Harrington Beach

 HA - so NOW insiders of the Trump administration are saying they had absolutely no plans to get out of Afghanistan - it was all a clever ruse to trick the Taliban.  Like Trump's infrastructure plans - never had any - just verbal diarrhea for his lemmings to suck in.  Like a dog eating throw up. They will lap it up like it's the most tasty thing in the world.  

Typicle. 

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Brewers - WOW - one of the best games of the year last night - CRAZY good.  HOWEVER - as I was working on my spreadsheets for my power ratings I noticed something.

The Baltimore Orioles have given up 8 or more runs in 11 of their last 13 games.  AND the Toronto Blue Jays have scored 8 or more in 10 of their last 12 games (they have only played each other 3 times)  

The Brewers need to win 9 more games for my OVER 83 bet to win.  

Remember when Bill James predicted the Brewers would win 100 games and people laughed (he uses science)?  Since the crew got Adamas they are 53-24  .688.  If they play .688 the rest of the way that would be 102 wins.  Right now they have a .612 winning pct.  If they play at .612  they win 99 games.

I think my OVER 83 is looking good. 

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We went glamping at Harrington Beach last week. It's near lake Michigan and the town of Belgium. About 20 miles from Sheboygan.  

Millions of dead Ash trees everywhere.   But the campsite was HUGE.  

We drive in  and there is zero shade but thick surrounding brush and instead of dirt it was all grass.  SO SO NICE.  It was HOT setting up in the sun and at that first moment we were a little disheartened but that changed over time.  

When the sun set it got cool pretty fast and was near 50 they first night.  We had a fire that was 12 yards away from the camper.  There was enough room to toss the ball with Gus and all was well. 

Monday we went to the dog beach which was AMAZING. We had literally never seen Gus so excited. The water was only a foot deep 20 yards out and clean sand bottom.  We threw a stick and he went after it over and over.  He would get back drop the stick at my foot, bark 4 times pleading me to throw it again.  He was in heaven.  I think he was playing a game of jumping over the waves.  MAN he loves swimming.   

OH - unlike Lake Superior which was warm water - Michigan is freaking cold.

We took a walk around Quarry lake which is literally 200 feet deep one foot off the shore.  Tons of fish and a lot of people fishing all kinds of fish.  Wonderful shaded hike. 

In the afternoon we decided to take a trip to Sheboygan to check out all the burger joints we kept hearing about.  ALL CLOSED on Monday!  damn it.  Ended up going to 3 Sheeps Brewing. 

Now THIS is camping.  DJ fell in love with (a little too much) I Scream IPA and I always love their Cashmere Hammer Stout.  

It was not a long stay at Harrington as it was our first off the grid camping. We wanted to test the solar.  Worked out perfectly but when we turn on the inverter the battery would drop 25% within minutes and we were not really using anything.  However the solar would recharge in a half an hour.  

Have to figure out whet these mean - I THINK I have a clue but . . . . 

This shows what lever our batteries are at  88%

 This is how many amps we are currently using - I think

   

      I THINK - this is the solar and how many amps we are recharging at the current time

and this is totally meaningless at the moment 

The biggest issue was seeing what happens when we turn on the inverter to use the sockets and the battery would zoom down.  Plus a few things just did not want to work like our electric kettle which heats a whole pot of water to boiling in one minute.  It would go on and the off in 10 seconds. 

So we are unsure about the inverter. 

OH - you know how RVs all have names on their sides?   We drove past the dump station and 4 RVs were lined up with the following names.

Four Winds,  Zinger , Solitude and last was Reflection.  I WISH I had a camera as were were laughing so hard. 

Harrington Beach is planting many trees but the sheer number of dead ash trees was amazing.  The lots are HUGE and Gus was off his leash the whole time. You can not see any other campers when there. you can hear them but its thick thick brush.  ZERO mosquitoes.  In fact we have not seen a mosquito in any of our camping trip yet. 

All you can see are the tops of campers when you walk the park 

We will go back but NOT is summer - more of a fall area with the lack of shade