After a long winter to plan, dream, bid-snipe, and over-buy, we find ourselves in the middle of “crunch time” this week. What Happens in Crunch? This is the time of year when living in one of the in-city “coops” is actually a much better deal than trying to build a resilient backwoods enclave for yourself in retirement. All those winter plans have to get done. A quick walk through and some before and after views …
A few scratches on the hands this weekend from spending a couple of days rewiring the “aisle 3” solar array. There’s some experimenting going on, some changes to system design, and a couple of useful hints to share. Ham radio and drone-lifted ham antenna adventures are on hold this week as other, more pressing work of Life has come to the foreground. Oh, and the #22 AWG wire was mis-shipped, so maybe that will show …
Cat House Fun Time! Nasty, bitchy-bad weather is rolling into Texas today. And since I was hoping the winter would be mild, we kept putting off building a cat-shelter for the half dozen to dozen feral cats in the woods around here. By coffee-hour Saturday, 9:30 AM, there was no way around it. I’d have to cowboy up and build them a quick, safe hangout where they could do one of their pile-on’s (clowders) and …
I Need “Mow Time!” We didn’t have time for a build this week. For a couple of reasons. The main one was that “Big Yeller thang in the sky.“ As much fun as it would have been to light off the outside cooking stove (one of these guys) and toss a few pounds of stew meat, veggies and a cup of red wine into a Dutch oven and sip some adult beverage while basking all …