Nothing planned for this afternoon so I Re-canned (steam canned) some fruit cocktail from a #10 can that was gifted to me.
What's everybody doing today?
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did a bunch of annoying little stuff today like take everything out from under sink to find what smelled bad, dead mouse.
Colored my hair, making cannabis oil for salve ( not sure this will work but will try, I make great gummies out of the oil)
Husband hooked up 2 of the new solar panels and they work but battery was not enough to run freezer , but it might be because there was only a few hours of sun on them left after he hooked them up , or the batteries are not great anymore. They are about 6 years old now.
Going to buy new batteries tomorrow and not looking forward to it because we have to drive all the way to Roanoke for those. That's a long way. Will go to Sams while there , been wanting to go there anyway. It will be a very expensive trip too, those batteries cost more than the solar panels
I guess we will have to get food on the way too , no time to cook . I truly hate going out to eat. Maybe we;ll just take sandwiches along
Colored my hair, making cannabis oil for salve ( not sure this will work but will try, I make great gummies out of the oil)
Husband hooked up 2 of the new solar panels and they work but battery was not enough to run freezer , but it might be because there was only a few hours of sun on them left after he hooked them up , or the batteries are not great anymore. They are about 6 years old now.
Going to buy new batteries tomorrow and not looking forward to it because we have to drive all the way to Roanoke for those. That's a long way. Will go to Sams while there , been wanting to go there anyway. It will be a very expensive trip too, those batteries cost more than the solar panels
I guess we will have to get food on the way too , no time to cook . I truly hate going out to eat. Maybe we;ll just take sandwiches along
What did I do today? Well the day started normal. Then the internet failed. Then my phone hotspot failed, then gmail said my account was hacked, because of using my wife's phone and I still can't get in.
Then the POWER failed! For about 6 hours, just got it back 1/2 hr ago. So what did we do? Well...
We waited about 15 min. I heard my neighbor's Generac 6 houses away on the next street, turn on. Her husband is on a lung machine. Then we rolled the generator out, fired 'er up, plugged in the refers and freezer and a fan. Thankfully temps peaked at 78 today, our first cool day.
I started our backup Honda to be sure it would run if needed. It's only a 2,000 watt, but will run a refer and fan, we'd rotate freezers on 2 hr turns if we had to use it.
This was right at our winter fuel change over, I've been drawing down our spring fuel and only had 5 gal in a jug, plus about 5 hrs in the big genny. So about 3pm when it looked like this might go into the night, I put 4 jugs in the truck. Had to manually open the garage door - how 1960's. And trundled off to the gas station on the Res. They have a separate power plant. The station across the street from theirs had no power.
Of course the power was on 5 min before I got home. Good practice run.
Of major concern. Us and my friend with the generac are STILL the only people with generators out of 150 homes. Stuff's gonna get real I fear, if there's an extended issue. And both generators are waaay too loud. Next project, welding a car muffler on the genny and build an insulated sound barrier of some sort.
Anyway, survived again.
Then the POWER failed! For about 6 hours, just got it back 1/2 hr ago. So what did we do? Well...
We waited about 15 min. I heard my neighbor's Generac 6 houses away on the next street, turn on. Her husband is on a lung machine. Then we rolled the generator out, fired 'er up, plugged in the refers and freezer and a fan. Thankfully temps peaked at 78 today, our first cool day.
I started our backup Honda to be sure it would run if needed. It's only a 2,000 watt, but will run a refer and fan, we'd rotate freezers on 2 hr turns if we had to use it.
This was right at our winter fuel change over, I've been drawing down our spring fuel and only had 5 gal in a jug, plus about 5 hrs in the big genny. So about 3pm when it looked like this might go into the night, I put 4 jugs in the truck. Had to manually open the garage door - how 1960's. And trundled off to the gas station on the Res. They have a separate power plant. The station across the street from theirs had no power.
Of course the power was on 5 min before I got home. Good practice run.
Of major concern. Us and my friend with the generac are STILL the only people with generators out of 150 homes. Stuff's gonna get real I fear, if there's an extended issue. And both generators are waaay too loud. Next project, welding a car muffler on the genny and build an insulated sound barrier of some sort.
Anyway, survived again.
finally got piece of equipment back up and running that broke the other day....late this afternoon my torso was doing weird cramp/spasms so i didnt go hike...i failed.
My day sucked. Started with getting some things together for quick trip up north for closing the cabin. Dad forgot to tell me his Good Chop meat delivery was for a day we aren’t going to be here. Decided to come back upstairs and call to see if I could get it postponed. Apartment was cold. Hmmm. Went over to the basement and furnace not running. Call for service. Call and got delivery postponed until the end of November.
Furnace repair tech comes out and right off tells me he won’t be doing any repair work if there is water in the tank. We had a situation last year when either the delivery person didn’t replace the fill cap properly or the landscaper “knocked it with the lawnmower.” My money was on the delivery guy not paying attention and replacing the lid correctly. Had the water pumped out and just about a month ago, a friend of mine (hvac guy) stuck the tank and not a drop of water. No water just some air in the line. He bled it out and showed my how to reset it if this happens again.
Took dad to the cancer specialist for his mouth. Next step is ct scan when we get back to see how big the tumor is. He did mention that the pathology report stated it is well defined which is good.also said the oral surgeon did a great job of getting it cleanly. This means best case is small surgery to remove a bit more.
Furnace repair tech comes out and right off tells me he won’t be doing any repair work if there is water in the tank. We had a situation last year when either the delivery person didn’t replace the fill cap properly or the landscaper “knocked it with the lawnmower.” My money was on the delivery guy not paying attention and replacing the lid correctly. Had the water pumped out and just about a month ago, a friend of mine (hvac guy) stuck the tank and not a drop of water. No water just some air in the line. He bled it out and showed my how to reset it if this happens again.
Took dad to the cancer specialist for his mouth. Next step is ct scan when we get back to see how big the tumor is. He did mention that the pathology report stated it is well defined which is good.also said the oral surgeon did a great job of getting it cleanly. This means best case is small surgery to remove a bit more.
My friend who goes plant hunting with me sometimes, I've posted pictures… born and raised 2 miles down the road, both her bothers still live there. Until tonight… one brother was killed coming home from work, a mile from home, just got the news. Saw him friday afternoon coming home from work on his Harley. I’ve known the family my whole life… in fact some of my cousins are also their cousins… His grand daughter is at my cousin’s house now… doesn’t know yet that her pawpaw is dead… she’s only 7. 
