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 I took a look outside. The old solar panels were covered in snow topped with Ice. Overnight we got an inch of snow then had freezing rain on top of that.

Climbing on a sheet metal roof, impossible.

I had some inside stuff that needed doing. My input DC to my Bluetti wasn’t working. I hoped it was just a loose wire on the Solar controller. I would find out.

There was also a mundane problem. I had a hundred empty cold brew plastic jugs. Neatly stacked under my desk for reycyling one day.. Two of my cats decided they looked better spread all over the floor.

Making coffee at my desk was a lot more difficult this morning.

Well first job done. The power problem caused by cats. I have a set of MC4 plugs that connect the DC power to the Bluetti. One was unplugged. I have talented cats.

Now working on breakfast, vitamins and drinking the coffee I made. The gen is running I had to gas it up and start it. To charge my shitty little Chinese Bluetti that lost all of its charge again. With the unplugged cable it wouldn’t recieve a charge either.