I worked on the bronco roof some more, removing the leftover self-leveling caulk and putting a touch of caulk in the screw holes to prevent any future leaks. So far, I've been able to do all of that without getting up on top of the roof because, frankly, I'm not sure the bronco's roof would support me, so I get up on my ladder and lean over as far as I can to reach areas that need work.

I left one solar panel on the roof, and I'm also leaving the solar controller hooked up in the bronco, so at least the batteries will get some charging during the day. I considered removing the whole solar system, which is the way I bought the bronco. But the wires that plug into the truck from the bronco are so tiny that they pass very few amps to recharge the broncos batterys when the truck is running.

So the one hundred watt solar panel will at least charge the bronco's two AGM batteries enough to have lights at night, but it will take a lot more than one panel if the buyers want to be "comfortable," especially when they get some cloudy days.

Theboondork

A large herd of mushrooms sprang up in the yard after the snow melted.

The pictures today are all of my oldest son, and they're all pictures that he sent me that he took with his phone. He's a heavy equipment operator and this is a picture of the rig he was operating up in Montana stripping overburden from a coal seam.

But these pictures aren't about his job, there about fishing. A little over a month ago he moved from Montana to southern Louisiana, partially because he loves fishing and he wanted to be near a place where he could fish in salt and freshwater, so southern Louisiana was the place to be.

He not only loves fishing but he is the best I've ever seen at it. And even though in the beginning I taught him everything he knows about fishing, I don't know how he got to be a better fisherman than me... But he did.

My granddaughter wasn't feeling too well today, so since it's still pretty chilly here in Denver, it was decided that the kids needed to lay low and not go running around outside with the other kids. My granddaughter's preschool is over for the summer, and my grandson's first-grade class will be finished tomorrow.

It's just now starting to warm up in Denver, it managed to crawl up to 70° this afternoon, and it was sunny for most of the day, so I was finally able to walk around without a coat on for at least some of the day.

I took my first baby step towards getting the bronco ready to sell by removing three of the four solar panels, which will lighten the load on cranking up the roof and be fewer solar panels I have to buy when I get another camper. But the most important thing I have to do is get the stuff out of my storage room and put the bronco back the way it was when I bought it.

People don't generally like things that have been personalized or customized by someone else. In general, you get the most money for something if it looks like it just came from the factory, no matter how much money you spent "improving" it. I don't know if having a bunch of solar panels on the roof of an RV increases its value are not, but since most folks aren't boondockers, I would think a lot of RVers probably wouldn't care one way or another, but I usually default to "stock" as generally better, and easier to sell.

Theboondork

My boy fishes for sport, he just loves being on the water and catching fish. He returns all the fish he catches back to the water. Which is why some of these pictures aren't that great, he wants to take a picture and  get them back in the water as quickly as possible.

Where he's at there is saltwater,  freshwater, and brackish water. And each one is good for fishing.

He just bought a gadget that is used to pick up a fish by their lower jaw without harming them, so he can get a picture and get them back in the water as quick as possible.

Think about it, who would believe this stuff without pictures.

None of these are the same fish, he actually catches so many big fish he doesn't need to make up fish stories... I've stood there and watched him do it.

Even as a little kid he was a good fisherman. I don't know how but he's always managed to catch fish when nobody else is getting a bite.

He doesn't care what kind of fish it is, Catfish, Sharks, or Drum he doesn't care  he just likes the fight.

I enjoyed fishing, and did it for most of my life, but now that I'm retired its just one more hobby that I don't have room for so I leave catching fish like this to my son... He's better at it than I ever was anyway.

Even an Alligator Gar puts up a great fight, and their heavy enough he has to put a rope around it to pull it up on shore without getting bit.

He's only been fishing these waters for about a month and a half and somehow despite working a full-time job he's figured out how to catch fish like this any time he goes fishing... I'm amazed, and proud.

I had a busy day today of tentative decision-making. I seldom make an outright decision because I'm not very decisive, so I usually make tentative decisions, so I can't be held responsible for those decisions if I change them on down the road.

Before making tentative decisions today, the family and I went to my granddaughter's "graduation ceremony" from preschool this morning. It was a festive occasion celebrating leaving preschool behind and anticipating a huge step forward next Fall, right into kindergarten.

I remember kindergarten quite well; I should since I was there for three years. I cried for the first two years, which continued off and on through junior high school,  but finally, I got the hang of it and stopped eating the crayons, even though I still keep a crayon, or two stashed in a drawer in case I run out of food.

But getting back to my tentative decisions. I have tentatively decided that I'm going to sell the bronco and my beloved Arctic Fox and tentatively live in a Lance truck camper model 825. Now I don't have any particular Lance 825 that I'm interested in; in fact, the ones that fit my budget are hard to find in Colorado. But from all my Internet studies, the 825 seems to be the highest quality, with a reasonable weight truck camper that I've looked at. So that tentative decision is based on me being able to find one I can afford.

I still feel like the Bigfoots, and the Northern Lites are the highest quality truck campers, but they're just so heavy I think I would have to spend too much money modifying my truck so it could carry a camper that heavy.

I've taken a lot of stuff out of the bronco, and put it in storage, like the dining room table, so the first chance I get, I need to go to Divide and get all the stuff I've taken out of the bronco and put it back in. I also think I will take off three of the four solar panels since I don't think they will increase the value of the camper hardly at all. And I'm pretty sure I will need them to put on the new camper when I get one. After that, I will hang a for sale sign  on the bronco and hope somebody local will buy it without me having to pay for advertising.

Selling the Arctic Fox will be a much bigger and more complicated  deal, just getting all my stuff out of it will take a lot of time, and I have to have a place to live until I get another camper, once I've sold the bronco.

Theboondork

For anyone unfamiliar with how a preschool classroom looks, it looks something like this. It's all rather chaotic, but if you pack this many rug-rat sized kids into a small room, chaotic is probably the best you can hope for.

This event was supposed be held outside, but it was pretty chilly, cloudy, and looked like rain, so indoors was the only comfortable place to be.

My son-in-law was shocked; shocked I tell you, to see that his daughter won such a prestigious award for graduating from preschool.

This is my granddaughter and one of her preschool teachers. There's three of them in class because that's how many it takes to survive a school year of preschoolers. Two are teaching and one is watching their six.

My daughter,  my son-in-law,  and granddaughter at the graduation ceremony. My grandson is in school right next door to this classroom and he's having some big thing tomorrow morning.... And it looks like rain again tomorrow.