we're back in des moines iowa stopping at one of our favorite taco places look at that baby would ya
the best the best
it is a week day and while we're in des moines michelle has to go into the
office downtown des moines to work during the week we just make our bed like this
leave the sofa down don't roll it up and throw it in the back we just leave them like this it works fine
while michelle is at work i actually use her desk are you sure you don't want to work down there longer
i lock this table down so when we're driving everything stays put
we get these little tubs that has our things for getting ready out of up above
michelle sticks them right here and
uses all of her stuff right here from the bathroom gets ready i grab the things i need to go over
to the shower house and then when we're done we just quickly throw these right back in there
we came to iowa and we had like 60 degree days we first got here
like lows in the 40s at night and then one day it just jumped up to the 90s and it was hot and humid
and here we are back in the 60s again
in the mornings we usually just have again just our electrical
and our um water to tear down and that's it usually really quick and michelle just puts away
the few things we have on the counter and we're ready to go downfall is a much smaller space but
positive again it's all the places we get into and the ease always having
everything with us that's nice it's like it's really hard to choose which is best
it's supposed to rain the next couple days so to make things quicker we just left it unhooked
oh
i'm off to school have a good day little silly boy i got your lunch okay when michelle is at work
i don't want to go all the way back to the campground and work because it wastes a lot
of fuel especially with fuel prices as high as it is there's gray's lake that's really close so
i'll go down there and work but beforehand sometimes i'll make my own coffee in here
and sometimes i'll stop by a place called gateway market it's got a restaurant they
sell a lot of health food and really good food actually and they have a grocery store there
that sells sells a lot of uh like health health food and things that are better for you supposed
to be anyway but if you bring your own mug there or thermos doesn't matter what size one dollar
even one dollar and they'll fill it up sometimes it's just like it's on my way it's easier for me
just to swing by and grab that then i don't have to mess with the the mess of doing that
in here and it saves me time nice thing about filling up your coffee here too is they have
where you fill it up yourself for people like me that can't handle straight regular coffee i can
make it mostly decaf a little bit of caffeine you don't want to see me not straight camping
one of the things that michelle really likes here in des moines actually originated from pella iowa
the dutch letters and gateway market makes them as well you don't know what a dutch letter is it's
those little gems right there it's a pastry item that's filled with like uh almond sugar of course
i figured i'd grab one for give her a little surprise i don't help any i know
now i'm going to take you down to gray's lake and we'll have fun working all day
long okay i promise i won't make you sit there and watch me all day
so i'm just gonna back right into this spot and that's that
sit down spin this around that rhyme didn't it and work
but i gotta get my coffee first
every day is a struggle every day is a trial
every day is a failure i have to walk another mile i'll go
wherever you go
every day is a heartbeat every day another moment
take me home
as you make the bed
so you must lie
what are you making for us your favorite pamela's pancakes ever since we got this van now we buy
the small bag we usually get this big bag shell says she likes this better than sorry about the
lawnmower outside she likes this better than uh pancakes at a restaurant it's really good
stuff for gluten-free we haven't found anything any better right how do you like that induction
cooktop all right it works how about you yeah it was it's mainly getting used to
like the temperature you have to put something on but other than that yeah it's fine
it may be small but it works what
cheers what do you got in your whiskey i mean your coffee oops i would rate those at nine and a half
seriously they are pretty good well the way you make them
now you're just sucking up with love then there's the cleanup
you've seen this
we need to find
well i am downtown des moines i just dropped michelle off at work the temperatures are
supposed to be around 100 degrees possibly 101 high humidity it's raining here this morning but
i thought this might be a good opportunity to do a test on the
air conditioning running off the batteries because i'm not going to have hookups here today
lithium battery uh gauge on here it's going to start out at 100 percent just keeps charging
as long as i have the have the van running of course but since i get set up i'm that ac
is going to be on all day probably seven and a half hours maybe eight hours we'll see how well
uh the batteries hold up and running that ac all day this will be the first uh good test and heat
now it's been three hours so far and we're down to 78 on the batteries so we'll see how this
goes make some lunch and i realized that we never have talked about the blend jet this is actually
one of our friends um a couple of our friends i should say their son owns this company called
blendjet and you can get these uh at walmart or online i believe you can get them on amazon also
our friends uh rick and maggie gave us this to try out and uh works really well it's rechargeable
so it comes with the cord here we just put it in this bag but it blends up ice and everything
really well um then you can turn it around like this and use this to drink out of if you'd like to
but it's really really handy like if you want to have something portable you can take with you if
you have a little cooler or something with some berries or ice or whatever you want to put in here
or protein you can make all kinds of things actually on blendjet's website we notice they
have a lot of recipes really cool recipes so i'm going to try a smoothie got some blueberries
some strawberries a half a cup blueberries half a cup of strawberries and half cup it
actually calls for almond milk i'm gonna try oat milk we've heard it's really good we're
gonna give that a try half cup of almond milk but we're gonna again we're gonna use the um
oatmeal half a cup of each got a little button here we've had this for a while so the the
writing's actually worn off of uh off of the front here but it is a blend jet hit the button
like i said we use uh like that peanut butter and protein shake peanut butter and chocolate
put a couple ice cubes in there and it blends up the ice cubes there's no chunks
at all works really good really really well you can turn it upside down turn it sideways
it doesn't matter it doesn't hurt it um then it shuts itself off after a little bit but you can
if you want it blended more just hit it again done using it for the day we just recharge it
just to keep it charged kind of anxious to see what this tastes like without any sweetener in it
it's just got a little bit of sweetness so
that obviously depends on your berries how sweet they are because the oat milk we've got here
it's got seven grams of sugar in a one cup so three and a half grams since i used a half a
cup pretty good healthy shake and if we wanted to we're gonna add a little bit of sweetener
i'll try a little bit and see what happens stick the lid back on
oh yeah oh wow just enough actually that was the first time i've tried using that sweetener this
first time i made this particular smoothie but i put about 10 drops of that organic
stevia that we usually use you might have seen that in our past videos i'm gonna drink this
get back to work and we'll see how the uh air conditioner how the batteries do
the rest of the day with the ac on again they're just uh friends of ours it's their son
and uh he owns the company and uh we really love ours in fact we actually got rid of our
other blender that we had we had a ninja that we've had for years and it's bigger
and we got rid of it because this thing can do pretty much anything you can you can make
dressings like i said it chops up ice really good it's amazing what this little thing does
with the little motor that it has and just being a
you know portable little or rechargeable really really cool again you can get them
at walmart and i believe amazon as well all right my boss says i have to get to work so
all right it is now let's see 3 30 in the afternoon
so wow
it's been seven hours so far that we've had this uh the ac running and the batteries are at
50 percent that's pretty impressive i had the microwave running for uh lunch and that
was two minutes running the microwave so 50 at seven hours that's pretty darn good
and let's check and see what the temperature is hey siri what's the temperature
it's about 95 degrees outside hey siri what's the humidity the humidity is currently 50 that's
pretty good 50 battery after seven hours running the ac and the ac has been running pretty constant
uh shuts off every once in a while but then it it kicks on uh fairly quick but
uh not like it would in a uh in an rv that has slides or leaks more air this is sealed pretty
good and insulated pretty well we've noticed that but pretty darn good the end of the day
and we are at eight hours now let's see how much battery saying 38
seems like it dropped quite a bit in the last hour for some reason
start the app over again make sure that's correct
it still says 38 so well when they say that the battery uh the batteries can last 10 to
12 hours with the ac running all day that would be about right it's been running for eight hours
and it's down to 38 percent now now when i start it up the alternator is obviously gonna uh going
to charge the batteries and sometimes we actually if it's really hot out we can have the ac running
on the unit up here off your vents and have that ac running at the same time i thought it would be
interesting to to give it a test today since we haven't been in in the rv all day long when it's
really hot like this yet so i thought it would be a perfect opportunity while i was working to
just test it out all day saying that it would run 10 to 12 hours or whatever it is 12 hours i think
is what they say the ac running all day looks like it's good
let's call it a day....
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