BUTTE, MT.  Our water pump froze last night, but there was no crack in the pump housing.  The housing was pushed from the motor mount by stripping the threads in the housing, so I found some smaller screws with nuts in my cache of parts that I used to re-fasten it together.  Works fine, but I drove into Lowes to get a warming lamp to keep in the basement compartment where the pump is.  We disconnected the water hose from the outside faucet to prepare for the freeze last night, but could not draw water from the tank due to a frozen pump!

We were 1 1/2 hours late leaving the RV park this morning after all the repair work, but got here early enough.  It will go down to 23 here tonight, so the warming lamp is in place in the basement already, and I plan to go out to check on it before retiring tonight.

The drive was beautiful, with snow-covered rocky mountains in the distance with large clouds filling the big sky country.