Well another year has gone by, were all a year older unless you passed on which means your not reading this. After some time of considering using another blog for rants I have decided to keep everything here. This makes it easier for me and for you. So if things change here and you don’t want to read it I understand.

Well I had a good X-mas and New Year, everyone is doing well. I didn’t get to see my girls for the holidays (down side of divorce and distance), but I know they love me and I love them. We (Beth and I) spent 4 days in St.L seeing her family and also got reacquainted with the other half of the family. I really like both sides of her family they are all wonderful people. While in St.L we saw National Treasure Book of Secrets. It’s worth seeing but I felt the first one was more believable. Looking forward to see what the next installment brings.

On a different note, propane. WOW it’s getting spendy, $3.40/gal which equates to $300 a month. I don’t have last years bills with me but I think it was about $2.80 last year. I am glad it’s only like this for about 5 months, then I switch the fridge over to propane for the other 3 seasons. This is due to it being more efficient. This year I may try the fridge and the water heater. (not the hot water heater, no such thing)

New subject, I did some quick research and believe I can convert the whole RV to LED lights for about $320.00. Now your thinking that either the lights are expensive or we have a ton of lights in here. Well it’s about half and half. There is somewhere around 30 total lights on the inside. This is due to the fact that when you are on battery power only you will have about half as many lights. When connected to “shore power” all 30 will work. So why LED’s, a fairly simple answer. They last way longer than regular / fluorescent bulbs, use way less power and create little to no heat (great for the summer). You can also get them in about 5 different colors so you could take a chandelier and put a few different colors and have a festive mood set. For me I would like to take the “lights” off of the 110v and dedicate them to all battery and recharge the batteries (2) via solar power.

One last note, do the research, sure it’s expensive to change over but you should get your money back in power bills in the first year…

Well I’ll stop writing and let you get back to what you were doing, thanks for stopping by.