What's everybody doing today?

[zannej]

Got up to use the bathroom and found the water is frozen. Cats were fighting in the hallway and Princess broke them up initially so I was able to step in and separate them. I had to put my foot and then legs between their faces before picking Senator Snugglebum up and setting him on top of the fridge. That tends to help him calm down.

 

[Robert Stewart]

Flat out busy day today started off this morning having to boil water in a pot because of yesterdays incident where mum cleaned out the kettle but was unaware that some water spilled out onto the contact pad resulting in meter box residual current device tripping so now she has a better kettle

Had to make a mad dash to Mount Gambier before 11 as the other half received a phone call from the dentist as her follow up appointment from last weeks tooth extrication originally was meant to be at lunch time but got moved forward by 1 hour due to a cancellation she finally got an answer to her lingering pain turned out to be a mere case of dry socket

After picking her and mum up from the dentist dropped them off down at Centro (one of the 2 shopping centers) so they could get a coffee whilst I headed to Autobarn to consult with Rachael the expert saleslady about which single din multimedia player would be best suited for the Tucson she showed me 6 models and said to pick the one that jumped out at me most

Whilst looking at each demo model she went through the process of sorting out swapping one product for an alternative after about 10 minutes I settled for a pioneer brand multimedia player which also has a special holster for smart phones in addition to a special app that can be downloaded so a phone can not only act as a music streamer but also tell how fast I'm going too

My goal was to have it also installed today but out of 4 places tried 1 didn't answer, another was booked up until next week, 3rd is back logged till March and 4th not ringing back so I rang spark automotive who put the break pads on my old suv in 2022 Jordan who is in-charge asked me to drop by on my way home of which I did and he has agreed to allocate half an hour aside tomorrow arvo around 3:30 or 4pm to install the media player although it may only take less than 10-15 minutes as parts/product are on hand already all he needs is the special removal keys to take out existing alpine cd player

 

[Pearl]

Regular work day! May stop and get hay on the way home!

 

[Tommyice]

Still trying to get used to the new routine at dad’s. He’s progressing and we have a 9 am appointment with the visiting dietician. Just waiting on appointments with speech therapist and physical therapist.

Work has been problematic. Three of my techs went back to school and now even more limited availability.

 

[sonya123]

even colder than yesterday, below 0 today , my thermometer only goes to 0 ( it's for cooking)
Animal care same as yesterday, hope the goat is ok.
Son is going to do his various stuff before starting job. Hope he has no problems. Daughter texted me a photo of over a foot of snow at the beach , she actually has off today because of it. Didn't think the Navy had snow days LOL
We are almost out of propane and already need another load of wood. Tomorrow we are going to get propane , take the goat to the vet and get grain for the animals, but the wood will have to wait since it is in the other direction. But we are not totally out , probably have enough for another week
I am so over this winter!!!

 

[Amish Heart]

We are staying above 0 today, so it's getting better here. 10 degrees at the moment. Sounds like you have Sonya, what we had yesterday.
Expecting a 100 lb lithium battery being delivered today, so I have a hand truck and strap at the ready. The Mega 2 and extra battery went on the big fridge yesterday to see what it could do and maybe made it 15 hrs. (science experiment for husband).
I need to take husband in for his labwork at some point today, he has a doc appt tomorrow.

 

[sonya123]

We are staying above 0 today, so it's getting better here. 10 degrees at the moment. Sounds like you have Sonya, what we had yesterday.
Expecting a 100 lb lithium battery being delivered today, so I have a hand truck and strap at the ready. The Mega 2 and extra battery went on the big fridge yesterday to see what it could do and maybe made it 15 hrs. (science experiment for husband).
I need to take husband in for his labwork at some point today, he has a doc appt tomorrow.

are you hooking up solar to that battery? We thought about getting some of those, but they are very expensive. The ones we got were costly enough, more than the solar panels and rest of equipment. We have Trojan golf cart batteries

 

[Amish Heart]

are you hooking up solar to that battery? We thought about getting some of those, but they are very expensive. The ones we got were costly enough, more than the solar panels and rest of equipment. We have Trojan golf cart batteries

Yep. We already have hookup in our garage for three lithiums running off solar panels on the roof. The Oupes Mega 1 and Mega 2 that we're messing with indoors have portable solar panels that you take outside, weigh about 30 lbs each. We don't have our lithiums in the garage charging at the moment because of the cold, they can't get that cold, our garage isn't heated. Right now husband is just electrically charging inside to see what they can run and how long. The big fridge was an experiment. I'm thinking the next big step is more outside panels with hookups inside where the temp is moderate for the lithiums. So at the moment we have two portable Oupes panels, permanent panels on our garage roof, 4 Millertech lithium batteries with inverters and chargers, An Oepus Mega 1, an Oepus Mega 2 with an extra battery to it. Not sure what to expect with the 100 lber arriving today. Husband has some "stack" he's building or something. His projects, I just plug stuff in and move stuff. He's the engineer.

 

[elkhound]

3F.....BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[sonya123]

I hope our equipment doesn't get messed up with this cold. It's all outside ( in a metal box with plywood around it) , so far it's still running but it's also very cold in the freezer room, so maybe they don't need to run much
But thanks for the reminder, I think husband hasn't checked ours this week yet either, and he is the electrical engineer so that's his job.

 

[snappy1]

Our snow is still on the ground after it got down to 10 degrees this morning. It should get up to 38 today and low 20's tonight so getting a little better!
I will do a walking video first.
Make the fig pudding that didn't get done yesterday.
DH and I are watching a few movies today.

 

[Mountain trapper]

After breakfast we'll go out and feed and water everybody. Then I'll work on the chicken coop project. It's a beautiful clear day up here. It's cold, but it is winter it's supposed to be cold. We just need some snow.

 

[Spikedriver]

We had a delayed start at work today. Yesterday we moved all our gear down to Niland, CA which is out in the armpit of the desert about an hour or so north of the Mexican border. It got surprisingly cold last night - right now it's 34° and I didn't bring cold weather gear. If the clouds clear off it'll be 50 in no time though. I had forgotten how quick this desert will dry a person out so I'm hydrating and getting ready to go out and put some railroad ties in the ground...