Author: Rod

Sep 27 Fall is Over

Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees, That hardly sway before a breeze As soft as summer: summer’s loss Seems little, dear! on days like these. Ernest Christopher Dowson It is just after 3 PM. I went to the village and town. Bills were paid, groceries, fuel, and wood pellets were purchased. I…


Sep 26 Smoked Humans

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. Mark Twain Outside it is dark. The sun doesn’t exsist, my world is in a deep toxic fog of wildfire smoke. Every time I think I have seen the worst of it, I am wrong. Today the smoke is so thick I can’t see the…


Sep 25 Smoke, Smoke and more Smoke

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. William Shakespeare I looked outside this morning. All I could see was thick smoke. After consulting both the weather warnings and firesmoke.ca, I was reassured of what I already knew by looking. I looked at my solar panel app, I was making…


Sep 21 Water

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. W. H. Auden Nothing exciting this morning. Cats fed and watered, I went out the back door to take a few pics. The output water from the stage 1 filters was fulland  was  carried up and poured into the stage 2 filters. Those are the super…


Sep 20 Smoked Electric Tuna

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. Albert Einstein The weather forecast didn’t mention the smoke. It was so heavy it blocked out the sun. My solar panels are generating 2 amps or 57 watts. They should be at 7 amps normally, and get up to 12 amps in the right weather. The…


Sep 18 42 I think

If you’re afraid – don’t do it, – if you’re doing it – don’t be afraid! Gengis Kahn If my math is correct I am 42 years sober today. I celebrated the same way I do most days, I worked. I made sure cats were fed. I moved the Starlink pole to its final position,…


Sep 14 Fall Happened Last Niĝht

“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.” J.K. Rowling Last night the leaves changed. Soon geese will be leaving for warmer regions, followed by cold and snow. Today I played Starfield for a few hours using only sun power. The new panels…


Aug 31 Smoked Sheets

If you don’t seize that moment you sort of fall behind and get left in the smoke, so it’s full steam ahead. Masked Wolf Cats fed and watered. Poor little kitten that didn’t survive the night, buried with respect. It had too much competition for mother’s milk. Other bigger kittens had adopted its mother. Gasoline…


Aug 30 Backed Up

Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin. Simone Schwarz-Bart Imagine an invisible knife stuck in your spine, not too deep, but enough to stay stuck in there. In the village was a large parcel containing 2 large bags of cat food, that needed picking up. Now imagine driving to…


Aug 28 Water, Laundry, Gen, Cats

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. George Bernard Shaw So far today. Got up at 6 AM to rescue a kitten, stuck in the bathroom. Poor little critter was in there all night. While I was up, I thought  I would feed them. Then I noticed…