Author: Rod

Nov 14 Deer

Today started like any other day. Mostly, except for the three female deer in the yard. A few days ago I had a male deer in the back yard. It is not a safe time to get between the male and females. Cats were fed and watered. Gas was collected for the gen. Empty water…


Nov 13 It’s Back

I knew as soon as I looked at my Bluetti App. Twice the power usauge as normal. That could only mean one thing. Snow. I went outside to see how it was. An inch of snow had fallen on the back deck. It was coming down lightly. I decided to run the gen just incase…


Nov 12 The Slippery Slope

Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it’s a slippery slope. Thomas Peterffy Todays plan was simple. Climp up on the roof remove the chimney again, replace the rusted out parts. Replace the chimney. Secure the indoor stove pipe. After that I could safely burn fires. When I woke…


Remembrance Day

I usually make a big deal about today. I am a Veteren. I served during the Cold War. Russia was our enemy, they threatened to send Nukes. Looks like we are back to that again. I had big plans today, but everything I did this morning turned bad, water spilled everywhere, cold coffee bad. I…


Nov 9 Power Forward

The measure of a man is what he does with power. Plato Today is different, I actually feel worse than normal. Cats are fed. Coffee is in the cup. I am back in bed. I need to charge both batteries to full at the same time to check my monitor. If the charger shuts off…


Nov 8 More Charging

Electricity is really just organized lightning. George Carlin I need to run the gen again eventhough the solar panels are producing. Those are charging the battery A. Battery B is hooked to a charger run by the gen. Both batteries are not fully charged but need to be to be hooked together in paralel. The…


Nov 7 LFP

A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery. Elon Musk It’s 2 AM in the morning. Sleep evades me, episodes of Cheers…


Nov 6 Foggy Battery

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog. Alex O’Loughlin Rough morning. Not enough sleep, I decided to wait a day to pickup my battery. I have another package that might arrive tomorrow. I checked my power situation, my panels were only make 1 Amp of power. I checked the gen, it had…


Nov 5 After the Storm

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. Amelia Barr The storm wasn’t much. The freezing rain warning today might be. It has been a busy morning on not much sleep. Cats were fed. I finally saw my indoor feral cat. I even left it…


Nov 4 Snow Above

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Dark outside. The snow clouds are thick. The furry things are fed. Even the outside feral cat who survives the coldest winters got a pile of food. I suspect there is still a feral cat in my garage. I thought I may have heard…