{"id":18035,"date":"2021-06-22T08:07:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T15:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=18035"},"modified":"2021-06-23T17:25:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T00:25:19","slug":"june-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2021\/06\/22\/june-22\/","title":{"rendered":"June 22 Summer furnace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Russell Baker<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now a June Heatwave coming. Record-breaking temps to be here in a few days. It’s already too hot in my loft. In a few days unbearable. I will have to move lower into the house to survive.<\/p>\n

Yesterday outside was only 26 but inside 35. When outside gets 40 it will be 55 inside the loft.
\nThe bad part I needed to move a lot of stuff down to the old living room. Plants, kittens, cats, and worse.<\/p>\n

Oh, yea did I mention I was storing a lot of tools and supplies down there for the solar battery shelf rebuild, all that needed to be moved and put away. I am talking about a ton of stuff. Plus an old recliner that I should have thrown out a long time ago. A big heavy recliner. It was going to take me about 6 or 7 hours to get the work done.<\/p>\n

Other things need doing today too. I needed to haul a few 16 foot 2×10’s into the shop, so I can turn those into 2×4 boards for the deck rebuild. If they are inside the shop, then they will be literally cooler to work with. So when I clean enough junk off the table saw and chop saw, I can work on those. If the generator will run them.<\/p>\n

I noticed that the sunflower seeds I was sprouting for microgreens are ready to be put in a tray. That also needed doing today. Like my day wasn’t busy enough.<\/p>\n

I would start that after coffee. And I will supply pictures before and after, just because I needed to embarrass myself further.<\/p>\n

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In summer where you are, these temps may not be that hot. Just as in winter here -20c is t-shirt weather for chopping wood. But in summer these temps for us are terrible.<\/p>\n

I got my plants moved what was left of them, they are outdoors. Except for the Kratky experiments, only 3 of those left and I did another with swamp water. Just to see if that worked. Sunflower seeds are in a tray I used swamp water again unfiltered. More experiments.
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Rough but still mostly green<\/p><\/div>\n

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Aloe saved. I was down to one stalk, and it came back, even with the poisoned water<\/p><\/div>\n

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Badly damaged but a lot cheaper than buying wood right now<\/p><\/div>\n

I got one 2×10 inside next time I will chop in half before I try that again. I mentioned in a previous post that I cleaned a ten by ten area in my shop. The board is 16 feet long.<\/p>\n

I spent a little time cleaning out the battery room. Some tools were put away. I had forgotten about all my photography books. I was out of bookshelves, and I needed a place to put them.<\/p>\n

Looking at the darkness, another storm is about to roll in. Thunder has started. As of 3 PM so has the rain.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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It happened my first real mosquito bite. I should have had hundreds by now. Normally, mosquito season should be over. This year it never got started, at least until now.<\/p>\n