Cold and dry or maybe cold and damp. But certainly cold.
Cold all day yesterday but above freezing by mid morning.
I spent the afternoon doing pickups that I was going to do today, so that I can go to my client’s house today instead. And I would really like to drop off a couple of bins, and pickup some stuff, but that auction house has pickups for yesterday’s auction and they’ll be busy.
I’ll also try to get my expired ID exchanged for current for the Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association today. The training officer will be close to somewhere I will be driving by, and is willing to make the exchange.
It will be a busy couple of days today and tomorrow.
On my way home yesterday I stopped in the Goodwill Outlet. In the weird items category, I grabbed two new sealed tubs of Cascade dishwashing pods. These are the very same ones I buy normally. At ~$3 each, that was a pretty good deal compared to $19 each in the store. I grabbed a dozen DVDs for me, and a dozen name brand ladies’ purses for the auction with the money I saved. I should make good money on the purses, they’ve been selling really well.
The batteries I picked up will add to my future solar bank. I now have 4 or 5 identical 65AH batteries, 3 or 4 identical 55AH batteries, and a mix of others mostly car or truck batteries. I’ve got a 100w panel, and 70 panels at 10w. I’ve got a couple of big inverters. Still need charge controllers though, as the one that I have is NFG. Once I have all the pieces, I’ll start on cobbling some sort of system together. Or maybe 2 or 3 systems right next to each other. Future project though.
If CWII breaks out and the Monkey Wrench Gang goes to work, solar and supplemental energy will be really important. And if not, it will be an interesting project that I can use to run the air conditioner in my garage.
Cisterns for water, local solar and batteries, these are current tech and part of everyday life in places like Cancun Mexico. I think we might see them here too, and too soon. So I’ll keep stacking the stuff to make that work.
Keep stacking the stuff you think you’ll need.
nick