steps that go over the top of the tire, and I thought there might be something like that, but there isn’t that I have found.  There are quite a few that go in a receiver hitch, and a couple that will mount to the back RV bumper (4”x4”).  Most of those will also mount on the ball hitch A-frame at the front, too.  I don’t want a free standing mast holder because the wind will take it away like the ending of Mary Poppins.  So that 4”x4” one is the most likely if we decide to “permanently” mount the antenna.  For now it will be sitting in a chair outside of the trailer.

 

~Curtis in Arizona! {!-{>

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Day 26034.5…

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Finally, late tonight, I was able to get Starlink ordered!  Hurray Me!  I ordered it last week, then realized I needed to use the referral link for DD#1, then it got stuck with a PENDING subscription that could not be cancelled.  I got GROK involved (he/it runs Starlinks troubleshooting/customer support department) and it took from the 29th until late tonight on the 3rd.  But someone finally reset things and I was able to order the #@$#%@ thing!

~Curtis in Arizona! {!-{>

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