{"id":32700,"date":"2025-01-03T09:06:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T16:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=32700"},"modified":"2025-01-03T11:20:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T18:20:03","slug":"jan-3-fookin-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2025\/01\/03\/jan-3-fookin-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan 3 Fookin’ Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Albert Einstein<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yup snother fire, gathered more snow. It is -28 with a breeze. That makes the windschill really f,in cold.<\/p>\n

Really crazy to go out wearing just sweat pants, bathrobe, summer gloves, and snow boots.<\/p>\n

As you will see it is before sunrise.<\/p>\n

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The fire is burning too hot, most times thats not a bad thing. It can clear a chimney of creosote. I put too much fuel in the fire. It is bad because fuel is what I am in need of. I put a\u00a0 bag of pelletts that had been in my shop for over a year so they must have been super dry,\u00a0 I also added a lot of palette wood.<\/p>\n

Now the good thing, the sky looked clear, for solar that was great my batteries were way too low. They might just generate the power I needed.<\/p>\n

The cats have fresh snow melt, and I am almost ready to go make coffee and breakfast for me. The fire is still burning hot but is less than it was when I was worried.<\/p>\n

Just melting snow for the two cats that live in my kitchen. They keep the mice out and guard the food bin. They wanted to live in there.<\/p>\n

I am back at Rod’s Diner, the place I heat my water for coffee, make hot food. It is just a one burner propane campstove sitting on my desk. It works for me.<\/p>\n

Today it will make hot water for coffee, and porridge. Later it will heat soup or beans depending on what I feel like.<\/p>\n

So you are wondering why I am not doing this on the wood stove today. While i was standing there near the fire my bathrobe was smoking almost ready to ignite.<\/p>\n

Today was definitly a propane cookstove day. First and second pours through the cone filter are done. One more and I can relax a bit. It has been two hours since I crawled out of bed.<\/p>\n

The solar panels are making 5 Amps and increasing. \u00a0If it can get up to ten or more, the panels will make enough to keep me going.\u00a0 I just checked the panels are generating over 15 Amps.<\/p>\n

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