Over the past few weeks I’ve been more than worn down. Downright exhausted often.
No, I’m not sitting up all night watching sitcoms. Late night blog reading….ha, I don’t think so. Blog reading is a morning activity! 
A combination of things have made rest a little more difficult. The other week I wasn’t feeling well. That went a long way to disrupt rest. But there’s been another issues that has finally been resolved.
The super early wakeup!
I’m not trying to get up early. But I find myself waking up earlier and earlier. See, the Airstream is parked with the rear window facing the East. We all know what comes from the East. The sun. Sometimes I wonder about the sun. It causes skin cancer, sun burns, dries out lakes, sends radiation our way, and causes early wakeups in Airstreams. Something should be done about it. Is any Presidential candidate currently campaigning against the sun???
Each day the sun is rising a little earlier. And the shades that came with my Airstream are pretty flimsy. Sure, they’re cute, but so much light pours through them it’s just not funny. I mentioned this to Sadira the other week, and suggested that I needed to find some black out shades, or something like that.
Sadira had an idea. And she’s great about putting ideas into motion. Last night she popped over with two new blackout shades for the Airstream. You know what? They work!
I’ve left the shades up this morning (they’re Velcroed up, so I can pop them down at will), and the back of the Airstream has transformed to a dark bat cave. Super cool!
The shades go on under my transparent shades. I can close them and nobody even knows about my new little blackout shades! But I thought I’d share them here.
By the way, there’s still light pouring in from my Fantastic Fan vent covers. Yes, I noticed that this morning…..hmmmm……maybe one more shade wouldn’t hurt! :
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Precious sleep at last! Props to Sadira for not only her crafty ways, and to you for rocking the polka dots in the airstream!
I’m glad they worked…
I was way ahead of you on the fan thing…those are annoying for letting in light…I have a solution if you want it…
Rich, you’ve sold me on Kelby’s book, certainly in part because I appreciated all the remakes of me in your previous posting. However, you didn’t go quite far enough. Too much gray in my beard. That’s not really me is it?
Bert,
Sorry about the gray in the beard. I totally overlooked the fact that I washed out the beard with the changes. We’ll make sure to keep it dark in the next one.
i too sleep much better in a darkened room. i made heavy drapes for my bedroom even though this apartment doesn’t permit drapes. i figure i will do a thorough job of spackling when i move.
i have even begun to cover the face of my LED clock in order to block its light. amazing the difference that makes as well.
have you ever tried sleeping with an eye mask? those can help as well. though, having those shades will also help keep the interior of airstream cooler when the sun is hitting directly.